Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0064
David N. Field
This article examines how John Wesley described the people of Africa, with particular reference to the people of West Africa and the ‘inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope’. While Wesley has been rightly praised for his opposition to the enslavement of Africans, his descriptions of African people involved editing material from various sources in order to serve theological and rhetorical purposes directed toward his British readers. This produced distorted depictions that did not justly describe the people of Africa. These depictions exhibited ‘invincible prejudice’ and failed to meet Wesley’s own standards of honouring others as children of God.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0109
S. Lancaster
{"title":"Believing Into Christ: Relational Faith and Human Flourishing","authors":"S. Lancaster","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46258045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0104
D. Chapman
{"title":"The Limits of a Catholic Spirit: John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism","authors":"D. Chapman","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46327681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0106
M. Wellings
{"title":"The Evangelical Quadrilateral. Vol. I: Characterizing the British Gospel Movement. Vol. II: The Denominational Mosaic of the British Gospel Movement","authors":"M. Wellings","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0027
D. Dickerson
This article argues that the missionary language of the Women’s Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was cast in familial and kinship nomenclature that eschewed the evil of racial hierarchy. Although routine missionary vernacular about heathen Africa and its need for Christianization and civilization appeared in the rhetoric of AME women, they more deeply expressed a diasporic consciousness that obligated Black people on both sides of the Atlantic to resist Euro-American hegemony. The capacious embrace of the WPMMS for Black women—whether in the United States, the Caribbean, or Africa—actualized their vision for maternal and sisterly interaction in contrast to the racial condescension prevalent among white women in their respective American and European missionary groups.
{"title":"Building a Diasporic Family: The Women’s Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1874–1920","authors":"D. Dickerson","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article argues that the missionary language of the Women’s Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was cast in familial and kinship nomenclature that eschewed the evil of racial hierarchy. Although routine missionary vernacular about heathen Africa and its need for Christianization and civilization appeared in the rhetoric of AME women, they more deeply expressed a diasporic consciousness that obligated Black people on both sides of the Atlantic to resist Euro-American hegemony. The capacious embrace of the WPMMS for Black women—whether in the United States, the Caribbean, or Africa—actualized their vision for maternal and sisterly interaction in contrast to the racial condescension prevalent among white women in their respective American and European missionary groups.","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49147169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0102
C. Norris
{"title":"‘Foundery Band Lists 1742–1746.’","authors":"C. Norris","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47520905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0001
S. M. Gnonhossou, Kelly Diehl Yates
This article considers seventeen manuscript letters written by Ancona Robin Robin John, Ephraim Robin John, and Elizabeth Johnson to Charles Wesley in the 1770s regarding these two enslaved men. Once slave traders themselves, they were held captive by a Bristol slave ship captain, but eventually returned to their home in West Africa through the assistance of the Wesleys. The article then considers their conversion to Christianity and whether they returned to the practice of enslavement, as previous scholarship has suggested. We argue that the evidence is unclear and that influence of the Wesleys might have turned them to oppose the practice of enslavement.
{"title":"Conversion as an Act of Reclamation: John and Charles Wesley’s Interaction with Two West African Enslaved Men","authors":"S. M. Gnonhossou, Kelly Diehl Yates","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers seventeen manuscript letters written by Ancona Robin Robin John, Ephraim Robin John, and Elizabeth Johnson to Charles Wesley in the 1770s regarding these two enslaved men. Once slave traders themselves, they were held captive by a Bristol slave ship captain, but eventually returned to their home in West Africa through the assistance of the Wesleys. The article then considers their conversion to Christianity and whether they returned to the practice of enslavement, as previous scholarship has suggested. We argue that the evidence is unclear and that influence of the Wesleys might have turned them to oppose the practice of enslavement.","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46908070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0111
Hendrik R. Pieterse
{"title":"Eine Theologie der Teilhabe","authors":"Hendrik R. Pieterse","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70939328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0107
Tim Woolley
{"title":"Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures","authors":"Tim Woolley","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48344274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.2.0229
J. Dean
{"title":"Christianity the Wesleyan Way: Principles and Practices for Life and Ministry","authors":"J. Dean","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.2.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.2.0229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49588709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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