The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies

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The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies. Edited by William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, Pp. xvii, 761. $150.)

Antonio Romano discusses in his work The Charism of the Founders (1994), his view that new Christian movements offer gifts from the Spirit to the church as a whole. The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Stuthes discusses the editor's perceptions of some of Mediodism's unique gifts to the church and world. This handbook claims specifically "to provide a map of the field [Mediodist Stuthes], and to offer vistas for fresh work" (vii). The objectives of this work are twofold: first to "locate the center of Methodist gravity in John Wesley …