Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies, has edited a new volume of letters from John Wesley: The Works of John Wesley Volume 31: Letters VII (1789-1791).

The correspondence in this final volume of Wesley’s letters covers the closing years of his life. An addendum includes nearly seventy letters from earlier years that came to light after the appropriate volume in this collection had been published. This final volume also included a set of indexes for the full seven-volume collection.

Maddox’s scholarly interests focus on the theology of John and Charles Wesley and theological developments in the later Methodist/Wesleyan tradition. In addition to numerous articles, he is author of Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s Practical Theology, a contributor to Wesley and the Quadrilateral, and editor of Aldersgate Reconsidered, Rethinking Wesley’s Theology for Contemporary Methodism, The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley, and Volume 12 of The Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley. 

Maddox is an ordained elder in the Dakotas Conference of The United Methodist Church, and has served as a theological consultant to the Council of Bishops on several projects.