Author: profwgibson

The latest issue of the Journal of Religious History Literature and Culture, co-edited by Professor William Gibson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, has been published by the University of Wales Press. Its contents are:

Articles

‘Western Views of Arabia in the Age of the Crusades’ by Bernard Hamilton

‘Pope Urban II and Jerusalem: a re-examination of his letters on the First Crusade’ by Georg Strack

‘”You must say that it is true to yourself. Till you believe it”’: Sacrifice, Community, and Narrative Power in Mary Butts’s Taverner Novels by Sanna Melin Schyllert

Documents

‘A Calendar of Sixteenth-Century Judicial Holy Days’ by Paula Pinto & Lucia Maria Rosas

‘The Appointment to the Deanery of St Davids, 1949’ by Roger Brown

Book Reviews

Copies can be obtained from the University of Wales Press at http://www.uwp.co.uk/

The latest issue of Wesley and Methodist Studies has just been published (vol. 8 No 2, June 2016). The journal is published jointly by the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. This issue contains the following articles:

German Protestants’ Interpretations of George Whitefield, 1739–1857, by Andrew Kloes

Plotting Piety: Religious Spaces and the Mapping of George Whitefield’s World, by Jessica M. Parr

Wesleyan Perspectives on the Education of Girls in Eighteenth-Century England, by Linda Ann Ryan

The Sacramental Piety of Early American Methodists: The Fluvanna Conference of 1779 Revisited, by Steven David Bruns

Untwisting the Tangled Web: Charles Wesley and Elizabeth Story, by Randy L. Maddox and Timothy Underhill

And eleven book reviews.

To subscribe to the journal see http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_wms.html

Dr Linda Ryan, a former PhD student in the Centre, has recently published an article in Wesley and Methodist Studies (vol 8, no. 2,  June 2016) entitled ‘Wesleyan Perspectives on the Education of Girls in Eighteenth Century England’. Dr Ryan argues that while Wesley was in many ways progressive in his attitudes to women preachers and the admission of girls to Kingswood School, many of his ideas were more complex and less advanced.

For details of access to Wesley and Methodist Studuies see, http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_wms.html