Research Guides: Methodist History: Secondary Resources

Secondary Resources

Secondary resources involve the description, analysis, and critical assessment of primary resources to create an overview of a specific historic topic. Although they do not provide an immediate view of historic events, they provide context for understanding them, usually through a specific interpretive lens. Some secondary sources for a general introduction to Methodist History, its themes, and issues, include the following.

Methodism: a Very Short Introduction by William J. Abraham
Publication Date: 2019
An introduction that covers the origins of Methodism with John Wesley up until the modern day.
Wesley and the People Called Methodists by Richard P. Heitzenrater
Publication Date: 2013
Survey of the Wesleyan Movement and people that have impacted the theology, organization, and mission of Methodism.
Wesley y el pueblo llamado metodista by Richard P. Heitzenrater and Ruby de Santibanez
Publication Date: 2001
Survey of the Wesleyan Movement and people that have impacted the theology, organization, and mission of Methodism. This is the Spanish version of the above title.
Methodism by David Hempton
Publication Date: 2008
Explores the emergence of Methodism from its origins within the Church of England in the 1730s up until it became its own religious movement in the 1880s.