A View of Old Montgomeryshire

Balchin, W. G. V.; Phillips, Pauline

doi:10.2307/634154

The Geographical Journal

1978

DOI: 10.2307/634154

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A View of Old Montgomeryshire

W. G. V. Balchin¹,

Pauline Phillips²

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Doctors, Demons and Early Methodist Healing

Rack

1982

Stud. Church Hist.

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Methodist historians have naturally tended to emphasise the reasonableness and sobriety of their founder and his followers, the social as well as the spiritual benefits they produced. The elements of irrationality and what some will see as religious hysteria in the movement have been played down. Non-methodists have been less reticent. Methodist ‘enthusiasm’ was a popular target in the eighteenth century and the charges made, however one-sided and exaggerated, had a solid basis in fact. They were to be repeated with varying degrees of distaste and disapproval by writers such as Southey; or in more balanced accounts like that of Lecky. Even the sympathetic Alexander Knox who had known Wesley personally, perceptively remarked that ‘he would have been an enthusiast if he could’. Ronald Knox suspected that the rational controls in Wesley’s mind were only superficial: he was easily swayed on supernatural phenomena ‘when the evidence supported views which he wanted to be true’. A taste for religious excitement and credulity about the supernatural were often even more marked among his followers, especially the ordinary membership.

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Doctors, Demons and Early Methodist Healing

Rack

1982

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