Dr. Russell E. Richey, Dean Emeritus
Dr. Richey serves as vice president of the Wesley Works Editorial Project 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, the UMC Faith and Order Committee, and the North Georgia Board of Ordained Ministry. A senior fellow at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion, he is active in the Christian Jurisprudence project. His research interest focuses on American religious history, with special emphases including Methodism, comparative denominational studies, and American civil or public religion. His current book project is a two-volume work on the Methodist experience in America. Dr. Richey is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church.
Education
- PhD, Princeton University, 1970
- MA, Princeton University, 1968
- MDiv, Union Theological Seminary, 1966
- BA, Wesleyan University (CT), 1963
Publications
- 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), co-author
- 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