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Practical divinity : theology in the Wesleyan tradition / Thomas A. Langford.

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A living tradition. Within the holy, catholic, apostolic Church ; Beginnings ; The formation of Wesley's theology -- Scriptural Christianity : John Wesley's theology of grace. Justification ; Prevenient grace ; Assurance ; Christian perfection ; The Church ; Means of grace ; Conclusion -- Interpreters and successors : Wesleyan theology in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. John Fletcher ; The nineteenth century ; Adam Clarke ; Richard Watson ; William Burt Pope ; Hugh Price Hughes ; Conclusion -- The Americanization of Wesleyan theology. Theological beginnings ; Wesleyan and Calvinistic theology ; Growth and division ; Holiness controversy : an internal debate ; Conclusion -- Dimensions of being human : the late nineteenth century in North America. A change of emphasis ; Systematic theologians ; The final quarter ; John Miley ; Black Methodist theologians ; Borden Parker Bowne ; Biblical interpretation ; An overview -- Holiness theology. Systematic theology ; H. Orton Wiley ; Connections and differences ; Mildred Bangs Wynkoop ; Concurring voices ; Conclusion -- Twentieth-century British Methodism. John Scott Lidgett ; Biblical theology ; Theological interpreters ; New voices ; Geoffrey Wainwright ; Tradition -- Theology of experience : the beginning of a new century. Sheldon and Curtis : the transition begins ; Edgar S. Brightman ; Albert C. Knudson ; Harris Franklin Rall ; An intruding voice ; Wilbur Fisk Tillett and Gilbert T. Rowe ; Transition -- Continuity and change in North American Methodist theology. Georgia Harkness and L. Harold DeWolf ; A manifesto ; Edward T. Ramsdell ; Neo-Wesleyan theology ; Albert C. Outler ; Robert E. Cushman ; A present direction ; An overview -- Recent and contemporary directions in North American Methodist theology. Carl Michalson ; Thomas C. Oden ; James H. Cone ; Major J. Jones ; Process theology ; John B. Cobb, Jr. ; Schubert M. Ogden ; An overview -- Unity in diversity : indigenous theologies. German Methodism ; A world movement ; Daniel T. Niles ; José Míguez-Bonino ; Emerito P. Nacpil ; Other international voices ; An overview -- The character of Wesleyan theology. Center and circumference ; Biblical witness to Jesus Christ ; Vital experience of God ; Ethical expression ; Church as mission ; A living tradition.

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BX8331.2.L26

Publisher

Nashville : Abingdon Press., 1983

Physical Description

303 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0687333261

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Christian Denominations
Methodist Church -- Doctrines -- History. Methodi

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