Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… Image George Bickham, ‘The Moorfields congregation with George Whitefield, representing religious mania, etching’, Welcome Collection, no. 11691i, 1739. Image "A … new conceptions of religious sociability and started controversies on the place of individual and collective discipline within the Established Churches in Britain. Methodist leaders insisted on the necessity of organising little societies … Methodism in Britain and in colonial America from the 1730s onward brought a redefinition of religious sociability along with theological and liturgical innovations. John Wesley and George Whitefield , who can be considered as the leading …
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