Wesley, Charles - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org Not willing that any should perish Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://evangelicalarminians.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/footer-logo-60x60.png Wesley, Charles - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org 32 32 224740200 Mark K. Olson, “The Wesleys’ Sacramental Theology” https://evangelicalarminians.org/mark-k-olson-the-wesleys-sacramental-theology/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:02:05 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=30905 It is fairly common knowledge that the Wesley brothers held high church views on the sacraments, inherited from their parents and nurtured by their Anglican education. Geordan Hammond correctly noted that the Wesleys led a…

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]]> 30905 Mark K. Olson, “The Joy of Conversion” https://evangelicalarminians.org/mark-k-olson-the-joy-of-conversion/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:26:13 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=28850 The Joy of Conversion New life in Christ is exciting and fulfilling. Below, there is a link to early testimonies of conversion gathered by Charles Wesley in the early 1740s. They are fascinating to read.…

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]]> 28850 Mark K. Olson on Wesleyans vs Calvinists: “The Minutes Controversy 1770-1777” https://evangelicalarminians.org/mark-k-olson-on-wesleyans-vs-calvinists-the-minutes-controversy-1770-1777/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:30:08 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=28804 Historical Setting In 1739 theological differences over election and predestination became public between John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield. It led to a sharp breach in 1741, though on a personal level the Wesleys…

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]]> 28804 Andrew V. Sullivan, “The Arminian Roots of John and Charles Wesley” https://evangelicalarminians.org/andrew-v-sullivan-the-arminian-roots-of-john-and-charles-wesley/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:15:47 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=28693 [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction John…

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]]> 28693 Mark K. Olson, “Writings of the Oxford Methodists” https://evangelicalarminians.org/mark-k-olson-writings-of-the-oxford-methodists/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:58:09 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27632 Oxford Methodism began in 1729 as Charles Wesley began to meet with Robert Kirkham and William Morgan. Soon John Wesley joined the group and assumed the leadership role of mentoring the group in a lifestyle…

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]]> 27632 Tyler Walker, “The Trinitarian Theology of Charles Wesley’s Hymnody” https://evangelicalarminians.org/tyler-walker-the-trinitarian-theology-of-charles-wesleys-hymnody/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:36:47 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27548 [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Wesleyans are…

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]]> 27548 Video: Methodist Arminians & Wesley’s Arminianism: “Who Are the Arminians?” Part 4 https://evangelicalarminians.org/video-methodist-arminians-wesleys-arminianism-who-are-the-arminians-part-4/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:00:43 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27369 This video can be found on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/M5C66IJM9kc?si=Ow0WnYik3zSglNiT From the video description: Part 4 looks at the Methodist revivals, Arminian doctrine as their motivation, and then the Arminianism of early Methodists John & Charles…

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]]> 27369 Mark K. Olson, “George Whitefield’s Doctrine of Conversion, 1735-1740” https://evangelicalarminians.org/mark-k-olson-george-whitefields-doctrine-of-conversion-1735-1740/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:54:39 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27081 By Mark K. Olson. This article was a paper presented at the George Whitefield 300 Conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, in 2014. [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the…

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]]> 27081 Isaac N. Hopper, “Songs of the Faithful: The Wesleyan Hymns as Border for the People Called Methodists” https://evangelicalarminians.org/isaac-n-hopper-songs-of-the-faithful-the-wesleyan-hymns-as-border-for-the-people-called-methodists/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:02:52 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27046 [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction Every…

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]]> 27046 Randall McElwain, “No Room For Mirth Or Trifling Here: Theological and Spiritual Instruction in Charles Wesley’s Hymns for Children” https://evangelicalarminians.org/randall-mcelwain-no-room-for-mirth-or-trifling-here-theological-and-spiritual-instruction-in-charles-wesleys-hymns-for-children/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:00:01 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=26994 [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction In The Barber of Seville,…

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