The 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.

Introduction
Joseph W. Cunningham and Clive Murray Norris and

PART I: Historical Context




Eighteenth-Century Britain: Politics, Society, Religion, and the Enlightenment
William Gibson




The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
David Ceri Jones




Wesley’s Education and Early Spiritual Formation
Joseph Wood

PART II: Wesley’s Major Works




Wesley’s Publishing Strategy
Isabel Rivers




Journals
Michael Mascuch




Sermons
Françoise Deconinck-Brossard




A Christian Library
Jeffrey Galbraith




Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament
Sarah Heaner Lancaster




1780 Collection of Hymns
Martin V. Clarke




Primitive Physic
Randy L. Maddox




Compendium of Natural Philosophy
Joseph W. Cunningham




1784 Sunday Service
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker




The Three Tune Collections
S T Kimbrough, Jr

PART III: Wesley’s Thinking

PART IIIA: Principles of Wesley's Thinking




Theology
Jason E. Vickers




Metaphysics
Derek A. Michaud




Epistemology
Barry E. Bryant




Applications to Psychology and Psychotherapy
Brad D. Strawn




Ethics
Sondra Wheeler




Social and Political Thought
Ryan Nicholas Danker

PART IIIB: Humankind in Society




Race, Enslavement and Othering
Julius Kithinji




Gender, Sexuality and Marriage
Maureen Knudsen Langdoc




Education and Children
Linda A. Ryan




Money and Business
Clive Murray Norris




War
Andrew Pickering




Poetry and Aesthetics
Jasper Cragwall




Food, Drink and Dress
Charles Wallace




Engagements with Non-British Cultures
David N. Field

PART IIIC: Humankind and the World




Providence and History
Dick Osita Eugenio




The Natural and Supernatural Worlds
James E. Pedlar




Science and Technology
Dion A. Forster




Animal Welfare
David L. Clough

PART IV: Wesley’s Reception




Britain and Ireland, to c.1820
Simon Lewis




America, to c.1820
Natalya A. Cherry




Commemorating John Wesley: Forming the Creation Myth of Methodism
Peter S. Forsaith

PART V: Wesley’s Longer-Term Geographic Legacy




The Atlantic World
Jérôme Grosclaude




Africa
R. Simangaliso Kumalo




Australasia, Asia and Oceania
Glen O’Brien




Latin America and the Caribbean
Philip Wingeier-Rayo




A Quantitative Assessment of the Global Expansion of Wesley’s Methodism

David J. Jeremy