TY - BOOK AU - Wigger,John H. TI - American saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists SN - 9780195387803 AV - BX8495.A8 W46 2009 U1 - 287.092 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Asbury, Francis, KW - Methodist Episcopal Church KW - Bishops KW - Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Oxford; Oxford University Press; 2009; (Oxford Scholarship Online); Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Exporer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher); Available as searchable text in HTML format; Access restricted to subscribing institutions N2 - In this biography Asbury emerges as an effective, influential leader. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, John Wigger reveals how Asbury crafted a church to engage ordinary Americans and their world. Under him, Methodism exerted a powerful pull on American culture, but was itself transformed in the process UR - http://helicon.vuw.ac.nz/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387803.001.0001 ER -