John Wesley
1703 CE–1791 CE · Modern · Epworth, Lincolnshire
John Wesley (1703–1791) was an Anglican clergyman and evangelist who, together with his brother Charles, founded the Methodist movement within the Church of England. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he later served as Fellow of Lincoln College and formed the disciplined "Holy Club" there before serving briefly and unsuccessfully as a missionary in the Georgia colony (1735–1737). His Aldersgate Street experience in London in May 1738—where he felt his heart "strangely warmed"—marked the turning point of his evangelical ministry, after which he adopted open-air field preaching and itinerant evangelism across Britain and Ireland. Wesley's doctrine of entire sanctification, or Christian perfection, became one of Methodism's most distinctive and debated contributions to Protestant theology. He remained legally Anglican throughout his life, though the movement he shaped eventually became independent denominations with tens of millions of adherents worldwide.
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Epworth, LincolnshireUnited Kingdom
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Born 17 June 1703 in the Epworth rectory to Samuel and Susanna Wesley; famously rescued from a rectory fire in 1709, an event he later described as being 'a brand plucked from the burning.'
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Epworth, a village in Lincolnshire, England. John Wesley and his brother Charles, founders of Methodism, were born there in the rectory where their father Samuel was the Anglican incumbent.
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