Wesleyan Methodist Magazine

{{About|the magazine published from 1778 to 1969|the present-day magazine|The Arminian}} {{short description|Magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{italic title}} [[File:WesleyanMethodistmagazine UK April 1893.jpg|thumb|1893 issue of the ''Wesleyan Methodist Magazine'', edited at the time by Benjamin Gregory]] 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]].

As to why the magazine was originally entitled the "Arminian Magazine", W. Stephen Gunter says that in 1778 John Wesley <blockquote> "... 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 '[[Calvinistic Methodists|Calvinian Methodists]].' Wesley had not previously claimed this [[Arminianism#Wesleyan Arminianism|Arminian]] identity in a public way, ..."<ref>{{cite web |last= Gunter |first= William Stephen |title= John Wesley, a Faithful Representative of Jacobus Arminius |website= The Oxford Institute of Methodist Studies |date= 2007-09-01 |access-date= 2018-08-23 |page= 9 |url= https://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/2002-2-gunter.pdf}}</ref> </blockquote>

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==References== *{{cite web |last= Gunter |first= William Stephen |title= An Annotated Content Index to The Arminian Magazine, Vols. 1–20 (1778–1797) |website= [[Duke Divinity School]] |access-date= 2018-08-23 |url= https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/Arminian_Magazine_vols_1-20.pdf |archive-date= 9 October 2022 |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/Arminian_Magazine_vols_1-20.pdf |url-status= dead }} *{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |last= Iwig-O'Byrne |first= Liam |title= How Methodists Were Made: ''The Arminian Magazine'' and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778-1803 |date= May 2008 |publisher=The University of Texas at Arlington |citeseerx= 10.1.1.610.7594 }} *{{cite web |last= Winckles |first= Andrew O. |title= The Arminian Magazine and Lay-Women's Conversion Narratives |date= 2011-02-01 |access-date= 2018-08-23 |website= 18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture |url= https://18thcenturyculture.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-arminian-magazine-and-lay-womens-conversion-narratives/}} *{{cite book |last= Topham |first= Jonathan R. |chapter= The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain |series= Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |volume= 45 |pages= 67–90 |date= 2004-10-28 |title= Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature |publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn= 978-0-521-83637-1 }}

==External links== *[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100784095 Links to digitized copies of 16 issues of the ''Arminian Magazine'' from 1778 to 1797] *[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008634698 Links to digitized copies of many issues of the magazine from 1787 to 1893]

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