title: American Methodism: A Compact History
author: Jean Miller Schmidt
description: Jean Miller Schmidt is Gerald L. Schlessman Professor Emerita of Methodist Studies, The Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.
zlib_text: Methodism
  
  Methodism
  e m p i r e  o f  t h e  s p i r i t
  David Hempton
  Yale University Press
  New Haven and London
  
  Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund.
  Copyright ∫ 2005 by Yale University.
  All rights reserved.
  This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form
  (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and
  except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.
  Designed by James J. Johnson and set in Baskerville & Bulmer types by Keystone
  Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.
  Printed in the United States of America by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Hempton, David.
  Methodism : empire of the spirit / David Hempton.
  p.
  cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0–300–10614–9 (alk. paper)
  1. Methodism—History—18th century. 2. Methodism—History—19th century. I. Title.
  BX8231.H46 2