John WesleyOxford University Press, 1980 M11 13 - 528 pages A major figure in eighteenth-century Christianity, John Wesley sought to combine the essential elements of the Catholic and Evangelical traditions and to restore to the laity a vital role in church life. He began one of the most dynamic movements in the history of modern Protestantism, a movement which eventually produced the Methodist churches. This volume offers a representative selection of theological writings by Wesley and includes historically oriented introductions and footnotes which indicate Wesley's Anglican, patristic, and biblical sources. |
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... least one reason why the common people heard him gladly and responded to him as one of their own . The other side of the same profile , however , poses a very different picture - anything but commonplace . From this angle he appears as ...
... least one reason why the common people heard him gladly and responded to him as one of their own . The other side of the same profile , however , poses a very different picture - anything but commonplace . From this angle he appears as ...
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... least , they make rather tedious reading . But they served their purpose in their time which was more to lift the morale of his own people under the poundings of disapproval and the seductions of error than to silence or convert their ...
... least , they make rather tedious reading . But they served their purpose in their time which was more to lift the morale of his own people under the poundings of disapproval and the seductions of error than to silence or convert their ...
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... least , Wesley's own unwearied and unanxious diligence , his stress upon the serene strenu- ousness of the Christian life . The essence of faith , whether at the threshold or in its fullness , has always to do with man's immediate and ...
... least , Wesley's own unwearied and unanxious diligence , his stress upon the serene strenu- ousness of the Christian life . The essence of faith , whether at the threshold or in its fullness , has always to do with man's immediate and ...
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... least a possibility seemed to Wesley to imply that deliberate sin is inevitable and unavoidable — which would be to say that man was made to sin and that his sinful disposition is invinci- ble . But this effectively impugns God's ...
... least a possibility seemed to Wesley to imply that deliberate sin is inevitable and unavoidable — which would be to say that man was made to sin and that his sinful disposition is invinci- ble . But this effectively impugns God's ...
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... least original elements in his theology belong together . His doctrine of grace as preventing , co - operant and sanctifying is hardly to be found , in the form he developed it , anywhere else in the body of An- glican divinity . It is ...
... least original elements in his theology belong together . His doctrine of grace as preventing , co - operant and sanctifying is hardly to be found , in the form he developed it , anywhere else in the body of An- glican divinity . It is ...
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