Aldersgate Papers (Open Access)

Aldersgate Papers is the official scholarly journal of the ACWR. It is an open-access peer reviewed journal which publishes the research of fellows, members and other related material. Free online access to all issues of Aldersgate Papers are now available. Individual articles and full volumes are downloadable in PDF format.

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Volume 12

December 2020

Front Matter
Robert W. Gribben, “Wesleyan Worship and the Means of Grace”
Robert W. Gribben, “Constant Communion”
Robert W. Gribben, “The Miscellany of Methodist Worship”
Erik Lennestål, “A Salvation People Sent to the Margins, Crossing Borders by All Possible Means”
Glen O’Brien, “Liberty and Loyalty in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Global History Approach”
Kent Brower, “Holiness and Purity in a Post-Christian Age”
Kevin Brown, “Omri in Context: An Israelite King between History and Theology”
David R. Wilson, “Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Maslow, Rogers, Seligman, and Wesley”
Dorothea Gschwandtner, “Following Jesus To The Cross: Mark's Story Of Discipleship And The Identity Of The New Holiness Community”
Book Reviews

Volume 11

JuNE 2015

Christopher T. Bounds, Wesleyan Eschatological Implications for the Church’s Engagement with Other Religions
David N. Field, Prevenient Grace and Universal Atonement in the Theology of William Burt Pope
Garry W. Trompf, “Australian Methodist Theological Education and Theologians
James Haire, Australian Methodist Ecumenism
Rob A. Fringer, The Antithetical Identity of the Philippian Opponents and Paul’s shaping of Eschatological Identity
Kalie Webb, Shaping a Salvationist Response to Suffering within a Wesleyan Context: Moving Beyond a Theological Knapsack
Brian Edgar, Playing in the City Of God
Thomas A. Noble, Darwin and Theology
Gregory Young, Boersma, the Atonement, and the Hospitable God”
Book Reviews

Volume 10

September 2012

Gregory R. Coates, A Survey of Varying Interpretations of John Wesley’s Political Theology
Articles on Australian Methodism
Samantha Frappell, Methodists and the Campaigns for Six O’Clock Hotel Closing in NSW
Glen O’Brien, The Empire’s Titanic Struggle: Australian Methodism and the Great War
David Hillard, Looking Again at the History of South Australian Methodism
Donald Hopgood, Methodists in South Australian Public Life
Norman Young, Methodist Ministerial Education in the Victoria and Tasmania Conference
Papers from the Fourth Annual Conference of the ACWR
David Noakes and Campbell Roberts, ‘Wesleyans and the Mission of God’: The Influence of Wesleyan Sources and Theology on the Salvation Army’s Ministry in Social Services and Public Policy in New Zealand
Jennifer Hein, Responsible Research: James Barker, an Adelaide Dock Strike and the Implications for Mission from Rewriting History
Peter Benzie, John Wesley, Children and the Mission of God
Amber Livermore, Youth Work and Mission
Book Reviews

Volume 9

September 2011

BEING OPEN TO GOD’S FREEDOM: WESLEYAN ROOTS AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE.
Papers from the 3rd Annual Conference of the ACWR, held at the Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, 5-6 August 2011

Stephen John Wright, Apocalyptic Beauty: God’s Priority and the Ontology of the Future
Janice Rees, A Free Man's World: Open Theism and the Feminist Critique of Autonomy
Dean Smith, The Failure of Classical Theism Demonstrated in a Noteworthy Christological Puzzle
Matthew Seaman, “Red, Yellow, Blue and Green: Eco-theology within The Salvation Army”
Other Papers
Dean Drayton, Wesley at Aldersgate and the Discovery of a German New Testament
Alan Harley, Putting It All in Perspective: A Survey of a Half Century of Doing Theology 1961–2011
Joseph Coleson, To Walk with God, Again
Joseph Coleson, Living Together as Daughters and Sons in God’s Already-But-Not-Yet World
Book Reviews

Volume 8

SEPTEMBER 2010

David McEwan, Denominational Identity in a World of Theological Indifferentism: Some Insights from John Wesley and ‘the People Called Methodists’
Jennifer Hein, More Inspirational than Penetrating: The Salvation Army’s Use of History
Joseph Coleson, The Trees in the Heart of the Garden
Joseph Coleson, A Man, a Woman, an Adam
Adam Couchman, Sin and its Relationship to ‘True Godliness’ in John Calvin’s Institutes
Book Reviews

Volume 7

SEPTEMBER 2009

Joanna Cruickshank, Charles Wesley, the Men of Old Calabar, and the Abolition of Slavery
John Mark Capper, Charles Wesley on Work and Divine Ubiquity
Brian Edgar, From Practical Divinity to Public Theology
Jonathan P. Case, Beyond the Violent God? A Primer on Girard
Alan Harley, Jesus, the Incarnation, and Holy Living
Adam Couchman, Always Changing, Always the Same: Gregory of Nyssa on Holiness
Glen O’Brien, Methodist Religion Among the Soldiers of the American Civil War

Volume 6

SEPTEMBER 2006

Graeme Pender, Improvisatory Musical Practices in the Wesleyan Methodist Tradition
Stephen Wright, Overtures of Grace:  Prevenient Grace and the Sacramentality of Music
Maurice Nestor, Augustine’s Renunciation of Classical Literature
Moses Khor, The Role of the Elihu Section in the Book of Job
Peter Dobson, Self-Differentiation and the Christian Leader

Volume 5

September 2004

R. Larry Shelton, Covenant Atonement as a Wesleyan Integrating Motif
Jonathan P. Case, Conventional or Revisionary? Situating the Doctrines of Sin and the Works of Grace within Contemporary Theological Paradigms
Tik-Wah Wong, John Wesley’s Understanding of the Christian Life: A Doctrinal Analysis Of Wesley’s Thirteen Discourses On The Sermon On The Mount
Jenny Ong, Karl Barth and Ben Witherington on Romans 7:1-14
Gary Baxter, Art and the Church
Peter Breen, An Address to Art Students

Volume 4

September 2003

Barry Brown, The Ministry of the Lay Preacher: A Wesleyan Heritage
Jon Case, Digitalised Spirituality?
Glen O'Brien, 'Just Another 'Queer Sect' from Over the Pacific': Anti-Americanism and the Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia
David Sullivan, The 'Problem' of the Holy Spirit in Trinitarian Theology
Jon Case, Glen O'Brien and Judy Rigby, Review of Michael Parsons, Luther and Calvin on Old Testament Narratives

Volume 3

September 2002

Peter Dobson, The Influence of Mysticism on the Spiritual Development of John Wesley
Glen O'Brien, The Effects of the Arian Controversy on the Liturgy of the Post-Nicene Church
Michael Parsons, Passion and the Nature of God: Theology and a Biblical Text
Carl Schultz, God's Role in the World: The Informing But Disturbing Depiction of Job

Volume 2

September 2001

Alan R. Harley, Methodists in Military Garb
Glen O'Brien, A Trinitarian Revisioning of the Wesleyan Doctrine of Christian Perfection
David McEwan, Quality Theological Education from a Wesleyan Perspective
Jonathan P. Case, The Death of Jesus and the Truth of the Triune God in Wolfhart Pannenberg and Eberhard Jüngel

Volume 1

September 2000

Glen O'Brien, The Divine Apatheia and the Problem of Evil
Andrew McKinney, Grace in the Wesley Hymnology
David R. Wilson, Toward a New Testament Model for Church Leadership in the Twenty-first Century and its Implications for Training
Jonathan P. Case, When Two are Three: A Review of Jung Young Lee's The Trinity in Asian Perspective