4.4 John and Charles Wesley

Bibliography

Baker, Frank. A Union Catalogue of the Publications of John and Charles Wesley. Stone Mountain, GA: George Zimmermann, 1991. Reprint of the 1966 edition.

Chilcote, Paul W. John & Charles Wesley: Selections from Their Writings and Hymns, Annotated and Explained. Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths Pub., 2011.

Collins, Kenneth. A Wesley Bibliography, Thirteenth Edition. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2024. Available online: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/48/

Green, Richard. The Works of John and Charles Wesley. 2nd revised edition. New York: AMS Press, 1976. Reprint of the 1906 edition.

Jarboe, Betty M. John and Charles Wesley: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

Melton, J. Gordon. An Annotated Bibliography of Publications about the Life and Work of John Wesley. s.l.: s.n., 1969.

Methodism and the Wesleys: A Reader’s Guide. Bognor Regis, England: WMHS Publications, 1987.

Osborn, George, ed. Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley. Volumes I-XIII. London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1872.

Rogal, Samuel L., and John Wesley. A Detailed and Annotated Collection of John Wesley’s Book Reviews, Readings, and Commentaries – Part I. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016.

—–, ed. A New and Critical Edition of George Osborn’s “The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872). Volumes I-XIII. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009-2013.

Samuels, Joel L. The Writings and Theology of John and Charles Wesley: An Introductory Bibliography. s.l.: s.n., 1995.

Basic Texts

Charles Wesley

Albin, Thomas A., and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, ed. Charles Wesley’s Earliest Sermons. London: Wesley Historical Society, 1987.

Baker, Frank. Charles Wesley’s Verse: An Introduction. 2nd edition. London: Epworth Press, 1988.

Baker, Frank, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Randy L. Maddox, and Charles Wesley. The Journal Letters and related Biographical Items of the Reverend Charles Wesley, M.A. Second Edition. Nashville, TN: Kingswood Books, 2023.

Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ed. The Shorthand of Charles Wesley. Madison, NJ: Charles Wesley Society, 2002.

Chilcote, Paul W. A Faith that Sings: Biblical Themes in the Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016.

Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision: An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2004.

Dean, Jonathan. A Heart Strangely Warmed: John and Charles Wesley and Their Writings. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2014.

Eby, Patrick A. The Heart of Charles Wesley’s Theology. Jackson, GA: Emeth Press, 2017.

Jackson, Thomas. The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley. 2 vols. London: John Mason, 1949. Reprinted in 1980 by Baker Book House.

Kimbrough, S T., Jr. Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992.

_____. The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader. Expanded Edition. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013.

_____, ed. The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley. 3 vols. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988-1992.

_____. Radical Grace: Justice for the Poor and Marginalized – Charles Wesley’s Views for the Twenty-first Century. Cambridge, UK: The Lutterworth Press, 2017. Originally published by Cascade Books in 2013.

Kimbrough, S T., Jr., and Kenneth G.C. Newport, eds. The Manuscript Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley, M.A. Vols 1 & 2. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2008.

Kimbrough, S T, Jr., and Ryan Nicholas Danker. Charles Wesley in America: Georgia, Charleston, Boston. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020.

Maddox, Randy, ed. Charles Wesley’s Manuscript Verse. Online project for the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-cw-manuscript

_____. Charles Wesley’s Published Verse. Online project for the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-cw-published

Newport, Kenneth G.C., ed. The Sermons of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Newport, Kenneth G.C., and Gareth Lloyd, eds. The Letters of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes, Volume 1: 1728-1756. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Newport, Kenneth G.C., and Gareth Lloyd, eds. The Letters of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes, Volume 2: 1757-1788. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Tyson, John R, comp. Charles Wesley: A Reader. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Charles Wesley Society reprint series:

Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1991)

Hymns for our Lord’s Resurrection (1992)

Hymns for Ascension-Day and Whitsunday (1994)

Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1995). 166 Eucharistic hymns with Wesley’s extract from Daniel Brevint’s Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice (1673). Facsimile reprint of the 1745 edition, with introduction by Geoffrey Wainwright.

Hymns on the Great Festivals, and Other Occasions (1996). Wesley texts and tunes by John Lampe; introduction, notes and tune realizations by Frank Baker, Robin A.Leaver and Carlton R. Young.

Hymns on the Trinity (1998)

Hymns and Sacred Poems (2007). Wesley texts with introduction and notes by Paul W. Chilcote.

Help Us to Help Each Other: Hymns for Life and Ministry with the Poor by Charles Wesley (2010)

John Wesley’s First Tune Book: A Collection of Tunes Set to Music (2011). Introduction by S T Kimbrough, Jr. and Carlton R. Young.

John Wesley

Abraham, William J., ed. John Wesley: Sermons on Several Occasions, Volume 1: Sermons 1-15. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2021.

Abraham, William J., ed. John Wesley: Sermons on Several Occasions, Volume 2: Sermons 16-28. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2021.

Abraham, William J., ed. John Wesley: Sermons on Several Occasions, Volume 3: Sermons 29-44. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2021.

Campbell, Ted A. Wesleyan Beliefs: Formal and Popular Expressions of the Core Beliefs of Wesleyan Communities. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2010.

Collins, Kenneth J., and Robert W. Wall, eds. Wesley One Volume Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Collins, Kenneth J., and Jason E. Vickers, ed. The Sermons of John Wesley: A Collection for the Christian Journey. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013.

Gonzalez, Justo L., ed. Obras de Wesley. Franklin, TN: Providence House Publishers, 1996-1998.

Gunter, W. Stephen, ed. The Quotable Mr. Wesley. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Hanson, Jake. Crossing the Divide: John Wesley, the Fearless Evangelist. Uhrichsville, OH: Shiloh Run Press, 2016.

Jackson, Thomas, ed. The Works of the Rev. John Wesley. 14 vols. London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1829-1831. Reprinted Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978.

Kinghorn, Kenneth C. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection as Believed and Taught by the Reverend Mr. John Wesley: A Transcription in Modern English, with Scripture References and Annotations. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2012.

_____. John Wesley: An Album of Portraits and Engravings. Jackson, GA: Emeth Press, 2017.

Maddox, Graham, ed. The Political Writings of John Wesley. Bristol, England: Thoemmes, 1998.

Maddox, Randy, ed. John Wesley’s Poetry, Hymn, and Verse. Online project for the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-jw

Outler, Albert C, and Richard P. Heitzenrater, ed. John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Telford, John, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley. 8 vols. London: Epworth Press, 1931.

Wesley, John. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1996.

_____. Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament. 3 vols. Bristol: William Pine, 1765. Facsimile reprint, Salem, OH: Schmul Publishers, 1975. A convenient one-volume reprint of both Old and New Testaments Notes is Wesley’s Notes on the Bible, edited by G. Roger Schoenhals. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1987.

_____. Heart of John Wesley’s Journal. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008.

_____. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Peterborough, UK: Epworth, 2007. Thomas Jackson version available online: http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/a-plain-account-of-christian-perfection/

The Works of John Wesley

Begun as “The Oxford Edition of the Works of John Wesley” (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975-1983); continued as “The Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley” (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984–). All volumes in print are available from Abingdon Press; referred to in these bibliographies as Bicentennial Edition. Projected in 35 volumes; editors and dates given below for published volumes only. Information on Wesley Works Editorial Project: https://wesleyworks.ecdsdev.org/ww.html

Vol. 1-4: Sermons. Edited by Albert C. Outler (1984-1987)

Vol. 7: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1780). Edited by Franz Hildebrandt and Oliver Beckerlegge (1983)

Vol. 9: The Methodist Societies: History, Nature and Design. Edited by Rupert E. Davies (1989)

Vol. 10: The Methodist Societies: The Minutes of Conference. Edited by Henry D. Rack (2011)

Vol. 11: The Appeals To Men of Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters. Edited by Gerald R. Cragg (1975)

Vol. 12: Doctrinal and Controversial Treatises I. Edited by Randy L. Maddox (2012)

Vol. 13: Doctrinal and Controversial Treatises, II. Edited by Paul W. Chilcote and Kenneth J. Collins (2013)

Vol. 14: Doctrinal and Controversial Treatises III. Edited by Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Randy L. Maddox, and Kelly Diehl Yates. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2022.

Vol. 17: Oxford Diaries. Edited by Richard P. Heitenrater (2020)

Vol. 18-24: Journal and Diaries. Edited by W. Reginald Ward and Richard P. Heitzenrater (1988-1998)

Vol. 25-26: Letters I-II. Edited by Frank Baker (1980-1982)

Vol. 27: Letters III, Edited by Ted A. Campbell (2015)

Vol. 28: Letters IV, 1766-1773. Edited by Randy L. Maddox (2023)

Vol. 29: Letters V, 1774-1781. Edited by Randy L. Maddox. (2023)

Vol. 30: Letters VI, 1782-1788. Edited by Randy L. Maddox (2024)

Vol. 31: Letters VII, 1789-1791. Edited by Randy L. Maddox (2024)

Vol. 32: Medical and Health Writings. Edited by Randy L. Maddox and James G. Donat (2018)

Additional Works projects:

Works by John Wesley. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley

The Works of John Wesley. Wesley Center, Northwest Nazarene University. http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/

Susanna Wesley

Comfort, Ray. Susanna Wesley: Her Remarkable Life. Bridge-Logos, Inc., 2020.

Dallimore, Arnold A. Susanna Wesley. 4th printing. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1996.

Field, Marion. Susanna Wesley: A Radical in the Rectory. Godalming: Highland, 1998.

Fowler-Marchant, Donna L. Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Greetham, Mary. Susanna Wesley: Mother of Methodism. 2nd edition. Peterborough, UK: Foundery, 2003. Originally published in 1988.

McMullen, Michael D. Prayers and Meditations of Susanna Wesley. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 2000.

McReynolds, Kathy. Susanna Wesley. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1998.

Maser, Frederick E. Susanna Wesley. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, 1987.

Newton, John A. Susanna Wesley and the Puritan Tradition in Methodism. London: Epworth, 2002.

Rogal, Samuel J. Susanna Annesley Wesley: A Biography of Strength and Love. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 2001.

Ryan, Linda A., Clive Murray Norris, and John Lenton, eds. Women, Preachers, Methodists. UK: Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 2020.

Wallace, Charles, ed. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Selections

Burtner, Robert W., and Robert E. Chiles, eds. John Wesley’s Theology: A Collection from his Works. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982. Reprint of the 1954 edition entitled A Compend of Wesley’s Theology.

Chilcote, Paul W. John and Charles Wesley: Selections from Their Writings and Hymns – Annotated and Explained. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2011.

Griffin, Emilie, ed. John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, and Sermons. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

Jarboe, Betty M., comp. Wesley Quotations: Excerpts from the Writings of John Wesley and other Family Members. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.

Jay, Elisabeth, ed. The Journal of John Wesley: A Selection. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kimbrough, S T. Alphabetical Index of the First Lines of All Stanzas of Poetry by John and Charles Wesley. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Kinghorn, Kenneth C., ed. The Standard Sermons in Modern England. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

Lunn, Julie Ann. The Theology of Sanctification and Resignation in Charles Wesley’s Hymns. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Oden, Thomas C. John Wesley’s Teachings. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012.

Outler, Albert C., ed. John Wesley. (The Library of Protestant Thought) New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Rattenbury, J. Ernest. The Eucharistic Hymns of John and Charles Wesley: To which is appended Wesley’s Preface extracted from Brevint’s Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice together with Hymns on the Lord’s Supper. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 2006.

Russie, Alice. The Essential Works of John Wesley: Selected Sermons, Essays, and other Writings. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2011.

Watson, Philip S., ed. The Message of the Wesleys: A Reader. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984. Reprint of 1964 edition.

Whaling, Frank, ed. John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters and Treatises. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.

Wood, Laurence W. Pentecost & Sanctification in the Writings of John Wesley and Charles Wesley: With a Proposal for Today. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2018.

Young, Carlton R. Music of the Heart: John and Charles Wesley on Music and Musicians: An Anthology. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Co., 1995.

Biographies of the Wesley Family

Baker, Frank. John Wesley and the Church of England. 2nd edition. London: Epworth, 2000.

Benge, Janet, and Geoff Benge. John Wesley: The World, His Parish. Seattle, WA: YWAM Pub., 2007.

Best, Gary Martin. Charles Wesley: A Biography. Werrington, England: Epworth, 2006.

Collins, Kenneth J. A Real Christian: The Life of John Wesley. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

Cruickshank, Joanna. Pain, Passion, and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Crutcher, Timothy J. John Wesley: His Life and Thought. Kansas City: Beacon Hill, 2015.

Dallimore, Arnold A. A Heart Set Free: The Life of Charles Wesley. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1988.

Forsaith, Peter S. Image, Identity and John Wesley: A Study in Portraiture. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Gill, Frederick C. Charles Wesley, the First Methodist. London: Lutterworth Press, 1964.

Green, V. H. H. John Wesley. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. Reprint of 1964 edition.

Hattersley, Roy. The Life of John Wesley: A Brand from the Burning. New York: Doubleday, 2003.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. The Elusive Mr. Wesley. 2nd edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

–––––. Exact Likeness: The Portraits of John Wesley. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2016.

–––––. Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1989.

–––––. Wesley and the People Called Methodists. 2nd Edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013. Available in several languages.

Hong, Sung Chul. John Wesley: The Evangelist. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2006.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992.

–––––. “Charles Wesley in Boston.” Methodist History 45 (January 2007): 111-133.

–––––. “Charles Wesley in Georgia.” Methodist History 45 (January 2007): 77-110.

Kimbrough Jr., S T., and Peter Bouteneff. Partakers of the Life Divine: Participation in the Divine Nature in the Writings of Charles Wesley. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016.

Knight, Henry H. John Wesley: Optimist of Grace. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018.

Lindberg, Carter, ed. The Pietist Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. See David Hempton’s chapter “John Wesley.”

Lloyd, Gareth. Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Luckman, David. John and Charles Wesley: Two Brothers, One Faith. Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2024.

McEllhenney, John G. John Wesley: A Man Who Shook the Spiritual Earth. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, 1996.

Maddock, Ian J. Men of One Book: A Comparison of Two Methodist Preachers, John Wesley and George Whitefield. Cambridge, UK: Lutterworth Press, 2012.

Maddox, Randy L., and Jason E. Vickers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Malony, H. Newton. The Amazing John Wesley: An Unusual Look at an Uncommon Life. Colorado Springs, CO: Biblica, 2010.

Newport, Kenneth G.C., and Ted Campbell, eds. Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy. Peterborough, UK: Epworth, 2007.

Nordmoe, Maynard. Harnessing the Devil: From the French Revolution to John Wesley to a Revitalized Church. Middletown, DE: Giraffix, 2020.

Norris, Clive Murray, and Joseph W. Cunningham, editors. The Routledge Companion to John Wesley. London: Routledge, 2024.

Pudney, John. John Wesley and His World. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.

Rack, Henry D. Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism. 3rd edition. London: Epworth Press, 2002.

–––––. “Wesley Portrayed: Character and Criticism in Some Early Biographies.” Methodist History 43 (January 2005): 90-114.

Rogal, Samuel J. The Literary Influence of Shakespeare Upon Charles and John Wesley. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015.

Rogal, Samuel J. Relations among Families in Eighteenth-Century England: The Interaction of the Wesley and Perronet Families. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2023.

Rogal, Samuel J. The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789: A Record of Their Activities Town by Town. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015.

Snyder, Howard. The Radical Wesley: The Patterns and Practices of a Movement Maker. Franklin, TN: Asbury Seedbed Publishing, 2014.

Southey, Robert. The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism. Edited by Tim Fulford. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Tomkins, Stephen. John Wesley: A Biography. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003.

Turner, John Munsey. John Wesley: The Evangelical Revival and the Rise of Methodism in England. Peterborough, UK: Epworth Press, 2002.

Tyson, John R. Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007.

Tyson, John R. The Way of the Wesleys: A Short Introduction. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014.

Vickers, Jason E. Wesley: A Guide for the Perplexed. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2009.

Vickers, John A. Charles Wesley. Peterborough, UK: Foundery Press, 1990.

Vickers, John A., and Ronald Jackson. John Wesley: Founder of Methodism. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1991.

Waller, Ralph. John Wesley: A Personal Portrait. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003.

Watson, Pauline. “Two Scrubby Travellers’: A Psychoanalytic View of Flourishing and Constraint in Religion through the Lives of John and Charles Wesley. London: Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Wilson, Julian. The Wesleys: Two Men Who Changed the World. Authentic Publishers, 2016.

Yrigoyen, Charles. John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

Theological Interpretations

Baker, Frank. Charles Wesley’s Verse: An Introduction. 2nd edition. London: Epworth Press, 1988.

Beck, Brian E. Methodist Heritage and Identity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

Bellini, Peter J. Thunderstruck!: The Deliverance Ministry of John Wesley Today. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Brower, Deirdre. Susanna Wesley: Practical Theologian. Shearsby, Leicestershire: The Wesley Fellowship, 2001.

Browder, Michael Heath. Heart Ethics: Pursuing Christian Love According to the Theology of John Wesley. Wilmore, KY: Emeth Press, 2020.

Bullen, Donald A. A Man of One Book? John Wesley’s Interpretation and Use of the Bible. Milton Keyes, Paternoster, 2007.

Burton, Vicki Tolar. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020.

Callen, Barry L., and Richard P. Thompson, ed. Reading the Bible in Wesleyan Ways: Some Constructive Proposals. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2004.

Campbell, Ted A. John Wesley and Christian Antiquity: Religious Vision and Cultural Change. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1991.

Cannon, William R. The Theology of John Wesley, with Special Reference to the Doctrine of Justification. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984. Reprint of the 1946 edition.

Castelo, Daniel. Embodying Wesley’s Catholic Spirit. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Cell, George C. The Rediscovery of John Wesley. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984. Reprint of 1935 edition.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision: An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley. Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2004.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Foreword by Randy L. Maddox. The Quest for Love Divine: Select Essays in Wesleyan Theology and Practice. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.

Clapper, Gregory S. John Wesley on Religious Affections: His Views on Experience and Emotion and their Role in the Christian Life and Theology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989.

Clifford, Alan C. Atonement and Justification. English Evangelical Theology, 1640-1790: An Evaluation. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Collins, Kenneth J. “The Method of John Wesley’s Practical Theology Reconsidered.” Wesley and Methodist Studies 9, no. 2 (2017): 101-122.

——-. John Wesley: A Theological Journey. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

–––––. The Scripture Way of Salvation: The Heart of Wesley’s Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

–––––. The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Colón-Emeric, Edgardo Antonio, Mark Gorman, and Andrew Kinsey. The Saving Mysteries of Jesus Christ: A Christology in the Wesleyan Tradition. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.

Colver, Elmer M. The Trinitarian Dimension of John Wesley’s Theology. Nashville: New Room Books, 2019.

Coffey, John. Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England & Ireland, 1690-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Compier, Don H., Pui-lan Kwok, and Joerg Rieger, eds. Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. See Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.’s chapter “John Wesley.”

Coppedge, Allan. Shaping the Wesleyan Message: John Wesley in Theological Debate. Nappanee, IN: Francis Asbury Press of Evangel Publishing House, 2003.

Craske, Jane. Doing Theology in the Tradition of the Wesleys. Cambridge: Grove Books Limited, 2020.

Crofford, Gregory. Prevenient Grace in the Theology of John and Charles Wesley. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2010.

Cunha, Emma Salgård. John Wesley, Practical Divinity, and the Defence of Literature. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Cunningham, Joseph W. John Wesley’s Pneumatology: Perceptible Inspiration. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.

Danker, Ryan N. Exploring a Wesleyan Political Theology. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

—–. Wesley and the Anglicans: Political Division in Early Evangelicalism. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.

Dean, Jonathan, ed. A Heart Strangely Warmed: John and Charles Wesley and Their Writings. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2014.

Deschner, John. Wesley’s Christology: An Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press, 1988. Reprint of 1960 edition.

Dongell, Joseph. The Most Excellent Way: John Wesley’s Theology of Love. Franklin, TN: Seedbed Publishing, 2024.

Friedman, Matthew, and A.H. Mathias Zahniser. Union with God in Christ: Early Christian and Wesleyan Spirituality as an Approach to Islamic Mysticism. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Germano, Brian E. Christianity the Wesleyan Way: Principles and Practices for Life and Ministry. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

González, Justo L. John Wesley and the Protestant Reformation, Juan Wesley y la Reforma Protestante: Between Luther and Calvin. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2019.

Green, Joel B., and David F. Watson. Wesley, Wesleyans, and Reading Bible as Scripture. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.

Gunter, W. Stephen. The Limits of “Love Divine”: John Wesley’s Response to Antinomianism and Enthusiasm. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1989.

–––––, et al. Wesley and the Quadrilateral: Renewing the Conversation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Harper, Steve. Five Marks of a Methodist: The Fruit of a Living Faith. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2022.

Heath, Elaine A. Five Means of Grace: Experience God’s Love the Wesleyan Way. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2022.

Hildebrandt, Franz. Christianity According to the Wesleys. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996. Reprint of 1956 edition.

Jackson, Jack. Offering Christ: John Wesley’s Evangelistic Vision. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2017.

Jennings, Theodore W., Jr. Good News to the Poor: John Wesley’s Evangelical Economics. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Jones, Scott J. John Wesley’s Conception and Use of Scripture. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995.

_____. Scripture and the Wesleyan Way: A Bible Study on Real Christianity. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T, ed. Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992.

–––––. The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.

_____. Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002.

Knight, Henry H., III. Anticipating Heaven Below: Optimism of Grace from Wesley to the Pentecostals. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014.

_____. John Wesley: Optimist of Grace. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018.

_____. The Presence of God in the Christian Life: John Wesley and the Means of Grace. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

Lindström, Harald. Wesley and Sanctification: A Study in the Doctrine of Salvation. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1982. Reprint of 1950 edition.

Long, D. Stephen. John Wesley’s Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2005.

McCormick, K. Steve. Triune Love: John Wesley’s Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

McEwan, David B. Wesley as a Pastoral Theologian: Theological Methodology in John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Perfection. Colorado Springs: Paternoster Publishing, 2011.

McGonigle, Herbert. John Wesley’s Doctrine of Prevenient Grace. Derby’s, London: Moorley’s Bookshop, 1995.

—–. John Wesley: Doctrine of Final Judgment. Ilkeston: Moorley’s Print & Publishing, 2015.

Maddox, Randy L. Aldersgate Reconsidered. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990.

–––––. “Respected Founder/Neglected Guide: The Role of Wesley in American Methodist Theology.” Methodist History 37 (January 1999): 71-88.

–––––. Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s Practical Theology. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994.

–––––. “‘Vital Orthodoxy’: A Wesleyan Dynamic for 21st Century Christianity.” Methodist History 42 (October 2003): 3-19.

Maddox, Randy, and Theodore Runyon. Rethinking Wesley’s Theology for Contemporary Methodism. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1998.

Monk, Robert C. John Wesley: His Puritan Heritage. Revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

Naglee, David I. From Everlasting to Everlasting: John Wesley on Eternity and Time. 2 vols. New York: Peter Lang, 1991-1992.

Newport, Kenneth G. C. “Charles Wesley and the Articulation of Faith.” Methodist History 42 (October 2003): 33-48.

Newton, John. Susanna Wesley and the Puritan Tradition in Methodism. London: Epworth, 2002.

Oden, Thomas C. John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity: A Plain Exposition of His Teaching on Christian Doctrine. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.

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