Mentoring into Vocation
Designed as a companion to mentors and those training mentors, Mentoring into Vocation offers a comprehensive framework for guiding persons into ordained or lay vocations. Written specifically from the perspective of United Methodist polity and...
Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twenty-first Century
Maps the Path of Pan-Wesleyan Christologies An international group of Pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What happened to Methodist Christology after Wesley? Vickers’ work on Methodist Christology in The Oxford Handbook...
Methodist Connectionalism: Historical Perspectives
United Methodist historian Russell Richey explores various dimensions of the history, theology, and practice of connectionalism in American Methodism. Russell E. Richey is Dean Emeritus of Candler School of Theology and the William R. Cannon...
Methodist Requiem Words of Hope and Resurrection for the Church
“…unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.” For Christians, the word “requiem” is a voice of hope. It heralds the promise of resurrection and power of life. A requiem is not about death,...
Methodist Revolutions: Evangelical Engagements of Church and World
When seeking transformation, how much should we expect? An international group of Methodist scholars are united in the belief that another church and another world are not only necessary but possible. Holiness traditions, even though...
Ministerial Orders and Sacramental Authority in The United Methodist Church and Its Antecedents, 1784—2016
The history of sacramental authority is key to understanding United Methodist ministerial orders. While sacramental authority is and has been misunderstood and misused, it remains interwoven into United Methodism and is a significant element of...
Missio Dei and the United States: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness
Join the movement and go make disciples in an ever-changing world. The United States continues to experience change in ways that are increasingly rapid and drastic. Such change is due to a number of factors, some...
Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women
Stories of early Methodist women leaders Women's stories have often been consigned to the footnotes of history, making it necessary to read them into the narrative based on scanty clues and tantalizing breadcrumbs that sometimes...
Nathan Bangs and the Methodist Episcopal Church The Spread of Scriptural Holiness in Nineteenth-Century America
To know the story of Nathan Bangs is to understand American Methodism between the death of Asbury and the Civil War. During the nineteenth century, the Methodist Episcopal Church transformed from an alternative society into...
Nevertheless — American Methodists and Women’s Rights
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While some things have changed, others haven’t. This book tells the story of American Methodist women’s efforts fight for women’s rights, beginning with the Women’s Christian...