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050	0	4	_aBX8236 _b.E275 1991
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100	1		_aRichey, Russell E, _e1
245	1	0	_aEarly American Methodism /Russell E. Richey.
260			_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _c(c)1991.
300			_axix, 137 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 101-130) and index.
520	0		_aOffering a revisionist reading of American Methodism, this book goes beyond the limits of institutional history by suggesting a new and different approach to the examination of denominations. Russell E. Richey identifies within Methodism four distinct "languages" and explores the self-understanding that each language offers the early Methodists. One of these, a pietistic or evangelical vernacular, commonly employed in sermons, letters, and journals, is Richey's focus and provides a way for him to reconsider critical interpretive issues in American religious historiography and the study of Methodism. Richey challenges some important historical conventions, for instance, that the crucial changes in American Methodism occurred in 1784 when ties with John Wesley and Britain were severed, arguing instead for important continuities between the first and subsequent decades of Methodist experience.
520	0		_aAs Richey shows, the pietistic vernacular did not displace other Methodist languages Wesleyan, Anglican, or the language of American political discourse nor can it supplant them as interpretive devices. Instead, attention to the vernacular severs to highlight the tensions among the other Methodist languages and to suggest something of the complexity of early Methodist discourse. It reveals the incomplete connections made among the several languages, the resulting imprecisions and confusions that derived from using idioms from different languages, and the ways the Methodists drew upon the distinct languages during times of stress, change, and conflict.
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650		0	_aMethodist Church _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aMethodist Church _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell