Randy L. Maddox will speak on "The Growing Fruit in Wesley Studies" during the Dakotas United Methodist Historical Society annual meal at the Holiday Inn, Fargo, North Dakota, on Wednesday, June 3, 12 p.m.  Anyone coming to annual conference is invited to attend.  Registration for the meal is required and can be done as part of registering for annual conference.

Maddox is the William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at the Divinity School, Duke University.  He is an ordained elder in the Dakotas Conference of The United Methodist Church.  

His scholarly interest focuses on the theology of John and Charles Wesley and theological developments in the later Methodist/Wesleyan tradition. In addition to numerous articles he is author of Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s Practical Theology, a contributor to Wesley and the Quadrilateral, and editor of Aldersgate Reconsidered,  Rethinking Wesley’s Theology for Contemporary Methodism, The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley, and Volume 12 of The Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley.  Dr. Maddox also headed the project making all of the verse of Charles Wesley available in an online edition at the website for the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School.

Maddox holds the B.A. degree from Northwest Nazarene College, the M.Div. degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in theological studies from Emory University.  He is currently Institute Secretary of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, and General Editor of the John Wesley Works Editorial Project.  He has also served as President of the Wesleyan Theological Society, Co-chair of the Wesley Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion, and General Editor of the Kingswood Books Imprint of Abingdon Press.