Wesley's Parish and the Digital Age?

Phillips, Peter

Wesley's Parish and the Digital Age?

Phillips, Peter

Authors

Reverend Dr Peter Phillips p.m.phillips@durham.ac.uk
Student Supervision

Abstract

The following article was delivered as the annual lecture of the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship at the 2016 Methodist Conference in London. Beginning with the original context of John Wesley’s well-known phrase, ‘the world as my parish’, this article explores the digital aspects of our global parish today. Putting the digital age on the agenda of the Church’s mission is seen as a similar response to Wesley’s decision to become ‘more vile’ and enter the world of field preaching. The lecture concludes by offering a fresh approach to Methodist identity magnified by aspects of digital culture, calling for the creation of digital Arminianism, digital field preaching, digital creativity and, ultimately, a digital parish. The article proposes that Methodism embrace a digital social holiness to spread scriptural holiness throughout the geographic and digital landscape.

Citation

Phillips, P. (2016). Wesley's Parish and the Digital Age?. Holiness (Cambridge), 2(3), 337-358

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Oct 1, 2016
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2016
Deposit Date	Mar 5, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Nov 12, 2018
Journal	Holiness
Publisher	Sciendo
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	2
Issue	3
Pages	337-358
Publisher URL	http://www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/04-phillips.pdf