British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology

This book demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements, even as it undermined the Spirit's work through the structures of the church.

James E. Pedlar is the Donald N. and Kathleen G. Bastian Chair of Wesley Studies and an Associate Professor of Theology at Tyndale University in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and has served as President of the Wesleyan Theological Society.

1. Introduction 2. 'A Division of Heart': Separation and the Spirit in the Later Wesley 3. 'We shall have no mastery': Hugh Bourne and the Emergence of Primitive Methodism 4. Revival and the Reformers: James Caughey and the Schism of 1849 5. Separate but Non-Sectarian: The Salvation Army's Ecclesiological Ambiguities 6. Catholicity of the Heart: Samuel Chadwick and Methodist Union 7. Conclusion: Revivalism's Mixed Legacy Index