Table of Contents

William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby: Preface
I: History of Methodism
1: Richard Heitzenrater: The Eighteenth Century Context
2: John H. Wigger: Founding Brothers, John and Charles Wesley
3: John H. Wigger: Francis Asbury and American Methodism
4: David Hempton: The People Called Methodists, Transitions In Britain and North America
5: Manfred Marquardt: Methodism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
6: J. Steven O'Malley: Evangelical United Brethren Church
7: Will Gravely: African-American Methodism
8: Pablo R. Andiñach: Methodism in Latin America
9: Martin Wellings: British Methodism and Evangelicalism
10: Donald Dayton: Methodism and Pentecostalism
11: Lamin Sanneh: Methodism in World Christianity
II: Ecclesia Forms and Structures
12: Russell Richey: Christian Conferencing and Connectionalism
13: James E. Kirby: Episcopacy, Scriptural and Apostolic
14: Thomas Edward Frank: Discipline
15: Dennis Campbell: Ministry and Itinerancy
16: Ted Campbell: Means of Grace and Forms of Piety
III: Worship, Sacraments, Liturgy, Hymnody, Music, Preaching
17: Karen Westerfield Tucker: Mainstream Liturgical Developments
18: Lester Ruth: Liturgical Revolutions
19: Swee Hong Lim: Music and Hymnody
20: Geoffrey Wainwright: Sacraments
21: Gennifer Benjamin Brooks: Preaching
IV:Spiritual Experiences, Evangelism, Mission, Ecumenism
22: Tom Albin: Experience of God
23: Elaine Heath: The Quest for Holiness
24: Philip Meadows: The Journey in Evangelism
25: Dana Robert, Douglas D. Tzan: Traditions and Transitions in Mission
26: David M. Chapman: Methodism and the Future of Ecumenism
27: Sergei Nikolaev: Methodism and the Challenge of Orthodoxy in Russia
V: Theology
28: Sarah Heaner Lancaster: Scripture and Revelation
29: Elmer M. Colyer: Trinity
30: Barry Bryant: Original Sin
31: Marjorie Suchocki: Grace
32: Jason Vickers: Christology
33: D. Lyle Dabney: Pneumatology
34: William J. Abraham: Christian Perfection, the Grand Depositum
35: Kenneth J. Collins: Assurance
36: Jerry L. Walls: Predestination
VI: Ethics and Politics
37: Stanley Hauerwas and Steven Long: Theological Ethics
38: Robin Lovin: Moral Theology
39: Jane Craske: Methodism and Feminism
40: Harold Recinos: Methodism and Race
41: Simeon Ilesanmi: Methodism and Politics in Africa
42: David Bebbington: Methodism and Culture

Reviews

`This volume on Methodist Studies in the Oxford Handbook series will not disappoint... [it] will remain an essential reference book for many years to come'
Mary Tanner, Church Times
`This is a huge, delicious book ... it is a superb collection of essays, of which Methodists from all countries may be justly proud.'
Barrie Tabraham, Journal of Ecclesiastical History