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American Saint - Francis Asbury and the Methodists (Paperback)
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English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious
leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the
creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest
Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the
foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish
today. In American Saint, John Wigger has written the definitive
biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation
of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. Asbury
emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader, but a
fascinating character, who lived an extraordinary life. His
cultural sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize.
His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was his
generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with
ordinary people, and he met with thousands of them as he
crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty
thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death
in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized
face-to-face than any other American of his day, including Thomas
Jefferson and George Washington.
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