Congratulations to Steve Wright. one of our ACWR members, on the following publication in The Heythrop Journal:  “THE CREATOR SINGS: A WESLEYAN RETHINKING OF TRANSCENDENCE WITH ROBERT JENSON” http://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1468-2265.2011.00678.x

It’s great to see one of our postgraduate members being published in a journal of this standard.

Dear Friends of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre,

You may be interested to know that Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 3 has now been published. Full details of the first three volumes can be found on the WMS website at: http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/wesley-and-methodist-studies

Subscribing to WMS  would be a good way to support the ongoing work of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre.  Copies can be ordered via the Didsbury Press website at: http://www.didsburypress.org.uk/ If applicable, please consider encouraging colleagues and librarians at your respective institutions to subscribe to WMS.

Contents of vol. 3:

Philip R. Meadows, ‘Entering the Divine Embrace: Towards an Ancient-Future Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism’

Christopher T. Bounds, ‘How are People Saved? The Major Views of Salvation with a Focus on Wesleyan Perspectives and their Implications’

Derek Tidball, ‘”Secession is an ugly thing”: The Emergence and Development of Free Methodism in Late Twentieth-Century England’

Five papers from the 2009 American Academy of Religion Session on ‘Methodism and the African Diaspora, 1738–1834’

Samuel Wesley’s Letter to Mr Smith, 1696: Transcribed, Introduced, and Annotated by Arthur Alan Torpy

The volume also contains ten book reviews.

Best regards,
Geordan Hammond