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almahu_9948664863002882
Format:
1 online resource (370 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781453918050
Series Statement:
American University Studies 352
Content:
Church and Chapel in Industrializing Society: Anglican Ministry and Methodism in Shropshire, 1760–1785 envelopes a new and provocative revisionist history of Methodism and the Church of England in the eighteenth century, challenging the Church’s perception as a varied body with myriad obstacles which it dutifully and substantially confronted (if not always successfully) through the maintenance of an ecclesiastically and theologically rooted pastoral ideal. This model was lived out ‘on the ground’ by the parish clergy, many of whom were demonstrably innovative and conscientious in fulfilling their pastoral vocation vis-à-vis the new demands presented by the social, ecclesiastical, political, and economic forces of the day, not least of which was the rise of industrialisation. Contrary to the effete arguments of older cadre church historians, heavily reliant on the nineteenth-century denominational histories and primarily the various forms of Methodism, this book provides a thoroughly researched study of the ministry of John William Fletcher, incumbent of the parish of Madeley at the heart of the industrial revolution, whose own work along with that of his Evangelically minded Anglican-Methodist colleagues found the Church of England sufficiently strong and remarkably flexible enough to rigorously and creatively do the work of the Church alongside their non-Anglican Evangelical counterparts. Despite the manifest challenges of industrializing society, residual dissent, and competition from the Church’s rivals, the Establishment was not incapable of competing in the religious marketplace.
Content:
«This book reassesses Fletcher and his ministry thoroughly and persuasively: any student of early Methodism needs to read this for it articulates how 'Methodism' could operate in a local situation and can be put alongside other new work, such as Russell Frazier's on Swiss theological influences on Fletcher, and on Mary Bosanquet/Mrs Fletcher.» (Peter S. Forsaith, Wesley and Methodist Studies Vol. 10, No. 1, 2018)
Note:
List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgments – Fletcher-Madeley Chronology – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Madeley in 1760 – Church Services and Patterns of Worship – Church Extension: ‘Chapel’ Ministry and the Societies in Madeley – Tensions in Church and Chapel – Pastoralia – Conflict, Confrontation and Conciliation – Conclusion – Fletcher’s Sermons – Biographical Index – Visiting Preachers in Madeley 1760–1785 – Fletcher’s Works with Various Collected Editions Noted – Calendar of the Correspondence of John Fletcher – Maps – Bibliography – Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433130137
Language:
English
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