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Author:   John Wigger (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Missouri)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780199948246

ISBN 10:   0199948240
Pages:   558
Publication Date:   29 November 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Apprentice Chapter 2. The Young Preacher Chapter 3. The Promise of Discipline Chapter 4. Southern Persuasion Chapter 5. One Revolution Chapter 6. Leads to Another Chapter 7. Looking Forward, Looking Backward Chapter 8. A New Church in a New Nation Chapter 9. ""Such a time...was never seen before"" Chaper 10. ""Alas for the rich! they are so soon offended"" Chapter 11. ""Be not righteous over much"" Chapter 12. Schism Chapter 13. Reconnecting Chapter 14. ""Weighed in the balances"" Chapter 15. ""We were great too soon"" Chapter 16. ""Down from a Joyless height"" Chapter 17. ""Feel for the power"" Chapter 18. ""The garden of God"" Chapter 19. ""Like a moving fire"" Chapter 20. Limits Chapter 21. ""I see, I feel what is wrong in preachers and people, but I cannot make it right,"" Chapter 22. What God Allows Chapter 23. End of the Road Epilogue: Bending Frank Abbreviations Notes Index"

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[a] masterful, nuanced portrait Charles Wallace, Journal of American Studies

Wigger has fixed his place as the best Asbury scholar to date and one of the top historians of the American religious scene in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. --Richard P. Heitzenrater, Methodist History Asbury has not lacked for biographies, but Wigger's is definitive and magisterial. --Grant Wacker, Christian Century Francis Asbury had an immense influence in shaping the early American Republic in that he promoted and oversaw the phenomenal growth of the fledgling Methodist movement at a rate that would soon make it America's largest Protestant denomination. John Wigger provides a definitive and illuminating biography that is to be recommended to all who wish to understand the sort of leadership that makes great religious movements succeed. --George Marsden, author of Jonathan Edwards: A Life Francis Asbury was one of the three or four most important religious leaders in American history, but until now he has lacked a comprehensive biography. John Wigger fills this gap splendidly. But much more than filling a gap, Wigger's rich account of the man who created American Methodism as the marvel of its age also reveals a great deal about the United States in its formative decades. This is a terrific book on a major figure. --Mark A. Noll, author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln Wigger's superbly researched and clearly written biography deservedly rehabilitates one of America's unlikeliest but most significant religious leaders. From his humble beginnings in England, Francis Asbury probably did more to reshape the religious culture of the new Republic than any other individual. --David Hempton, author of Methodism: Empire of the Spirit

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John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri.

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