exploring church and Methodism in a local settingHammond, Geordan.Forsaith, Peter S.Hindmarsh, D. Bruce.textbibliographyconference publicationElectronic books.Conference papers and proceedings.History.enk2011monographiceng1 online resource (xix, 238 pages) : illustrationsA collection of essays that aim to consider broad questions of the role of religion in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by studying a single geographical area. Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the ""birthplace of the industrial revolution"" while remaining one of the last examples of a Methodist parish in England. These works engage with a variety of areas of study: Methodism's roots and growth in relation to the Church of England, religion and gender in eighteenth century Britain, and religion and the emergence of an industrial society, and do.Front cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The Themes and Contexts; The Conference; The Papers; Acknowledgments; 1. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century; 2. John Fletcher's Parishioners; 3. John Fletcher's Silent Bishop; 4. Church and Chapel; Introduction; Church Services; Church Extension: Defining the Problem; Church Extension 1760-1785; Expanded Church Services; Madeley Religious Societies and the "Chapels"; Implications of Fletcher's Ministry for Church Extension 1785-1815; Conclusion; 5. John Fletcher's Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians.When and How Fletcher Read SwedenborgWhy Did Fletcher Read Swedenborg?; Fletcher as the Mystical Methodist; Fletcher's Millennialism and Doctrine of Perfect Love; The Search for Theosophy; How Significant Was This Reading?; Mary Bosanquet and Spiritual Religion; Conclusion; 6. ""Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity""; Introduction: Fletcher as Priest-Theologian; Fletcher's Doxological Trinitarianism: A Critical Reading; Fletcher and Two Alternatives: English Unitarianismand English Rational Theology; Following Fletcher: The Promise of Doxological Trinitarianism.7. Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752-17738. Mothers in Christ; 9. Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-1851; The Madeley Group; Mary and Zechariah Taft; The East Anglian Group; Conclusions; Networking; Gendered Relationships; 10. "Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!"; 11. Holding Tightly to the "Promise of the Father"; "The Promise of the Father"; "Baptism with the Holy Ghost"; Faith for a Victorian Church; Conclusion; 12. John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism; Fletcher's Checks as a Doctrinal Standard; Mary Bosanquet Fletcher's Diaries.Bishop Asbury's Indebtedness to FletcherBishop Asbury and His Preachers Affirmed PentecostalPerfection; The Prevalence of the Fletchers' Pentecostal Nomenclature in Early American Methodism; Conclusion; 13. The Long Fletcher Incumbency; Contributors; Back cover.edited by Geordan Hammond, Peter S. Forsaith ; foreword by D. Bruce Hindmarsh.Essays originally presented at a conference held June 16-18, 2009 at the Telford (Priorslee) campus of the University of Wolverhampton with some sessions at Madeley and Ironbridge.Includes bibliographical references and index.e-uk-enFletcher, John1729-1785CongressesFletcher, John1729-1785MethodismHistory18th centuryCongressesMethodismHistory19th centuryCongressesMethodismDoctrinesMadeley (Shropshire, England)RELIGIONChristianityMethodistMethodismMethodismDoctrinesEnglandMadeley (Shropshire)HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain 1700-1899 fast BX8278.M33 R45 2011eb287.142(OCoLC)8064361279780227900130022790013822573/ctt1cg7ccc JSTORhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=814406http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=814406N$T14072120200709060157.0ocn884280939eng