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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... whole list would be cumbrous , but I must record an especial indebtedness to Dr. Frank Cumbers ( The Epworth Press , London ) , Professor Norman Goldhawk ( Richmond Theological College ) , Mr. G. R. C. Davis ( the British Museum ) and ...
... whole list would be cumbrous , but I must record an especial indebtedness to Dr. Frank Cumbers ( The Epworth Press , London ) , Professor Norman Goldhawk ( Richmond Theological College ) , Mr. G. R. C. Davis ( the British Museum ) and ...
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... whole law of God . " See also Letters , II , 387 , and below p . 275 f . In Wesley's day it was generally agreed that the corpus Macarianum was the work of " Macarius the Egyptian , " despite the fact that Gennadius , Rufinus and ...
... whole law of God . " See also Letters , II , 387 , and below p . 275 f . In Wesley's day it was generally agreed that the corpus Macarianum was the work of " Macarius the Egyptian , " despite the fact that Gennadius , Rufinus and ...
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... whole matter was that the ecclesiological tumult over separation not be allowed to enfeeble the Revival or to distract the Methodists from their distinctive mission and witness . The Revival's third decade ( 1759-69 ) saw its general ...
... whole matter was that the ecclesiological tumult over separation not be allowed to enfeeble the Revival or to distract the Methodists from their distinctive mission and witness . The Revival's third decade ( 1759-69 ) saw its general ...
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... whole self to God and to the neighbor in love . This , in turn , involves a process of corporate discipline and effort , guided by the motives of " devotion , " by which he meant the delivering up of one's whole life to God . The ...
... whole self to God and to the neighbor in love . This , in turn , involves a process of corporate discipline and effort , guided by the motives of " devotion , " by which he meant the delivering up of one's whole life to God . The ...
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... whole . Within that whole , the most distinctive single element was the notion of " Christian perfec- tion . " 107 In this he has been consistently misunderstood by all who would understand the English word " perfect " as a translation ...
... whole . Within that whole , the most distinctive single element was the notion of " Christian perfec- tion . " 107 In this he has been consistently misunderstood by all who would understand the English word " perfect " as a translation ...
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