Geordan Hammond

Dr. Geordan Hammond joined the Candler faculty in the fall of 2024. Hammond comes to Candler from his posts as director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, senior lecturer in church history and Wesley studies, and director of research at Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, England.

He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Manchester and Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a member of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission sponsored by the World Methodist Council and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Twice he has served as co-convenor of the Wesley Studies group of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies.

His areas of expertise include church history and theology with a focus on Britain and America in the early modern and modern periods, and the history and theology of the Methodist and Wesleyan traditions—particularly John and Charles Wesley and early proponents of Methodism; the Evangelical Revivals in their international context; and the Methodist, Wesleyan, Holiness, and wider Evangelical traditions up to the present day.

The author of the monograph John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2014), Hammond has also co-edited numerous volumes. In addition, he serves as assistant editor of The Wesley Works Editorial Project, editor of the book series Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, and founding editor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies.

BOOKS

Co-editor, Social Engagement in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, Penn State University Press, forthcoming, 2026

Co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies, volume 18:1, Penn State University Press, 2026

Co-author of We Believe in One God: Sixty Years of Methodists and Catholics Walking
Together, available online, 2025

Co-editor, Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures, Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, Penn State University Press, 2022

Co-editor, Religion in Britain, 1660–1900: Essays in Honour of Peter B. Nockles, Manchester University Press, 2021

Co-editor, George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2016

Author, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity, Oxford University Press, 2014

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

‘John Wesley’s Appropriation of Thomas à Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ’, in Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ: The History of a Book, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, forthcoming, 2026

‘George Whitefield in America: A Documentary Journey’, a digital exhibition for Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, featuring images and descriptions twelve rare books and manuscripts held by the library, Summer 2023

‘Reflecting on Responsible Grace after Twenty-Five Years’, Wesleyan Theological Journal 56:1, (Spring 2021) 138–46

‘John Wesley on Prevenient Grace’, Holiness Today 22:5 (Sept/Oct 2020), 8–11

‘The Correspondence of George Whitefield Project: A Report and Reflection on the Early Stages’, Wesleyan Theological Journal 54:1 (Spring 2019), 57–70,

Smith/Wynkoop Book Award from the Wesleyan Theological Society for Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, 2024

Research Fellow at Candler School of Theology and Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, summer 2023

Bridwell Library Fellow (Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University), summer 2022

Florence Ellen Bell Scholar at the Methodist Library at Drew University, residency in summer 2018 and summer 2019

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2015–)

Methodist History and Doctrine

Introduction to Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

MTS Research Methods