Susanna Wesley: The Complete WritingsOxford University Press, 26/06/1997 - 528 من الصفحات Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women. |
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LETTERS | |
Introduction to the Letters | |
Yarborough and Hickes Correspondence | |
Samuel Wesley Jr School Correspondence | |
More Letters to Dear Sammy | |
JOURNALS | |
Introduction to the Journals | |
First Surviving Entries | |
Keep a Due Guard over Your Words | |
You Write What Is Familiar to You by Practice | |
But What Do You Think? | |
Bend the Whole Force of the Mind in a Serious Use of the Ways | |
The Most Blest and Happy Day | |
The Rectory Fire | |
The Evening Prayers Controversy | |
An Age of Reasonand Credulity | |
A Rich Brother in India | |
Advice to an Oxford | |
Distinction at Oxford Scandal at Home | |
A Continuing Cure of Souls | |
Advisor to the Holy Club | |
More Advice More Concern | |
A Widow and a Supportive Critic of Revival | |
Last Letters | |
These Blessed Lucid Intervals | |
To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart | |
Introduction to the Writings | |
The Apostles Creed Explicated in a Letter to Her Daughter | |
A Brief Unfinished Exposition | |
A Religious Conference between Mother and Emilia | |
Some Remarks on a Letter from Whitefield | |
Bibliography | |
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