The Routledge Methodist Studies series has just published Brian E. Beck’s new book, Methodist Heritage and Identity, a collection of essays exploring the nature of Methodism in Britain in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The articles in the collection are:
Part I: Heritage
1 John Wesley: Encounter or Embarrassment?
2 Rattenbury Revisited: The Theology of Charles Wesley’s Hymns
3 The Eucharistic Hymns: An Appreciation
4 Reflections on Methodism Post-Wesley
5 Reflections on Connexionalism
6 Connexion and Koinonia: Wesley’s Legacy and the Ecumenical Ideal
7 The “Large Minutes”: Ecclesiological Implications
8 Conference Episcope: History and Theology
9 Richard Matthews: A Layman Overlooked
Part II: Identity
10 Who Are We? The Elusive Methodist Identity
11 A Methodist Theological System?
12 World Methodist Theology? The Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies
13 The Idea of a National Church
14 Unity and Conscience
15 ‘Until We All Attain…’: Eschatology and the Goal of Unity
16 The Porvoo Common Statement: A Methodist Response
17 A Reflection on Structural Change
18 What is a Divinity School For?
Brian Beck has had a long and distinguished career in Methodist studies, having additionally served as President of the UK Methodist Conference and helped lead the international Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. This book is the first time that Beck’s seminal work on Methodism has been gathered together. It includes eighteen essays from the last twenty-five years, covering many different aspects of Methodist thought and practice.
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