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The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811
Author(s): David Ceri Jones (Author), Eryn Mant White and Boyd Stanley Schlenther (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 15 April 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708325017
- ISBN-13: 9780708325018
Book Description
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic Methodism, especially in England, has not. The book charts the sources of the eighteenth-century Methodist revival in the context of Protestant evangelicalism emerging in continental Europe and colonial North America, and then proceeds to follow the fortunes in both England and Wales of the Calvinistic branch, to the establishing of formal denominations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This much-needed volume opens up the history of eighteenth-century Calvinistic Methodism as a single narrative embracing both England and Wales. It offers superb treatment of the larger-than-life individuals who made this Calvinistic movement nearly the equal of its Wesleyan counterpart including Griffith Jones, Daniel Rowland, and Howel Harris (Wales), the Countess of Huntington and Thomas Haweis (England), and George Whitefield (everywhere). The book also succeeds in explaining why Calvinistic Methodism faded in England while becoming a permanent part of the Welsh religious landscape. This is an important history very well told. –Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame
About the Author
Dr David Ceri Jones is a Lecturer in History at Aberystwyth University, and an ordinand in the Church in Wales. Dr Boyd Stanley Schlenther received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and was Reader in History until his retirement. Dr Eryn Mant White is a Senior Lecturer in Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.
