Clive Murray Norris, PhD
Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
Dr Norris’s main research interest lies in the financial and organizational development of Methodism from its earliest days. His current projects include editing, with Joe Cunningham, a major collection of essays on John Wesley’s thought, due for publication by Routledge in 2023. He is also editor, with Geordan Hammond, of Wesley and Methodist Studies.
Select Publications
‘“A blessed and glorious work of God, . . . attended with some irregularity”: Managing Methodist revivals, c. 1740-1800’, in Inspiration and Institution in Christian History, Studies in Church History Vol. 57, eds Charlotte Methuen, Alec Ryrie and Andrew Spicer (2021) (winner of the President’s Prize).
Women, Preachers, Methodists: edited with John Lenton and Linda A. Ryan (Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 2020).
Thomas Wride and Wesley’s Methodist Connexion (Routledge, 2020).
‘John Wesley: Prophet and Entrepreneur’, in Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve: Spiritual Foundations and Business Applications, ed. Luk Bouckaert and Steven Van den Heuvel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
The financing of John Wesley’s Methodism c. 1740-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Email: cnorris@brookes.ac.uk