Susanna Wesley: The Complete WritingsSusanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women. |
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... Blessed Lucid Intervals " 319 23. “ To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart " 340 PART III / EDUCATIONAL , CATECHETICAL , AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS Introduction to the Writings 365 24. On Educating My Family 367 25. The ...
... Blessed Lucid Intervals " 319 23. “ To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart " 340 PART III / EDUCATIONAL , CATECHETICAL , AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS Introduction to the Writings 365 24. On Educating My Family 367 25. The ...
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... blessed be God , hath great success in his ministry . 59 To this example of family support may be added one other episode , reported in a conversation with John . She spoke to him of the strong sense of forgiveness she felt while ...
... blessed be God , hath great success in his ministry . 59 To this example of family support may be added one other episode , reported in a conversation with John . She spoke to him of the strong sense of forgiveness she felt while ...
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... blessed ; but they received these notions from their poets and took ' em rather for inventions of wit and ornaments of poetry than for truths that were to influence their practice . The immortality of the soul and a future state was ...
... blessed ; but they received these notions from their poets and took ' em rather for inventions of wit and ornaments of poetry than for truths that were to influence their practice . The immortality of the soul and a future state was ...
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... blessed Saviour wrought so many miracles in the view of all the world . And as his love and pity to unhappy men was universal , so he broke down the wall of sanction between the Jews and gentiles and did not confine his miracles and ...
... blessed Saviour wrought so many miracles in the view of all the world . And as his love and pity to unhappy men was universal , so he broke down the wall of sanction between the Jews and gentiles and did not confine his miracles and ...
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... blessed Saviour to inculcate that duty first which must be first practiced in order to a good life . He proceeds in the fifth chapter to command men to be exemplary in good works . " Let your light so shine before men that they may see ...
... blessed Saviour to inculcate that duty first which must be first practiced in order to a good life . He proceeds in the fifth chapter to command men to be exemplary in good works . " Let your light so shine before men that they may see ...
Contents
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JOURNALS | 195 |
EDUCATIONAL CATECHETICAL AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS | 363 |
Bibliography | 485 |
Index | 498 |
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