Anglican priest · founder of Methodism · Methodist
John Wesley
Born
1703
Died
1791
English Anglican priest and evangelist who, with his brother Charles, led the eighteenth-century Methodist revival; an itinerant preacher and prolific writer whose sermons, biblical notes and teaching on Christian perfection shaped the Methodist churches.
Wesley's account, in its final 1777 form, of how his teaching on Christian perfection developed from 1725 onward, with extracts from his sermons, hymns, conference minutes and answers to objections, followed by his Brief Thoughts on Christian Perfection.
