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‘Logical’ Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery (Studies in Evangelicalism)

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Luther Lee, D.D. (1800-1889), One of the crucial founders of Wesleyan Methodism, was once a nineteenth-century reformer and an ordained minister within the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lee is known to most Methodist historians as a Methodist Episcopal minister who deserted the church that had brought him to religious birth and ordination. Wesleyan Methodist church historians know him as the first president in their denomination, an editor in their periodical, and unfortunately, a traitor who betrayed and then due to this fact walked away from the church he had helped to establish. His significance to American history has not heretofore been observed.

This volume explores Lee’s life, his politics, and his theology. One of the crucial creator’s particular foci is the extent to which Lee affected the antislavery movement. Paul L. Kaufman places Lee inside the broad context of nineteenth-century reformism as he battled the “gag rule” of the Methodist Episcopal bishops, and then shaped the Wesleyan Methodist Connection even as he served at the highest levels of Garrison’s American AntiSlavery Society. Of interest to students and teachers of Methodism, American history, and the abolitionist movement.

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