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'A Glorious Work in the World'

Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-1750

Author(s) David Ceri Jones

Hardback - £9.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

Series: Studies in Welsh History

November 2004 · 256 pages ·220x138mm

· Hardback - 9780708318706

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This study looks at the means by which Methodists in Wales communicated with their fellow Evangelicals, how the Welsh revival influenced the wider movement, and the ways in which the international movement affected the development of Welsh Methodism.

'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 '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 ...' The United Reformed Church History Society Journal

Author(s): David Ceri Jones

David Ceri Jones is Reader in Early Modern History at Aberystwyth University, and the editor of Studies in Church History for the Ecclesiastical History Society. He has written widely on religion in Wales and beyond since the eighteenth century: he is co-author of The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735–1811 (2012) and A History of Christianity in Wales (2022); and co-editor of George Whitefield: Life, Context and Legacy (2016), The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (2023), and War, Peace and the British Free Churches, 1914–1945 (2026).