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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... Preaching Christ , 231 The Use of Money , 238 IV . The Fullness of Faith , 251 Christian Perfection , 252 The Scripture Way of Salvation , 271 Thoughts on Christian Perfection , 283 Cautions and Directions Given to the Greatest ...
... Preaching Christ , 231 The Use of Money , 238 IV . The Fullness of Faith , 251 Christian Perfection , 252 The Scripture Way of Salvation , 271 Thoughts on Christian Perfection , 283 Cautions and Directions Given to the Greatest ...
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... John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
... John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
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... preach all sorts of error , discord and confu- sion ? ... It was past [ the devil's ] skill to make Tertullian a ... preacher . This forced Smith to restate his point in slightly altered form : I had warned you against an impetuous zeal ...
... preach all sorts of error , discord and confu- sion ? ... It was past [ the devil's ] skill to make Tertullian a ... preacher . This forced Smith to restate his point in slightly altered form : I had warned you against an impetuous zeal ...
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... preaching in the churches . His zeal was unabated , and yet the results of his efforts were no more satisfy- ing than before . The inner reality and outward force of the gospel , be- lieved and preached never so faithfully , still were ...
... preaching in the churches . His zeal was unabated , and yet the results of his efforts were no more satisfy- ing than before . The inner reality and outward force of the gospel , be- lieved and preached never so faithfully , still were ...
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... preach faith till you have it and then because you have it , you will preach faith . " 60 At Aldersgate he had passed from virtual to real faith , from hoping to hav- ing . Edwards and Whitefield had shown him that the Word rightly preached ...
... preach faith till you have it and then because you have it , you will preach faith . " 60 At Aldersgate he had passed from virtual to real faith , from hoping to hav- ing . Edwards and Whitefield had shown him that the Word rightly preached ...
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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