دانلود کتاب John Wesley: A Study For The Times

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Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1998.
(В файле 98 с.).The book now offered to the public is not a Life of Wesley; much less is it a history of the great revival, of which, for more than half a century, he was the central figure. It is to certain features only of the great man's work and character that the author would direct attention; features, which, though not made specially prominent by biographers, are yet the real elements of his greatness, and the true sources of the power which he wielded. As a man, as a Christian minister, as the founder of the most rapidly growing religious body of modern times, there was a breadth and liberality in Wesley's aims and methods which distinguish him above all the men whom, up to his day, ecclesiastical history had furnished since the days of the primitive Church. We venture to remark that, as regards conceptions of the Christian life and of the divinely appointed mission of the Church, he was more than a century in advance of his contemporaries; and even today the great leaders of Christian thought are just beginning to catch his spirit. While these may not be conscious disciples to his system, and might even indignantly repel the intimation that in any sense they are his followers, a comparison of his views and principles with their own will reveal the fact that, in this nineteenth century, they are but treading along the path marked out by him more than one hundred years ago.