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The Manchester Wesley Research Centre promotes and supports research on the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries in the 18th century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and contemporary scholarship in the Wesleyan and Evangelical tradition. This includes areas such as theology, history, biblical studies, education, ethics, literature, mission, philosophy, pastoral studies, practical theology, and social theology.

The MWRC is located on the campus of Nazarene Theological College in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury and is affiliated with the Methodist Archives, housed in The University of Manchester John Rylands Library. These research centres provide magnificent resources for students and researchers in this field.

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If you are interested in further information about the Wesley Centre and its programmes, or would like to be placed on the mailing list for information about forthcoming events, please contact the Director at the following address:

Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Dene Road
Didsbury, Manchester
England M20 2GU

MWRC Director
Geordan Hammond, Ph.D.
Email: ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk

Postgraduate Assistant
Chris Foster
Email: cfoster@nazarene.ac.uk 

 

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MWRC Annual Lectures

The 2012 MWRC Annual Lecture will be given by Dr David Ceri Jones, Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University. The preliminary title for the lecture is '"So much idolized by some, and railed at by others": towards understanding George Whitefield'. The lecture will be on Monday 11th June at 7:30pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College.  

2011: '"An Exact Image": Portraits of John Wesley'. Professor Richard Heitzenrater, William Kellon Quick Emeritus Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies, Duke Divinity School.

2010: 'A Journey into God: A Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism'. Dr Philip Meadows, Lecturer in Missiology and Wesleyan Studies, Cliff College. The paper has been published in Wesley and Methodist Studies, vol. 3 (2011).

2009: 'Wesley Agonistes and the Calvinist Sublime: The Spiritual Ideals of the Early English Evangelical School.' Dr Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. A revision of this paper will be published in the Huntington Library Quarterly.

2008: 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd. Isabel Rivers, Research Professor, Queen Mary, University of London and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.

2007: 'Recovering Charles Wesley's Voice: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Achievements.' Dr Kenneth Newport, Professor in Christian Thought, Liverpool Hope University. Published in the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 88:2 (2006), 19-38. 

2006: ‘John Wesley: Celebrity and Holy Man.’ Dr John D Walsh, Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

2005: ‘The Current State of Wesley Scholarship.’ Revd Dr Henry D Rack, Bishop Fraser Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History Emeritus in the University of Manchester.  This lecture was published under the title ‘Some Recent Trends in Wesley Scholarship’, in the Wesleyan Theological Journal 41.2 (Fall, 2006).

The 2013 MWRC annual lecture will be given by Professor David Bebbington and the 2014 lecture by Professor Morna Hooker.