John Wesley: A Preaching Life

by Michael Pasquarello III

Publisher:

Abingdon Press

, 2010

Overview

That John Wesley was not a systematic theologian is a point frequently made. Yet if that be the case, what kind of theologian was he? To look at his literary output over the course of his long life and ministry is to recognize the central role that sermons played. Thus, claims Michael Paquarello, Wesley was a homiletical theologian, one for whom the Word preached was the core means of reflecting on and understanding the meaning of the Gospel.

In this “preaching life” of Wesley Pasquarello places Wesley’s sermons in the larger religious, political, and intellectual world of their eighteenth-century context. Neither a biography nor an intellectual history, it is a homiletic history, one that both uses the details of Wesley’s milieu to build a framework for understanding his sermons, and that illumines the practical wisdom embodied in the content, form, and style of Wesley’s preaching. John Wesley: A Preaching Life vividly portrays the centrality of Wesley’s preaching to the religious revival that transformed eighteenth-century England.

Product Details

• Title : John Wesley: A Preaching Life
• Author: Pasquarello III, Michael
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN: 9781426732065

About Michael Pasquarello III

Dr. Michael Pasquarello III is the Granger E. and Anna A. Fisher Professor of Preaching in Asbury Theological Seminary’s School of Biblical Interpretation and Proclamation. He received a B.A. from The Master’s College, 1978; a M.Div. from the Divinity School, Duke University, 1983; and a M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies. Dr. Pasquarello served in the United States Marine Corps from 1971 to 1976, attaining the rank of Captain. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, North Carolina Conference, where he served in full-time pastoral ministry from 1983 to 2001. He has published many books including a forthcoming book titled John Wesley: Homiletic Theologian (Abingdon). Dr. Pasquarello and his wife, Patti, have two children.