The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century England

by Harding, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780198263692
• ISBN10: 0198263694
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first detailed study of the operation of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, an important group in early Methodism. Alan Harding explores how the Connexion developed locally; the identity of its preachers and their training; the religious

Author Biography

Alan Harding was formerly a member of the Senior Civil Service. He is now a parish priest in Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

oxford Theological Monographs	p. i
Oxford Theological Monographs	p. ii
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion	p. iii
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Eighteenth-Century Religious Background	p. 5
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon: Early Life and the Start of the Connexion	p. 21
The Life of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion	p. 62
Trevecca College	p. 173
Doctrines and Divisions	p. 233
The Connexion, the Church of England and Dissent	p. 296
The Connexion in the Last Years of Lady Huntingdon's Life	p. 358
Students of Trevecca College	p. 375
the Plan of Association (1790)	p. 377
the Articles of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion*	p. 378
Index	p. 395
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