Barbara Prosser, Ph.D.

'"An Arrow from a Quiver" Written Instruction for a Reading People: John Wesley's Arminian Magazine (January 1778 - February 1791)' (University of Manchester), 2008.

Dr Prosser is Head of Faculty of Advanced Studies, Coleg Glan Hafren (Cardiff). She oversees provision for A level students and teaches Religious Studies. In addition to her Ph.D., Dr Prosser has a BA Hons History and Education (Aberystwyth), PGBS Post Graduate Biblical Studies Certificate, PGCE Secondary, and a M.Phil. for a thesis titled: '"Not Absolutely Necessary . . . Only Remotely Necessary"; The Significance of Education in John Wesley’s view of Justification and Sanctification' (Cardiff, 1999). She has written a ‘Gathered together’ Assembly tool book for secondary schools and an AS Christianity Teacher’s version published by UWIC Press.

Select Recent Publications

'"Improving the Present Moment": John Wesley's Use of the Arminian Magazine in Raising Early Methodist Awareness and Understanding of National Issues (January 1778 - February 1791)', Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, vol. 2 (2010), 77-89.

'The Transformation of the Arminian Magazine from John Wesley's Theological Instrument of control to his Vehicle for Expressing and Preserving the Evocative Voices of Early Methodism', in Brands Plucked from the Burning: Essays on Methodist Memoralisation and Remembering (2013).

Email: barbaraprosser3@gmail.com