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The Expository Times, Vol. 119, No. 4, 176-180 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0014524607085991
© 2008 SAGE Publications

Fighting the Good Fight

David Allen

Visiting Lecturer in Church History, Mattersey Hall

Primitive Methodism was born exactly two hundred years ago as an offshoot of the huge American-style Camp Meetings held in a field in the hilltop village of Mow Cop. Frowned on by mainstream Wesleyans, the often rough-and-ready preachers nevertheless made a great impact, particularly among working-classes. In many ways the `Prims' were the Pentecostals of the nineteenth century — unconventional, charismatic and speaking a language `understonded by the puple' (Wycliffe). The story of Dick Weaver and Bendigo, champion bareknuckle pugilist, is just one episode from a colourful history.

Key Words: Pentecostalism • Primitive Methodism • Richard Weaver • Prizefighting • `Ranters'


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