"Some of the Grandest and Most Illustrious Beauties of the Reformation": John Elias and the Battle over Calvinism in Early-Nineteenth-Century Welsh Methodism

David Ceri Jones

doi:10.7227/BJRL.90.1.6

"Some of the Grandest and Most Illustrious Beauties of the Reformation"John Elias and the Battle over Calvinism in Early-Nineteenth-Century Welsh Methodism

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"Some of the Grandest and Most Illustrious Beauties of the Reformation" : John Elias and the Battle over Calvinism in Early-Nineteenth-Century Welsh Methodism. / Jones, David Ceri.

In: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 90, No. 1, 01.04.2014, p. 113-134.

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