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

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OUP Oxford, 2 oct. 2003 - 432 pages
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 and social origins of those who joined its congregations; and the relationship between central direction and local initiative. The book examines the Connexion's attitudes to the Church of England and also to Dissent, to whose revival in the later eighteenth century it made a significant contribution. It considers the Connexion's relationship with other sections of the Revival, and reflects on the doctrinal issues that divided it from Weleyan Methodism.
 

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1 Introduction
1
2 The EighteenthCentury Religious Background
5
Early Life and the Start of the Connexion
21
4 The Life of the Countess of Huntingdons Connexion
62
5 Trevecca College
173
6 Doctrines and Divisions
233
7 The Connexion the Church of England and Dissent
296
8 The Connexion in the Last Years of Lady Huntingdons Life
358
Annex A Students of Trevecca College
375
Annex B The Plan of Association 1790
377
Annex C The Articles of the Countess of Huntingdons Connexion
378
Bibliography
385
Index
395
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Alan Harding was formely a member of the Senior Civil Service. He is now a parish priest in Hertfordshire

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