3.4 Europe

Bibliographies

Beckerlegge, Oliver A. A Bibliography of the Bible Christians. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England: Gage Postal Books, 1988.

Crumb, Lawrence N. The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders: A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Field, Clive D. Anti-Methodist Publications of the Eighteenth Century: A Revised Bibliography. Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1991. Revision and correction of Richard Green’s 1902 bibliography of anti-Methodist publications.

_____. “Bibliography of Methodist Historical Literature, 1974” (published annually in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, 1976-1986; 1987 ff. as annual supplement to the Proceedings.

–––––. “Bibliography.” In History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain, 4: 653-830. London: Epworth Press, 1988.

–––––. “Sources for the Study of Protestant Nonconformity in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 71/2 (Summer 1989): [103]-139. See especially the Methodist section, 121-135.

Gage, Laurie E. English Methodism: A Bibliographical View. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Gage Postal Books, 1985.

Hatcher, Stephen. A Primitive Methodist Bibliography. Moorley’s, 2020.

Turner, John Munsey. “British Methodist Historical Scholarship, 1893-1993: Wesley Historical Society Centenary,” Epworth Review 20/3 (September 1993): 101-111.

–––––. “The Long Eighteenth Century: A Review Article,” Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 51/1 (February 1997): 4-10.

Surveys

Batty, Margaret. Scotland’s Methodists, 1750-2000. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010.

Bebbington, David, and David Ceri Jones, eds. Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021.

Boyles, Helen. Romanticism and Methodism: The Problem of Religious Enthusiasm. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.

Chandler, Andrew. Anglicanism, Methodism and Ecumenism: A History of the Queen’s and Handsworth Colleges. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Davies, Rupert E. Methodism. 2nd edition. London: Epworth Press, 1985.

–––––, and Gordon Rupp, eds. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain. 4 vols. London: Epworth Press, 1975-1987.

Hagen, Odd. Preludes to Methodism in Northern Europe. Oslo: Norsk Forlagsselskap, 1961.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. Wesley and the People Called Methodist. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013.

Hempton, David. The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.

_____. Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.

–––––. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

_____. The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion, 1750-1900. London: Routledge, 1996.

Hylson-Smith, Kenneth. The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. London: SCM, 1998. 3 vols.

Istomina, Lydia P. Bringing Hidden Things to Light: The Revival of Methodism in Russia. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Jones, David Ceri, Boyd Stanley Schlenther, and Eryn Mant White. The Elect  Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811. Cardiff: University of Wales, 2012.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T, ed. Methodism in Russia and the Baltic States: History and Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.

Kissack, Reginald. Methodists in Italy. London: Cargate Press, 1960.

McLeod, Hugh. Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

McPherson, Joseph D. Exploring Early Methodism: Discoveries of Spiritual and Historical Value. Evansville, IN: Fundamental Wesleyan Publishers, 2018.

Nausner, Wilhelm. Be Eager to Maintain the Unity of the Spirit Through the Bond of Peace: A Short History of the Geneva Area of The United Methodist Church. Cincinnati: General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1985.

Schuler, Ulrike. “Methodism in Northern and Continental Europe.” In T & T Clark Companion to Methodism. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2010.

Semmel, Bernard. The Methodist Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Short, Roy H. History of Methodism in Europe. Nashville: Office of the Secretary of the Council of Bishops, United Methodist Church, 1980.

Stephens, Peter. Methodism in Europe. Cincinnati: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1981.

Streiff, Patrick Philipp. Methodism in Europe: 19th and 20th Century. Tallinn, Estonia: Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary, 2003.

Swift, Wesley F. Methodism in Scotland: The First Hundred Years. London: Epworth Press, 1947.

Tabraham, Barrie W. The Making of Methodism. 2nd Edition. London: Epworth Press, 2010.

Taggart, Norman E. The Irish in World Methodism, 1760-1900. London: Epworth Press, 1986.

Thaarup, Jørgen, with Preface by Michael Nausner. Wesleyan Theology in Europe: Christian Thought in European Wesleyan Tradition. Forlaget Tro-fast, 2021.

Turner, John M. Conflict and Reconciliation: Studies in Methodism and Ecumenism in England, 1740-1982. London: Epworth Press, 1985.

18th Century Studies

For biographies of John and Charles Wesley and interpretations of their thought, see Part 4.

Anderson, Misty G. Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Baber, Charlie. Submitting to Be More Vile: The Illustrated Adventures of John & Charles Wesley. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2019.

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

Best, Gary Martin. John Cennick: The Forgotten Evangelist: the Story of the First Methodist Lay Preacher Who Became Apostle of Northern Ireland. Bristol, UK: Tangent Books, 2016.

_____. The Cradle of Methodism, 1739-2017: A History of the New Room and of Methodism in Bristol and Kingswood in the Time of John and Charles Wesley and the Subsequent History of the Building. Bristol, UK: Tangent Books, 2017.

Brendlinger, Irv A. Social Justice through the Eyes of Wesley: John Wesley’s Theological Challenge to Slavery. Guelph, Ontario: Joshua Press, 2006.

Burton, Vicki Tolar. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Campbell, Ted. The Religion of the Heart: A Study of European Religious Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. Reprinted by Wipf and Stock, 2000.

Cragwall, Jasper Albert. Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2013.

Dreyer, Fred. The Genesis of Methodism. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1999.

Forsaith, Peter S., ed. “Unexampled Labours”: Letters of the Revd. John Fletcher to Leaders in the Evangelical Revival. Peterborough, UK: Epworth, 2008.

Goodhead, Andrew. A Crown and a Cross: The Rise, Development and Decline of the Methodist Class Meeting in Eighteenth Century England. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010.

Haartman, Keith. Watching and Praying: Personality Transformation in Eighteenth-century British Methodism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

Hammond, Geordan, and David Ceri Jones. George Whitefield: Life, Context, Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hammond, Geordan, and Peter S. Forsaith. Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1989.

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

Hempton, David. Methodism and the Politics in British Society, 1750-1850. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.

_____. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

_____. The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Houston, Joel. Wesley, Whitefield, and the “Free Grace” Controversy: The Crucible of Methodism. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

Jones, David Ceri, Eryn Mant White, and Boyd Stanley Schlenther. The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012.

Kent, John. Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Kirkham, Donald Henry. Outside Looking In: Early Methodism as Viewed by Its Critics. Nashville: New Room Books, 2019.

Lewis, Simon. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England: The Struggle for True Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

McGever, Sean. Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020.

McInelly, Brett C. Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Maddock, Ian J. Men of One Book: A Companion of Two Methodist Preachers, John Wesley and George Whitefield. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

Maddock, Ian J., and David F. Wells. Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley versus Whitefield? Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018.

Major, Emma. Madam Britannia: Women, Church, and Nation, 1712-1812. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Melnyk, Julie. Victorian Religion: Faith and Life in Britain. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.

Noll, Mark. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003.

Norris, Clive Murray. The Financing of John Wesley’s Methodism c. 1740-1800. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

—–. Thomas Wride and Wesley’s Methodist Connexion. London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2020.

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

O’Brien, Glen. John Wesley’s Political World. New York: London: Taylor & Francis, 2022.

O’Malley, J. Steven, and Johann Adam Steinmetz. The Origin of the Wesleyan Theological Vision for Christian Globalization and the Pursuit of Pentecost in Early Pietist Revivalism, Including a Translation of the Pentecost Addresses of Johann Adam Steinmetz (1689-1762). Nicholasville, KY: Emeth Press, 2020.

Olsen, Gerald W., ed. Religion and Revolution in Early Industrial England: The Halevy Thesis and its Critics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.

Pritchard, John. Methodists and Their Missionary Society, 1760-1900. Surrey, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.

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

Rogal, Samuel J. Essays on John Wesley and His Contemporaries: The Texture of Eighteen-century English Culture. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Standing, Roger. The Forward Movement: Evangelical Pioneers of ‘Social Christianity’. Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2015.

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

Tyson, John R., and Boyd Stanley Schlenther. In the Midst of Early Methodism: Lady Huntingdon and Her Correspondence. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Valentine, Simon Ross. John Bennet and the Origins of Methodism and the Evangelical Revival in England. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.

Walsh, John D. “Methodism and the Origins of English-Speaking Evangelicalism.” In Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles and Beyond, edited by Mark Noll, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 19-37.

Ward, W. Reginald. The Protestant Evangelical Awakening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Watson, Kevin M. Pursuing Social Holiness: The Band Meeting in Wesley’s Thought and Popular Methodist Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Watson, Kevin M., and Scott T. Kisker. The Band Meeting: Rediscovering Relational Discipleship in Transformational Community. Franklin, TN: Seedbed, 2017.

Webster, Robert. Methodism and the Miraculous: John Wesley’s Idea of the Supernatural and the Identification of Methodists in the Eighteenth-Century. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2013.

Wellings, Martin. Methodism in Victorian Oxford: The Oxford Wesleyan Local Preachers’ Book, 1830-1902. Chipping Norton: Oxfordshire Record Society, 2023.

White, Eryn Mant. The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early Societies in South-West Wales, 1737-1750. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020.

Wilson, D. R. Church and Chapel in Industrializing Society: Anglican Ministry and Methodism in Shropshire, 1760-1785. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2017.

Winckles, Andrew O. Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writings and the Methodist Media Revolution: “Consider the Lord as Present as Ever.” Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Witherington, Ben. The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016.

Wolffe, John. The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007.

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

Yeager, Jonathan M., editor. The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

19th Century Studies

Ambler, R. W. Ranters, Revivalists and Reformers: Primitive Methodism and Rural Society, South Lincolnshire, 1817-1875. Hull: Hull University Press, 1989.

Batstone, Martin K., The Fruitful Mother and the Forgotten Son: The Story of William Clowes and the Rise of Hull as the Centre of the Primitive Methodist Movement. Ilkeston: Moorley’s Print and Publishing, 2015.

Bebbington, David W., Kenneth Dix, and Alan Ruston, eds. Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 3. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Bebbington, David W. The Evangelical Quadrilateral: Characterizing the British Gospel Movement. Vol. 1. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021.

Bebbington, David W. Holiness in Nineteenth Century England. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002.

Calder, Sandy. The Origins of Primitive Methodism. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2016.

Carey, Hilary M. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801-1908. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Carwardine, Richard. Trans-Atlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Chiarini, Franco. “The Methodist Episcopal Church in Italy: 1871-1915.” Methodist History 39 (April 2001): 181-200.

Coates, Gregory R. Politics Strangely Warmed: Political Theology in the Wesleyan Spirit. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2015.

Hempton, David. Empire of the Spirit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

_____. “The Methodists,” In Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Prospects, edited by D. G. Paz. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, 117-141.

Johnson, Dale A. The Changing Shape of English Non-Conformity, 1825-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Lander, John K. Itinerant Temples: Tent Methodism, 1814-1832. Waynesboro, GA; Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2003.

Moore, Robert. Pit-Men, Preachers & Politics: The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Nockles, Peter. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Rose, E. Alan. “The Methodist New Connexion, 1797-1907.” Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 47/6 (October 1980): 241-253.

Selén, Mats. The Oxford Movement and Wesleyan Methodism in England, 1833-1882: A Study in religious conflict. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1992.

Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. London: Penguin, 1991. Originally published in 1963.

Watts, Michael R. The Dissenters, Vol. II: The Expansion of Evangelical Nonconformity [1791-1869]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Wearmouth, Robert F. Methodism and the Working-Class Movements in England, 1800-1850. Clifton, NJ: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1972. Reprint of 1937 edition.

Webb, Todd. Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formulation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.

Werner, Julia S. The Primitive Methodist Connexion: Its Background and Early History. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Wolffe, John. The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007.

20th Century Studies

Bebbington, David W., and David Ceri Jones. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Brake, G. Thompson. Policy and Politics in British Methodism, 1932-1982. London: B. Edsall & Co., Ltd., 1985.

Davies, Rupert E. The Testing of the Churches, 1932-1982: A Symposium. London: Epworth Press, 1982.

Hughes, Michael. Conscious and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century. Peterborough, UK: Epworth, 2008.

Ludlow, Peter W. The Churches in the European Union. London: Methodist Church Division of Social Responsibility, 1994. (Beckly Social Service Lecture 1994)

Marquardt, Manfred. “Adaptation or Resistance: Christian Churches in Germany and their Policies under Totalitarian Regimes.” Quarterly Review 15/1 (Spring 1995): 23-69.

Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia: Communist and Postcommunist Eras. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.

Turner, John Munsey. Modern Methodism in England, 1932-1996. Peterborough, UK: Epworth Press, 1998.

Young, David M. Change and Decay: Primitive Methodism from Late Victorian Times Till World War I. Stoke-on-Trent: Tentmaker Publications, 2017.

21st Century Studies

Beck, Brian E. Under One Roof: The UK and Europe in the 21st Century. London: Methodist Church, Division of Social Responsibility, 1993.

Campbell, Ted. Encoding Methodism: Telling and Retelling Narratives of Wesleyan Origins. Nashville: New Room Books, 2017.

Cooper, Steven R. M., and Alcuin Club. The Easter Vigil in the British Methodist Church: Exploring a Liturgical Enigma. London: Alcuin Club and the Group for Renewal of Worship, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 2023.

Craske, Jane, and Clive Marsh, eds. Methodism and the Future: Facing the Challenge. With a Forward by Gareth Jones. London; New York: Continuum, 2000.

Heath, Elaine A., and Larry Duggins. Missional, Monastic, Mainline: A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014.

Pedlar, James E. British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology. London: Taylor & Francis, 2023.