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John Wesley

The Author’s Corner with Baird Tipson

Annie Thorn   |  August 31, 2020

Baird Tipson is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College. This interview is based on his new book, Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Inward Baptism? BT: The two and a half...

What can John Wesley teach us about racism?

John Fea   |  June 16, 2020

Here is a taste of Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: By instinct and conviction, Wesley was a Tory — the God-and-country, law-and-order party of his day. He was a firm believer in benevolent monarchy and would entertain no nonsense about power originating in...

John Wesley and the Life of the Mind

John Fea   |  February 27, 2020

“I am an evangelical Christian, so it was nice to hear a lecture about evangelicalism that was not related to contemporary politics.” This was our intern Annie Thorn‘s response to Bruce Hindmarsh’s lecture “John Wesley, Early Evangelicalism, and Science.” Hindmarsh,...

Why John Wesley Opposed the American Revolution

John Fea   |  July 5, 2017

During last weekend’s #ChristianAmerica? tweetstorm I wrote: John Wesley smelled hypocrisy. Colonists said they were enslaved by Britain, yet owned African slaves. #ChristianAmerica? #4thofJuly — John Fea (@JohnFea1) July 3, 2017 Of course it is difficult to capture the nuance of...

Did Hillary Clinton Just Quote John Wesley?

John Fea   |  March 1, 2016

During her victory speech tonight, Hillary Clinton urged her followers to “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you...

The Author’s Corner with Geordan Hammond

John Fea   |  June 16, 2014

Geordan Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies at Nazarene Theological College (Manchester, UK) and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre. This interview is based on his new book, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity...

“Early Evangelicalism: A Reader”

John Fea   |  August 10, 2013

I finally made it to my Messiah College mailbox today after some time on vacation and was pleased to find a copy of Jonathan Yeager’s Early Evangelicalism: A Reader (Oxford, 2013).  Yeager has put together a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century...

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