John Wesley’s Life of Brainerd
John Wesley’s Life of Brainerd
John Wesley also saw Brainerd's life as an example that could be set before Christians. Wesley, too, had specific problems that he wanted to address through publishing Brainerd's life. In particular, he was concerned with the moral and spiritual failure of many of his itinerant preachers and with the increasing materialism of many of his followers. Both of these problems were addressed in Brainerd's writings, but Wesley had first to expunge the Calvinism which ran through Edwards's Life of Brainerd.
Keywords: John Wesley, Wesley's Extract, lay preachers, itinerant preachers, materialism, Calvinism, perfectionism, conversion
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