Wesley and Methodist Studies

Wesley and Methodist Studies (WMS) publishes peer-reviewed scholarly essays that examine the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries (proponents or opponents) in the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and studies of the Wesleyan and Evangelical traditions today. Its primary historical scope is the eighteenth century to the present; however, WMS will publish essays that explore the historical and theological antecedents of the Wesleys (including work on Samuel and Susanna Wesley), Methodism, and the Evangelical Revival. WMS is a collaborative project of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University and is published annually by Didsbury Press.



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WESLEY & METHODIST STUDIES (vol. I)

ISBN: 978-0-9552507-1-2
Date: 2009
Paperback, 96 pages

IN THIS VOLUME:

‘A Man of Reason and Religion? John Wesley and the Enlightenment’
 by HENRY D. RACK

‘Pneumatology through Correspondence: The Letters of John Wesley and ‘John Smith (1745-1748)’ by JOSEPH W. CUNNINGHAM

‘John Wesley’s Covenantal and Dispensational View of Salvation History’ by J. RUSSELL FRAZIER

‘Biblical Language in the Hymns of Charles Wesley’
by RANDALL D. MCELWAIN

“‘Thou shal[t] walk with me in white’”: Afterlife and Vocation in the Ministry of Mary Bosanquet Fletcher’ by D. R. WILSON




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WESLEY & METHODIST STUDIES (vol. 2)

ISBN: 978-0-9552507-3-6
Date: 2010
Paperback, 138 pages

IN THIS VOLUME:

‘Emissaries of Babylon’ or ‘Brothers in Christ’? Charles Wesley and anti-Catholicism by PETER NOCKLES

The Methodist Doctrine of Christian Perfection: Charles Wesley’s Contribution Contextualized by JOSEPH W. CUNNINGHAM  

Collecting and Preserving Disciples: Verbal Proclamation in Early Methodist Evangelism by JACK JACKSON

A Community of Selective Memory? Hugh Bourne, William Clowes and Primitive Methodist Historiography by TIM WOOLLEY

Predicting a ‘bright and prosperous future’: Irish Methodist Membership (1855-1914) by NICOLA MORRIS

A Sermon by Mary Fletcher (née Bosanquet), On Exodus 20, Preached at Madeley in the Parish Vicarage on the Evening of Whitsunday, 8 June 1794. Transcribed, Introduced, and Annotated by D. R. WILSON

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WESLEY & METHODIST STUDIES (vol. 3)

ISBN: 978-0-9552507-4-3
Date: 2011
Paperback, 180 pages

IN THIS VOLUME:

Articles
Entering the Divine Embrace: Towards an Ancient-Future Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism by Philip R. Meadows

How are People Saved? The Major Views of Salvation with a Focus on Wesleyan Perspectives and their Implications by Christopher T. Bounds

‘Secession is an ugly thing’: The Emergence and Development of Free Methodism in Late Twentieth-Century England by Derek Tidball

Foreword to Articles on ‘Methodism and the African Diaspora, 1738–1834’
by Kenneth G. C. Newport and Jeremy Gregory

Introduction: Global Black Methodism
by F. Douglas Powe, Jr.

Scipio Africanus: The First Black Methodist
by Gareth Lloyd

The Attitudes towards Black Methodists in America and the West Indies of some of Wesley’s Preachers, 1770–1810 by John Lenton

Liberation, Wesleyan Theology and Early African Methodism, 1766–1840
by Dennis C. Dickerson

‘Our Mad Methodists’: Abolitionism, Methodism and Missions in Sierra Leone in the Late Eighteenth Century by Suzanne Schwarz

Methodists in the Caribbean: Educational Initiatives in the Slave Era
by Robert Glen

Notes and Documents

Samuel Wesley’s Letter to Mr Smith, 1696
Transcribed, Introduced, and Annotated by Arthur Alan Torpy

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