Wesleyan Methodist Magazine Explained

The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine was a monthly Methodist magazine published between 1778 and 1969. Founded by John Wesley as the Arminian Magazine, it was retitled the Methodist Magazine in 1798 and as the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine in 1822. The co-writer with Wesley (from 1775 to 1789) was Thomas Olivers.

As to why the magazine was originally entitled the "Arminian Magazine", W. Stephen Gunter says that in 1778 John Wesley

"... chose The Arminian Magazine as title for his Methodist magazine; and his intention in doing so was to distinguish his arm of the English revival movement from that of the 'Calvinian Methodists.' Wesley had not previously claimed this Arminian identity in a public way, ..."^[1]

References

• Web site: Gunter . William Stephen . An Annotated Content Index to The Arminian Magazine, Vols. 1–20 (1778–1797) . . 2018-08-23 .
• PhD . Iwig-O'Byrne . Liam . How Methodists Were Made: The Arminian Magazine and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778-1803 . May 2008 . The University of Texas at Arlington . 10.1.1.610.7594 .
• Web site: Winckles . Andrew O. . The Arminian Magazine and Lay-Women's Conversion Narratives . 2011-02-01 . 2018-08-23 . 18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture .
• Book: Topham, Jonathan R. . The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain . Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture . 45 . 67–90 . 2004-10-28 . Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature . . 978-0-521-83637-1 .

External links

• Links to digitized copies of 16 issues of the Arminian Magazine from 1778 to 1797
• Links to digitized copies of many issues of the magazine from 1787 to 1893

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gunter . William Stephen . John Wesley, a Faithful Representative of Jacobus Arminius . The Oxford Institute of Methodist Studies . 2007-09-01 . 2018-08-23 . 9 .