Geordan Hammond, Ph.D., Research Fellow and Administrator of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, Lecturer in Church History at Nazarene Theological College, and Audience Development Officer at Epworth Old Rectory
Dr Hammond is currently revising his University of Manchester doctoral thesis entitled ‘Restoring Primitive Christianity: John Wesley and Georgia, 1735-1737’, which will be published by Epworth Press. He is co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies. Dr Hammond would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students in modern church history and historical theology and is particularly interested in supervising students in Wesley Studies, eighteenth-century Methodism, and the Church of England in the eighteenth century.
Recent and forthcoming publications
'John Wesley and Imitating Christ', Wesleyan Theological Journal 45 (forthcoming spring 2010).
'Versions of Primitive Christianity: John Wesley's Relations with the Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1737', Journal of Moravian History 6 (2009), 31-60.
'High Church Anglican Influences on John Wesley's Conception of Primitive Christianity, 1732-1735', Anglican and Episcopal History 78:2 (June 2009), 174-207.
'John Wesley's Mindset at the Commencement of His Georgia Sojourn: Suffering and the Introduction of Primitive Christianity to the Indians', Methodist History 47:1 (Oct. 2008), 16-25.
'John Wesley in Georgia: Success or Failure?', Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 56:6 (Oct. 2008), 297-305.
‘The Revival of Practical Christianity: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Samuel Wesley, and the Clerical Society Movement’ in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, Studies in Church History 44 (Boydell Press, 2008), 116-27.
Email: ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk
Thesis Preliminary Pages including Contents Page and Abstract
This thesis is available for purchase via ProQuest/UMI or by contacting the author.
