Indispensable to the scholar, bibliographer, or librarian specializing in the Methodist tradition. --METHODIST HISTORY This essential research tool continues to live up to its initial standards of excellence and makes students impatient to see the set completed. --RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW

"In this biography, Patrick Streiff, himself a Swiss theologian, traces Fletcher's development as a Christian, a pastor and a theologian, and gives a perceptive account of the inward and outward conflicts which marked his ministry. Based on thorough research in the primary sources, it draws from more than 150 letters written by Fletcher which were completely or partly unknown before, and publishes for the first time theological notes written by Fletcher in his last years. The treatment that emerges is the most complete and authoritative available in English, and relates its subject to the wider historical and philosophical challenges of the day." --Book Jacket.