Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gitre, Edward J.

Titel

'A Glorious Work in the World': Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-1750

Ist Teil von

• Church History, 2006, Vol.75 (2), p.431-433

Ort / Verlag

Santa Rosa: American Society of Church History

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Indeed, Whitefield came to depend on the burgeoning network of Welsh Methodist societies founded and led by Harris, Daniel Rowland, and others to sustain and expand his ministry in Britain and the American colonies: the Welsh contributed to the transnational letter-writing network (especially women, whom Jones highlights in a separate chapter); they bought and shared Methodist books, circulated magazines, and hosted the evangelist on his way to and from the colonies; they also gave to his Georgia orphanage, Bethesda. Jones partially answers these questions but through a dated interpretive framework, relying on John Walsh's 1960s thesis that suggests the evangelical revival is explained best as (a) a reaction against eighteenthcentury rationalism, (b) a revolt against the austerities of High Church piety, and (c) a revival of latent puritan spirituality.