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The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

Edited By Clive Murray Norris, Joseph W. Cunningham Copyright 2024
    556 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    556 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    The Routledge Companion to John Wesley provides an overview of the work and ideas of one of the principal founders of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91). Wesley remains highly influential, especially within the worldwide Methodist movement of some eighty million people. As a preacher and religious reformer his efforts led to the rise of a global Protestant movement, but the wide-ranging topics addressed in his writings also suggest a mind steeped in the intellectual developments of the North Atlantic, early modern world. His numerous publications cover not only theology but ethics, history, aesthetics, politics, human rights, health and wellbeing, cosmology and ecology. This volume places Wesley within his eighteenth-century context, analyzes his contribution to thought across his multiple interests, and assesses his continuing relevance today. It contains essays by an international team of scholars, drawn from within the Methodist tradition and beyond. This is a valuable reference particularly for scholars of Methodist Studies, theology, church history and religious history.

    1. Introduction

      2. Joseph W. Cunningham and Clive Murray Norris and

      PART I: Historical Context

    2. Eighteenth-Century Britain: Politics, Society, Religion, and the Enlightenment

      3. William Gibson

    3. The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

      4. David Ceri Jones

    4. Wesley’s Education and Early Spiritual Formation

      5. Joseph Wood

      PART II: Wesley’s Major Works

    5. Wesley’s Publishing Strategy

      6. Isabel Rivers

    6. Journals

      7. Michael Mascuch

    7. Sermons

      8. Françoise Deconinck-Brossard

    8. A Christian Library

      9. Jeffrey Galbraith

    9. Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament

      10. Sarah Heaner Lancaster

    10. 1780 Collection of Hymns

      11. Martin V. Clarke

    11. Primitive Physic

      12. Randy L. Maddox

    12. Compendium of Natural Philosophy

      13. Joseph W. Cunningham

    13. 1784 Sunday Service

      14. Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

    14. The Three Tune Collections

      15. S T Kimbrough, Jr

      PART III: Wesley’s Thinking

      PART IIIA: Principles of Wesley's Thinking

    15. Theology

      16. Jason E. Vickers

    16. Metaphysics

      17. Derek A. Michaud

    17. Epistemology

      18. Barry E. Bryant

    18. Applications to Psychology and Psychotherapy

      19. Brad D. Strawn

    19. Ethics

      20. Sondra Wheeler

    20. Social and Political Thought

      21. Ryan Nicholas Danker

      PART IIIB: Humankind in Society

    21. Race, Enslavement and Othering

      22. Julius Kithinji

    22. Gender, Sexuality and Marriage

      23. Maureen Knudsen Langdoc

    23. Education and Children

      24. Linda A. Ryan

    24. Money and Business

      25. Clive Murray Norris

    25. War

      26. Andrew Pickering

    26. Poetry and Aesthetics

      27. Jasper Cragwall

    27. Food, Drink and Dress

      28. Charles Wallace

    28. Engagements with Non-British Cultures

      29. David N. Field

      PART IIIC: Humankind and the World

    29. Providence and History

      30. Dick Osita Eugenio

    30. The Natural and Supernatural Worlds

      31. James E. Pedlar

    31. Science and Technology

      32. Dion A. Forster

    32. Animal Welfare

      33. David L. Clough

      PART IV: Wesley’s Reception

    33. Britain and Ireland, to c.1820

      34. Simon Lewis

    34. America, to c.1820

      35. Natalya A. Cherry

    35. Commemorating John Wesley: Forming the Creation Myth of Methodism

      36. Peter S. Forsaith

      PART V: Wesley’s Longer-Term Geographic Legacy

    36. The Atlantic World

      37. Jérôme Grosclaude

    37. Africa

      38. R. Simangaliso Kumalo

    38. Australasia, Asia and Oceania

      39. Glen O’Brien

    39. Latin America and the Caribbean

      40. Philip Wingeier-Rayo

    40. A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesley’s Methodism

    David J. Jeremy

    Biography

    Clive Murray Norris is a historian of Methodism, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of The Financing of John Wesley’s Methodism c. 1740-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2017) and A History of Methodist Insurance in Britain (Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 2022). He was until 2023 co-editor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies.

    Joseph W. Cunningham is Associate Professor of Religion at Eureka College in central Illinois, US. He is the author of John Wesley’s Pneumatology: Perceptible Inspiration (Routledge, 2014), and a co-editor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies.

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