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This book employs a global history approach to explore John Wesley's writings, contributing to eighteenth-century religious history and to Wesley Studies with primary sources and recent secondary literature, placing Wesley's writings in their global political context.

This book gives a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, as well as of The Salvation Army. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated.

Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in Australia presents a critical introduction to one of the most important religious movements in Australia's settlement history and beyond. Offering ground-breaking regional studies of the development of Methodism, this book considers a broad range of issues including Australian Methodist religious experience, worship and music, Methodist intellectuals and missions to Australia and the ...

This book gives a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, as well as of The Salvation Army. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated.

This brief introduction to Christian worship surveys biblical and historical patterns of worship. It takes an ecumenical approach in introducing readers to a variety of worship practices across a range of Christian traditions. The place of music, symbols, sacraments and the church year are all considered. Not a How to book, it suggests, rather, how we ought to think about worship. The book does, however, include practical suggestions along the...

Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in Australia presents a critical introduction to one of the most important religious movements in Australia's settlement history and beyond. Offering ground-breaking regional studies of the development of Methodism, this book considers a broad range of issues including Australian Methodist religious experience, worship and music, Methodist intellectuals and missions to Australia and the ...

Glen O'Brien recounts some spiritual experiences of gay men, and then reflects on these experiences in the light of stories and events in the gospels. In the presence of Jesus to the "sinners and outcasts" of his time he sees a clear statement of God's love and compassion for all people, and a context for dealing with the pain that many gay people suffer in their sense of exclusion from the Christian community.

Gathers together the stories of gay men and women over the past few decades.