The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-55264-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 556 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1025 g

Reihe: Routledge Religion Companions

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norris, Clive Murray

Cunningham, Joseph W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Methodistische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.