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    Fielding uses a conversation between Parson Adams and Mr. Barnabas to represent differing religious perspectives in England at the time, specifically modeling the dispute between Methodist leader George Whitefield and his Anglican detractors. Whitefield preached salvation by faith alone and against luxurious clergy living, while Parson Adams agreed with Whitefield on clergy living but not salvation by faith alone. Adams' view that good works could save people regardless of faith was seen as radical. The passage examines 18th century religious controversies in England between Anglicans, Methodists, and other groups around the doctrines of salvation and faith.

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    Fielding uses a conversation between Parson Adams and Mr. Barnabas to represent differing religious perspectives in England at the time, specifically modeling the dispute between Methodist leader George Whitefield and his Anglican detractors. Whitefield preached salvation by faith alone and against luxurious clergy living, while Parson Adams agreed with Whitefield on clergy living but not salvation by faith alone. Adams' view that good works could save people regardless of faith was seen as radical. The passage examines 18th century religious controversies in England between Anglicans, Methodists, and other groups around the doctrines of salvation and faith.

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    Fielding uses a conversation between Parson Adams and Mr. Barnabas to represent differing religious perspectives in England at the time, specifically modeling the dispute between Methodist leader George Whitefield and his Anglican detractors. Whitefield preached salvation by faith alone and against luxurious clergy living, while Parson Adams agreed with Whitefield on clergy living but not salvation by faith alone. Adams' view that good works could save people regardless of faith was seen as radical. The passage examines 18th century religious controversies in England between Anglicans, Methodists, and other groups around the doctrines of salvation and faith.

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    Analysis of joseph Andrews book 1

    The conversation between Parson


    Adams and Mr. Barnabas is the first
    scenario of several used by Henry
    Fielding to play out the religious
    controversies occurring in England at the
    time this novel was written. According to
    literary critic Judith Stuchiner, Fielding
    models the religious disputes in Joseph
    Andrews on the feud between Whitefield
    and his detractors, and he uses Parson
    Adams to present their differing religious
    perspectives and further interrogate the
    Anglican view. When Barnabas mentions
    Whitefield, he is referring to George
    Whitefield, one of the leaders of the
    Methodist movement in England. Anglican
    clergymen John and Charles Wesley and
    George Whitefield are the founders of
    Methodism, although the Wesleys sought to
    reform the Church of England from within
    and did not want to start a breakaway
    movement. The Wesleys and Whitefield
    disagreed about the doctrine of salvation.
    The Wesleys preached that anyone had the
    ability to receive grace and thus salvation,
    while Whitefield believed in double
    predestination—or that God decided ahead
    of time who would be saved (go to heaven)
    and who would be damned (go to hell).
    Whitefield, an evangelist who preached
    both in Great Britain and the American
    colonies, was an important figure in the
    Great Awakening, or religious revival in the
    colonies from 1720 to 1740.
    Barnabas calls Whitefield heterodox for
    preaching that the Anglican clergy should
    not engage in luxurious living (some of
    these clergymen had large estates and
    enjoyed upper-class privilege). Parson
    Adams agrees with Whitefield in this
    regard, but he does not agree that human
    beings can be justified (saved) by faith
    alone, which was the belief of most
    Protestants. While Adams does not
    properly represent the nuances of this
    Protestant view, the Anglicans and
    Methodists did believe that good works not
    based in faith were useless. Thus, what
    Adams says is fairly radical, since he
    suggests that God will save anyone who is
    good, regardless of what they believe. He
    says: "A virtuous and good Turk, or
    heathen, are more acceptable in the sight
    of their creator than a vicious and wicked
    Christian, though his faith was as perfectly
    orthodox as St. Paul's himself." Parson
    Adams is most properly a high Anglican
    clergyman, meaning he adheres closely to
    the original doctrines of the Church of
    England. However, sometimes the parson
    seems to espouse Latitudinarian doctrines,
    or the idea that reason should be used to
    establish the moral certainty of Christian
    doctrines rather than faith. And sometimes,
    as in this instance, he seems to say
    something that even the most liberal
    Christian of his day might back away from.

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