The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr

Arthur Alan Torpy

doi:10.5771/9780810870826

Summary

For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna. What has come down to us about John Wesley's father_Samuel Wesley, Sr._is a mixture of good and bad character traits, mostly seemingly inconsequential with respect to the making of Methodism under John and Charles. Now with Arthur Torpy's work, we have reason to think differently. Samuel Wesley, Sr. was a complex person whose thoughts, actions, and convictions were based on his understanding and practice of his tradition, experience, scripture, and reasoning. The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr. examines the life of Samuel Wesley, exploring the influences of his early Dissenting upbringing, his Oxford education, subsequent published writings, and post 1709 sermons.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-6058-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-7082-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 173
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Editor's Preface No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Paradoxical Profiles No access
2. Dated Presentations No access
3. Projection of Chapters No access
4. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Raised and Nurtured in and by Dissent No access
3. Growing Disenchantment with Dissent No access
4. Changing Times No access
5. Experiencing Oxford for the First Time as a Dissenter No access
6. Returning to Oxford as a Church of England Man No access
7. Oxford Days: 1684-1688 No access
8. Summary No access
9. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Word of God: Scripture, the Basis of Piety No access
3. A Foundational Belief No access
4. A Literalist View of Scripture No access
5. Defenders of Literalism No access
6. Words of Precedence No access
7. Affirmation of Scripture in Wesley's Sermons No access
8. A Moderate Application of Scripture No access
9. Passions and Biblical Piety No access
10. Scripture Defended from Outside Threats: Catholics and Quakers No access
11. Samuel's Words: Encouraging and Exhorting the Practice of Piety No access
12. Athenian Mercury No access
13. Wesley's Contribution to the Athenian Gazette No access
14. Piety in and through Worship: Pious Communicant Rightly Prepared No access
15. Practical Piety in a Letter of Personal Correspondence No access
16. Piety in Wesley's Sermonic Material No access
17. Summary No access
18. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Anthony Horneck No access
3. Anthony Horneck and Samuel Wesley No access
4. Experiential Piety No access
5. Crisis and Assurance No access
6. Perfectionism No access
7. Theft of Corn No access
8. Hetty's Moral Fall or Disobedience? No access
9. The Bible, First, Last and Always No access
10. Oppositive Nature of Pietism No access
11. Wesley's Position on Slavery No access
12. Practical Piety for Samuel No access
13. Letters from Samuel Wesley to his Eldest Son, Samuel No access
14. Poetry: Tributes to Pious People No access
15. Summary No access
16. Notes No access
1. Samuel's Impact on his Sons No access
2. Relationship with John No access
3. Relationship with Charles No access
4. Relationship with Samuel, Jr. No access
5. Epilogue: The Lengthening Shadow of Samuel Wesley No access
6. Summary No access
7. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. No. 6 No access
2. No. 16 No access
3. No. 17 No access
4. No. 25, Part 1 No access
5. No. 25, IIId Sermon on 1st Peter 4:3, 4, 5 verse No access
Bibliography No access Pages 160 - 169
Index No access Pages 170 - 172
About the Author No access Pages 173 - 173