‘The book contains a wealth of information and valuable insights.’ The Banner of Truth
‘The book contains a wealth of information and valuable insights.’ The Banner of Truth
‘ . . . this magnificent volume . . . amply demonstrates the vigour and confidence of Welsh history in its maturity.’ Planet
‘We have waited almost forty years for a scholar of the Welsh Methodist movement to flesh out such a picture for us. Dr Jones has mastered both the complexities of the sources and the historiography to present us with a revised picture of the critical fifteen years . . . ’ United Reformed Church History Society Journal
David Ceri Jones’s landmark study situates the Welsh Methodist revival within the context of the international evangelical community that thrived particularly between 1735 and 1750 and that spanned many parts of Europe and the American colonies. The Welsh revival was one constituent element of this much wider pan-Protestant awakening. This survey focuses on the relationship of the Welsh revival with its various sister awakenings in England, Scotland, Ireland, parts of France, Germany and the American colonies. It does this by looking at the means by which Methodists in Wales communicated with their fellow evangelicals and traces both the ways in which the Welsh revivalists influenced the wider movement and the manner in which international evangelicalism fundamentally affected the development of Welsh Methodism.
‘A Glorious Work in the World’ will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Methodism, the Evangelical Revival, national identity and the eighteenth century more broadly.
A native of Port Talbot, David Ceri Jones studied at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth before being appointed Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth in 2000. He is a member of the ‘Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales, 1740–1918’ project and is currently preparing an edition of Iolo Morganwg’s correspondence for publication.