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Welcome to the MWRC

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 Administrator or Director at the following address:

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

MWRC Director
Revd Herbert B. McGonigle, Ph.D.
Email: HMcgonigle@nazarene.ac.uk 

MWRC Research Fellow & Administrator
Geordan Hammond, Ph.D.
Email: ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk

Postgraduate Assistant
Joseph Cunningham
Email: joseph.cunningham@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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Postgraduate Research Students (Junior Fellows) 

 

Current Postgraduate Research Students

Junior Fellows are postgraduate research students registered for doctoral (or MPhil) research through any partner institution who have completed their probationary review. Listed below is the topic of each Fellows' research and the institution where they are registered.  Further details about Fellows can be found by clicking on their name.  Comments from former Junior Fellows are available

Okegbile Emmanuel Ayodeji, 'Missional Unity in the Christian Association of Nigeria' (Cliff College)

Pierre Banza, 'To "Men of Reason and Religion": John Wesley as an Apologist for "Methodism", with Special Reference to His Debates with Josiah Tucker, Thomas Church, and "John Smith" (Nazarene Theological College) 

Michael H. Browder, 'Acting out Liberty: Seeking Holiness of Heart according to the Theology of John Wesley' (NTC)

Robbie Brown, ' "Till in heaven we take our place": The Eschatology of John Wesley' (NTC) 

Graham Burkhart, 'A Response to the Theism of the Open Future of the Late 20th and early 21st Century through consideration of the Theism of James Arminius with special attention to his ideas of Foreknowledge, Foreordination and Providence' (NTC)

Kiyeong Chang, 'Sinai and Calvary: A Critical Appraisal of the Role of God's Law in the Theologies of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Wesley' (NTC)

Ruth Irene Cordova, 'A critical evaluation of the development of the doctrine of Wesleyan Holiness in the Church of the Nazarene within the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America over one hundred years 1904-2004' (NTC) 

Hunter Dale Cummings, 'Working with God: Exploring the Theology Behind John Wesley's Works of Mercy' (NTC)

Lord Elorm-Donkor, 'Christian Morality in Ghanaian Pentecostalism: A Theological Analysis of Virtue Theory as a Framework for Integrating Christian and Akan Moral Schemes' (NTC) 

J. Russell Frazier, 'Living in Trinity: John Fletcher's Doctrine of Dispensations' (NTC) 

Jacqueline Hanover, 'The Role of the Spiritual Senses in Contemporary Mission' (Cliff College)

David Hart, 'The Emergence and Development of Wesleyanism in Norwich, 1754-1802' (University of Manchester)

Anthony Hick, 'Cell Church in a Methodist Circuit' (Cliff College)

Isaac N. Hopper, 'Ontology and Incarnation in Trinitarian Theology: The Christological Implications of John Wesley's Doctrine of God' (NTC/ATS)

Marcie Huson, ‘A Critical Comparison of Theological Method in John Wesley with that of Vladimir Lossky’ (NTC)

Alyson Jenkins, ' "The Grand Depositum": Recovering the Wesleyan Concept of Christian Perfection for 21st Century Methodism' (NTC/ATS)  

Christine Johnson, 'The Theme of Death as it Relates to John Wesley'sTheology of Holy Love withSpecial Reference to the Doctrines of the New Birth and Entire Sanctification' (NTC/ATS)

Steve Johnson, 'John Wesley's Liturgical Theology: His Sources, Unique Contributions and Synthetic Practice' (NTC)

Kris David Mitchell, 'Engaging Wesley and the Child: Relating Wesleyanism to Children's Spirituality in a Postmodern Context' (NTC/Nazarene Theological Seminary)

Lansana Kenawa Njigba, 'An Evaluation of Contextualization in Relation to the Church's Mission in Sierra Leone: The Methodist Church Sierra Leone as a Case Study between 1967 and 2007' (Cliff College)

John Read, 'Catherine Booth: The Foundation of a Salvationist Spirituality' (NTC)

Stan Rodes, 'Degrees of Faith: An Examination of the Servant-Son Metaphor in John Wesley’s Theological Thought’ (NTC)

Jeffrey Martin Rudy, 'Departure from Wesley? An Investigation of Atonement Theology Advanced by John Miley, Albert Knudson, and R. Larry Shelton in Relation to John Wesley's Emphasis on Penal and Satisfaction Elements' (NTC/ATS)

David Stark, ‘Perfection’s Defining Decade: The Significance of the 1760s for John Wesley’s Soteriology’ (NTC)

Johan Tredoux, 'Holiness as Love: An analysis of Mildred Bangs Wynkoop’s interpretation of John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Holiness' (NTC)

David Whitworth, 'Missio Dei and the Means of Grace' (Cliff College)

Joseph Wood, 'The Tension Between Evangelical Theology and the Established Church: The Ecclesiology of John Wesley' (NTC)

Tim Woolley, 'The Role of Camp Meetings in the Origins of Primitive Methodism' (Cliff College)

Stephen Brian Yeich (Brian), 'The Doctrine of Christian Perfection as a Vision for Evangelism' (Cliff College)

PhDs Completed by MWRC Fellows

Cary Balzer, 'John Wesley's Developing Soteriology and the Influence of the Caroline Divines', (NTC), 2005.

Deirdre Brower Latz, 'A Contextual Reading of John Wesley's Theology and the Emergent Church: Critical Reflections on the Emergent Church Movement in Respect to Aspects of Wesley's Theology, Ecclesiology and Urban Poverty' (University of Manchester), 2009.

Michael T. Burns, 'John Wesley's Doctrine of Perfect Love as a Theological Mandate for Inclusion and Diversity' (NTC), 2009. 

J. Gregory Crofford, 'Streams of Mercy: Prevenient Grace in the Theology of John and Charles Wesley' (NTC), 2008.

Joseph W. Cunningham, ‘Perceptible Inspiration: A Model for John Wesley’s Pneumatology’ (NTC), 2010.

John Austin Dolan, 'Methodist Lay Sectarianism: The Independent Methodists 1796-1927' (NTC), 2004. Revised and published as The Independent Methodists: A History (2005).

Karl L. Ganske, 'The Religion of the Heart and Growth in Grace: John Wesley's Selection and Editing of Puritan Literature for A Christian Library' (NTC), 2009.

Geordan Hammond, 'Restoring Primitive Christianity: John Wesley and Georgia, 1735-1737' (University of Manchester), 2008.

Thomas Glenn Jackson III 'Jack', 'A Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism as Proclamation' (Cliff College), 2009.

Chris Lohrstorfer, 'Know Your Disease, Know Your Cure: A Critical Analysis of John Wesley's Sources for his Doctrine of Original Sin', (NTC), 2006. 

Barbara Prosser, ' "An Arrow from a Quiver" Written Instruction for a Reading People: John Wesley's Arminian Magazine (January 1778 - February 1791)' (University of Manchester), 2008.

David Wilson, 'Church and Chapel: Parish Ministry and Methodism in Madeley c. 1760-1785, with Special Reference to the Ministry of John Fletcher' (University of Manchester), 2010.