Methodist History
October 2009, Volume XLVIII, Number 1
CONTENTS
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
“And are We Yet Alive”: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr
Philadelphia’s “Five Points”: Evangelism and Social Welfare at the Bedford Street Mission
by Benjamin L. Hartley
The Music of the Early Nineteenth-Century Camp Meeting: Song in Service to Evangelistic Revival
by Anne P. Wheeler
Balancing Freedom and Unity: John Carlisle Kilgo and the Unification of Methodism in America
by Kevin L. Walters
Book Reviews
Phyllis Mack, Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism
Peter S. Forsaith (Ed.), Unexampled Labours: Letters of the Revd. John Fletcher to leaders in the Evangelical Revival
Books Briefly Noted
Gwang Seok Oh, John Wesley’s Ecclesiology: A Study in its Sources and Development
Earnest Lau, From Mission to Church, The Evolution of The Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia: 1885-1976
Charles F. Irons, The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Timothy S. G. Binkley (Ed.), A Higher Moral and Spiritual Stand: Selected Writings of Milton Wright
J. Steven O’Malley, John Seybert and The Evangelical Heritage
Mark K. Olson (Ed.), The John Wesley Reader on Christian Perfection, 1725-1791
Elaine A. Heath, Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer
Geordan Hammond and David Rainey (Eds.), Wesley and Methodist Studies, Volume 1
Luke Curran and Angela Shier-Jones (Eds.), Methodist Present Potential
Historical Society of The United Methodist Church Minutes
Annual Meeting, July 19, 2009
July 2009, Volume XLVII, Number 4
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
John Wesley's "Directions for Singing": Methodist Hymnody as an Expression of Methodist Beliefs in Thought and Practice
by Martin V. Clarke
Poetic Sideshadowings of Fundamentalism in Southern Methodism, 1865-1866
by Tom Lank
The Methodist Upper Iowa Conference: From Wilderness to Melting Pot
by Peter Feinman
Book Reviews
Vicki Tolar Burton, Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley's Methodism: Reading, Writing, & Speaking to Believe
J. Gordon Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism
Methodist History Volume XLVII - October 2008 to July 2009:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2009, Volume XLVII, Number 3
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
John and Charles Wesley on “God in Christ Reconciling”
by Paul Wesley Chilcote
Boston University School of Theology and the Civil Rights Movement
by Richard A. Hughes
Methodism in Hungary
by Zoltán Kovács
“Genius uncultivated is like a meteor of the night”: Motives and Experiences of Methodist Female College Life in the Confederate States of America
by Pearl J. Young
Books Briefly Noted
J. Gordon Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism
Morris L. Davis, The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era
Joel B. Green and William H. Willimon, eds., The Wesley Study Bible
January 2009, Volume XLVII, Number 2
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
Samuel Wesley’s Conformity Reconsidered
by William Gibson
William Taylor in Chile: A Methodist Missionary Case Study (1877-1903)
by Peter Feinman
A “Thirty Year War” and More: Exposing Complexities in the Methodist Deaconess Movement
by Priscilla Pope-Levison
Book Reviews
Mark K. Olson, John Wesley’s Theology of Christian Perfection: Developments in Doctrine and Theological System
Michael Hughes, Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century
S T Kimbrough, Jr. and Kenneth G. C. Newport, eds. The Manuscript Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley
Books Briefly Noted
William B. Lawrence, Methodism in Recovery: Renewing Mission, Reclaiming History, Restoring Health
L. Faye Short and Kathryn D. Kiser, Reclaiming the Wesleyan Social Witness: Offering Christ
Harold J. Peters, ed. Seven Months to Oregon: 1853 - Diaries, Letters and Reminiscent Accounts
James T. Clemons and Kelly L. Farr, eds. Crisis of Conscience: Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle
Historical Society of The United Methodist Church Minutes
Annual Meeting, July 9, 2008
October 2008, Volume XLVII, Number 1
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
Samuel Wesley, Sr.: A Late Seventeenth-Century English Abolitionist
by Arthur A. Torpy
John Wesley’s Mindset at the Commencement of His Georgia Sojourn: Suffering and the Introduction of Primitive Christianity to the Indians
by Geordan Hammond
"That Dear Man of God:” Edward Evans and the Origins of American Methodism
by Joseph F. DiPaolo
Nineteenth-Century Methodists and Coeducation: The Case of Hamline University
by Kristin Mapel Bloomberg
Book Review
Charles Yrigoyen Jr., John G. McEllhenney & Kenneth Rowe, United Methodism at Forty: Looking Back, Looking Forward
July 2008, Volume XLVI, Number 4
Guest Editors' Note
by J. Steven O'Malley & Jason E. Vickers
German-American Contributions to the Ongoing Search for American Evangelicalism, with Reference to the Radical United Brethren Secession of 1889
by J. Steven O’Malley
The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education
by Michael G. Cartwright
The Confession of Faith and the Twenty-Five Articles of Religion Compared: Assessing the EUB Contribution to Methodist Standards of Doctrine
by Jason E. Vickers
Appendix
A. Repositories
B. Bishops
C. Timeline
Book Reviews
John R. Tyson, Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley
Kenneth J. Collins, The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace
Methodist History Volume XLVI - October 2007 to July 2008:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2008, Volume XLVI, Number 3
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
Hugh Bourne and the Magic Methodists
by John N. Brittain
Mothering, Catechesis, and Ecclesial Leadership: The Women of Early Methodism ans Their Call to Witness to the Gospel of Christ
by Kathryn A. Broyles
Ecclesiology and Ministry in The Methodist Church (1939-1968)
by Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Senator Margaret Chase Smith Against McCarthyism: The Methodist Influence
by Eric Crouse
Teaching Moral Philosophy in the South During Slavery and Reconstruction: Edward Wadsworth fo LaGrange College and Southern University
by Gerald F. Vaughn
Book Reviews
Donald A. Bullen, A Man of One Book? John Wesley's Interpretation and Use of the Bible
Joe L. Coker, Liquor of the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement
Books Briefly Noted
Alan Harding, Selina: Countess of Huntingdon
James L. Schwenk, Catholic Spirit: Wesley, Whitefield, and the Quest for Evangelical Unity in Eighteenth-Century British Methodism
January 2008, Volume XLVI, Number 2
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
The Church and Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle
by Beauty Maenzanise
"The Power to Kill and Make Alive": Violence and the Religious World of Early Methodists
by Jeffery Williams
Peter Cartwright and the Emerging National Identity in Antebellum America
by Mark Teasdale
"The Means of Doing Some Good": The Methodist Female Relief Society of Boston, 1828-1868
by Jonathan Cooney
Book Reviews
Gary Best, Charles Wesley: A Biography
Gareth Lloyd, Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity
October 2007, Volume XLVI, Number 1
Editor’s Note
by Robert W. Williams
John Wesley on Holistic Health and Healing
by Randy L. Maddox
Methodist Medical Mission in Korea
by Gunshik Shim
Temples of Healing: The Founding Era of Methodist Hospitals, 1880-1900
by Kenneth E. Rowe
Book Reviews
Kenneth G. C. Newport & Ted A. Campbell, eds., Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy
Rex D. Matthews, Timetables of History for Students of Methodism
Historical Society of The United Methodist Church Minutes
Annual Meeting, July 22, 2007
July 2007, Volume XLV, Number 4
Editor’s Note
by Robert W. Williams
Dalit Conversions to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Karnataka
by James Elisha Taneti
What Böhler Got from Wesley
by Robert W. Sledge
John Wesley, Inquirer Seeking Grace: The Moravian View
by Sandra Gerlach
John Wesley Among the Colonies: Weselyan Theology in the Face of the American Revolution
by Jessie Shuman Larkins
The Character of Methodism in George Eliot’s Adam Bede
by James E. McConnell II
William Belton Murrah: President of Millsaps College and Southern Bishop in America’s Progressive Era
by Gerald F. Vaughn
Book Review
Howard A. Snyder, Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists
Methodist History Volume XLV - October 2006 to July 2007:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2007, Volume XLV, Number 3
Editor's Note
by Robert W. Williams
United Methodist History of Missions Series
by Norman E. Thomas
Social Status in Early American Methodism: The Case of Freeborn Garrettson
by Ian B. Straker
All in Raptures: The Spirituality of Sarah Anderson Jones
by Rhonda D. Hartweg
Methodist-Chinese Friendship: Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pilley in Pre-1949 China
by Joseph K. S. Yick
DISOVERY edited by Kenneth E. Rowe
"Charles Wesley Letter Sheds Light on John Wesley's Political Activism During the Revolutionary War"
Book Reviews
Robert Bray, Peter Cartwright: Legendary Frontier Preacher
Howard A. Snyder, ed., "Live While You Preach:" The Autobiography of Methodist Revivalist and Abolitionist John Wesley Redfield (1810-1863)
Books: Briefly Noted
Alberto Merubia, In the Line of No Resistance: God's Will
Thomas S. McAnally, Bishop with a Pastor's Heart: Kenneth W. Copeland
Historical Society of The United Methodist Church Minutes
Annual Meeting, September 21, 2006
January 2007, Volume XLV, Number 2
Editor's Note on Special Issue
by Robert J. Williams
Introduction: Charles Wesley in America
by S T Kimbrough, Jr.
Charles Wesley in Georgia
by S T Kimbrough, Jr.
Charles Wesley in Boston
by S T Kimbrough, Jr.
October 2006, Volume XLV, Number 1
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
A Model Home Base for Missions: Mary Decherd, the University of Texas Epworth League, and the Brazilian Mission
by Robert W. Sledge
M. Madeline Southard (1877-1967) on "Ecclesial Suffrage"
by Kendra Weddle Irons
High Style and Low Morals: John Newland Maffitt and the Methodist Church, 1794-1850
by Robert E. Cray, Jr.
Itinerant Circuit-riding Minister: Warrior of Light in a Wilderness of Chaos
by Peter Feinman
Allen S. Andrews, Oscar F. Casey, and the Rise and Fall of Southern University in the Late Nineteenth Century
by Gerald F. Vaughn
DISOVERY edited by Leon Hynson
"Kent/Hynson Chapel, Kent County, Maryland"
Book Review
John A. Vickers, ed., The Journals of Dr. Thomas Coke
Books: Briefly Noted
Patricia J. Thompson, Courageous Past---Bold Future: The Journey Toward Full Clergy Rights for Women in The United Methodist Church
Pamela Hawkins, Marion Jackson, and Susan W. N. Ruach, editors, Courageous Spirit: Voices from Women in Ministry
July 2006, Volume XLIV, Number 4
Editor's Note
by Robert J. Williams
John R. Allen Asks: "Do We Know God?": Teaching Psychology, Logic, Ethics, and the History of Philosophy
at a Methodist University a Century Ago
by Gerald F. Vaughn
Empirical Medicine in the 18th Century: The Rev. John Wesley's Search for Remedies that Work
by James G. Donat
The Taiping Rebellion as Seen Through the Eyes of Marquis L. Wood, Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
Missionary to China
by Cheryl M. Lawrence
"The Moral Hurt of Novel Reading": Methodism and American Fiction, 1865-1914
by Matthew T. Herbst
'Begotten from Everlasting of the Father': Inadvertent Omission or Sabellian Trajectory in Early Methodism
by Jason E. Vickers
DISCOVERY edited by John Lenton
"Joseph Pilmore's Origins"
Book Reviews
Christoph Raedel, Methodistische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert. Der deutschsprachige Zweig
der Bischoflichen Methodistenkirche
Allan J. Bowers, Life from a New Angle: A Journey of Faith
Methodist History Volume XLIV - October 2005 to July 2006:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2006, Volume XLIV, Number 3
Lincoln's Response to the Methodists
by John Leo Topolewski
Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869-1919, Part II
by Patricia Woodard
Religion and Politics: James O'Kelley's Republicanism and Francis Asbury's Federalism
by J. Timothy Allen
Josiah Tucker on Justification: Source for a Wesley Letter
by Randy L. Maddox
John Wesley's Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Several Misconceptions
by Laura Felleman
The Lord's Supper and the First Korean Methodist Missionary, Henry Gerhard Appenzeller
by Hae Jung Park
Book Reviews
Sung-Duk Lee, Der deutsche Pietismus und John Wesley
Nigel McMurray, Frank O. Salisbury: "Painter Laureate"
Geoffrey Wainwright, ed., A. Raymond George: Memoirs, Methodist and Ecumenical
Friedemann Burkhardt, Wie Wasser in der Wuste. Geistlich waschen mit den Lebenregeln John Wesleys
W. Astor Kirk, Desegregation of the Methodist Church Polity: Reform Movements that Ended Racial Segregation
James B. Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
January 2006, Volume XLIV, Number 2
Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869-1919 (Part 1)
by Patricia Woodard
Holiness Revivalism in Early Philippine Methodism
by Luther Jeremiah Oconer
Education and the Refinement of 19th Century Methodism in the Midwest
by Douglas Montagna
Legalizing Methodism: John Wesley's Deed of Declaration and the Language of the Law
by Samuel J. Rogal
John and Charles Wesley's Use of John Milton: Trinity and Heresy
by Patrick A. Eby
DISCOVERY edited by John Lenton
"More Information on John Boardman"
Historical Society of The United Methodist Church Minutes
Annual Meeting, April 21, 2005
October 2005, Volume XLIV, Number 1
The Monastery in the Methodist Eye: Rev. Merton S. Rice of Detroit and St. George of Choziba
by Matthew T. Herbst
So Much Over So Little? The Libel Suit of James J. Stewart
by Albert William Martin, Jr.
The Censure of a Bishop: Church and State in the McCarthy Era
by Angela Lahr
Disappearing Churches: Rural Methodism in the Western North Carolina Highlands, 1918-1968
by Nancy Keever Anderson
DISCOVERY edited by John Lenton
"William Orpe's Letter of May 23, 1766 to Francis Asbury"
Book Reviews
Peter C. Murray, Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975
Friedemann Burkhardt, Christoph Gottlob Muller und die Anfange des Methodismus in Deutschland
Floyd T. Cunningham, Holiness Abroad: Nazarene Missions in Asia
July 2005, Volume XLIII, Number 4
From Revolution to Revolution
by Leon O. Hynson
Whenceforth Wesley: John Wesley's Theology from Then to Now
by H. O. (Tom) Thomas
The World's Fair of 1919: Ethnographic and Technological Exhibits on Display at the Centenary of American Methodist Missions
by Christopher J. Anderson
John Wesley's Sephardic Portion: Psalm 63
by Eric W. Vogt
Regime Change, Occupation, and Aggressive Christianity: The Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the U.S. Occupation of the Philippines (1898-1903)
by Matthew T. Herbst
Methodist History Volume XLIII - October 2004 to July 2005:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2005, Volume XLIII, Number 3
"Toward the Light": Methodist Episcopal Deaconesses Work Among Immigrant Populations (1885-1910)
by Laceye Warner
The Rhetoric of Methodist Reform and Political Discourse in the Early Republic: The Writings of Gideon Davis, Methodist Protestant
by Jane Donovan
Theological Transition Within Methodism: The Rise of Liberalism and the Conservative Response
by Glenn Spann
The Citizens Forum on Integration: "Underground" Methodist Response to the Brown Decision
by Ellen Blue
Who Were Wesley's Own Preachers?
by John Lenton
Book Reviews
G. T. Eddy, Dr. Taylor of Norwich: Wesley's Arch-Heretic
Richard P. Heitzenrater, The Elusive Mr. Wesley (2nd Revised Edition)
January 2005, Volume XLIII, Number 2
Introduction to Special Issue
by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.
"Celebrating the Whole Wesley": A Legacy for Contemporary Wesleyans
by Randy L. Maddox
Wesley Portrayed: Character and Criticism in Some Early Biographies
by Henry D. Rack
Wesley's Heritage and the Global Church
by Justo L. González
John Wesley: Editor-Poet-Priest
by S T Kimbrough, Jr.
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"New York City's Five Points Mission"
Book Review
Sung-Duk Lee, Der deutsche Pietismus and John Wesley
October 2004, Volume XLIII, Number 1
Methodist Preaching, 1798-1840: Form and Function
by Frederick V. Mills, Sr.
Methodism and the Theological Identity of the Church of the Nazarene
by Stan Ingersol
From Kansas to the World: M. Madeline Southard, Activist and Pastor
by Kendra Weddle Irons
Preventing a Second Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1973: United Methodists Mediate for Peace
by Jill K.Gill
The Closing of La Iglesia Methodista, Flagstaff, Arizona
by William H. Lyons
Response to John A. Vickers on Asbury and the Foxalls
by Jane Donovan
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"Elbert Osborn (1800-1881)"
July 2004, Volume XLII, Number 4
"On the Occasion"; Charles Wesley's Hymns on the London Earthquakes of 1750
by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
18th-Century Earthquakes and Apocalyptic Expectations: The Hymns of Charles Wesley
by Margaret G. Flowers, Wayne McCown and Douglas R. Cullum
Issac Watts, The Wesleys, and the Evolution of 18th-Century English Congregational Song
by Benjamin A. Kolodziel
The Romney Portrait of John Wesley
by Peter Forsaith
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"Robert Richford Roberts (1778-1843)---'The Log Cabin' Bishop"
Methodist History Volume XLII - October 2003 to July 2004:
Contributors and Articles
General Index
April 2004, Volume XLII, Number 3
Dearest Ellen: Correspondence Between Bishop Matthew Simpson and His Wife
by James E. Kirby
The First Family Values of Methodism: The Wesleys
by Gail E. Murphy-Geiss
Duke University and the Methodist Tradition
by William E. Pike
Asbury and the Foxalls
by John A. Vickers
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
Book Review
Laurence W. Wood, The Meaning of Pentecost in Early Methodism: Rediscovering John Fletcher as John Wesley's Vindicator and Designated Successor
*Minutes of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
January 2004, Volume XLII, Number 2
Which Way EJ? In Search of a New Creation
by John L. Topolewski
John Wesley Meets Laetitia Pilkington
by John C. English
From Dependent Child to Distant Cousin: A Story of the Relationship of a College and the Church
by J. Dennis Williams
Francis Asbury's First Circuit: Bedfordshire, 1767
by Jonathan Rodell
Remnants of John Wesley's Personal Library
by Randy L. Maddox
Book Review
David Nelson Duke, In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
October 2003, Volume XLII, Number 1
"Virtual Orthodoxy": A Wesleyan Dynamic for 21st Century Christianity
by Randy L. Maddox
"Croakers and Busybodies": The Extent and Influence of Church Methodism in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
by Gareth Lloyd
Charles Wesley and the Articulation of Faith
by Kenneth G. C. Newport
Methodism and the Articulation of Faith: "No Holiness but Social"
by John A. Newton
"Lightly Esteemed by Men": The Last Years of Sarah Mallet, One of Mr. Wesley's Female Preachers
by David East
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
Book Reviews
W. Reginald Ward and Richard P. Heitzenrater, editors, The Works of John Wesley, Volume 24, JOURNAL and DIARIES VII (1787-91)
July 2003, Volume XLI, Number 4
Methodism Condemned: John Williamson Nevin's Accusations
by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.
John Calvin, the Wesleys, and John Williamson Nevin on the Lord's Supper
by Jennifer Lynn Woodruff
Henry Foxall and the Arigna Iron Works
by Jane Donovan
John Wesley's Letters of Orders, As Deacon (1725) and Priest (1728) Translated
by David H. Tripp
Revisiting the Methodist Legacy in American Pentecostalism: Nuances in the Early Pentecostal Understanding on "Sanctification" (1896-1950)
by David Michel
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"A Methodist Colony for the California Gold Regions"
Book Reviews
Paul W. Chilcote, Praying in the Wesleyan Spirit: 52 Prayers for Today
Stephen L. Longnecker, Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865
Kenneth Cain Kinghorn, John Wesley on Christian Beliefs; The Standard Sermons in Modern English. Vol. 1 (Sermons 1-20)
April 2003, Volume XLI, Number 3
Sarah Perrin (1721-1787): Early Methodist Exhorter
by Gareth Lloyd
Recalling Albany Arrests Forty Years Later
by Ralph Lord Roy
When Did Methodism Begin? Who Cares? Questions That Will Not Go Away
by David Tripp
Southey's Biography of John Wesley Revisited
by Samuel Rogal
John Wesley's Reading: Evidence in the Book Collection at Wesley's House, London
by Randy Maddox
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"Theodore Roosevelt and Methodism"
Book Reviews
Kathryn W. Kemp, God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
Philip B. Turner, Ladies First, Saints All
Roy Hattersley, A Brand From The Burning: The Life of John Wesley
January 2003, Volume XLI, Number 2
A Small Work: The Story of Helenor Alter Davisson, Methodism's First Ordained Woman
by Christopher M. Shoemaker
Francis Asbury and James O'Kelly: The Language and Development of American Methodist Episcopal Structure
by Frank Woodward
Hymns of the Status Quo: Charles Wesley and the Trinity
by Laura A. Bartels
The Minister's Ride of William Jenkins (c. 1763-1844): A Wesleyan Methodist Legend and International Religious Story-telling
by Fred van Lieburg
John Wesley's Reading: Evidence in Kingswood School Archives
by Randy L. Maddox
DISCOVERY edited by Robert Drew Simpson
"Ten Women Who Changed Their World"
Book Reviews
Diane Leclerc, Singleness of Heart: Gender, Sin, and Holiness in Historical Perspective
Richard B. Steele, ed., "Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements
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