'Weak Heads and Worse Principles'?: Church and State, Conservatism And Identity in Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Literature, 1797-1802

This essay considers Welsh Calvinistic Methodism at the turn of the nineteenth century through two English-language texts: Thomas Jones's A Word in Season (1798), and Thomas Charles's The Welsh Methodists Vindicated (1802). It argues that a close examination of these texts reveals that cer...

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Main Author: Jones, Matthew C. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Wales Press [2018]
In: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-99
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