John Wesley

That John Wesley was not a systematic theologian is a point frequently made. Yet if that be the case what kind of theologian was he? To look at his literary output over the course of his long life and ministry is to recognize the central role that sermons played. Thus claims Michael Paquarello Wesley was a homiletical theologian one for whom the Word preached was the core means of reflecting on and understanding the meaning of the Gospel this preaching life of Wesley Pasquarello places Wesley''s sermons in the larger religious political and intellectual world of their eighteenth-century context. Neither a biography nor an intellectual history it is a homiletic history one that both uses the details of Wesley''s milieu to build a framework for understanding his sermons and that illumines the practical wisdom embodied in the content form and style of Wesley''s preaching. John Wesley: A Preaching Life vividly portrays the centrality of Wesley''s preaching to the religious revival that transformed eighteenth-century England.