The ''Wesleyan Methodist Magazine'' was a monthly

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...

magazine published between 1778 and 1969. Founded by

John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...

as the ''Arminian Magazine'', it was retitled the ''Methodist Magazine'' in 1798 and as the ''Wesleyan Methodist Magazine'' in 1822. The co-writer with Wesley (from 1775 to 1789) was

Thomas Olivers Thomas Olivers (1725–1799) was a Methodist preacher and hymn-writer from Tregynon, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was also author of the ''Arminian Magazine'' from 1775 to 1789, when he was dropped from the position by John Wesley for numerous pri ...

. As to why the magazine was originally entitled the "Arminian Magazine", W. Stephen Gunter says that in 1778 John Wesley

"... chose ''The Arminian Magazine'' as title for his Methodist magazine; and his intention in doing so was to distinguish his arm of the English revival movement from that of the ' Calvinian Methodists.' Wesley had not previously claimed this
Arminian Arminianism is a branch of Protestantism based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) and his historic supporters known as Remonstrants. Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the ''Re ...
identity in a public way, ..."

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Links to digitized copies of 16 issues of the ''Arminian Magazine'' from 1778 to 1797Links to digitized copies of many issues of the magazine from 1787 to 1893
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