Wesley and Aldersgate

Interpreting Conversion Narratives
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58743-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Routledge Methodist Studies Series

Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley’s key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally. This book brings clarity to the impact this event had on Wesley over the course of his lifetime by closely examining all of Wesley’s writings pertaining to Aldersgate and framing them within the wider context of contemporary conversion narratives.

The central aim of this study is to establish Wesley’s interpretation of his Aldersgate experience as it developed from its initial impressions on the night of 24 May 1738 to its mature articulation in the 1770s. By paying close attention to the language of his diaries, letters, journals, sermons, tracts and other writings, fresh insights into Wesley‘s own perspective are revealed. When these insights are brought into wider context of other conversion narratives in the Christian milieu in which Wesley worked and wrote, this book demonstrates that this single event contributed in significant ways to the ethos of the Methodist movement, and many other denominations, even up to the present day.

This is a unique study of the conversion of one of history’s most influential Christian figures, and the impact that such narratives still have on us today. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of Methodism, theology, religious history and religious studies more generally.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Mark K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Methodistische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Interpreting Conversion Narratives 1 The Riddle of Aldersgate 2 The Sources of Aldersgate 3 The ‘Official’ Version: Part One 4 The ‘Official’ Version: Part Two 5 The ‘Unofficial’ Versions 6 The Corroborating Witnesses 7 The Legacy of Aldersgate Conclusion: Wesley and Aldersgate Appendix 1: References to Wesley’s Conversion Appendix 2: John Wesley’s Conversion in Parallel Accounts

Über Autor(innen)

Mark K. Olson is Adjunct Faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University and Nazarene Bible College, both in the USA. He has published several books on Wesley including A John Wesley Reader on Eschatology (2011) and John Wesley’s Theology of Christian Perfection (2007) and multiple articles.