John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature

Informationen zum Autor Emma Salgård Cunha is Lecturer in English at Middlebury College’s Oxford Humanities Program and College Lecturer in Theology at Keble College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the relationship between religion and literature in the long eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung This book takes the influential genre of practical divinity as a framework for understanding Wesley’s role as an author, editor and critic of popular religious writing. It asks why he advocated the literary arts as a valid aspect of his evangelical theology, and how his Christian poetics impacted upon the religious experience of his followers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Methodism and the Defence of Literature: An Introduction; 1 Methodist Literary Culture: Literacy and Grace; 2 Wesley’s Christian Library : Practicality, Controversy and the Methodist Canon; 3 Wesley in the Literary Sphere: The Methodist Miscellany; 4 Wesleyan Poetics: Practical Divinity and the Function of Literature; 5 Negotiating Nonconformity: Practical Divinity and the Politics of Methodist Hymnody; 6 Experience, Experiment and Wesley’s Spiritual Autobiography; Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Emma Salgard Cunha, Emma Salgård Cunha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138305021
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30502-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Methodist Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / General, English, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, History of Religion, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Church history, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, Methodist Churches, Protestantism & Protestant Churches