Revd Dr David Ceri Jones

Lecturer
BA Ph.D. (Wales) FRHistS Photograph of Revd Dr David Ceri Jones.

Contact

Email: dmj@aber.ac.uk
Office: B15
Phone: 2840
Personal Web Site:http://davidceri.blogspot.com/

Teaching Areas

David teaches a wide variety of courses in the department, including an introductory course on the European Reformation, and modules on the early modern Atlantic World, a Special Subject on Romantic Wales (1750‑1847), and a brand new module on religion and belief in modern Britain.

Research

David has recently published two significant books. The first of these is volume of essays on the twentieth century nonconformist and evangelical leader Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones: the Life and Legacy of ‘the Doctor’ (Nottingham: Apollos, 2011), to which he has contributed chapters examining Lloyd-Jones treatment by his biographers, his influence and legacy in Wales, and his often controversial relationship with the charismatic movement. The second book is a jointly written history of Calvinistic Methodism from its origins until its establishment as a nonconformist denomination in Wales and its demise in England in the early nineteenth century: The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735‑1811 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012).

David is currently editing a book examining the relationship between evangelicalism and fundamentalism in modern Britain for Oxford University Press, and writing a popular level introduction to the evangelical movement, The Fire Divine: Introducing Evangelicalism (Nottingham: IVP, 2013).

In the longer term David is preparing a critical edition of the trans-Atlantic correspondence of George Whitefield, a precursor to a critical biography of the eighteenth-century evangelical revival leader, and engaged in on-going work on the history of evangelicalism in modern Wales.

David is also the editor of the prestigious Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society.

Biography

David Ceri Jones BA PhD (Wales) is primarily an historian of religion and theology in early modern and modern Britain, with specific research specialisms in the eighteenth century and contemporary history. He has written extensively on the history of Evangelicalism and Methodism, as well as the Church of England. While much of his work has had a Welsh focus he is committed to setting developments in Wales in wider British and Atlantic contexts.

Staff Publications

2012

  • David Ceri Jones, Boyd S. Schlenther and Eryn M. White, The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735‑1811 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012).

 2011

  • Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones (eds), Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones: the Life and Legacy of ‘the Doctor’ (Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
  • ‘Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World and the creation of a “Christian Republick”’, H. V. Bowen (ed.), Wales and the British Overseas Empire: interactions and influences, 1650-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), pp. 87‑113.
  • ‘“Like the time of the Apostles”: the fundamentalist mentality in eighteenth-century Welsh evangelicalism’, Welsh History Review, vol. 25, no. 3 (June, 2011), 374‑400.
  • ‘“Sure the time here now is like New England”: What happened when the Welsh Methodists read Jonathan Edwards?’, in Kelly Van Andel, Adriaan C. Neele and Kenneth P. Minkema (eds), Jonathan Edwards and Scotland (Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2011), pp. 49‑62.

 2009

  • ‘John Lewis and the promotion of the international evangelical revival, 17351756’, in, Dyfed Wyn Roberts (ed.), Revival, Renewal and the Holy Spirit (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009), pp. 1326.
  • ‘“We are of Calvinistical principles”: How Calvinist was early Calvinistic Methodism?, The Welsh Journal of Religious History, vol. 4 (2009), 3754.
  • ‘“Transcripts of my Heart”: Welsh Methodists, Popular Piety and the international Evangelical Revival, 17381750’, in Joan Allen and Richard C. Allen (eds), Faith of our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 95117.

2008

  • ‘Fictional selves in the life and writings of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826)’, Welsh History Review, vol. 24, no. 1 (June, 2008), pp. 2951.
  • ‘Narratives of conversion in English Calvinistic Methodism’, in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds.), Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, Studies in Church History, 44 (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2008), pp. 12841.
  • ‘“A Glorious Morn”? Methodism and the Rise of Evangelicalism in Wales, 173562’, in Mark Smith (ed.), British Evangelical Identities, Past and Present, volume 1: Aspects of the History and Sociology of Evangelicalism in Britain and Ireland (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008), pp. 97113.
  • ‘Calvinistic Methodism and the origins of Evangelicalism in England’, Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (ed.), Continuities in Evangelical History: Interactions with David Bebbington (Nottingham: Apollos, 2008), pp. 10328.

2007

  • Geraint H. Jenkins, David Ceri Jones and Ffion Mair Jones (eds.), The Letters of Edward Williams ‘Iolo Morganwg’ (3 vols., Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007).
  • ‘Some women’s voices in early English and Welsh Calvinistic Methodism’, Cylchgrawn Hanes: Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, no. 31 (2007), 3751.

2005

  • ‘Iolo Morganwg and the Welsh rural landscape’, in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), pp. 22750.

2004

  • ‘“A Humbug Board”: Iolo Morganwg and the Board of Agriculture, 17961815’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 10 (2004), 7697.
  • ‘A Glorious Work in the World’: Welsh Methodists and the International Evangelical Revival, 173550 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004).

2003

  • ‘“The Lord did give me a particular honour to make [me] a peacemaker”; Howel Harris, John Wesley and Methodist Infighting, 17391750’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 82, nos. 2 and 3 (Summer and Autumn, 2003), 7388.

2001

  • ‘The Board of Agriculture, Walter Davies (‘Gwallter Mechain’) and Cardiganshire, c. 1794-1815’, Ceredigion, vol. XIV, no. I (2001), 79100.