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Informationen zum Autor David Hempton! formerly Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University! was in 2007 appointed Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! and a former winner of the Society's Whitfield Prize! his books include Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press! 1996)! Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press! 2005) and Evangelical Disenchantment (Yale University Press! 2008). Klappentext Examining eighteenth-century religious thought in its sophisticated national and social contexts, the author relates the narrative of the Church to the rise of religious enthusiasm pioneered by Pietists, Methodists, Evangelicals and Revivalists, and by important leaders like August Hermann Francke, Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley.Examining eighteenth-century religious thought in its sophisticated national and social contexts, the author relates the narrative of the Church to the rise of religious enthusiasm pioneered by Pietists, Methodists, Evangelicals and Revivalists, and by important leaders like August Hermann Francke, Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley. Zusammenfassung Examining eighteenth-century religious thought in its sophisticated national and social contexts, the author relates the narrative of the Church to the rise of religious enthusiasm pioneered by Pietists, Methodists, Evangelicals and Revivalists, and by important leaders like August Hermann Francke, Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley.
