Manchester Wesley Research Centre
2014-15 Book Acquisitions
Barr, J.H., Early Methodists under Persecution (New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1916).
Barry, Jonathan and Morgan, Kenneth, Reformation and revival in Eighteenth-century Bristol
(Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1994).
Bebbington, Eileen and Timothy Larsen, A Patterned Life: Faith, History and David
Bebbington (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014).
Beiser, Frederick C., The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early
English Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Beynon, Tom and Roberts, Gomer M., ed. Howell Harris, Reformer and Soldier (1714-1773)
(Caernarvon: The Calvinist Methodist Bookroom, 1958).
Brantley, Richard, Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism (Gainesville:
University of Florida Press, 1984).
Bratton, Amy Caswell, Witnesses of Perfect Love: Narratives of Christian Perfection in Early
Methodism (Toronto: Clements Academic, 2014).
Brekus, Catherine A., Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early
America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013).
Brown, Raymond, Spirituality in Adversity: English Non-Conformity in a Period of
Repression, 1660-1689 (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2012).
Brown, Robert, John Wesley's Theology: The Principle of Its Vitality, and Its Progressive
Stages of Development, a Lecture (UK: Kessinger Reprints, [1865]).
Bunge, Marcia J., ed., The Child in Christian Thought & Practice (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2001).
Canny, Nicholas and Philip Morgan, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World c.
1450-c.1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Castelo, Daniel, Confessing the Triune God (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014).
Chalus, Elaine, Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations, and
Responsibilities (Harlow: Longman, 1997).
Cook, Daniel and Amy Culley, eds, Women’s Life Writing: Gender, Genre, and Authorship,
1740-1850 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Dayton, Donald, Rediscovering an Evangelical Heritage, 2nd edn (Ada, MI: Baker Academic,
2014).
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Dean, Jonathan, ed. A Heart Strangely Warmed: John and Charles Wesley and Their Writing
(Norwich: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd., 2014).
Finney, Charles, The Promise of the Spirit, ed. Timothy Smith (Grand Rapids: Bethany
House Publishers, 1980).
Gavrilyuk, Paul L., Douglas M. Koskela, and Jason E. Vickers, eds. Immersed in the Life of
God: The Healing Resources of the Christian Faith: Essays in Honor of William J. Abraham
(Eerdmans, 2008).
Green, Richard, The Works of John and Charles Wesley: A Bibliography, 2nd edn (UK:
Kessinger Reprints, [1906]).
Gregory, Benjamin, Side Lights on the Conflicts of Methodism (London: Cassell, 1898)
Griffin, Martin I. J., Jr., Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England
(Leiden: Brill, 1992).
Hartley, Benjamin L., Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism and Social Reform in
Boston, 1860-1910 (Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011).
Heitzenrater, Richard P. and Forsaith, Peter S., Wesley in America: An Exhibition
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of John Wesley (Dallas: Southern Methodist
University, 2003).
Hunt, Arnold, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Ingersol, Stan, Past and Prospect: The Promise of Nazarene History (Eugene, OR: Wipf &
Stock, 2014).
Ives, A. G., Kingswood School in Wesley’s Day and Since (London: Epworth Press, 1970).
Jennings, Daniel R., ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (USA: Sean
Multimedia, 2012).
Jones, Beth Felker and Kinsey, Andrew, God the Spirit: Introducing Pneumatology in
Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014).
Keith A., Francis, William Gibson, Robert Ellison, and John Morgan-Guy, eds, The Oxford
Handbook of the British Sermon 1689–1901 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Kidd, Thomas S. George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father. (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2014).
Knight, Henry H., III. Anticipating Heaven Below: Optimism of Grace from Wesley to the
Pentecostals (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014).
Kostlevy, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement (Plymouth, UK: The
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009).
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Langford, Paul, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1989).
Larsen, Timothy, Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian
England (Milton-Keynes: Paternoster, 1999).
Lovejoy, Paul E. and Susanne Schwarz, Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism
in Sierra Leone (London: Africa World Press, 2014).
Leger, Augustin, John Wesley’s Last Love (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910).
McInelly, Brett C., Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014).,
Maddox, Graham, Political Writings of John Wesley (Bristol: Theommes, 1998).
Mann, Mark, Mark Bilby Howard, and Keith D. Stanglin, eds, Reconsidering Arminius:
Beyond the Reformed and Wesleyan Divide (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2014).
Miller, Charles, Richard Hooker and the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of
'Anglicanism' (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2013).
Morgan, Kenneth, John Wesley and Bristol (Bristol: Bristol Historical Association, 1990).
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Nickell, Jane Ellen, We Shall Not Be Moved: Methodists Debate Race, Gender, and
Homosexuality (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014).
Noll, Mark, From Every Tribe and Nation (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2014).
Oden, Thomas C. John Wesley’s Teachings: Complete Set: Volumes 1–4 (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 2012-2014).
Olson, Roger E. and Christian Collins Winn, Reclaiming Pietism: Reviving an Evangelical
Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015).
Oord, Thomas Jay and Josh Broward, Renovating Holiness (Nampa, ID: SacraSage Press,
2015).
Outler, Albert C., Methodist Observer at Vatican II (Westminster, MD: Newman Press,
1967).
Parr, Jessica M., Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a
Religious Icon (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015).
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Poole, Robert, The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2002).
Payk, Chris, Grace First: Christian Mission and Prevenient Grace in John Wesley (Toronto:
Clements Academic, 2012).
Reeson, Margaret. Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835–1917: Wesleyan Methodist
Church. (Canberra: Australia National University Press, 2013).
Richey, Russell E., Formation for Ministry in American Methodism: Twenty-first century
challenges and two centuries of problem solving (Nashville: General Board of Higher
Education and Ministry, 2014).
Rigby, Charles, Philip Godlee by his Friends (Oxford: Dolphin Press, 1954).
Robinson, James, Divine Healing: The Years of Expansion, 1906–1930 Theological
Variation in the Transatlantic World (Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2014).
Rodell, Jonathan. The Rise of Methodism: A Study of Bedfordshire, 1736–1851 (Bedford,
UK: Bedfordshire Historical Records Society, 2014).
Rupp, Gordon, Just Men: Historical Pieces (London: Epworth Press, 1977).
Tennant, Bob, Corporate Holiness: Pulpit Preaching and the Church of England Missionary
Societies, 1760-1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Secker, Thomas, The Autobiography of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, eds John
S. Maccauley and R.W. Greaves (Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1988).
Selen, Mats, The Oxford Movement & Wesleyan Methodism, 1833-82 (Lund, Bromely: Lund
U.P., 1992).
Sirota, Brent, The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence,
1680-1730 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014).
Smith, Lisa, The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers: A Shifting Story
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012).
Snyder, Howard A., The Radical Wesley: The Patterns and Practices of a Movement Maker
2nd edn (Wilmore, KY: Seedbed, 2014).
Stanglin, Keith D., Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of
the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609 (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
Thomas, Joseph L., Perfect Harmony: Interracial Churches in Early HolinessPentecostalism, 1880–1909 (Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2014).
Tice, Frank, The History of Methodism in Cambridge (London: Epworth Press, 1967).
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Toon, Peter, The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity 1689-1765
(Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011).
Tyson, John R. The Way of the Wesleys: A Short Introduction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2015).
Vickery, Amanda, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2010).
Waite, Maurice, ed., New Oxford Spelling Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2014).
Walker, Sherri B., and Thomas Jay Oord, eds, Nazarenes Exploring Evolution (Nampa, ID:
SacraSage Press, 2014).
Williams, A. H., ed., John Wesley in Wales, 1739-1790 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press,
1971).
Weimer, Adrian Chastain, Martyrs' Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Wellings, Martin, ed. Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 2014).
Yrigoyen, Jr., Charles, ed. T&T Clark Companion to Methodism (Edinburgh: T&T Clark
International, 2014).
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