The Wesleyan tradition of the 18th century and its related movements has had a global impact that has often been understated and underestimated. Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. presents a diverse collection of essays that document the Wesleyan traditions from founder John Wesley's preaching across Great Britain to his followers' spread of Methodist views throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. Through a series of essays, The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and Their Related Movements documents the influence of Methodist missionaries on peoples and religions throughout the world. The text is divided into three parts: Part I includes four essays about basic missiological and methodological issues; Part II includes 15 essays that illuminate the global impact of the Wesleyan traditions and related movements on topics such as independent churches in Africa and the Hwa Nan College in China; and Part III describes the resources for researching and extending the global impact of traditions of Wesley's works, such as the Obras de Wesley (the Spanish version of Wesley's works) and the valuable collection of Wesleyana and Methodistica materials at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, Great Britain. Diverse in scope, The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and Their Related Movements is a comprehensive volume for religious scholars and historians interested in the Wesleyan traditions.

More than 400 million persons are living in a state of permanent diaspora throughoutthe world. These dislocated persons are particularly susceptible to receptivity to the Christian message and, being scattered as transnationals outside traditional homelands, to finding their identity in the church. Most of these persons hail from the Global South and East, where an explosive growth of Christian communities is occurring within the context of revitalization. Communities in the Global North, including the United States, are meanwhile being remapped with the influx of transnational persons. The multiplication of Hispanic and Asian churches has become the major feature of church growth in a North American Christianity, with its rapidly declining mainline denominational church bodies. This book presents six cases of current revitalization movements amidst diaspora followed by a group of interpretative essays.

In 1968, the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) churches merged to form The United Methodist Church. More than forty years later, many United Methodists know very little about the history, doctrine, and polity of the EUB.To be sure, there are vestiges of the EUB, most notably the Confession of Faith, in the United Methodist Book of Discipline, but there is much more to be profitablyexplored.For example, the EUB represents a strand of German Pietism that developed an emphasis on the workof the Holy Spirit in the life of the church that, with the exception ofWesley, Fletcher and the early Methodists, was unparalleled in the history of Protestantism.This book makes accessible to clergy and laity alike the considerable riches of the EUB tradition with a view toward the renewal of United Methodism today."

The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, a research center at Asbury Theological Seminary, grew out of a deep-seated concern of a small group of faculty members to take the pulse and heart of the various movements of revitalization which are developing in a variety of cultural settings across world Christianity. Consequently, the Center received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in March 2007, enabling it to proceed with that research task. In a day when renewal movements seem to proliferate more rapidly than they can be adequately identified, it was deemed to be the right moment for a thoughtful examination and evaluation to discern what is genuine and effective. To that end, we launched a serious probe into the relationship between Christian revival and revitalization of faith communities and the larger cultures in which they are housed.The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, a research center at Asbury Theological Seminary, grew out of a deep-seated concern of a small group of faculty members to take the pulse and heart of the various movements of revitalization which are developing in a variety of cultural settings across world Christianity. Consequently, the Center received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in March 2007, enabling it to proceed with that research task. In a day when renewal movements seem to proliferate more rapidly than they can be adequately identified, it was deemed to be the right moment for a thoughtful examination and evaluation to discern what is genuine and effective.To that end, we launched a serious probe into the relationship between Christian revival and revitalization of faith communities and the larger cultures in which they are housed. This is book is an assessment and interpretation of important trends in the 21st century for global revitalization of Christian faith.

The Evangelical Association was a revival movement at the beginning of the 19th century, which reached out to the large numbers of German- Americans who had settled throughout the mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. Their founder, Jacob Albright (1758-1808), and his colaborers developed indigenous and distinctive patterns of hymnody and worship set in a German idiom. For three decades after Albright's death, the Evangelicals were without a bishop until in 1839 a promising young circuit preacher named John Seybert was made the first "constitutional" bishop of the Evangelicals. This book traces the history and ministry of this founding father of what eventually became the United Methodist Church.