Introduction SECTION ONE: Methodism Sectarian tendencies, enthusiasm and charismatic outpourings of the Spirit
1. ‘A Cloud of Perfect Witnesses’: The importance of the London perfection controversy in Methodist history
2. Keeping the seventh commandment: sex, scandal and reputational protection in early Methodism
3. ‘From Earth to Heaven and Hell’– and back: The strange and wonderful journey of Elizabeth Dickinson SECTION TWO: Doctrinal Influences: Justification by Faith, The Church and Christian Perfection
4. The Influence of Martin Luther on the Theology of John Wesley: The Engine of Revival and Ecclesiastical Renewal
5. Wesley’s Radical Ecclesiology: A Church for the World not a World for the Church; or Polity only for a Purpose
6. Entire Sanctification in British Methodism during the Victorian Era
7. Entire Sanctification Critical Voices: Reappraising the Human Condition SECTION THREE: The Impact and Influence of Methodism on Modern Society
8. ‘This Work Can Not Be Done by Proxy’: Methodist Women and the Transatlantic Deaconess Movement
9. ‘More Methodism than Marx’: The Methodist contribution to British working-class politics 1880-1914
10. Encounter and Enculturation in Arnhem Land, Australia, 1923-1945
11. ‘But Mighty Through God for the Destruction of Strongholds’: The Wesleyan Impact in the NAACP