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Preface | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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The Teaching Homily as Christian Doctrine | |
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The Scope of Wesley's Teaching | |
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The Teaching Homily | |
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The Whole Compass of Divinity | |
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Wesley's Evangelical Connection of Spiritual Formation | |
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The Connection | |
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The Scope of Wesleyan Connection Today | |
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My Purpose | |
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Why I Write on Wesley: A Note on Vocation | |
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Clear Exposition | |
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Adhering to Primary Sources | |
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History and Doctrine | |
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The Chief Mentor of Modern Wesley Studies | |
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Whether Wesley Was a Systematic Theologian | |
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How to Make Practical Use of This Study | |
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God and Providence | |
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God | |
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Attributes of God | |
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The Eternity of God | |
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Time | |
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The Omnipresence of God | |
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The Unity of the Divine Being | |
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Relational Attributes: Goodness, Mercy, Holiness, Spirit | |
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God, Happiness, and Religion | |
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True and False Religion | |
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The Wisdom of God's Counsels | |
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The First Article of the Articles of Religion: On God | |
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God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit | |
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On the Trinity | |
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Spiritual Worship - On Triune Spirituality | |
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The Primacy of Scripture | |
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The Authority of Scripture | |
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The Primacy and Normative Authority of the Plain Sense of Scripture | |
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The Analogy of Faith | |
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Spirit and Scripture | |
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Scripture, Conscience, and General Revelation | |
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The Inspiration of Holy Scripture | |
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A Clear and Concise Demonstration of the Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture | |
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Wesley as Commentator on Scripture | |
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On Corrupting the Word of God | |
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Interlude: God's Particular Method of Working | |
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Tradition | |
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Tradition as the Consensual Reception of the Apostolic Teaching | |
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The Unchanging Apostolic Tradition of Scripture Teaching through Changing History | |
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Wesley as Editor of Classic Christian Writings | |
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Reason | |
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On Reason | |
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Reason as God's Gift | |
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Reasoning Out of Scripture | |
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The Case of Reason Impartially Considered | |
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What Reason Can and Cannot Do | |
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The Imperfection of Human Knowledge | |
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Natural Philosophy | |
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Whether There Is Gradual Improvement in Natural Philosophy | |
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On Human Understanding | |
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Experience | |
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On Experience | |
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The Necessity and Limits of Experience in Religion | |
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On Spiritual Senses | |
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On Living without God-The Parable of the Tree Toad | |
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The New Birth of the Spiritual Senses | |
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On Enthusiasm | |
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The Nature of Enthusiasm | |
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Types of Enthusiasm | |
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How Scripture Corrects Experience | |
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The Catholic Spirit | |
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The Premise of Tolerance | |
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Challenging Latitudinarianism | |
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To a Roman Catholic-An Irenic Letter | |
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A Caution against Bigotry | |
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Why Bigotry Is an Offense against the Catholic Spirit | |
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How the Spirit of Bigotry Is Tested | |
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How to Examine Our Own Bigotry | |
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Creation, Providence, and Evil | |
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The Goodness of Creation | |
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God's Approbation of His Works | |
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The Free-Will Defense | |
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Spiritual Creation | |
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Of Good Angels | |
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Of Evil Angels | |
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Providence | |
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On Divine Providence | |
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Special Providence | |
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On God's Sovereignty | |
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Theodicy | |
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Whence Comes Evil? | |
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The Promise of Understanding in the Future | |
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Evil | |
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On Natural Evil | |
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The Groaning of Creation and the General Deliverance | |
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Man | |
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Human Existence: Created, Fallen, and Redeemed | |
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The Anthropology of the Articles of Religion | |
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Free Will after the Fall (Article 8) | |
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The Image of God | |
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In His Own Image | |
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Whether the Image of God May Be Recovered | |
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What Is Man? Two Discourses | |
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Man in Space, Man in Time (First Discourse) | |
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On the Greatness of the Human Soul within Space and Time | |
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Suppose There Were Other Worlds | |
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I Find Something in Me That Thinks (Second Discourse) | |
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Human Life a Dream | |
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Heavenly Treasure in Earthen Vessels | |
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Countering the Overreach of Natural Science | |
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Sin | |
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On the Deceitfulness of the Human Heart | |
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Why Optimists Forever Misjudge the Human Heart | |
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Toward Scriptural Realism about the Human Heart: Why Desperately Wicked? | |
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Why Deceitful above All Things? | |
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Toward the Mending of the Self-Deceived Will | |
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On the Fall of Man | |
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Why Does God Allow Misery and Heartache in the World He Loves? | |
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The Consequence of Sin for the Body-Soul Composite | |
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Spiritual Idolatry | |
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Keep Yourselves from Idols | |
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Idolatry in the Form of Sensuality | |
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Idolatry in the Form of Pride | |
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The Idols of Imagination | |
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Inordinate Love of Money and Sex | |
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Whether Penitent Faith Can Break the Bondage of Idolatry | |
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Original Sin | |
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The Doctrine of Original Sin according to Scripture, Reason, and Experience | |
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Why Wesley Wrote His Longest Treatise on Sin | |
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Whether Sin Is a Socially Transmitted Disease | |
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Combating the Deist Denial of Original Sin: A Searching Response to John Taylor | |
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Evidences of Sin Displayed in the History of Sin | |
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Human History Attests the Universality of Corruption | |
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Whether Human Corruptibility and Misery Are Found Universally | |
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Sociological Evidences of the Universality of Human Corruption | |
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The Universality of Sin in Nontheistic Cultures | |
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The Universality of Sin in Theistic Cultures | |
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The Universality of Sin in Predominantly Christian Cultures | |
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Whether War Is a Prototype of Social Sin | |
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Experiential Self-Examination Confirms the Universality of Sin | |
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The Unhappiness of Universal Human History Is Due to the Unholiness of Human Choices | |
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Learning from Scripture about Original Sin | |
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From the Beginning | |
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Whether One Suffers from Another's Sin | |
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Sin and Death | |
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Distinguishing Temporal Death from Spiritual Death | |
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Whether Redemption in Christ Makes Up for Losses Suffered in Adam | |
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The Westminster Catechism on Original Sin | |
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Adam's Headship with Eve's Cooperation | |
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Adam as a Public Person: On Federal Headship | |
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The Consequence of Adam's Fall for Subsequent Human History | |
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The Abyss into Which Humanity Plunged | |
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Distinguishing Original Sin from Actual Sin | |
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Answering Questions on the Insidious Spread of Sin | |
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The Intergenerational Sociality of Sin | |
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The Communication of the Sin of Adam and Eve to All Humanity | |
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Whether Loss of Communion with God Sharpens the Sting of Unexplained Suffering | |
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Whether There Remains a Natural Tendency to Sin | |
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Whether Guilt May be Imputed from One to Another | |
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The Hidden Link between Redemption and Original Sin | |
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Original Sin and New Birth | |
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Retraining Wesley's Doctrine within Contemporary Culture | |
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Conclusion | |
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Alphabetical Correlation of the Sermons in the Jackson and Bicentennial Editions | |
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Bicentennial Volume Titles Published to Date | |
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Subject Index | |
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Scripture Index | |