Religion, Gender, Industry:Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting
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University of Wolverhampton, Telford (Priorslee) Campuswith sessions in Madeley and Ironbridge, Shropshire
16-18 June 2009
Manchester Wesley Research Centre
The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
in co-operation with the Ironbridge Institute
Prospective programme
Tuesday 16 June
11am-2pmRegistration
12.30-1.45pmLunch(Darwin Room, Priorslee Hall)
*All conference sessions on Tuesday and Thursday will be in the Orchard Room
in Priorslee Hall
2.00-2.10pm Welcome – Prof Elizabeth Leo,Dean of the Westminster Institute of Education, OxfordBrookesUniversity and Dr Geordan Hammond, Research Fellow and Administrator of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre
2.10-3.30pmOpening Keynote(Chair: Prof William Gibson)
Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and Approaches
Dr Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester
3.30 pmTea/coffee
4.00-6.00pmSession 1(Chair: The VenerableProf William Jacob)
Was the Anglican Response to Early Methodism Effective?
Prof Jonathan C D Clark, University of Kansas
Fletcher’s Bishop: Orthodoxy and Unorthodoxy in the Life of Bishop James Beauclerk of Hereford
Prof William Gibson, OxfordBrookesUniversity
Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension 1760-1815
David R. Wilson, University of Manchester
6.30 pm Dinner(Refectory)
7.30-9.30pmSession 2(Chair: Dr John Morgan-Guy)
The Doctrine of Accommodation Manifested Principally in the Pulpit Ministry of John Fletcher
Russell Frazier, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
Fletcher’s Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians
Prof Peter Lineham, Massey University, New Zealand
Presented by Dr Geordan Hammond
‘A Passion for Missions’: Melvill Horne’s Contribution to Debate on the Qualities and Qualifications of Overseas Missionaries
Prof Suzanne Schwarz, LiverpoolHopeUniversity
Wednesday 17 June
7.45-8.15amBreakfast(Refectory)
8.20amCoach Departure to Madeley
9.00-10.20amKeynote 2(St Michael’s ParishChurch, Madeley)(Chair:RevdMargaret Jones)
Varieties of Women’s Religious Experience: Methodists and Quakersin Eighteenth-Century Shropshire
Prof Phyllis Mack,Rutgers University, New Jersey
10.20 amCoffee/tea
10.45-12.45pmSession 3(Chair: Prof Suzanne Schwarz)
‘She constantly ran from one part of the town to another’: Faith, Space and Gender in Madeley, 1780-1840
Dr Joanna Cruickshank,Deakin University, Australia
‘Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!’: The Ministry of Mary Tooth
Dr Carol Blessing, Point Loma Nazarene University, California
Holding Tightly to ‘the Promise of the Father’: Phoebe Palmer and the Legacy of Fletcher of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth Century Methodism
ProfHarold E. Raser, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City
1.00-1.40pmLunch – (Fletcher Methodist Centre)
1.40pmCoach Departure to the Ironbridge Institute
2.10-3.30pm Keynote 3(Ironbridge Institute, Coalbrookdale)(Chair: Dr Peter Forsaith)
Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge: Some Re-considerations
Dr Barrie Trinder,Industrial Historian and Author
3.30-4.50 pmViewing Coalbrookdale: 1709-2009
a)‘Sabbath walk’ to Rotunda*; (Leader: Harriet Devlin, Lecturer in Historic Environment Conservation at the Ironbridge Institute)
b)Walk in Coalbrookdale to view Upper Forge, cottages…*; (Leader: Dr Peter Forsaith)
c)View exhibition Coalbrookdale 300: Art, Iron and Industry with gallery talk by Dr David de Haan (Director, The Ironbridge Institute);
d)Visit Museum of Iron and/or Darby houses and other Museum sites (admission charge applies);
The shop and café in the Museum of Iron will be open.
Note – the 1709 forge will not be accessible
*The walks will involve narrow footpaths and some steep sections.
From 4.15 pmTea and cakes will be served in the Ironbridge Institute
4.50-6.50pmSession 4(Chair: Dr Joanna Cruickshank)
‘It is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you’: Mary Fletcher and the Women of Early Methodism
Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University, Utah
Women, Worship, and Work in the Trefeca Family 1752-1773
DrEryn White, University of Aberystwyth
Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-43
John Lenton, Wesley Historical Society Librarian
6.50pm Coach Departure to Ironbridge
7.20pm Coach Departure to Priorslee Campus
8.00 pmDinner(Refectory)
Thursday 18 June
8.00-8.45amBreakfast(Refectory)
*Vacate rooms by 9am. Luggage storage will be available.
9.00-10.35amSession 5(Chair: Revd David Hart)
‘Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity’: John Fletcher’s Doxological Trinitarianism
Kenneth M. Loyer, Southern Methodist University, Texas
John Fletcher as the Theologian of American Methodism and Mary Bosanquet/Fletcher as Its Devotional Writer
Prof Laurence W. Wood, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
Digitisation of the Methodist Archives Catalogues at the
John Rylands Library: a Conversion Narrative
Dr Graham Johnson, JohnRylandsUniversity Library
10.35amCoffee/tea
11.00-11.45amClosing Keynote (Chair: Prof Frances Young)
The Long Fletcher Incumbency: Context and Continuity
Dr Peter Forsaith, OxfordBrookesUniversity
11.45-12.45pmPanel discussion – forward directions (Chair: Prof William Gibson; Panel: Prof Jonathan C D Clark, Dr Peter Forsaith, Dr Jeremy Gregory, Prof Phyllis Mack, Dr Barrie Trinder)
12.45 pmLunch(Darwin Room, Priorslee Hall), depart
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