W. R. Ward, D.Phil. (Oxford), Hon. D. Theol (Basel), FBA (Fellow of the British Academy), Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Durham
Reginald Ward has written prolifically on John Wesley, Methodism, and the rise of Evangelicalism. Along with Richard Heitzenrater he edited the seven volumes of John Wesley's Journals and Diaries in the Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley (Abingdon Press, 1988-2003). His influential works on early Evangelicalism include: The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (1992); Christianity under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789 (1999); and Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (2006). Many of his articles on Methodism and the international Evangelical Revival have been published in Faith and Faction (1993).
