John Wesley's Conceptions and Uses of Christian Antiquity
Title | John Wesley's Conceptions and Uses of Christian Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Allen Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1984 |
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John Wesley's Conception and Use of Scripture
Title | John Wesley's Conception and Use of Scripture PDF eBook |
Author | Bishop Scott J. Jones |
Publisher | Kingswood Books |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1995-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1501834339 |
Despite wide acceptance of the "Wesleyan quadrilateral", significant disagreements have arisen in both academic and church circles about the degree to which Scripture stood in a place of theological primacy for Wesley, or should do so for modern Methodists, and about the proper and appropriate methods of interpreting Scripture. In this important work, Scott J. Jones offers a full-scale investigation of John Wesley's conception and use of Scripture. The results of this careful and thorough investigation are sometimes surprising. Jones argues that for Wesley, religious authority is constituted not by a "quadrilateral", but by a fivefold but unitary locus comprising Scripture, reason, Christian antiquity, the Church of England, and experience. He shows that in actual practice Wesley's reliance on the entire Christian tradition - in particular of the early church and of the Church of England - is far heavier than his stated conception of Scripture would seem to allow, and that Wesley stresses the interdependence of the five dimensions of religious authority for Christian faith and practice.
John Wesley and Christian Antiquity
Title | John Wesley and Christian Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Offers a critical way of understanding Wesley and the larger phenomenon of the eighteenth century evangelical revival. Campbell argues that Christian Antiquity functioned for Wesley as an alternative cultural vision for religious renewal, much in the same way that classical antiquity served as a cultural model for secular Enlightenment thinkers.
John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity
Title | John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 031075321X |
This important work condenses the teachings of John Wesley--18 massive teachings and writings--into one remarkably consistent, highly accessible volume for the masses. This first book in a series is based primarily on Wesley's sermons. Later books will deal with his pastoral and ethical teachings. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
A Man Of One Book?
Title | A Man Of One Book? PDF eBook |
Author | Donald A. Bullen |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1556354908 |
John Wesley claimed to be a man of one book, and early Wesley scholarship accepted uncritically that the Bible was his supreme authority. In the late twentieth century, American Wesley scholars discussed what has been termed the Wesley Quadrilateral (the authority of the Bible, tradition, reason, and experience), and this to some extent helps explain the method by which Wesley read and interpreted the Bible. However, modern biblical reader-response criticism has drawn attention to the central role of the reader in his/her interpretation of scriptural texts. Donald Bullen argues that Wesley came to the Bible as a reader with the presuppositions of an eighteenth-century High Church, Arminian Anglican, in which tradition he had grown up. He then found his beliefs confirmed in the scriptural text. Claiming to base all his beliefs on the Bible, he found himself in controversy with others who made similar claims but came to different conclusions. The implications of this are explored in depth.
John Wesley's Teachings, Volume 2
Title | John Wesley's Teachings, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | Zondervan Academic |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-08-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310492688 |
The first presentation of John Wesley's doctrinal teachings in a systematic form that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings in ebook format. Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture, yet it is commonly held that he was not systematic or internally consistent in his theology and doctrinal teachings. On the contrary, Thomas C. Oden intends to demonstrate here that Wesley displayed a remarkable degree of consistency over sixty years of preaching and ministry. The book helps readers to grasp Wesley's essential teachings in an accessible form so that the person desiring to go directly to Wesley's own writings (which fill eighteen volumes) will know exactly where to turn.
Men of One Book
Title | Men of One Book PDF eBook |
Author | Ian J Maddock |
Publisher | Lutterworth Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2012-08-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0718840933 |
The proposal of this book is to guide the reader to the contrastive ministries of the two most dominant preachers of the eighteen-century evangelical revival. In a wonderful comparative approach the author draws John Wesley and George Whitefield's portraits and explores their life and practice, as well as their relationship. Committed to the principle that the 'whole world was their parish', Wesley and Whitefield manifested their singular desire to be men of one book through preaching ministries that were equally committed to the spread of the gospel throughout the transatlantic world.