Music and Charles Wesley’s Legacy
Charles Wesley is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Methodism, arguably second only in the popular imagination to his older brother, John. In large part, this is due to Charles’s prolific achievements as a hymn writer. A significant number of his hymns, albeit a small proportion of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 57-80 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wesley, Charles 1707-1788
/ Hymnology
/ Methodism (motif)
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KDG Free church RD Hymnology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodism
B Singing B Charles Wesley B Music B MULTIMEDIA B Hymns |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Charles Wesley is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Methodism, arguably second only in the popular imagination to his older brother, John. In large part, this is due to Charles’s prolific achievements as a hymn writer. A significant number of his hymns, albeit a small proportion of the estimated nine thousand he wrote, have been widely and continuously sung in worship by Methodists and other Christians in Great Britain and beyond since the eighteenth century. Charles’s hymn texts were written to be sung, whether by the early followers of Methodism in the small group meetings that were integral to the movement’s structure, or in the public worship of the Church of England, which the early Methodist leaders sought to reinvigorate. Most people, within and beyond Methodism, who have encountered Charles Wesley’s religious poetry since the mid-eighteenth century have done so through participating in hymn singing or by hearing others do so. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-4525 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16922/jrhlc.10.2.5 |
