Wesley Links

(This List is from the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church. I really didn't think I could do a better one, but will galdly add others.  Please let me know which ones.)

 


The following is a list of web links related to John and Charles Wesley.

200 Years of Methodism: An Illustrated History
http://www.drew.edu/books/200Years/gallery/gallery.htm

A Brief History of Methodism
http://www.methodist.org.uk/welcome/history.htm

"Celebrated" Preface to the 1780 Hymn Book ("A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists")
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/fulltext/lh1844/wesleyp.htm
Download: Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists edited by the Rev. John Wesley, 1889. This book, which contains many hymns by Charles Wesley, is 445K zipped text file. Use your "save as" feature in your browser. Then unzip (unarchive) the file in a separate directory with a program such as WinZip.

Charles Wesley and Fanny Crosby: Their Understanding of Conversion Expressed Through Their Hymns
http://www.nyise.org/fanny/styles.html

Charles Wesley: Heart of the Evangelical Revival
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps029.shtml

Charles Wesley Highlights (brief)
http://www.christian-bookshop.co.uk/free/biogs/cwesley.htm

Charles Wesley, Preacher and Hymnwriter (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A354601

Christian History Online Magazine, Issue #69 on the Wesleys
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2001/001

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (John Wesley, 1779)
With a New Supplement (1889)
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jw.html

Directions for Renewing Our Covenant with God (facsimile edition)
http://wesley.nnu.edu/covenant/index.htm

The Hope of the Gospel — An Introduction to Wesleyan Eschatology
http://www.imarc.cc/reasoner4.html

HymnSite.com
http://www.HymnSite.com
Click on "Hymn Index" for Midi files and texts of public domain hymns from The United Methodist Hymnal.

Hymns Written by Charles Wesley and Fanny Crosby in Commemoration of Their Conversions
http://www.nyise.org/fanny/conversion.htm

Image Collection, Methodist Archives and Research Centre
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/methodist/methgal.html

John Wesley
(Smith Creek Music Article and Links Related to John Wesley)
http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Wesleys/John.Wesley.html

John Wesley: An On-Line Exhibition
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/methodist/jwol4.html

John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life — An Invitation to Spiritual Growth
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/Wesley/index.html

John Wesley Live
http://www.wesleylive.com

John Wesley Resources Site Map
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/Wesley/sitemap.stm

John Wesley's Early Life and . . . The Beginnings of Methodism
www.methodistmessage.com/may2002/methodism.html

Methodist Archives and Research Center
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/text/method.html

Origins: All the Best Tunes
http://www.gborocollege.edu/prescorner/tunes.html

Origins: Singing Our Faith
http://www.gborocollege.edu/prescorner/singing.html

The Recall to Religion in the Hymns of Charles Wesley (Barnard Manning)
http://www.ccel.org/m/manning/wesleyhymns/htm/iv.htm#iv

The Sermons of John Wesley
http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons

We Are What We Sing: Our Classic Hymns Reveal Evangelicalism at Its Best
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/9t8/9t8037.html

The Wesleys and Their Times
http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/weslinks.html
A listing of websites on the Wesleys.

Wesley Center Online
http://wesley.nnu.edu/JohnWesley.htm
(Note: The Wesley Center now contains some entries in Spanish)

Wesley's Directions for Singing:
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/BensalemPA/wesley.html