The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion: A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century EnglandOUP Oxford, 2003 M10 2 - 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. |
Contents
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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 |
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