John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature

By Emma Salgard Cunha

John Wesley (1703-1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for creating and disseminating a massive corpus of religious literature and for instigating a sophisticated programme of reading, writing and publishing within his Methodist Societies. John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367891581
• ISBN13: 9780367891589
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages