John Wesley matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in June 1720. Later becoming a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, John had a strong relationship with the city. Whilst in Oxford, he started delivering sermons, which would later be the founding roots of Methodism.

The Wesley lecture takes place every May (to coincide with Wesley Day), and is jointly organised by Lincoln College, University of Oxford, the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, and Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford.

JOINING INSTRUCTIONS – Registration is required by 12 noon on Tuesday 25 May; Zoom login details will be sent to delegates the day before the event.

About the speaker:
Dr Nigel Aston is lecturer in early modern European history at the University of Leicester. His research activities and interests continue to center on the history of religion in western Europe during the eighteenth-century, most especially on the place of clergy in politics and intellectual life. His publications include ‘Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830’ (Cambridge University Press, 2002); ‘Relition and Revolution in France 1780-1804’ (Macmillan, 2000); and ‘The End of an Elite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790’ (Oxford University Press, 1992). At the Clark, Aston will complete his monograph entitled ‘Religion, Enlightenment and Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe’, a revisionist, cross-disciplinary study predicated on the continuing public and private import of Christianity throughout the era and the neglected religious iconography to which it gave rise.

Digital Exhibition:
In place of the traditional reception and exhibition after the Annual Lecture, a digital exhibition has been created.

Using material from the collections of Lincoln College, the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, and Christ Church College, this exhibition explores the themes of the lecture in more depth.

Visit ocmch.wordpress.com to view this after the lecture has concluded.