{"id":8137,"date":"2008-08-28T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_wesleys_250_year_old_journals_reveal_fears_that_church_of_england_c\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:47:19","slug":"charles_wesleys_250_year_old_journals_reveal_fears_that_church_of_england_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Charles Wesley&#39;s 250-year-old journals reveal fears that Church of England could split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev Prof Kenneth Newport, pro vice-chancellor of Liverpool Hope University, has deciphered more than 1,000 pages written 250 years ago between 1736 and 1756.<\/p>\n<p>He has uncovered details of Wesley&#8217;s anxieties over the possibilities of a split from the Church of England, his younger brother&#8217;s plans to marry and even over the growing influence of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He used a handwritten transcription of the four gospels made by Wesley as a guide to deciphering the journals themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley&#8217;s concerns over the prospect of the newly founded Methodist Societies splitting from the Church of England echo the Anglican Church&#8217;s current debate over the consecration of gay clergy and the threat of schism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/2627661\/Charles-Wesleys-250-year-old-journals-reveal-fears-that-Church-of-England-could-split.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev Prof Kenneth Newport, pro vice-chancellor of Liverpool Hope University, has deciphered more than 1,000 pages written 250 years ago between 1736 and 1756. He has uncovered details of Wesley&#8217;s anxieties over the possibilities of a split from the Church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8137\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,74,186,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}