Overview
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. He serves as associate general editor of the Wesley Works Editorial Project, and heads a project that makes available all of the verse of Charles Wesley online at the website for the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School.
Maddox is currently the institute secretary of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. He served previously as president of the Wesleyan Theological Society, co-chair of the Wesley Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion, and general editor of the Kingswood Books Imprint of Abingdon Press.
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.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Theology and Methodist Studies
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2020 - Present
Divinity School
Professor Emeritus of Theology and Methodist Studies
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2020 - Present
Divinity School
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Recent Publications
Journal Article
Wesley and Methodist Studies
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January 1, 2026
This article explores the intertwined lives of Charles Wesley and Selina (Shirley) Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, highlighting how times of their closest cooperation coincided with periods of tension between Charles and his brother John. It draws on a n ...
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Wesley and Methodist Studies
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January 1, 2020
The expulsion of six Methodist students from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1768 has been well documented. Much less is known about what John Wesley termed the 'still more remarkable [case] of Mr. Seager, refused the liberty of entering' the same Hall a year l ...
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March 20, 2018
Charles Wesley's Journal is crucial to an understanding of the beginnings of the Wesleyan/Methodist movement. ...
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Education
Emory University ·
1982
Ph.D.
Nazarene Theological Seminary ·
1978
M.Div.
Northwest Nazarene University ·
1975
B.A.