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Book cover image of John Wesley's Sermons by Albert Cook Outler

Authors: Albert Cook Outler, Richard P. Heitzenrater
ISBN-13: 9780687204960, ISBN-10: 0687204968
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Albert Cook Outler

Book Synopsis

For the first time, students of Wesley have access to Albert C. Outler's widely acclaimed "introduction" to Volume 1 of The Works of John Wesley in a single inexpensive paperback.

No student of John Wesley will need to be reminded of Albert Outler's stature, or the significance of his contribution to twentieth-century Wesleyan studies.

Contents


  1. A Career in Retrospect

  2. The Preacher and His Preaching

  3. The Sermon Corpus

  4. Theological Method and the Problems of development

  5. Wesley and His Sources

  6. On Reading Wesley's Sermons

Table of Contents

Foreword9
1.A Career in Retrospect11
2.The Preacher and His Preaching24
The Tradition of Popular Preaching in England28
'Plain Truth for Plain People'31
3.The Sermon Corpus39
The Early Sermons39
Sermons on Several Occasions, Volumes 1-447
Sermons on Several Occasions, Volumes 5-8 (1788)54
The Other Sermons57
A Conspectus62
4.Theological Method and the Problems of Development64
5.Wesley and His Sources75
Holy Scripture77
The Classics79
Christian Antiquity82
From the Age of the Fathers to the English Reformation84
The Anglican and Puritan Traditions87
Contemporary Culture96
6.On Reading Wesley's Sermons104

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