Article: High Church Anglican Influences on John Wesley's Conception of Primitive Christianity, 1732-1735

The ideal of primitive Christianity exerted a profound influence on John Wesley (1703-91) during the last few years he spent at Oxford before making the bold decision to become a missionary in the recently established colony of Georgia (chartered in 1732).1 This impulse to restore the purity of the early church was an established tradition within mainstream Anglicanism that was mediated to Wesley through his high church predecessors including his parents, and the nonjurors, Anglicans who declined to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to William and Mary (r. 1689-1702 and 1689-94)2 For Wesley, primitive Christianity - especially as mediated to him through certain aspects of the high ...

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