Professor Richard Heitzenrater's Annual Lecture titled '"An Exact Image": Portraits of John Wesley' is now available to be listened to as a audio file along with the accompanying Power Point as a PDF file. There is also an NCN News story about the lecture.
The MWRC is pleased to annouce the upcoming MWRC Postgraduate Colloquium featuring five papers from our own Junior Fellows: Chris Foster, Josh McNall, Joseph Wood, Jefferey Rudy and Arseny Ermakov. These papers constitute a wide variety of biblical and theological studies.
This free event is scheduled for Friday 17 June 2011 from 9am to 1pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. For more information and to book in advance for a free light lunch please contact Dr Geordan Hammond.
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Professor Richard Heitzenrater, Emeritus William Kellon Quick Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies, Duke Divinity School will deliver the 7th MWRC Annual Lecture. The lecture titled '"An Exact Image": Portraits of John Wesley' will be on Monday 13th June at 5pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. For a lecture poster, click here
The MWRC has recently elected three new Honorary Fellows: Revd Dr Glen O’Brien, Revd Dr Calvin Samuel, and Revd Dr Ralph Waller. Visit our Honorary Fellows page for further information.
We are pleased to announce that WMS vol. 3 has now been finalized and will be published later this spring. Amongst other articles the volume will feature five illuminating essays from an American Academy of Religion session on ‘Methodism and the African Diaspora 1738-1834’. To view the complete contents pages for volume three, including book reviews, click here.
The MWRC and Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History is pleased to announce that the volume Religion, Gender and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting has been submitted to Wipf and Stock for publication. The volume consists of thirteen essays first presented at a conference of the same name in Madeley, Shropshire in June 2009, and is due to be published this autumn.
Herbert McGonigle has been named director emeritus of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre. Geordan Hammond has been appointed as the new director of the Centre. For further details see the NCN News story.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows in Wesley Studies who completed their doctorates at partner institutions during the 2009-10 academic year. Deirdre Brower Latz, Joseph W. Cunningham (NTC), David Wilson, and David Hart graduated from The University of Manchester. Pierre Banza received his MPhil from The University of Manchester (NTC).
Manchester Wesley Research Centre, The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, and Didsbury Press are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 2 (WMS). For the contents of the volume and information on purchasing it, click here.
WMS is now accepting essay submissions for future volumes. For further details, including style notes for contributors, visit the WMS website.
MWRC Annual Lecturers for the next three years have been appointed as follows:
2011: Prof Richard Heitzenrater, Emeritus William Kellon Quick Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies, Duke Divinity School.
2012: Dr David Ceri Jones, Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University.
2013: Prof David Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling.
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Charles Wesley Society on the theme of 'Charles Wesley as Correspondent' was held at Nazarene Theological College from 18-20 July 2010. For a programme, click here.
Dr Philip Meadows, Lecturer in Missiology and Wesleyan Studies at Cliff College will deliver the 6th MWRC Annual Lecture. The lecture title is 'A Journey into God: A Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism'. The lecture will take place on the campus on Nazarene Theological College on Monday 14th June 2010 at 5pm.
A lecture by Ted Campbell, Associate Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University, will be given on Monday 10th May 2010 at 4pm at Nazarene Theological College. The lecture is titled 'John Wesley's Disconnections, 1756-1760'.
We are pleased to announce the following new appointments to the editorial board of Wesley and Methodist Studies.
The second volume of Wesley and Methodist Studies is expected to be published in spring/summer 2010. To view the contents page for the volume, click here.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows in Wesley Studies who completed their doctorates during the 2008-09 academic year. Michael T. Burns and Karl L. Ganske graduated from Nazarene Theological College and Thomas Glenn Jackson 'Jack' graduated from Cliff College.
The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Didsbury Press are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 1 (WMS). For the contents of volume 1 and information on purchasing it, click here.
WMS is a collaborative project of the MWRC and The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.
WMS is now accepting essay submissions for future volumes. For further details, including style notes for contributors, visit the WMS website.
For the full length press release, click here.
The One Day Theology Conference will be at Nazarene Theological College on Saturday 6 June from 9.30am-2.30pm. Click here for a conference poster.
The Second Annual MWRC Postgraduate Colloquium will be on Wednesday 10 June 2009 from 9.30am-2pm. The Colloquium will feature three papers from MWRC Junior Fellows and close with a paper from Dr David Rainey on 'John Wesley and the Postmodern Condition'. Click here for a Colloquium poster.
'Religion, gender, and industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting', 16-18 June, an international conference co-sponsored by the MWRC.
The 2009 MWRC Annual Lecture will be delivered on Friday 19 June by Dr Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. The lecture is entitled: 'Wesley Agonistes and the Calvinist Sublime: The Spiritual Ideals of the Early English Evangelical School.' For a lecture poster which you are welcome to print and distribute, click here. For a short description of the lecture, click here.
This lecture will take place at 5pm at the J. B. Maclagan Chapel on the campus of Nazarene Theological College.
A lecture by Dr Randy Maddox, Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies at Duke Divinity School will be given at Nazarene Theological College on Tuesday 4 May 2009 at 4pm. The lecture is entitled: 'Holistic Salvation: A Widening Theme in Wesley's Theology'. For a lecture lecture poster which you are welcome to print and distribute, click here.
The draft conference schedule is now available. The conference fee will be £250 inclusive of accommodation, transportation to conference sessions in Madeley and Coalbrookdale, and meals at the University of Telford (Priorslee) campus. Accommodation will be in single rooms with en-suite facilities. A 10% discount is available to students. Daily non-residential attendance rates are also available from £30 per day. Registration for the conference is now open. Follow this link to dowload a registration form
The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History are co-organizing an international conference: 'Religion, gender, industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a local setting'. This conference will be held from 16-18 June 2009 in Madeley and Ironbridge, Shropshire (UK). Submissions of short papers are invited for the conference seminar sessions. Any paper proposals should be submitted to the conference organizers by 23 January 2009. Please visit the conference website for further information and feel free to contact the conference organizers. We hope to see you in June!
