Elect Methodists
by Lecturer in History David Ceri Jones and Eryn Mant White
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic Methodism, especially in England, has not. The book charts the sources of the eighteenth-century Methodist revival in the context of Protestant evangelicalism emerging in continental Europe and colo...
"They call me Sister Lawrence. It sounds funny even to me. I am not a holy roller. I've never spoken in tongues and have not yet been visited by the Holy Ghost. Then again, I did not join the church to get to heaven. I joined to survive on Earth."-Beverly Hall Lawrence The return in record numbers of young African Americans to the church has been called "a movement sweeping middle-class black congregations' by the Washington Post. African Americans are not only returning to church in search o...
United Methodist Covenant III: Certificate of Baptism, Confirmation, and Reception as a Professing Member, Package of 3
"Brilliantly provocative. . . . [A] masterful account."-Grant Wacker, Christian Century The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s. During that period Methodism refashioned the old denominational order in the British Isles, b...
The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church 2012
by No Author
Biographical Sketches of Some Preachers of the Primitive Methodist Connexion
by George Herod
Multilateral Theology (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
by Timothy T.N Lim
This book introduces a new "multilateral" methodology for the contemporary study of theology. It bases this methodology on the idea that there are too many materials contributing as sources for theologizing to sustain the "one method fits all" approach found in many systematic theologies within Christianity. What is needed instead is something that reflects the various and varied natures, purposes, and tasks of theologians’ theologizing for their respective contexts. Engaging materials from a r...
Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013-2016 - Women's Ministries