A Little Heaven Below

by Lester Ruth

Book Overview

For early American Methodists, quarterly meetings were great festivals at the heart of Methodism's liturgical life. The meetings lasted several days and could attract thousands. In this volume, Lester Ruth offers a revisionist description of worship at the quarterly meetings in early American Methodism (ca. 1772-1825). The author describes the quarterly meeting as the setting in which early Methodism most "dramatized" itself for public view as graced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687090245
• ISBN13: 9780687090242
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Kingswood Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"