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).

List of contents

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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Murray Cunningham Norris
• Assisted by: Cunningham Joseph W. (Editor), Norris Clive Murray (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032552644
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255264-4
• No. of pages: 538
• Series: Routledge Religion Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist, History of Religion, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion, Methodist Churches