Table of Contents
Abbreviations ix
Contributors xi
Introduction Robert Webster 1
1 From Arminius (d. 1609) to the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) W. Stephen Gunter 8
2 Robert Barnes and John Wesley's Reformation Heritage David Lowes Watson 29
3 The Exercise of the Presence of God: Holy Conferencing as a Means of Grace Richard P. Heitzenrater 61
4 Perfecting Plain Truth for Plain People: John Wesley's Sermons Patrick Streiff 81
5 Mission Spirituality in the Early Methodist Preachers Philip R. Meadows 103
6 Medicine on Demand: John Wesley's Enlightened Treatment of the Sick Deborah Madden 130
7 Wesley's Invisible World: Witchcraft and the Temperature of Preternatural Belief Owen Davies 147
8 John Wesley and Francis Asbury John Wigger 173
9 Echoes of Wesley on the US Southwestern Frontier: The Autobiography of William Stevenson Ted A. Campbell 189
10 "Did God Do That?": Common and Separating Factors of Eighteenth-Century Methodism and Contemporary Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal Robert Webster 208
11 The Oxford Movement and Evangelicalism: Parallels and Contrasts in Two Nineteenth-Century Movements of Religious Revival Peter B. Nockles 233
12 From The Soul of Dominic Wildthorne to the Wesleyan Guild of Divine Service: Some Methodist Responses to Anglo-Catholicism in Victorian and Edwardian England Martin Wellings 260
13 Bibliography of the Principal Published Writings of Henry Denman Rack Clive D. Field 280
Index 285
