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John Wesley s Teaching is the first systematic exposition of John
Wesley's theology that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings.
Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture---his
collected works fill eighteen volumes---and yet it is commonly held
that he was not systematic or consistent in his theology and
teachings. On the contrary, Thomas C. Oden demonstrates that Wesley
displayed a remarkable degree of internal consistency over sixty
years of preaching and ministry. This series of 4 volumes is a
text-by-text guide to John Wesley s teaching. It introduces Wesley
s thought on the basic tenets of Christian teaching: God,
providence, and man (volume 1), Christ and salvation (volume 2),
the practice of pastoral care (volume 3), and issues of ethics and
society (volume 4). In everyday modern English, Oden clarifies
Wesley s explicit intent and communicates his meaning clearly to a
contemporary audience. Both lay and professional readers will find
this series useful for devotional reading, moral reflection, sermon
preparation, and for referencing Wesley s opinions on a broad range
of pressing issues of contemporary society."
Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary
Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers
because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual
formation. His understanding came from his own family and
education, from his personal spiritual practices and experiences,
and from the evidence he saw in the lives of his followers. By
examining the intersections of literacy, rhetoric, and spirituality
as they occurred in early British Methodism-and by exploring the
meaning of these practices for class and gender-the author provides
a new understanding of the method of Methodism.
A novelized biography from the viewpoint of Susanna Wesley.
Creative and easy to read.
"Living in the Gaze of God" offers an accessible exploration of the
theme of ministerial accountability through the lens of one
reflective tool - that of formal supervision of ministerial
practice. Bold and far-reaching, the book addresses the key
presenting issues around a need for a change of culture in the
church as regards accountability for ministerial practice. It
outlines a theological and practical model of 1-to-1 supervision,
arguing that such an approach enables the development of greater
attentiveness to God, the self and others and thus enhances
accountability. Laying aside the need to offer a 'how-to' approach,
Helen Cameron instead brings us a rigorous and dynamic
consideration of the interface between supervision, accountability
and ministerial practice, and offers a theological underpinning for
the issues.
A vivid picture of the public and private life of a professional
musician in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London.
This well-documented life of Samuel Wesley gives a vivid picture of
the life of a professional musician in late eighteenth and early
nineteenth-century London. Wesley was born in 1766, the son of the
Methodist hymn-writer CharlesWesley and nephew of the preacher John
Wesley. He was the finest composer and organist of his generation,
but his unconventional behaviour makes him of more than ordinary
interest. He lived through a crucial stage of English musicfrom the
immediately post-Handel generation to the early Romantic period,
and his large output includes piano and organ music, orchestral
music, church music, glees, and songs. He also taught and lectured
on music, and was involved in journalism, publishing, and promoting
the music of J. S. Bach. This book draws on letters, family papers,
and other contemporary documents to offer a full study of Wesley,
his music, and his life and times. PHILIP OLLESON is Professor of
Historical Musicology at the University of Nottingham. He has
edited The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social
Correspondence, 1797-1837, is the joint author (with Michael
Kassler) of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): A Source Book, and has
written extensively about other aspects of music in England in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Music and the Wesleys
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Nicholas Temperley; Edited by Stephen 0 Banfield; Contributions by Stephen 0 Banfield, Jonathan Barry, Martin V. Clarke, …
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Providing new insight into the Wesley family, the fundamental
importance of music in the development of Methodism, and the
history of art music in Britain, Music and the Wesleys examines
more than 150 years of a rich music-making tradition in England.
John Wesley and his brother Charles, founders of the Methodist
movement, considered music to be a vital part of religion, while
Charles's sons Charles and Samuel and grandson Samuel Sebastian
were among the most important English composers of their time. This
book explores the conflicts faced by the Wesleys but also
celebrates their triumphs: John's determination to elevate the
singing of his flock; the poetry of Charles's hymns and their
musical treatment in both Britain and America; the controversial
family concerts by which Charles launched his sons on their
careers; the prolific output of Charles the younger; Samuel's range
and rugged individuality as a composer; the oracular boldness of
Sebastian's religious music and its reception around the
English-speaking world. Exploring British concert life, sacred
music forms, and hymnology, the contributors analyze the political,
cultural, and social history of the Wesleys' enormous influence on
English culture and religious practices. Contributors are Stephen
Banfield, Jonathan Barry, Martin V. Clarke, Sally Drage, Peter S.
Forsaith, Peter Holman, Peter Horton, Robin A. Leaver, Alyson
McLamore, Geoffrey C. Moore, John Nightingale, Philip Olleson,
Nicholas Temperley, J. R. Watson, Anne Bagnall Yardley, and Carlton
R. Young.
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John Wesley
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John Wesley; Edited by A.C. Outler
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R824
Discovery Miles 8 240
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Over the course of the past 40 years, painter John Wesley has
created a remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less
than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation have
used popular images to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has
employed comic strip style and compositional rigor to make deeply
personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our
most primal fears, joys and desires. In this first volume ever to
collect the entire iconic Bumstead series, which spans from 1974
until the present, we are introduced to several paintings that have
never been reproduced before. These are dark and erotic works, sly
and witty without ever giving too much away. Linda Norden described
them thus in Parkett 62: "The Bumstead paintings--whether detailing
scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off-camera
moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for
private memories--are excruciatingly specific representations of
the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny,
startling, irreverently empathetic and often heartbreaking, they
are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse." With an
insightful new essay by Robert Hobbs.
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