Geordan Hammond is Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. Peter S. Forsaith is Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Foreword by D. Bruce HindmarshIntroduction / Geordan Hammond and Peter S. Forsaith1. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and Approaches / Jeremy Gregory2. John Fletcher’s Parishioners: Reflections on Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge / Barrie Trinder3. John Fletcher’s Silent Bishop: Lord James Beauclerk of Hereford / William Gibson4. Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension / David R. Wilson5. John Fletcher’s Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians / Peter James Lineham6. “Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity”: John Fletcher’s Doxological Trinitarianism / Kenneth M. Loyer7. Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752-1773 / Eryn M. White8. Mothers in Christ: Mary Fletcher and the Women of Early Methodism / Brett C. McInelly9. Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-1851 / John H. Lenton10. “Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!”: The Ministry of Mary Tooth / Carol Blessing11. Holding Tightly to “the Promise of the Father”: Phoebe Palmer and the Legacy of the Fletchers of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Methodism / Harold E. Raser12. John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism / Laurence W. Wood13. The Long Fletcher Incumbency: A Personal View of the Context and Continuity / Peter S. ForsaithList of ContributorsIndex

Our understanding of eighteenth-century English industry, gender, and religion has been transformed during the last thirty years. The special merit of this symposium is to bring together researchers often pursuing their subjects in isolation. The conference producing these papers met, appropriately, in an area that saw industrial innovation, the ministry of the Methodist clergyman John Fletcher and his remarkable wife and female friends. This excellent collection sensitively illustrates the lives of working men, women, and believers and deserves to set the pattern for similar collaborations in future.

Geordan Hammond is Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. Peter S. Forsaith is Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Foreword by D. Bruce HindmarshIntroduction / Geordan Hammond and Peter S. Forsaith1. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and Approaches / Jeremy Gregory2. John Fletcher’s Parishioners: Reflections on Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge / Barrie Trinder3. John Fletcher’s Silent Bishop: Lord James Beauclerk of Hereford / William Gibson4. Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension / David R. Wilson5. John Fletcher’s Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians / Peter James Lineham6. “Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity”: John Fletcher’s Doxological Trinitarianism / Kenneth M. Loyer7. Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752-1773 / Eryn M. White8. Mothers in Christ: Mary Fletcher and the Women of Early Methodism / Brett C. McInelly9. Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-1851 / John H. Lenton10. “Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!”: The Ministry of Mary Tooth / Carol Blessing11. Holding Tightly to “the Promise of the Father”: Phoebe Palmer and the Legacy of the Fletchers of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Methodism / Harold E. Raser12. John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism / Laurence W. Wood13. The Long Fletcher Incumbency: A Personal View of the Context and Continuity / Peter S. ForsaithList of ContributorsIndex

Our understanding of eighteenth-century English industry, gender, and religion has been transformed during the last thirty years. The special merit of this symposium is to bring together researchers often pursuing their subjects in isolation. The conference producing these papers met, appropriately, in an area that saw industrial innovation, the ministry of the Methodist clergyman John Fletcher and his remarkable wife and female friends. This excellent collection sensitively illustrates the lives of working men, women, and believers and deserves to set the pattern for similar collaborations in future.

Geordan Hammond is Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. Peter S. Forsaith is Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Foreword by D. Bruce HindmarshIntroduction / Geordan Hammond and Peter S. Forsaith1. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and Approaches / Jeremy Gregory2. John Fletcher’s Parishioners: Reflections on Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge / Barrie Trinder3. John Fletcher’s Silent Bishop: Lord James Beauclerk of Hereford / William Gibson4. Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension / David R. Wilson5. John Fletcher’s Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians / Peter James Lineham6. “Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity”: John Fletcher’s Doxological Trinitarianism / Kenneth M. Loyer7. Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752-1773 / Eryn M. White8. Mothers in Christ: Mary Fletcher and the Women of Early Methodism / Brett C. McInelly9. Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-1851 / John H. Lenton10. “Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!”: The Ministry of Mary Tooth / Carol Blessing11. Holding Tightly to “the Promise of the Father”: Phoebe Palmer and the Legacy of the Fletchers of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Methodism / Harold E. Raser12. John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism / Laurence W. Wood13. The Long Fletcher Incumbency: A Personal View of the Context and Continuity / Peter S. ForsaithList of ContributorsIndex

Our understanding of eighteenth-century English industry, gender, and religion has been transformed during the last thirty years. The special merit of this symposium is to bring together researchers often pursuing their subjects in isolation. The conference producing these papers met, appropriately, in an area that saw industrial innovation, the ministry of the Methodist clergyman John Fletcher and his remarkable wife and female friends. This excellent collection sensitively illustrates the lives of working men, women, and believers and deserves to set the pattern for similar collaborations in future.