Dr. Russell E. Richey, Dean Emeritus of Candler School of Theology and William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Emory University
Dr. Richey serves as vice president of the Wesley Works Editorial Project,is president-elect of the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church and was a drafter for the General Conference Task Force to Study the Episcopacy (2008). He is a member of the United Methodist-Episcopal dialogue and the UMC Faith and Order Committee. A senior fellow at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion until retirement, he was active in its Christian Jurisprudence project. Currently he is a visiting professor at Duke Divinity School and research fellow in the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition.
His research interest focuses on American religious history, with special emphases including Methodism, comparative denominational studies, and American civil or public religion.
Dr. Richey is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church.
BOOKS:
The Methodist Experience in America: A History (Abingdon Press, 2010), co-author
Methodist Connectionalism: Historical Perspectives (General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2010)
Doctrine in Experience: A Methodist Theology of Church and Ministry (Kingswood Books/Abingdon, 2009)
Marks of Methodism (Abingdon Press, 2005)
Episcopacy in the Methodist Tradition (Abingdon Press, 2004), co-author
The Methodist Experience in America (Abingdon Press, 2000), co-author
Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church (Abingdon Press, 1999), co-editor
Doctrines and Discipline (Abingdon Press, 1999), co-editor
The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life (Abingdon Press, 1998), co-editor
Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission, and Identity (Abingdon Press, 1997), co-editor
The Methodists (Praeger Press, 1996, 1998), co-author
The Methodist Conference in America: A History (Kingswood Books 1996)
Reimagining Denominationalism (Oxford University Press, 1994),co-editor, co-author
Perspectives on American Methodism: Interpretive Essays (Kingswood Books, 1993), co-editor
Early American Methodism (Indiana University Press, 1991)
Rethinking Methodist History (1985), co-editor
Denominationalism (Abingdon Press, 1977), editor, co-author
American Civil Religion (Mellen University Press, 1974), co-editor
EDUCATION:
PhD, Princeton University, 1970
MA, Princeton University, 1968
MDiv, Union Theological Seminary, 1966
BA, Wesleyan University (CT), 1963
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