The Charles Wesley Society:
2013 Programme
WEDNESDAY, 7 AUGUST
Board Meeting
3.00pm Arrival and Registration
4.00pm Welcome and Introduction
- Clive Norris: Untying the Knot: The Afterlife of Charles and Sally Wesley’s Marriage Settlement 1749-1800
Dinner
Session 1
Evening Worship
THURSDAY, 8 AUGUST
8.45am Morning Prayer [Cathedral]
Paper and Presentation 2
- Randy Maddox: ‘Anticipate Our Heaven Below’? Shifting Dynamics in Charles Wesley’s Eschatology
- Tom Albin: Charles Wesley’s Role in the Spiritual Formation of the People Called Methodists
Lunch
Free afternoon to visit Durham Cathedral and city, etc.
Optional excursion to Yarm octagonal Methodist Chapel (built 1763, celebrating 250 years)
Dinner
Musical Evening
Evening Worship
FRIDAY, 9 AUGUST
8.45am Morning Prayer [Cathedral]
Paper and Presentation Session 3
- Dick Watson: Wesley Content in the New Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology
- Tim Underhill: Another Look at Charles Wesley’s Shorthand
Lunch
Excursion to Local Heritage Sites
- High House chapel and museum, Weardale
- Newbiggin, Teesdale (the world’s oldest Methodist chapel in continuous Methodist use, from 1759)
Dinner
Annual Society meeting
Evening Worship
SATURDAY, 10 AUGUST
8.45am Morning prayer [Cathedral]
Excursion (by train) to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Visit Brunswick Church, and site of the Orphan House, Kellmen’s Hospital (of which Charles Wesley was a chaplain); St. Andrew’s Church (where Charles Wesley married Grace Murray to John Bennet, also the tomb of Jane Smith, nee Vazeille, John Wesley’s daughter-in-law), the Literary an Philosophical Society.
1.00pm (approx) Annual Meeting ends
