Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism

Erika K. R. Stalcup (PhD Boston University) is a pastor at Village Mosaïque United Methodist Church in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has held research fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, UK, and the Institut Lémanique de Théologie Pratique at the University of Lausanne.

• 1 Introduction2 Early Methodist Media3 Authoring the Self4 Sight and the Self5 Enthusiastic Bodies6 The Drama of Dying7 Conclusion

"Erika Stalcup’s incisive analysis of early Methodist spiritual experience rehabilitates affective language and the importance of feeling in the Wesleys’ movement. The consequent emphasis on holistic transformation gives this study a powerful contemporary resonance, as well as significant historical insight." - Martin Wellings, World Methodist Historical Society, UK"This book provides a fascinating window into the transformative and holistic spiritual experience of ordinary Methodists, offering new insights into early Methodist spirituality."- Geordan Hammond, Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Nazarene Theological College, UK“[A] welcome addition to the literature on early Methodist spirituality […] Sensing Salvation provides a rich and textured account of the role of ‘feelings’ – meaning both emotions and bodily sensations – in the early Methodist experience of conversion and salvation.”- Sarah Apetrei in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society