The next Oxford-Manchester Methodist Studies Seminar will take place on Saturday 30 November 2013 on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 15 September 2013.
The video of Professor David Bebbington's Manchester Wesley Research Centre Annual Lecture titled 'Secession and Revival: The Louth Free Methodist Church in the 1850s' is now available to be watched on Nazarene Theological College's Livestream page at http://livestre.am/4vi3Z The 10th anniversary commemoration/celebration of the MWRC begins at 11:40 into the video; Prof Bebbington's lecture begins at 35:40 into the video.
Professor David Bebbington (University of Stirling) will give the 2013 MWRC Annual Lecture titled: 'Secession and Revival: The Louth Free Methodist Church in the 1850s'. This public lecture along with a celebration/commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the MWRC will be on Tuesday 18th June at 5pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. *For those of you who are unable to attend in person, we will be livestreaming this event over the web via http://www.livestream.com/ntcmanchester. For guidance notes for viewing this event online, click here. Click here for further details
The MWRC and Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 5. For details on the contents of the volume and information on purchasing it, click here.
The programme for the Oxford-Manchester Methodist Studies Seminar for Saturday 20 April in Oxford is now available on the seminars website.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Dr Jon Kulaga, Provost at Asbury University, on his appointment as an MWRC Visiting Research Fellow along with the summer 2013 Visiting Fellows from Point Loma Nazarene University: Dr Carol Blessing (working on Mary Tooth) and Prof Charlene Pate (working on the Sunday School movement). Dr Kulaga will be working on a project titled: 'John Wesley’s Leadership Style: In Search of a Paradigm'.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows who completed their doctorates at The University of Manchester/Nazarene Theological College during the 2011-12 academic year. In Wesley Studies and Theology: Dick Eugenio, John Read, David Stark, Carla Sunberg, and Joseph Wood; and in Biblical Studies: Sarah Derck. Click here for details about their work.
The MWRC is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of 'George Whitefield at 300', an international tercentenary conference at Pembroke College, Oxford from 25-27 June 2014. See the conference website with a call for papers and full details about the conference.
The programme for the Oxford-Manchester Methodist Studies Seminar is now available. The Seminar will be held at Nazarene Theological College on Saturday 1 December 2012. Follow the link above for details.
The Manchester-based seminar of the Oxford-Manchester Methodist Studies Seminars will take place on Saturday 1 December 2012 on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. As 2012 is the 350th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Wesley, senior and the 'Great Ejection', paper proposals are particularly welcome on Samuel Wesley or the relationship between Methodism and Nonconformity, though proposals on other topics will be considered. Submissions for 20-30 minute papers are invited. An approximately 250 word abstract of the paper should be sent by 15 September 2012. Papers delivered at the seminars can be considered for publication in Wesley and Methodist Studies.
Confirmed speakers include Dr David Appleby, Dr Mark Burden, and Dr Howard Snyder.
Dr David Ceri Jones's Annual Lecture titled '"So much idolized by some, and railed at by others": towards understanding George Whitefield' is now available to be listened to as an audio file.
Dr David Ceri Jones, Lecturer in History at Aberystwyth University, will deliver the 8th MWRC Annual Lecture. The lecture titled '"So much idolized by some, and railed at by others": towards understanding George Whitefield' will be on Monday 11 June at 7.30pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. For a lecture poster, click here
For details on the various programmes for the events which took place, including several published news stories and a resolution passed in support of the conference by the Scottish Parliament, visit the conference website.
Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 4 has now been published. Full details can be found on the WMS website. Religion, Gender and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting has been published in the UK by James Clarke & Co. Further details can be found on the James Clarke website.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Dr David McEwan on his appointment as an MWRC Visiting Research Fellow and the summer 2012 Visiting Fellow from Point Loma Nazarene University: Dr Rebecca Larid. McEwan will be researching love, holiness, and happiness in the thought of John Wesley, and its implications for spiritual formation, and Laird's research will focus on Olive Winchester.
This conference in Glasgow from 11-13 May 2012 has been organised in response to the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Olive Winchester [photo], the first woman to be ordained in a Trinitarian Christian Church in the UK on 11 May 1912 in Glasgow, and also the first woman to graduate with the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Glasgow University. While the motivation for the event is inspired by the ordination of women in the Church, the conference seeks to reflect on and celebrate all women in ministry, lay and ordained. For further information, click here.
The MWRC is pleased to announce the publication of Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting (Pickwick Publications, 2011) containing select papers from the 2009 conference of the same name held in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.
The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows who completed their doctorates at partner institutions during the 2010-11 academic year. In Wesley Studies and Theology: Lord Elorm-Donkor, J. Russell Frazier, Marcie Huson, Stan Rodes, Robbie Brown (MPhil); in biblical studies: Rhonda Crutcher, Svetlana Khobnya, Kevin O'Brien, Sarah Whittle. Click here for details about their work.
The MWRC is pleased to welcome Asbury University as its ninth partner institution. For an NCN News story regarding this new partnership, click here.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 3. For details on the contents of the volume and information on purchasing it, click here.