Wesley as Sociologist Theologian, Churchman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wesley as Sociologist Theologian, ChurchmanHow can we help but be drawn out to that little, restless man of the eighteenth century, with his noble enthusiasms, his practical temper, his cool head, his sane and wise methods, who combined as few other men have ever done devotion to the largeness of God's truth as he saw it with ethical passion, and so comes before us in the unique role of both a religious and theological, and moral, reformer? A social reformer in the same sense he was not. It is rather only indirectly, as the outcome of his zeal for Christian faith and life, that he appears in these sociological relations, or as inheriting the love of order of his ancestors that he comes out with his conservative views of politics and thus actually exercised a steadying influence upon public life.I do not find that Wesley brought forward any new views of society or of political economy, or that he had thought out what Christianity really demands, if radically carried out, in the reconstruction of human relations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.