John Kent Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth hundred years Britain.

John Kent Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth hundred years Britain. New York: Cambridge University Pres 2002 Pp vi, 229 $5000 ISBN 0-521-45532-4

The illustration onward the dust jacket of this work a traditional painting of John Wesley preaching in succession his father's tombstone, is printed backwards, no doubt for artistic reasons. The reversal technique is a harbinger of John Kent's approach to his topic--he bends everything around backwards or upside down in order to advance up with a different angle for investigation and interpretation. The reader catches glimpses of the

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