Issue 2 John Wesley: Revival and Revolution

About Christian History and its John Wesley issue.

Fascinating facts about John Wesley and the Methodist movement.

A principle to live by.

England and Ireland in John Wesley’s days.

Who was who in Wesley’s circle.

Wesley set out to renew the church he loved and he was prepared to employ any appropriate material from the whole history of Christianity to do it.

Secrets of the Wesley organization.

How Methodism uplifted the downtrodden.

Wesley and his Oxford friends formed a club to further their faith objectives.

Some who think they are Christians may not be. Acts 26:28

One hundred years of turmoil, change, and innovation that laid a foundation for our own day.

A sermon on Luke 16:9.

Wesley and the opposite sex.

To his contemporaries, enthusiasm was a dread disease. Wesley spelled out the right and wrong sorts.

John Wesley's last letter from his deathbed.

In the previous edition of Christian History we printed excerpts from John Wesley’s Journal describing key moments in his spiritual growth and discovery. A large reader response to this particular article prompts us to include here further comments from the Journal wherein Wesley summarizes his early spiritual journey, concluding with his conversion.

Wesley kept personal diaries written in a secret code.

Taken from “Tales of a Wesleyana Collector” by Frederick F. Maser

For good reason Charles Wesley was known as the “Poet of the Evangelical Revival.”

Learn more about the Wesleys and the Methodist movement.