| dc.description.abstract | Wesley’s strategy as editor and publisher was to provide a range of reading material in different formats and prices for his members and travelling preachers, as well as for a wider public, and to ensure that his publications were readily available. With this end in view he developed a network of printers and booksellers and in due course created his own publishing enterprise. His preachers were required to distribute his publications and to make certain key titles, such as The Christian’s Pattern and Primitive Physic, available in every Methodist society. Wesley published abridged editions of authors of different denominations and nationalities as well as his own writings, including hymnals and poetry collections, practical divinity, devotional works, Bible commentaries, works of theological controversy, and political tracts. Many of these went through multiple editions. He also produced textbooks for the Methodist school at Kingswood. From 1778 he published a popular religious magazine, the Arminian Magazine. This was a cheap source of wide-ranging educational material for his members, including divinity, biography, personal letters, and verse. | en_US |
