Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0050
Claudia Jetter
This article investigates the seeming dissonance between Phoebe Palmer's (1807–74) role as a charismatic leader who emphasized an unmediated, literalist approach to the Bible and her adoption of complex historical-critical arguments to defend female preaching. Drawing on Max Weber's concept of charisma, the article traces Palmer's performance as a pronounced biblicist before discussing her use of historical-contextual and linguistic arguments in response to male opposition to her ministry. The article presents Palmer as an innovative theologian and evangelist who negotiated male authority by strategically employing critical scholarship to establish ‘female prophesying’ as a necessary means to further the cause of holiness.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0072
M. Hirst
Methodism has always placed concern for the poor at the heart of its identity and purpose, yet its local presence and reach is declining. This article examines recent trends in the location of manses and churches against area variations in socio-economic deprivation in one conurbation. Manses are often found in less-deprived neighbourhoods than the churches for which ministers hold responsibility. As churches contract and close, manses are becoming distanced from the most deprived church catchments. These findings raise questions about stationing and ministers' contribution to a national strategy for evangelism and growth that is focused on engaging marginalized communities.
{"title":"Preferential Places in the Manchester and Stockport Methodist District during the Early Twenty-first Century","authors":"M. Hirst","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0072","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Methodism has always placed concern for the poor at the heart of its identity and purpose, yet its local presence and reach is declining. This article examines recent trends in the location of manses and churches against area variations in socio-economic deprivation in one conurbation. Manses are often found in less-deprived neighbourhoods than the churches for which ministers hold responsibility. As churches contract and close, manses are becoming distanced from the most deprived church catchments. These findings raise questions about stationing and ministers' contribution to a national strategy for evangelism and growth that is focused on engaging marginalized communities.","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44004410","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0027
Christopher T. Bounds
This article is an exercise in fides quaerens intellectum about revival in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. It examines accounts of revival by early British and American Methodists—John Wesley, Francis Asbury, and Luther Lee—and identifies the common elements of their descriptions. It then seeks to provide a theological understanding of these revivals by drawing upon distinctive ideas from Wesleyan historical and systematic theologians: divine omnipresence, free grace, divine holiness and love, and the means of grace. Finally, it offers a theological definition of revival from a Wesleyan-Holiness perspective and briefly explores implications for today.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0099
W. Jacob
{"title":"Samuel Wesley and the Tory Crisis of Piety, 1685–1720","authors":"W. Jacob","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44578092","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0096
Geordan Hammond
{"title":"Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions","authors":"Geordan Hammond","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48401939","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0107
M. Wellings
{"title":"William Booth: The Man and His Mission, The Life and Legacy of William Booth, Part I: 1829–1878 and William Booth: The General and His Army, The Life and Legacy of William Booth, Part II: 1878–2015","authors":"M. Wellings","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45845134","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0110
N. Cherry
{"title":"Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women's Rights","authors":"N. Cherry","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43707722","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0101
Judith A. Rossall
{"title":"Wesley, Whitefield, and the ‘Free Grace’ Controversy: The Crucible of Methodism","authors":"Judith A. Rossall","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43855962","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0109
T. Greggs
{"title":"Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twenty-First Century","authors":"T. Greggs","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41820361","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0113
Priscilla Pope-Levison
{"title":"Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women","authors":"Priscilla Pope-Levison","doi":"10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40236,"journal":{"name":"Wesley and Methodist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48400363","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}