Name: The Routledge Companion to John Wesley (Routledge Religion Companions)
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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

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.

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