A brand from the burning: The Life Of John Wesley - by Roy Hattersley - Signed

A Brand From The Burning; The Life of John Wesley (Signed)\nHattersley, Roy\n\nPublished by Little Brown, London, 2002. Signed by the Author direct to the title page, without inscription. Reprint, the same year as the first. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with minor bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have a little light age toning, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with some light creasing to the edges. Vg overall. \nJohn Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and tormented by a series of bizarre relationships with women, Wesley kept his promise to 'live and die an ordained priest of the Established Church'. However by the end of the long pi.