The Cambridge companion to John Wesley / edited by Randy L. Maddox, Jason E. Vickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maddox, Randy L.

Vickers, Jason E.

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wesley, John, 1703-1791.

Wesley, John.

Physical Description:

xxi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to John Wesley

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Randy L. Maddox and Jason E. Vickers

pt. 1. Wesley's context: The long eighteenth century / Jeremy Gregory

pt. 2. Wesley's life: Wesley's life and ministry / Kenneth J. Collins ; Wesley in context / David N. Hempton

pt. 3. Wesley's work: Wesley as revivalist/renewal leader / Charles I. Wallace, Jr. ; Wesley as preacher / William J. Abraham ; Wesley as biblical interpreter / Robert W. Wall ; John Wesley as diarist and correspondent / Ted A. Campbell ; John Wesley as editor and publisher / Isabel Rivers ; Wesley's engagement with the natural sciences / Randy L. Maddox ; Wesley as adviser on health and healing / Deborah Madden ; Wesley's theological emphases / Jason E. Vickers ; Happiness, holiness, and the moral life in John Wesley / Rebekah L. Miles ; Wesley's emphases on worship and the means of grace / Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

pt. 4. Wesley's legacy: Spread of Wesleyan Methodism / Kenneth Cracknell ;The Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic extension of the Wesleyan tradition / Randall J. Stephens ; The African-American wing of the Wesleyan tradition / Dennis C. Dickerson ; Current debates over Wesley's legacy among his progeny / Sarah H. Lancaster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.

ISBN:

9780521886536

0521886538

9780521714037

0521714036

OCLC:

436310471