The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

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.

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The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

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.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000928228
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/01/2023
Series: Routledge Religion Companions
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 556
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

  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

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