The Invention and Reinventions of Methodism; Sect, Church and Radical Movement

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Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Section I Methodism Sectarian Tendencies, Enthusiasm and Charismatic Outpourings of the Spirit
	1 ‘A Cloud of Perfect Witnesses’: The Importance of the London Perfection Controversy in Methodist History
	2 Keeping the Seventh Commandment: Sex, Scandal and Reputational Protection in Early Methodism
	3 From Earth to Heaven and Hell—and Back: The Strange and Wonderful Journey of Elizabeth Dickinson
Section II Doctrinal Influences: Justification by Faith, the Church and Christian Perfection
	4 The Influence of Martin Luther on the Theology of John Wesley: The Engine of Revival and Ecclesiastical Renewal
	5 Wesley’s Radical Ecclesiology: A Church for the World Not a World for the Church; or Polity Only for a Purpose
	6 Entire Sanctification in British Methodism During the Victorian Era
	7 Entire Sanctification Critical Voices: Reappraising the Human Condition
Section III The Impact and Influence of Methodism on Modern Society
	8 ‘This Work Can Not Be Done by Proxy’: Methodist Women and the Transatlantic Deaconess Movement
	9 ‘More Methodism Than Marx’: The Methodist Contribution to British Working-Class Politics 1880–1914
	10 Methodism in Milingimbi: Encounter and Enculturation in Arnhem Land, Australia, 1923–1945
	11 ‘But Mighty Through God for the Destruction of Strongholds’: The Wesleyan Impact in the NAACP
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