New Creation John Wesley's Theology Today

Name: New Creation John Wesley's Theology Today
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ISBN: 9780687096022

ISBN-10: 0687096022

ISBN-13: 9780687096022

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Authors: Theodore Runyon

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Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses.Runyon sets Wesley's own discussion of the "way of salvation" in the larger context of Christian doctrine, beginning with the Creation (and the Fall) and moving through the drama of salvation towards its eschatological fulfillment in the "new creation" of all things."This is for me the Wesley book at the end of the century, with new perspectives for the next millennium. Reliable in historical research, brilliantly written, it offers the social witness of John Wesley for today's crises. Professor Runyon gives a coherent picture of Wesley's theology for the Christian…

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List price: $30.99
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 4/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The New Creation



The Renewal of the Image of God


The Natural Image


The Political Image


The Moral Image


Original Sin and the Human Condition Apart from Grace



Grace in the New Creation


Prevenient Grace


Justifying Grace


Assurance



Transforming Grace


Regeneration


Sanctifying Grace


Entire Sanctification and Christian Perfection



The Christian Community and the Means of Grace


The Importance of the Means of Grace


Societies, Classes, Bands, and Empowerment


The Sacraments



Orthopathy and Religious Experience


Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy, and Orthopathy


The Perceptibility of Grace


Defining "Experience"


Feelings as "Sacramental"


Identifying Marks of Orthopathy



Wesley for Today


Human Rights


Poverty and the Rights of the Poor


The Rights of Women


Environmental Stewardship


Wesley's Ecumenism


Combining Tolerance and Conviction: The Challenge of Pluralism


Conclusion: Rethinking Sanctification


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index of Subjects


Index of Names