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| Introduction: John Wesley's Practical Divinity: A Theology of Holy Love | |
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| John Wesley as a Practical Theologian | |
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| The Style of Wesley's Practical Theology | |
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| The Axial Theme of Wesley's Practical Theology | |
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| The Axial Theme of Holiness and Grace | |
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| Holiness as Holy Love: The First Half of the Axial Theme | |
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| Law and Grace | |
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| Grace: The Other Half of the Axial Theme | |
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| Work of God Alone/Synergism | |
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| Favor/Empowerment | |
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| Receiving/Responding | |
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| Instantaneous/Process | |
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| The Flow of the Book | |
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| The God of Holy Love | |
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| The Personal and Essential Attributes of God | |
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| Holy Love | |
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| Eternity | |
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| Omnipresence | |
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| Omniscience | |
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| Omnipotence | |
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| The Essential Attributes and Predestination | |
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| The Work of God/Father | |
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| Creator | |
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| Sovereign | |
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| Governor | |
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| The Moral Law | |
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| Providential Provider | |
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| Summary of the Attributes | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: Recent Trends in Cosmology | |
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| Humanity: Created in Holy Love, Fallen in Nature | |
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| Humanity Created as Complex Beings | |
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| The Image of God | |
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| The Fall of Humanity | |
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| The Effects of the Fall | |
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| Original Sin | |
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| How Original Sin Is Transferred | |
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| The Consequences of Original Sin | |
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| Total Depravity | |
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| Prevenient Grace | |
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| The Benefits of Prevenient Grace | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: Contemporary Views of the Self | |
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| Jesus Christ: The God of Holy Love Revealed | |
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| The Person of Christ | |
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| The Divine Nature | |
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| The Human Nature | |
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| The Work of Christ | |
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| Prophet | |
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| Priest | |
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| Atonement | |
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| Objective Elements | |
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| Subjective Elements | |
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| King | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: The Christ of the Qur'an | |
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| The Holy Spirit: The Presence of the God of Holy Love | |
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| Administrator of Redemption | |
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| Convincing Grace | |
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| The Moral Law | |
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| The Presence of the Spirit as Holy Love | |
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| The Gifts and Fruit of the Spirit | |
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| The Assurance of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Assurance Nuanced | |
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| The Full Assurance of Faith | |
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| The Question of a Specialized Vocabulary | |
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| The Full Assurance of Hope | |
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| The Perceptibility of Grace | |
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| The Trinity | |
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| The Filioque Clause | |
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| Wesley on Trinitarian Language | |
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| The Trinity and the Language of Holy Love | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: The Rise of Pentecostal Religion | |
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| Justification: The God of Holy Love for Us | |
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| Co-operant Grace (Catholic Emphasis) | |
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| Repentance | |
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| Works Suitable for Repentance | |
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| The Necessity of Repentance and Works Suitable Thereto | |
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| Free Grace (Protestant Emphasis) | |
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| Justifying Faith | |
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| Justification Itself: The First Focus of the Wesleyan Order of Salvation | |
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| Justification as Freedom from Guilt: The First Liberty of the Gospel | |
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| Imputation | |
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| The Question of Sola Fide | |
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| Justification and Regeneration Are Linked | |
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| The Difference between Acceptance and Justification | |
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| Temporal Elements as the Key | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: The Realities of Forgiveness | |
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| The New Birth: The God of Holy Love in Us | |
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| Regenerating Grace as the Favor of God | |
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| Regenerating Grace as the Power of God | |
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| The Contribution of Peter Bohler | |
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| Defining Regeneration | |
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| The New Birth as a Necessary Change | |
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| The New Birth as a Vast Change | |
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| The Influence of German Pietism | |
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| The New Birth as a Crucial Change | |
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| The Contribution of August Hermann Francke | |
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| The Temporal Elements as Key | |
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| The New Birth as Liberating Change: The Second Liberty of the Gospel | |
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| Did Wesley Maintain His Standard of the New Birth? | |
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| The New Birth as the Freedom to Love God and Neighbor | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: Conversion Revisited | |
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| The Church and the Means of Grace: The Community of Holy Love | |
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| The Church | |
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| The Church in Decline | |
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| Methodism as a Reform of the Church | |
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| The Significance of German Pietism and Moravianism | |
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| The Methodist Infrastructure | |
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| The Practical Christian Life | |
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| The Means of Grace | |
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| The Instituted Means of Grace | |
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| The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper | |
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| The Sacrament of Baptism | |
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| Prudential Means of Grace | |
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| Works of Mercy | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: What Are They Thinking about Natural Law and Politics? | |
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| Entire Sanctification: The Purity and Excellence of Holy Love | |
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| Evangelical Repentance | |
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| Works Suitable for Repentance | |
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| Faith | |
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| The Balance of Wesley's Conception of Grace | |
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| The Temporal Dimensions of Entire Sanctification | |
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| Entire Sanctification Itself: The Second Focus of the Wesleyan Order of Salvation | |
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| What Entire Sanctification Is Not | |
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| What Entire Sanctification Is: The Third Liberty of the Gospel | |
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| The Full Assurance of Faith | |
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| Pastoral Considerations on the Way to Eternity | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: Rethinking the Wesleyan Ordo Salutis? | |
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| Eschatology and Glorification: The Triumph of Holy Love | |
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| Revivalism and Millennialism | |
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| Eschatology and the Reign of God | |
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| Death | |
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| The Intermediate State | |
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| Resurrection and Judgment | |
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| Final Justification | |
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| The Question of Merit | |
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| The New Creation | |
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| Today and Tomorrow: John Wesley's Practical Theology as a Resource for Discipleship and Service | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |