John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist Connexion was divided from the Church of England not by dogma & doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy & people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith & tormented by a series of bizarre relationships with women Wesley kept his promise to live & die an ordained priest of the Established Church. However by the end of the long pilgrimage
- from the Oxford Holy Club through colonial Georgia to every market place in England
- he knew that separation was inevitable. But he could not have realised that his influence on the new industrial working class would play a major part in shaping society during the century of Britains greatest power & influence & that Methodism would become a worldwide religion & the inspiration of 20th century television evangelism.