# Wesleyan Methodist Magazine > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wesleyan_Methodist_Magazine > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wesleyan_Methodist_Magazine.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_Methodist_Magazine > Source revision: 1306361285 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the magazine published from 1778 to 1969. For the present-day magazine, see [The Arminian](/source/The_Arminian). Magazine 1893 issue of the *Wesleyan Methodist Magazine*, edited at the time by Benjamin Gregory The ***Wesleyan Methodist Magazine*** was a monthly [Methodist](/source/Methodist) magazine published between 1778 and 1969. Founded by [John Wesley](/source/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](/source/Thomas_Olivers). 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](/source/Calvinistic_Methodists).' Wesley had not previously claimed this [Arminian](/source/Arminianism#Wesleyan_Arminianism) identity in a public way, ..."[1] ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Gunter, William Stephen (1 September 2007). ["John Wesley, a Faithful Representative of Jacobus Arminius"](https://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/2002-2-gunter.pdf) (PDF). *The Oxford Institute of Methodist Studies*. p. 9. Retrieved 23 August 2018. ## References - Gunter, William Stephen. ["An Annotated Content Index to The Arminian Magazine, Vols. 1–20 (1778–1797)"](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/Arminian_Magazine_vols_1-20.pdf) (PDF). *[Duke Divinity School](/source/Duke_Divinity_School)*. Archived from [the original](https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/divinity.duke.edu/files/documents/cswt/Arminian_Magazine_vols_1-20.pdf) (PDF) on 9 October 2022. 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](/source/CiteSeerX_(identifier)) [10.1.1.610.7594](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.610.7594). - Winckles, Andrew O. (1 February 2011). ["The Arminian Magazine and Lay-Women's Conversion Narratives"](https://18thcenturyculture.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-arminian-magazine-and-lay-womens-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](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). pp. 67–90. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-83637-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-83637-1). ## External links - [Links to digitized copies of 16 issues of the *Arminian Magazine* from 1778 to 1797](https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100784095) - [Links to digitized copies of many issues of the magazine from 1787 to 1893](https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008634698) This Christian magazine or journal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Christian-mag-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AChristian-mag-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Christian-mag-stub) This Methodism-related article is a stub. 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