Author: Richard GreenPublisher: New York : AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Works of John and Charles Wesley
Author: Richard GreenPublisher: New York : AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An Extract of the Christian's Pattern; Or, A Treatise of the Imitation of Christ
Author: Thomas (à Kempis)The Works of John and Charles Wesley : a Bibliography : Containing an Exact Account of All the Publications Issued by the Brothers Wesley
Author: Richard GreenVanity Fair and the Celestial City
Author: Isabel RiversPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254263X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.
The Complete Imitation of Christ
Author: Thomas à KempisPublisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1612611206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Published in over 6,000 editions before the year 1900, The Imitation of Christ has been more widely read than any other book in human history except the Bible itself. It has been called “the most influential work in Christian literature,” “a landmark in the history of the human mind,” and “the fifth gospel.” Now, and for the first time, comes an exhaustive edition of this classic work, a work that is bound to become a classic in its own right. Fr. John-Julian introduces Kempis and his Imitation in ways that will shock many who have read the book before. For example, Protestant devotees to the book may be astounded to discover that Thomas was not only a Roman Catholic but an ardent traditionalist contemplative monk as well. And devoted Catholic readers may be amazed to discover that he was a radical moral reformer and part of a group twice formally charged with heresy. Notes and introductions to every aspect of The Imitation open the meaning of this classic to the next generation of readers.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Books Published by Mr. John and Charles Wesley, and to be Sold at the Foundery, &c
Author: John WesleyThe Works of the Rev. John Wesley
Author: John WesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
An Extract of the Christian's Pattern: Or a Treatise of the Imitation of Christ. Written in Latin by Thomas À Kempis. Publish'd by John Wesley, M.A.
Author: Catalogue of the Library ...
Author: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of IllinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description