Who Was Charles Wesley?

Holy productivity: "He wrote between six thousand and nine thousand hymns and sacred poems (depending upon what one is willing to call a hymn or poem), and more than four hundred of these continue in contemporary Christian hymnals."

—John R. Tyson, Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), viii (HT: Fred Sanders).

Here is a brief introduction to the man: