# John Wesley — The Varieties of Religious Experience character guide

> John Wesley in The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Wesley, John Wesley, the Rev. John Wesley

**First appearance:** 0012-lecture-ix-conversion

## Who they are

Founder of Methodism, whose conversion is described.

## In the story

### [Lecture XX: Conclusions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_varieties_of_religious_experience_se/chapters/lecture-xx-conclusions)

Mentioned as a contrasting religious type to Emerson, used to illustrate the idea that different individuals have different religious missions and that forcing uniformity would diminish the total human consciousness of the divine.

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