Presbyterian, Methodist, United

Illustrated by nearly one hundred images, many in colour, with a comprehensive appendix listing known Wesley images, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and critical survey of one of the most influential religious and public figures of eighteenth-century Britain...

This book sets out Wesley’s thinking and practice concerning child-rearing and education, particularly in relation to gender and class, in its broader eighteenth-century social and cultural context. This study demonstrates that the political, religious, and ideological backdrop to Wesley’s work was ..

This book takes the influential genre of practical divinity as a framework for understanding Wesley’s role as an author, editor and critic of popular religious writing. It asks why he advocated the literary arts as a valid aspect of his evangelical theology, and how his Christian poetics impacted up..

This book is the first time that Brian Beck’s seminal work on Methodism has been gathered together. It includes a new introduction and 18 essays from the last 25 years, covering many different aspects of Methodist thought and practice...

This book highlights three Methodist liturgists who have until now received precious little scholarly focus: Thomas O. Summers (1812-1882), Nolan B. Harmon (1892-1993), and James F. White (1932-2004). Addressing them in chronological order, it shows how each figure enacted liturgical reform and rene..

The central aim of this study is to establish Wesley’s interpretation of his Aldersgate experience as it developed from its initial impressions on the night of 24 May 1738 to its mature articulation in the 1770s...

This book gives a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, as well as of The Salvation Army. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated...

This book of essays launches a new and wider investigation into the story of pioneering Methodist women in European history between 1869 and 1939...