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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... truth in the conventional Methodist stereotypes of him that he was not a theologian's theologian . His chief intellectual interest , and achievement , was in what one could call a folk theology : the Chris- tian message in its fullness ...
... truth in the conventional Methodist stereotypes of him that he was not a theologian's theologian . His chief intellectual interest , and achievement , was in what one could call a folk theology : the Chris- tian message in its fullness ...
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... truth , related always to the exigencies of his life and work . From the beginning of his long career to its end he was in one controversy after another - but his zeal in such battles came chiefly from his sense of responsibility for ...
... truth , related always to the exigencies of his life and work . From the beginning of his long career to its end he was in one controversy after another - but his zeal in such battles came chiefly from his sense of responsibility for ...
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... truth and efficacy of the gospel in the circumstances of the Revival . In the notes more attention is paid to Wesley's " sources " and con- temporaries than to his disciples . This follows from the conviction that he is more fruitfully ...
... truth and efficacy of the gospel in the circumstances of the Revival . In the notes more attention is paid to Wesley's " sources " and con- temporaries than to his disciples . This follows from the conviction that he is more fruitfully ...
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... truth ' ; secondly , an ex- tract from the life of some holy man , whether Lutheran , Church of England man , Calvinist or Arminian ; thirdly , accounts and letters , containing the experience of pious persons , the greatest part of ...
... truth ' ; secondly , an ex- tract from the life of some holy man , whether Lutheran , Church of England man , Calvinist or Arminian ; thirdly , accounts and letters , containing the experience of pious persons , the greatest part of ...
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... truth . It was of set purpose that he held the Revival to his own compounded premise of " salvation , faith and good works . " This put him into tension with other viewpoints in which , as it seemed to him , the essential in- tegrity ...
... truth . It was of set purpose that he held the Revival to his own compounded premise of " salvation , faith and good works . " This put him into tension with other viewpoints in which , as it seemed to him , the essential in- tegrity ...
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