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American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists

By John Wigger

This new biography on Francis Asbury really brings the history of early American Methodism to light, as well as provide great insight into this hero of the faith. The orthodox Methodist reader will be inspired and motivated by our American spiritual ancestors. The rise of the Methodists on Asbury’s watch from an obscure sect of the Church of England to the dominant denomination in America is well chronicled. In addition to the inspirational factor, this book is a page turner.

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American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Author: John Wigger

This new biography on Francis Asbury really brings the history of early American Methodism to light, as well as provide great insight into this hero of the faith. The orthodox Methodist reader will be inspired and motivated by our American spiritual ancestors. The rise of the Methodists on Asbury’s watch from an obscure sect of the Church of England to the dominant denomination in America is well chronicled. In addition to the inspirational factor, this book is a page turner.

English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. In American Saint, John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. Asbury emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader, but a fascinating character, who lived an extraordinary life. His cultural sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize. His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was his generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with ordinary people, and he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized face-to-face than any other American of his day, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Paperback: 558 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition (October 1, 2012)
ISBN-10: 0199948240
ISBN-13: 978-0199948246

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