What does Wesley mean by perceptible inspiration? What does the teaching reveal about the nature and existence of God in Wesley's thinking? What does it suggest about the spiritual nature of humankind? In John Wesley's Pneumatology, it is argued that 'perceptible inspiration' more than a sidebar of Methodist thought, offers a useful model for considering the various features of Wesley's views on the work of the Spirit in relation to human existence, participatory religious knowledge and moral theology.

Joseph W. Cunningham has a PhD from the University of Manchester (Nazarene Theological College), UK. He is an assistant editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies, a peer-reviewed journal annually published by the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He teaches in the department of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University, USA and is senior minister at Saginaw First Free Methodist Church.

Chapter 1 Perceptible Inspiration as Pneumatological Model: A Critical Appraisal of John Wesley's Correspondence with 'John Smith' (1745-48); Chapter 2 Grace as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 3 Faith as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 4 Witness of the Spirit as Pneumatological Operation; Chapter 5 The Fruits of the Spirit as Pneumatological Operation; conclusion Conclusion;