4.5 History of Doctrine

Baker, Frank. “The Doctrines in the Discipline.” In From Wesley to Asbury: Studies in Early American Methodism, 162-182. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1976. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 3, 46-61.

Bruns, Steven David. Full Tables, Closed Doors, Open Fields: The Changing Shape of Grace as American Methodists move from Immigrant Society to Indigenous Church. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018.

Campbell, Ted. Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials. Revised Edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

Chiles, Robert E. Theological Transition in American Methodism, 1790-1935. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Cushman, Robert E. John Wesley’s Experimental Divinity: Studies in Methodist Doctrinal Standards. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1989.

Deats, Paul, and Carol Robb, eds. The Boston Personalist Tradition in Philosophy, Social Ethics, and Theology. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.

Dunlap, E. Dale. Methodist Theology in Great Britain in the 19th Century, with special reference to the Theology of Adam Clarke, Richard Watson, and William Burt Pope. Diss., Yale University, 1956.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. “At Full Liberty: Doctrinal Standards in Early American Methodism.” In his Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism, 189-204. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1989. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 4, 62-76.

Holifield, E. Brooks. The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1978. See especially 76-77, 140-143, 165-169, 186-202.

Jones, Scott J. United Methodist Doctrine: The Extreme Center. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

Lancaster, Sarah Heaner. “Ecclesiology and Ministry in The Methodist Church (1939-1968).” Methodist History 46 (April 2008): 156-166.

Langford, Thomas A., ed. Doctrine and Theology in the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990. Sets 1972 and 1988 doctrinal statements in historical context.

–––––. Practical Divinity. Revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998. Vol. I, Theology in the Wesleyan Tradition, Vol. II, Readings in Wesleyan Theology. Revision of 1983-84 set.

McAnally, Thomas S. Questions and Answers about the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

McCall, Thomas H. and Keith D. Stanglin. After Arminius: A Historical Introduction to Arminian Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

McCutcheon, William J. “American Methodist Thought and Theology, 1919-1960.” In History of American Methodism, edited by Emory S. Bucke, 3:261-327.

–––––. Essays in American Theology: The Life and Thought of Harris Franklin Rall. New York: Philosophical Library, 1973.

Maddix, Mark A., and Dianne Leclerc, eds. The Essential Church: A Wesleyan Ecclesiology. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2014.

Meeks, M. Douglas. Trinity, Community, and Power: Mapping Trajectories in Wesleyan Theology. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2000.

Naumann, William H. Theology and German-American Evangelicalism: the Role of Theology in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Association. Diss., Yale University, 1966.

Oden, Thomas C. Doctrinal Standards in the Wesleyan Tradition. Revised Edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Outler, Albert C. The Wesleyan Theological Heritage: Essays of Albert C. Outler. Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Leicester R. Longden. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.

Peters, John L. Christian Perfection and American Methodism. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1996. Reprint of the 1956 edition with a new foreword by Albert C. Outler.

Richey, Russell E. Methodist Connectionalism: Historical Perspectives. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2009.

Runyon, Theodore H., ed. Wesleyan Theology Today: A Bicentennial Theological Consultation. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1985.

Sanctification in the Benedictine and Methodist Traditions: A World Ecumenical Conference held in Rome, July 4-10, 1994 Rome. Special issue, Asbury Theological Journal 50/2, 51/1 (Fall 1995/Spring 1996).

Schwartz, William Andrew, John M. Bechtold, and Michael E. Lodahl. Embracing the Past – Forging the Future: A New Generation of Wesleyan Theology. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2015.

Schweitzer, Don, Michael Bourgeois, and Robert C. Fennell, eds. The Theology of the United Church of Canada. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019.

Scott, Leland. “The Concern for Systematic Theology, 1840-1870.” In History of American Methodism, edited by Emory S. Bucke, 2:380-390. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 17, 277-288.

–––––. “The Message of Early American Methodism.” In History of American Methodism, edited by Emory S. Bucke, 1:291-359.

–––––. “Methodist Theology in America in the 19th Century.” Religion in Life 25 (Winter 1955-1956): 87-98.

–––––. Methodist Theology in America in the 19th Century. Diss., Yale University, 1954.

Seamands, Stephen A. Christology and Transition in the Theology of Edwin Lewis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987.

Shipley, David C. “The Development of Theology in American Methodism in the 19th Century.” London Quarterly & Holborn Review 184 (1959): 249-264.

–––––. Methodist Arminianism in the Theology of John Fletcher. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1942.

Stephens, Darryl W. Social Principles in the Public Church’s Witness. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2016.

Stoeffler, F. Ernest. “Pietism, the Wesleys and Methodist Beginnings in America.” In Continental Pietism and Early American Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1976, 184-221.

Thorsen, Donald A.D. Calvin v. Wesley: Bringing Belief in Line with Practice. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013.

Vickers, Jason E. “‘Begotten from Everlasting of the Father’: Inadvertent Omission or Sabellian Trajectory in Early Methodism?” Methodist History 44 (July 2006): 251-261.