American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists

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English-born Francis Asbury was once one of the 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 The usa, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish lately. 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 The usa. Asbury emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader, but an interesting character, who lived an odd life. His cultural sensitivity was once matched only by his ability to organize. His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was once his generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to hook up with abnormal people, and he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation, riding a couple of hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in The usa in 1771 and his death in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was once more recognized face-to-face than every other American of his day, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

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