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 (1703-1791).

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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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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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1. Introduction Joseph W. Cunningham and Clive Murray Norris and **** PART I: Historical Context

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

3. The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World ** David Ceri Jones

4. Wesley's Education and Early Spiritual Formation ** Joseph Wood **** PART II: Wesley's Major Works

5. Wesley's Publishing Strategy ** Isabel Rivers

6. Journals ** Michael Mascuch

7. Sermons ** Françoise Deconinck-Brossard **

8. A Christian Library ** Jeffrey Galbraith

9. Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament **** Sarah Heaner Lancaster

10. 1780 Collection of Hymns ** Martin V. Clarke **

11. Primitive Physic ** Randy L. Maddox

12. Compendium of Natural Philosophy **** Joseph W. Cunningham

13. 1784 Sunday Service ** Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

14. The Three Tune Collections ** S T Kimbrough, Jr **** PART III: Wesley's Thinking

    PART IIIA: Principles of Wesley's Thinking

15. Theology ** Jason E. Vickers

16. Metaphysics ** Derek A. Michaud

17. Epistemology ** Barry E. Bryant

18. Applications to Psychology and Psychotherapy ** Brad D. Strawn

19. Ethics ** Sondra Wheeler

20. Social and Political Thought ** Ryan Nicholas Danker **** PART IIIB: Humankind in Society

21. Race, Enslavement and Othering ** Julius Kithinji

22. Gender, Sexuality and Marriage ***Maureen Knudsen Langdoc*

23. Education and Children ** Linda A. Ryan

24. Money and Business ** Clive Murray Norris

25. War ** Andrew Pickering

26. Poetry and Aesthetics ***Jasper Cragwall*

27. Food, Drink and Dress ***Charles Wallace*

28. Engagements with Non-British Cultures ** David N. Field **** PART IIIC: Humankind and the World

29. Providence and History ** Dick Osita Eugenio

30. The Natural and Supernatural Worlds ** James E. Pedlar

31. Science and Technology ** Dion A. Forster

32. Animal Welfare ** David L. Clough **** PART IV: Wesley's Reception

33. Britain and Ireland, to c.1820 ** Simon Lewis

34. America, to c.1820 ** Natalya A. Cherry

35. Commemorating John Wesley: Forming the Creation Myth of Methodism ** Peter S. Forsaith **** PART V: Wesley's Longer-Term Geographic Legacy

36. The Atlantic World ** Jérôme Grosclaude

37. Africa ** R. Simangaliso Kumalo

38. Australasia, Asia and Oceania ** Glen O'Brien

39. Latin America and the Caribbean ** Philip Wingeier-Rayo

40. A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesley's Methodism David J. Jeremy