Routledge Companion to John Wesley

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.

• IntroductionJoseph W. Cunningham and Clive Murray Norris and PART I: Historical Context Eighteenth-Century Britain: Politics, Society, Religion, and the EnlightenmentWilliam Gibson The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldDavid Ceri Jones Wesley’s Education and Early Spiritual FormationJoseph WoodPART II: Wesley’s Major Works Wesley’s Publishing StrategyIsabel Rivers JournalsMichael Mascuch SermonsFrançoise Deconinck-Brossard A Christian LibraryJeffrey Galbraith Explanatory Notes Upon the New TestamentSarah Heaner Lancaster 1780 Collection of HymnsMartin V. Clarke Primitive PhysicRandy L. Maddox Compendium of Natural PhilosophyJoseph W. Cunningham 1784 Sunday ServiceKaren B. Westerfield Tucker The Three Tune CollectionsS T Kimbrough, JrPART III: Wesley’s ThinkingPART IIIA: Principles of Wesley's Thinking TheologyJason E. Vickers MetaphysicsDerek A. Michaud EpistemologyBarry E. Bryant Applications to Psychology and PsychotherapyBrad D. Strawn EthicsSondra Wheeler Social and Political ThoughtRyan Nicholas DankerPART IIIB: Humankind in Society Race, Enslavement and OtheringJulius Kithinji Gender, Sexuality and MarriageMaureen Knudsen Langdoc Education and ChildrenLinda A. Ryan Money and BusinessClive Murray Norris WarAndrew Pickering Poetry and AestheticsJasper Cragwall Food, Drink and DressCharles Wallace Engagements with Non-British CulturesDavid N. FieldPART IIIC: Humankind and the World Providence and HistoryDick Osita Eugenio The Natural and Supernatural WorldsJames E. Pedlar Science and TechnologyDion A. Forster Animal WelfareDavid L. CloughPART IV: Wesley’s Reception Britain and Ireland, to c.1820Simon Lewis America, to c.1820Natalya A. Cherry Commemorating John Wesley: Forming the Creation Myth of MethodismPeter S. ForsaithPART V: Wesley’s Longer-Term Geographic Legacy The Atlantic WorldJérôme Grosclaude AfricaR. Simangaliso Kumalo Australasia, Asia and OceaniaGlen O’Brien Latin America and the CaribbeanPhilip Wingeier-Rayo A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesley’s MethodismDavid J. Jeremy