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.
Edited by:
Clive Murray Norris,
Joseph W. Cunningham
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.190kg
ISBN: 9780367471675
ISBN 10: 0367471671
Series: Routledge Religion Companions
Pages: 538
Publication Date: 15 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Joseph W. Cunningham and Clive Murray Norris and PART I: Historical Context Eighteenth-Century Britain: Politics, Society, Religion, and the Enlightenment William Gibson The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World David Ceri Jones Wesley’s Education and Early Spiritual Formation Joseph Wood PART II: Wesley’s Major Works Wesley’s Publishing Strategy Isabel Rivers Journals Michael Mascuch Sermons Françoise Deconinck-Brossard A Christian Library Jeffrey Galbraith Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament Sarah Heaner Lancaster 1780 Collection of Hymns Martin V. Clarke Primitive Physic Randy L. Maddox Compendium of Natural Philosophy Joseph W. Cunningham 1784 Sunday Service Karen B. Westerfield Tucker The Three Tune Collections S T Kimbrough, Jr PART III: Wesley’s Thinking PART IIIA: Principles of Wesley's Thinking Theology Jason E. Vickers Metaphysics Derek A. Michaud Epistemology Barry E. Bryant Applications to Psychology and Psychotherapy Brad D. Strawn Ethics Sondra Wheeler Social and Political Thought Ryan Nicholas Danker PART IIIB: Humankind in Society Race, Enslavement and Othering Julius Kithinji Gender, Sexuality and Marriage Maureen Knudsen Langdoc Education and Children Linda A. Ryan Money and Business Clive Murray Norris War Andrew Pickering Poetry and Aesthetics Jasper Cragwall Food, Drink and Dress Charles Wallace Engagements with Non-British Cultures David N. Field PART IIIC: Humankind and the World Providence and History Dick Osita Eugenio The Natural and Supernatural Worlds James E. Pedlar Science and Technology Dion A. Forster Animal Welfare David L. Clough PART IV: Wesley’s Reception Britain and Ireland, to c.1820 Simon Lewis America, to c.1820 Natalya A. Cherry Commemorating John Wesley: Forming the Creation Myth of Methodism Peter S. Forsaith PART V: Wesley’s Longer-Term Geographic Legacy The Atlantic World Jérôme Grosclaude Africa R. Simangaliso Kumalo Australasia, Asia and Oceania Glen O’Brien Latin America and the Caribbean Philip Wingeier-Rayo A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesley’s Methodism David J. Jeremy
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.
