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”