What counts as Wesleyan Orthodoxy?

John Wesley preaching at the Market Cross in Epworth

A friend’s invitation to preach outdoors had John Wesley worried: Could such sermonizing be a sin?

While his concern might seem strange today, it made perfect sense in 18th-century England.

Less than a century earlier, Puritans had used field preaching to inflame the people who overthrew the country’s Anglican elite in England’s bloody civil war. By Wesley’s day, many Church of England dioceses had banned the practice.

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