Thomas Haweis, 1734-1820

Résumé du livre

"THOMAS HAWEIS has been quite unjustly neglected by historians of the eighteenth-century religious revival: hiherto there has been no adequate study of his life and work. He is known as a writer, as a trustee-executor of Lady Huntingdon, and as a promoter of missions; but until now fill attention has not been paid to Haweis the Evangelical, nor has the whole extent of his contribution to the great missionary awakening been understood. In this book, particular stress is laid upon his earlier years, with the object of bringing the party to which he belonged into sharper focus. Dr Skevington Wood shows how Haweis combined the devoted care of a parish with itinerancy of Lady Huntingdon (even after her secession from the Established Church) and co-operation with Dissenters. He thus embodies in his own person the complexity of the relationship between Evangelicalism and Methodism, and the story of his life, see against the more general currents of the age, sheds light on this intricate problem. Dr Skevington Wood has made through use of original sources--in particular, and for the first time, Haweis' Autobiography--as well as the voluminous pamphlet literature and printed books of the period. There can be little doubt that he has written a definitive biography of his subject." -Publishers