Powerful ideas have the capacity to inspire great good. They also have the capacity to prompt unspeakable acts of evil. The ideas of "America" and "the gospel"

Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international re

As a religious and social phenomenon Methodism engages with a number of disciplines including history, sociology, gender studies and theology. Methodist energy