John WesleyOver the course of the past 40 years, painter John Wesley has created a remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation have used popular images to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has employed comic strip style and compositional rigor to make deeply personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our most primal fears, joys and desires. In this first volume ever to collect the entire iconic Bumstead series, which spans from 1974 until the present, we are introduced to several paintings that have never been reproduced before. These are dark and erotic works, sly and witty without ever giving too much away. Linda Norden described them thus in Parkett 62: "The Bumstead paintings--whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off-camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories--are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse." With an insightful new essay by Robert Hobbs. |
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... allow that " he was formed of the best stuff Nature ever put into a fanatic to make him the successful head and leader of a sect . " There is , however , no such consensus in respect of his place in the history of Protestant thought ...
... allow that " he was formed of the best stuff Nature ever put into a fanatic to make him the successful head and leader of a sect . " There is , however , no such consensus in respect of his place in the history of Protestant thought ...
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... allowing that one false principle , Mr. Bar- clay's 3 is a very consistent and coherent system . * In reply , Wesley professes not to recognize himself in Smith's char- acterization : I sincerely thank you for endeavoring to assist me ...
... allowing that one false principle , Mr. Bar- clay's 3 is a very consistent and coherent system . * In reply , Wesley professes not to recognize himself in Smith's char- acterization : I sincerely thank you for endeavoring to assist me ...
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... allowed the trustees of his “ preach- ing houses " to register them under the Act of Toleration , but this was 65. See below , p . 389 ff . 64. See below , p . 134 ff . 66. Cf. Free Grace : a sermon preached at Bristol ( 1739 ) ...
... allowed the trustees of his “ preach- ing houses " to register them under the Act of Toleration , but this was 65. See below , p . 389 ff . 64. See below , p . 134 ff . 66. Cf. Free Grace : a sermon preached at Bristol ( 1739 ) ...
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... allow it . His maxim , coined for the crucial Conference of 1755 , was “ that , whether it was lawful or not , it ... allowed to enfeeble the Revival or to distract the Methodists from their distinctive mission and witness . The ...
... allow it . His maxim , coined for the crucial Conference of 1755 , was “ that , whether it was lawful or not , it ... allowed to enfeeble the Revival or to distract the Methodists from their distinctive mission and witness . The ...
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... allow the primacy of faith to weaken his stress on human responsibility or his concern for the self - understand- ing of the Christian as ethical agent . When George Whitefield and the Calvinists began to " preach up the decrees ...
... allow the primacy of faith to weaken his stress on human responsibility or his concern for the self - understand- ing of the Christian as ethical agent . When George Whitefield and the Calvinists began to " preach up the decrees ...
Contents
V | 41 |
VI | 51 |
VIII | 70 |
IX | 73 |
X | 77 |
XI | 80 |
XII | 82 |
XIII | 84 |
XXXI | 231 |
XXXII | 238 |
XXXIII | 251 |
XXXIV | 252 |
XXXV | 271 |
XXXVI | 283 |
XXXVII | 298 |
XXXVIII | 306 |
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Aldersgate antinomianism apostle Arminian baptism baptized believe believeth blessing blood brethren called Calvinists Charles Wesley children of God Christian Perfection Church of England circumcision command covenant death desire devil doctrine earth edition election eternal evil faith Father fear fruit give glory God's gospel hath hear heart heaven Holy Ghost Homilies Jehonadab Jesus Christ John Wesley Journal justified Letters live Lord Lord's Supper manner means of grace mercy Methodist Moravian nature never obey ordinances outward Oxford Paul persons Peter Böhler plain prayer preach preachers reason receive religion repentance reprobation righteousness sacraments saith salvation sanctified saved Scripture sense Sermons Sugden sinners sins societies soul speak Spirit suppose thee theological therein things thou thought tion true truth unconditional election unto Wesley's whole witness words