Richard P. Heitzenrater, Ph.D., Emeritus William Kellon Quick Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies at Duke University Divinity School.
Dr Heitzenrater is well-known for his groundbreaking work in transcribing John Wesley’s Oxford Diaries. He co-edited Wesley’s Journals and Diaries for the Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley and has published several important studies including The Elusive Mr. Wesley (2nd edn. 2003); Wesley and the People Called Methodists (1995); Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism (1989); and Diary of an Oxford Methodist, Benjamin Ingham, 1733-1734 (1985). In 2009, The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley was published in his honour.
