... many other movements. One such movement was the holiness movement founded by B.T. Roberts (1823-1893) a predecessor of Wesley. Roberts would come to disagree with Wesley on this issue, and would advocate for women's ordination. However, like John himself, after his death the movement would be out of his control. John Wesley ... his creation making it more spectacular then the day before. Wesley agrees, if not in whole, at least in part to this idea. For in his notes on the bible he writes: That man was made last of all the creatures, which was both an honour and a favour to him: an honou...

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... did so to hide their own inequalities. Chaucer further pushes the envelope with the WB's long-winded prologue. He allows her to express radical ideas on gender theory, demonstrate liberation from gender role restrictions, and defiantly rebuke "auctoritee" by playing with the slippage, ambivalence, and reversal of a female ... tainted the Bible. "As WB knows from experience, the true fruits of marriage are described neither in Jerome nor in the deportment books but are set in the marriage bed" (Carruthers 114). The wife justifies her five marriages using the same methods the "authority" ...

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