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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... tion , even in another age and atmosphere . This volume in A Library of Protestant Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as ...
... tion , even in another age and atmosphere . This volume in A Library of Protestant Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as ...
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... tion , therefore , Wesley may be more readily appreciated as an " ecumeni- cal theologian " than as the eponymous hero of a particular denomination . It is in some such perspective as this that he is presented here - fully and fairly ...
... tion , therefore , Wesley may be more readily appreciated as an " ecumeni- cal theologian " than as the eponymous hero of a particular denomination . It is in some such perspective as this that he is presented here - fully and fairly ...
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... tion and frequent Communion.21 This group had developed a keen inter- the ancient liturgies 2 and the monastic piety of the fourth - century " desert fathers . " It must have seemed natural to everyone involved when John assumed ...
... tion and frequent Communion.21 This group had developed a keen inter- the ancient liturgies 2 and the monastic piety of the fourth - century " desert fathers . " It must have seemed natural to everyone involved when John assumed ...
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... tion of Macarius as a Messalian ( see RGG , IV , 619 ) is gratuitous . What matters most in connection with Wesley is that in the writings of what he thought was " Macarius the Egyptian , " he was actually in touch with Gregory of Nyssa ...
... tion of Macarius as a Messalian ( see RGG , IV , 619 ) is gratuitous . What matters most in connection with Wesley is that in the writings of what he thought was " Macarius the Egyptian , " he was actually in touch with Gregory of Nyssa ...
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... tion as a process rather than a state gave Wesley a spiritual vision quite different from the static perfectionism envisaged in Roman spiritual the- ology of the period and the equally static quietism of those Protestants and Catholics ...
... tion as a process rather than a state gave Wesley a spiritual vision quite different from the static perfectionism envisaged in Roman spiritual the- ology of the period and the equally static quietism of those Protestants and Catholics ...
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