The Evangelist of Desire by Henry Abelove

The Evangelist of Desire

John Wesley and the Methodists

by Henry Abelove

Stanford University Press, 1990, ISBN 9780804721578, lightly illustrated with black and white photographs, paperback

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, uncreased spine, slight cover curl (see photographs)

“…The book is not a biography of Wesley, though I do include some new information about him.  I give a fairly close account of a few episodes  in his life, but only because they disclose so much about his interaction with his followers.  Nor is the book a socioeconomic profile of the early Methodist community.  Such a profile, based on detailed local studies, would be useful, but I do not provide it.  What I do in this book is describe and analyse a relationship between one man, a gentleman and a preacher, and the thousands of plebeians, women, men, and children, whom he took to himself and tried to lead.  My theme is seduction, resistance, and the cultural consequences of both.” – Authors preface