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).
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.
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
Wesleys Education and Early Spiritual Formation
Joseph Wood
PART II: Wesleys Major Works
Wesleys Publishing Strategy
Isabel Rivers
Journals
Michael Mascuch
Sermons
Franēoise 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: Wesleys 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: Wesleys 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: Wesleys Longer-Term Geographic Legacy
The Atlantic World
Jérōme Grosclaude
Africa
R. Simangaliso Kumalo
Australasia, Asia and Oceania
Glen OBrien
Latin America and the Caribbean
Philip Wingeier-Rayo
A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesleys 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 Wesleys 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 Wesleys Pneumatology: Perceptible Inspiration (Routledge, 2014), and a co-editor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies.
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