Russell E. Richey

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