Wesleyan Methodist Magazine

This article is about the magazine published from 1778 to 1969. For the present-day magazine, see The Arminian.

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.

1893 issue of the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, edited at the time by Benjamin Gregory

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, ..."

References

• Gunter, William Stephen. "An Annotated Content Index to The Arminian Magazine, Vols. 1–20 (1778–1797)" (PDF). Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
• Iwig-O'Byrne, Liam (May 2008). How Methodists Were Made: The Arminian Magazine and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778-1803 (PhD thesis). The University of Texas at Arlington. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.610.7594.
• Winckles, Andrew O. (1 February 2011). "The Arminian Magazine and Lay-Women's Conversion Narratives". 18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
• Topham, Jonathan R. (28 October 2004). "The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain". Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Vol. 45. Cambridge University Press. pp. 67–90. ISBN 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