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001 2009004852
003 DLC
005 20100319085447.0
008 090205s2009 enka b 001 0beng
010 $a 2009004852
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016 7 $a015365964$2Uk
020 $a9780195387803
020 $a0195387805
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn304386078
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050 00 $aBX8495.A8$bW46 2009
082 00 $a287/.092$aB$222
100 1 $aWigger, John H.,$d1959-
245 10 $aAmerican saint :$bFrancis Asbury and the methodists /$cJohn Wigger.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axi, 543 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-525) and index.
505 0 $aThe apprentice -- The young preacher -- The promise of discipline -- Southern persuasion -- One revolution -- Leads to another -- Looking forward, looking backward -- A new church in a new nation -- "Such a time-- was never seen before" -- "Alas for the rich! they are so soon offended" -- "Be not righteous over much" -- Schism -- Reconnecting -- "Weighed in the balances" -- "We were great too soon" -- "Down from a Joyless height" -- "Feel for the power" -- "The garden of God" -- "Like a moving fire" -- Limits -- "I see, I feel what is wrong in preachers and people, but I cannot make it right" -- What God allows -- End of the road -- Bending Frank.
520 $aAsbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. --from publisher description
600 10 $aAsbury, Francis,$d1745-1816.
610 20 $aMethodist Episcopal Church$xBishops$vBiography.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2009004852-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2009004852-b.html