Paul Wesley Chilcote is one of the world’s leading scholars of Wesleyan history and theology, perhaps best known for his groundbreaking study John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism (1991). The present collection gathers eighteen essays and papers, some hitherto unpublished, and presents them in six sections, each with three chapters: Charles Wesley’s Lyrical Theology; John and Charles Wesley’s Practical Divinity; Early Methodist Women; Wesleyan Spiritual Practices; Worship, Sacraments, and Leadership; and Missional Ecclesiology and God’s Rule. Some of the papers have appeared in multi-author volumes or in journals; the earliest dates from 1996 and the most recent from 2020. Inevitably there is some variation in length and style, guided by the original readership: the shortest chapter, ‘Rethinking the Wesleyan Quadrilateral’, first published in Good News Magazine in 2005, is just three pages long, although it includes first-person testimony to Albert Outler’s regret at coining the phrase ‘Wesleyan...

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