Joseph W. Cunningham has a PhD from the University of Manchester (Nazarene Theological College), UK. He is an assistant editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies, a peer-reviewed journal annually published by the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He teaches in the department of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University, USA and is senior minister at Saginaw First Free Methodist Church.

• Chapter 1 Perceptible Inspiration as Pneumatological Model: A Critical Appraisal of John Wesley’s Correspondence with ‘John Smith’ (1745–48); Chapter 2 Grace as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 3 Faith as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 4 Witness of the Spirit as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 5 The Fruits of the Spirit as Pneumatological Operation; conclusion Conclusion;

’Cunningham shows that Wesley was not only a man of one book (the Bible) and fully Christ-imbued (christocentric) but also perhaps the first postmodern, pentecostal, and pneumatological theologian. Wesley's robust pneumatology remains ahead of multiple contemporary discussions and, for those capable of perceiving the Spirit's inspiration, will catalyze their pneumatological imagination for the next generation.’ Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA