In 1968, the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) churches merged to form The United Methodist Church. More than forty years later, many United Metho

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Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international re

This classic work, first published in 1675, inaugurated the movement in Germany called Pietism. In it a young pastor, born and raised during the devastating Thi