Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism: Taking the Kingdom by Force (Religion in North America)

by JeffreyWilliams (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $45.02

  Early American Methodists described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. This book explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. It exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life.