English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church; which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America; and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. In American Saint; John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and; by extension; a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. Asbury emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader; but a fascinating character; who lived an extraordinary life. His cultural sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize. His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary; as was his generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with ordinary people; and he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation; riding more than one hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized face-to-face than any other American of his day; including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
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