Filosofi & religion
Encoding Methodism: Telling and Retelling Narratives of Wesleyan Origins
Ted A Campbell
Häftad
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We shape and are shaped by the stories we tell about ourselves. Methodists love to tell the story and Methodist churches have consistently told and re-told the narrative of their eighteenth-century founding by John (and sometimes Charles) Wesley as a way of describing the distinctive identity of their religious communities. This book offers a comprehensive and critically documented account of the development of these narratives of Wesleyan origins and the ways in which they attempted to describe or encode the identity of Wesleyan/Methodist communities. This is not a cynical account of how interpreters have simply written their own agenda into the narrative (and that has happened); rather it shows in many cases how the unique position and contexts of narrators have better see what really happened.
- Format: Häftad
- ISBN: 9780938162445
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 212
- Utgivningsdatum: 2017-09-01
- Förlag: New Room Books