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Logical Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery
Paul Leslie Kaufman
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Description for Logical Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery
Hardback. Luther Lee was one of the founders of Wesleyan Methodism, a 19th-century reformer and an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This volume explores his life, politics and theology. One of the author's particular foci is the extent to which Lee impacted the antislavery movement. Series: Studies in Evangelicalism. Num Pages: 296 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ; HRCC2; HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 485.
Luther Lee, D.D. (1800-1889), one of the founders of Wesleyan Methodism, was a nineteenth-century reformer and an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lee is known to most Methodist historians as a Methodist Episcopal minister who deserted the church that had brought him to spiritual birth and ordination. Wesleyan Methodist church historians know him as the first president of their denomination, an editor of their periodical, and unfortunately, a traitor who betrayed and then subsequently walked away from the church he had helped to establish. His significance to American history has not heretofore been observed. This volume ... Read more
Luther Lee, D.D. (1800-1889), one of the founders of Wesleyan Methodism, was a nineteenth-century reformer and an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lee is known to most Methodist historians as a Methodist Episcopal minister who deserted the church that had brought him to spiritual birth and ordination. Wesleyan Methodist church historians know him as the first president of their denomination, an editor of their periodical, and unfortunately, a traitor who betrayed and then subsequently walked away from the church he had helped to establish. His significance to American history has not heretofore been observed. This volume ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Evangelicalism
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810837102
SKU
V9780810837102
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About Paul Leslie Kaufman
Paul Leslie Kaufman is Professor of History and Academic Dean at Allegheny Wesleyan College in Salem, Ohio, where he has taught since 1981. He also holds an adjunct professorship in Church history at Ashland Theological Seminary.
Reviews for Logical Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery
...there are two groups who should have particular interest in its contents: Methodists and students of the abolition movement in America... It is an outstanding book and deserves a wide readership.
Ashland Theological Seminary
Lee's story provides students of the Early National Period with a fresh example of the "New Man, The American" (p. 329).
Ohio History ... Read more
Ashland Theological Seminary
Lee's story provides students of the Early National Period with a fresh example of the "New Man, The American" (p. 329).
Ohio History ... Read more