John WesleyOxford University Press, USA, 1964 - 516 pages Over the course of the past 40 years, painter John Wesley has created a remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation have used popular images to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has employed comic strip style and compositional rigor to make deeply personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our most primal fears, joys and desires. In this first volume ever to collect the entire iconic Bumstead series, which spans from 1974 until the present, we are introduced to several paintings that have never been reproduced before. These are dark and erotic works, sly and witty without ever giving too much away. Linda Norden described them thus in Parkett 62: "The Bumstead paintings--whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off-camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories--are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse." With an insightful new essay by Robert Hobbs. |
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... tion , even in another age and atmosphere . This volume in A Library of Protestant Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as ...
... tion , even in another age and atmosphere . This volume in A Library of Protestant Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as ...
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... tion , therefore , Wesley may be more readily appreciated as an " ecumeni- cal theologian " than as the eponymous hero of a particular denomination . It is in some such perspective as this that he is presented here — fully and fairly ...
... tion , therefore , Wesley may be more readily appreciated as an " ecumeni- cal theologian " than as the eponymous hero of a particular denomination . It is in some such perspective as this that he is presented here — fully and fairly ...
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... tion and frequent Communion.21 This group had developed a keen inter- est in the ancient liturgies 22 and the monastic piety of the fourth - century " desert fathers . " It must have seemed natural to everyone involved when John assumed ...
... tion and frequent Communion.21 This group had developed a keen inter- est in the ancient liturgies 22 and the monastic piety of the fourth - century " desert fathers . " It must have seemed natural to everyone involved when John assumed ...
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... tion as a process rather than a state gave Wesley a spiritual vision quite different from the static perfectionism envisaged in Roman spiritual the- ology of the period and the equally static quietism of those Protestants and Catholics ...
... tion as a process rather than a state gave Wesley a spiritual vision quite different from the static perfectionism envisaged in Roman spiritual the- ology of the period and the equally static quietism of those Protestants and Catholics ...
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... tion and the use of lay preachers as associates in the Revival mark off the principal difference between the long - term , cumulative results of the Wesleyan movement and the rather more episodic successes of other popular evangelists ...
... tion and the use of lay preachers as associates in the Revival mark off the principal difference between the long - term , cumulative results of the Wesleyan movement and the rather more episodic successes of other popular evangelists ...
Contents
V | 41 |
VI | 51 |
VIII | 70 |
IX | 73 |
X | 77 |
XI | 80 |
XII | 82 |
XIII | 84 |
XXXI | 231 |
XXXII | 238 |
XXXIII | 251 |
XXXIV | 252 |
XXXV | 271 |
XXXVI | 283 |
XXXVII | 298 |
XXXVIII | 306 |
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Aldersgate antinomianism apostle Arminian baptism baptized believe believeth blessing blood brethren called Calvinists Charles Wesley children of God Christian Perfection Church of England circumcision command covenant death desire devil doctrine earth edition election eternal evil faith Father fear fruit give glory God's gospel hath hear heart heaven Holy Ghost Homilies Jehonadab Jesus Christ John Wesley Journal justified Letters live Lord Lord's Supper manner means of grace mercy Methodist Moravian nature never obey ordinances outward Oxford Paul persons Peter Böhler plain prayer preach preachers reason receive religion repentance reprobation righteousness sacraments saith salvation sanctified saved Scripture sense Sermons Sugden sinners sins societies soul speak Spirit suppose thee theological therein things thou thought tion true truth unconditional election unto Wesley's whole witness words