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URL:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/mhsi-annual-lecture-2021-ad
 am-clarke-and-the-struggle-for-wesleys-methodism/
SUMMARY:MHSI Annual Lecture 2021 - Adam Clarke and the struggle for Wesley'
 s Methodism
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAdam Clarke died in the cholera epidemic of 1832\, two mont
 hs after the Great Reform Bill became law. Forty years previously\, he sym
 pathised with the French Revolution. Yet he was on familiar terms with sen
 ior politicians and leading figures\, nobility and even royalty. Independe
 nt in thought\, he might be described as a pragmatic conservative radical.
 \n\nAlthough only a young preacher when Wesley died\, this lecture will ar
 gue that Clarke imbued and tried to maintain Wesley’s notions of a disti
 nct though independent religious body within a national church\, against s
 ocial change and increasing denominational separation with a metropolitan 
 and clerical hierarchical autocracy. It will view Clarke partly through th
 e eyes of his biographer and protégé\, James Everett\, leading indirectl
 y to the great Wesleyan schism of 1849.\n\nLecturer: Dr Peter Forsaith is 
 a historian of culture\, religion and society in eighteenth– and early n
 ineteenth–century Britain\, and Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for
  Methodism and Church History\, Oxford Brookes University.\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
LOCATION:Belfast South Methodist Church and Agape Centre\, 236-266 Lisburn 
 Road\, Belfast\, BT9 6GF\, UK\, 236-266 Lisburn Road\, Belfast\, Antrim\, 
 BT9 6GF\, United Kingdom
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