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"Methodism is a discipleship movement built for engagement. Contributors: Cheryl B. Anderson, Ted A. Campbell, William Gibson, Rui de Souza Josgrilberg, Beauty Maenzanise, and Stephen Skuce Wesleyan and Methodist communities have sensed a calling not only to Christian renewal within their own circles but also to engage with and to serve the broader world around them. Even in the eighteenth century, this meant engagement with non-Christian peoples, as illustrated in John Wesley's interviews with Native American people in Georgia, but it also meant engagement with persons and institutions that had no explicit connection to Christianity or to any other traditional religious traditions. John Wesley's Primitive Physick serves as an illustration of his intention to ""do good"" beyond the confines of explicitly Christian communities. The thirteenth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies met at Christ Church, Oxford, in 2013, to consider ""Wesleyan Communities and the World Beyond Christianity."" The leaders of the Institute were clear from the beginning that by ""the world beyond Christianity,"" we did not mean only our engagement with non-Christian peoples, but also our engagement with governments, with non-governmental organizations, and other ways in which Wesleyan communities have interacted with individuals and communities who do not explicitly profess Christian faith. The plenary papers from the Institute included in this volume illustrate this range of Wesleyan and Methodist interaction with worlds beyond Christianity."

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This is a timely book especially for us who live in the borderlands, whose lives are perpetually shaped by Christian and non-Christian realities, for this book speaks to multiple realities, the past, the present, and the future. A thorough reading of the book helps one realize that 'the past is not another country' but permeates into our everyday lives. The issues at stake for those in the border lands include engagement with people of other faiths, worship in the African context, Prosperity Gospel, living with HIV and AIDS in Africa, and the integrity of creation, including the question of the history of the super powers are all engaged in this book. The writers provide a framework of how Methodism has engaged realities of the world beyond Christianity and by so doing became transformed by that world. --Revd. Dr. Jimmy Dube, General Secretary, Methodist Church in Zimbabwe How do Christians engage the world around them? This volume provides a glimpse into a global conversation on this topic that took place as Methodists gathered for the 13th Oxford Institute. This book helps Methodists bring their theological insights to bear on questions that matter for all, especially those who do not share our tradition and faith. Methodists who want to think about the world as our parish need to read this book. --Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Professor of Theology, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

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Ted A. Campbell is Professor of Church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Find him at https: //tedcampbell.com/.

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