TY - BOOK AU - Rack,Henry D. TI - Reasonable enthusiast : John Wesley and the rise of methodism SN - 0687356253 PY - 1993/// CY - Nashville (US) PB - Abingdon Press, KW - RELIGION KW - CRISTIANISMO KW - METODISMO KW - WESLEY, JUAN (1703-1791) KW - IGLESIA METODISTA KW - DOCTRINAS KW - SIGLO XVIII KW - GRAN BRETAÑA KW - CLERO N1 - The strength of Henry Rack´s biography of Wesley lies in its analytical approach to the major historiographical issues in Wesleyan biography. This corrected edition prsents a reliable and beliavable portrait of a complicated figure. Rack marshalls a vast body of evidence in the cause of careful analysis and critical interpretation: his notes present a veritable feast of Methidist and eighteenth-century historiography. He is appropiately wary of his sources in this iconoclasm, and venturesome in his assesments N2 - Wesley´s England: society and religion in the early eighteenth century; "Primitive christianity": the young John Wesley (1703-38); Converting fires: the origin of the evangelical revival; John Wesley and the rise of methodism (1738-60); John Wesley and the consolidation of methodism (1760-91); Reckonings ER -