Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0177
John R. Tyson
This article explores John and Charles Wesley’s ambiguous relationship with the soteriology of Martin Luther. Their early admiration for Luther’s theology of justification by faith played a significant role in the conversion experience of both men, but subsequently, John wrote that Luther was ‘ignorant of the doctrine of sanctification’ and ‘confused in his conception of it’. The ‘new’ Finnish reading of Luther’s soteriology, pioneered by Tuomo Mannermaa, opens new avenues for soteriological conversation and consensus between Lutherans and Methodists. A few of the old misunderstandings are untangled and more congenial theological trajectories are suggested by this article.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0145
K. Tucker
The article considers the viability of the Methodist/Wesleyan love feast today based on historical, liturgical, and practical investigations of its use in selected ecclesial contexts from the eighteenth century to the present. Six categories derived from Wesley’s description of the practice in his ‘Plain Account’ focus the study, enabling an examination of the love feast as an experiential event marked by prayer, a common ‘meal’, and the sharing of God’s love, and done in imitation of apostolic practice as a prudential means of grace.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0223
Adam D. Ployd
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0231
Other| June 08 2023 The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History Wesley and Methodist Studies (2023) 15 (2): 231–232. https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. Wesley and Methodist Studies 8 June 2023; 15 (2): 231–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0231 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressWesley and Methodist Studies Search Advanced Search The MWRC supports the research of scholars studying the Methodist, Wesleyan, Evangelical, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions, particularly from MWRC partner institutions. Each year visiting research fellows are welcomed for short periods of intensive research in Manchester. The MWRC helps facilitate access to the world-renowned Methodist Archives and Research Centre at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester. It also has its own specialist library with research space for visiting researchers and PhD students studying at MWRC partner institutions. The Centre regularly hosts lectures and conferences, normally available simultaneously in person and online. It is also involved in the publication of the book series Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements. For more information about the Centre and upcoming events, go to: www.mwrc.ac.uk or contact the Centre’s Director, Dr Geordan Hammond: ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk.The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History is a research centre of Oxford Brookes University,... Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0114
S. Wigley
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0088
C. Haydon
This article examines the lives of two mixed-race evangelists, Samuel Barber (1783–1828) and Edward Fraser (1798–1872). Born in London, Barber, whose father was a manumitted slave, became a Primitive Methodist lay preacher in Staffordshire. Fraser, born in Barbados, was illegitimate; his mother was enslaved. Freed at the age of twenty-nine, he became a prominent Wesleyan Methodist missionary and minister in Antigua, Bermuda, Dominica, Jamaica, and St Kitts. The article pays particular attention to these men’s racial heritage.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.vi
Tamara E. Lewis
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0076
N. Cherry
Despite portrayals of John Wesley and early Methodist leaders as proto-proponents of civil rights, their Arminian anti-slavery stance was hardly what scholars Ibram X. Kendi and Anthony G. Reddie term ‘anti-racist’. There remained in their writings evidence of empire that upheld racist constructs. What if, rather than decrying colonists’ desire for independence, Wesley had helped them see that fighting for enslaved persons’ freedom might assist their own efforts at liberation from tyranny? Confronting the persistence of racism even amid anti-slavery in Wesley and early Methodism aids in developing an alternative lens to empire that can help their descendants today.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.v
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0046
C. Norris
This article explores why John Wesley was slow to condemn the East India Company for its brutal exploitation of the Indian subcontinent in the late eighteenth century. One reason may have been a hope that the Company would support Methodist missionaries; another his friendship with Ebenezer Blackwell, who was active in Company affairs. A letter sent to shareholders in the mid-1760s suggests that Wesley was supporting efforts to stabilize the Company and secure its long-term partnership with the government. These failed, and the Company entered a period when short-term profit-seeking dominated its decisions, causing Wesley to finally speak out.
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