Description:
This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences.
Review Quotes:
"Erika Stalcup's incisive analysis of early Methodist spiritual experience rehabilitates affective language and the importance of feeling in the Wesleys' movement. The consequent emphasis on holistic transformation gives this study a powerful contemporary resonance, as well as significant historical insight."
- Martin Wellings, World Methodist Historical Society, UK
"This book provides a fascinating window into the transformative and holistic spiritual experience of ordinary Methodists, offering new insights into early Methodist spirituality."
- Geordan Hammond, Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Nazarene Theological College, UK
"[A] welcome addition to the literature on early Methodist spirituality [...] Sensing Salvation provides a rich and textured account of the role of 'feelings' - meaning both emotions and bodily sensations - in the early Methodist experience of conversion and salvation."
- Sarah Apetrei in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society