Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Moravian Infulence?


When I was reading Wesley’s journal, I noticed that before Wesley’s Aldersgate experience, he seemed to have founded a society (or at least he was involved in it), which he called “our little society”, in obedience to the command of God by St. James together with Peter Bohler (p. 55). Then there is a footnote explaining that the society was heavily influenced by the tone and temper of Moravian quietism (p. 55). And the journal mentioned Moravian for a few times. So I was wondering if Wesley was at least involved in this society, how much and to what extend had he been influenced by the Moravians’ teaching? What happened to the “our little society”? Did the rules that the society established among themselves somehow became Methodist doctrine afterwards?

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