Title:
The Oxford handbook of Methodist studies / edited by William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby.
Author:
Abraham, William J. (William James), 1947-
Kirby, James E.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011, 2009.
Call Number:
BX8332 .O94 2011
Abstract:
This handbook maps the best scholarship in the rapidly developing field of methodist studies. The 42 included essays are representative of the voices of a new generation of international scholars, summarising and expanding on topical research, and considering where their work may lead methodist studies.
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780199696116
Series:
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xvii, 761 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
The eighteenth-century context / The founding brothers / Francis Asbury and American Methodism / The people called Methodists : transitions in Britain and North America / Methodism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / The Evangelical United Brethren Church : a history / African-American Methodism / Methodism in Latin America / British Methodism and evangelicalism / Methodism and Pentecostalism / 'The world is my parish' : Methodism and the roots of world Christian awakening / Connection and connectionalism / Methodist episcopacy / Discipline / Ministry and itinerancy in Methodism / Means of grace and forms of piety / Mainstream liturgical developments / Liturgical revolutions / Music and hymnody / The sacraments / Preaching / Experience of God / The quest for holiness / The journey of evangelism / Traditions and transitions in mission thought / Methodism and the future of ecumenism / The Orthodox challenge to Methodism in Russia / Scripture and revelation / Trinity / Original sin / Wesleyan grace / Christology / Pneumatology in the Methodist tradition / Christian perfection / Assurance / John Wesley on predestination and election / Theological ethics / Moral theology / Methodism and feminism / In a divided world, Methodism matters / Methodism and politics in Africa / Methodism and culture
