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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Steven O'Malley, Ph.D., John T. Seamands Professor of Methodist Holiness History, Asbury Theological Seminary

1401201-1307906-thumbnail.jpgDr O’Malley has taught church history and historical theology for more than thirty five years. An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, Dr O’Malley has preached and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. He has earned recognition for his research and publications in post-Reformation and modern Church history, with special emphasis upon Pietism, German-American evangelicalism and the Holiness movement. He is the author of the definitive study of the Otterbeins’ theology, Pilgrimage of Faith: The Legacy of the Otterbeins, and a study entitled Theology and German-American Evangelicalism: Sources in Discipleship and Sanctification. He has edited more than twenty volumes in the Pietist and Wesleyan Studies series for Scarecrow Press and is the author of one volume in the four-volume series on the History of United Methodist Missions. He currently serves as director of the Center for the Study of World Christian Revitaization Movements at Asbury Seminary, and is general editor of the Revitatlization Studies Series, published by the Center.

Professor O'Malley's CV