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Editor's Introduction, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

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The Integral Nature Of Worship And Evangelism: Insights From The Wesleyan Tradition, Paul W. Chilcote

The Asbury Journal

This essay explores the fundamental relationship between worship and evangelism through the lens of the hymns and writings of Charles Wesley. After laying a biblical foundation for the integral nature of worship and evangelism based upon Acts 2:46-47 and examining the image of paideia (instruction through action) in Heb. 12:9-10 as a concept implying their integration, the author describes the liturgy of the worshiping community as the primary matrix of evangelistic ministry. The call of the prophet Isaiah (6:2-8) reveals a paradigm related to worship that instructs our understanding of evangelism as well. All true worship and faithful evangelism begins …

Charles Wesley's Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit: A Vital Resource For The Renewal Of Methodism Today, Jason E. Vickers

The Asbury Journal

This essay is an extended argument in favor of a recovery of a robust doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Wesleyan-Methodist theology today The argument develops in five stages. First, it shows the significance of the person and work of the Holy Spirit in Charles Wesley's understanding of revelation, the atonement, purification, sanctification and the like. Second, it suggests that contemporary Wesleyan theologians have often ceased attributing these things to d1e presence and work of the Holy Spirit, opting to attribute them in a generic way to grace instead. Third, it provides a conceptual analysis of the difference between the …

Charles Wesleyana

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Charles Wesley And The Language Of Evangelical Experience: The Poetical Hermeneutic Revisited, John R. Tyson

The Asbury Journal

Charles Wesley is well remembered as the "poet laureate" of Methodism, whose rousing hymns continue to adorn Christian worship. This article suggests that he was also a significant theologian; a theologian of the experimental variety, who used religious experience as a means for translating theological doctrine into the realm of Christian life. Religious experience played an important role in Wesley's poetical approach to the Bible, and allowed him to unite human hearts and minds in biblical affirmations. In this sense, Charles's hymns were aptly described (by John Wesley) as "practical divinity." A close examination of Charles Wesley's vocabulary of religious …

A Christian Response To Islam: Is Islam A Peaceful Religion?, Steven E. Tsoukalas

The Asbury Journal

The following is a lecture delivered on 6 October 2005 as part of the Theta Phi Lecture Series at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky As a Christian response to Islam, it covers several topics in relatively brief fashion. In the evangelistic encounter, the goal of which is a holistic encounter, the Christian must keep in mind the social-religious dynamics ofMuslims and incorporate this knowledge into a missiologically healthy approach that is built on a sound epistemological foundation. In short, for both a Christian response to Islam and evangelism of Muslims, Christians must possess a solid epistemology as foundational to "a …

The Third Moment Of Muslim Witness: John Wesley Had It Right, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

The following is a lecture delivered on 8 October 2005 as part of the Theta Phi Lecture Series at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky. The author suggests that the mission task can be helpfully seen as comprising four moments: the moments of (1) difference, (2) identity, (3) relationship, and (4) witness. Although Christian witnesses have performed admirably well on moments one, two, and four, the reason the Muslim world remains Muslim can be traced to our failures in regard to the third, the Moment of Relationship. Using two sermons by John Wesley, Sermon 63, "The General Spread of the Gospel" …

Charles Wesley's Hymn And Prayer To The Trinity, Howard Snyder, Charles Wesley

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Sermon On The Trinity, Mike Pasquarello

The Asbury Journal

John Wesley: Homiletic Theologian

Book Reviews, William J. Abraham, Elaine A. Heath, Nathan Crawford, Joerg Rieger, J.D. Payne, John N. Oswalt, Michael Rynkiwiech, Charles M. Wood

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Wesleyan Perspectives on the New Creation

M. Douglas Meeks, ed.

Nashville: Kingswood,

2004, 200 pp., paper, 2004, $30.00

Reviewed by William J Abraham

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Eugene H. Peterson

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

2005, xii, 368pp. cloth, $25.00

Reviewed by Elaine A. Heath

The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of an American Religion

By Kenneth J. Collins

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press

2005, 288 pp., paper, $22.99

Reviewed by Nathan Crawford

Theology as History and Hermeneutics: A Post-Critical Evangelical Conversation with Contemporary Theology

Laurence W. Wood

Lexington: Emeth Publisher

2004, 261 pp.

Reviewed by …

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Introduction

Theme Essays - Charles Wesley at 300

The Integral Nature of Worship and Evangelism: Insights from the Wesleyan Tradition

Paul W. Chilcote

Charles Wesley and the Language of Evangelical Experience: The Poetical Hermeneutic Revisited

John R. Tyson

Charles Wesley's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: A Vital Resource for the Renewal of Methodism Today

Jason E. Vickers

Charles Wesleyana

Biography Timeline Bibliography Anniversary Events

Essays

A Christian Response to Islam: Is Islam a Peaceful Religion?

Steven E. Tsoukalas

The Third Moment of Muslim Witness: John Wesley Had It Right

Terry C. Muck

Features

Sermon

"On the …

Editor's Note: Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher's Watchwords, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Watchwords, Gareth Lloyd

The Asbury Journal

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Can Postmodernism Handle The Truth?: A Review Essay, Jerry L. Walls

The Asbury Journal

Truth and the New Kind of Christian
R. Scott Smith
Wheaton: Crossway
2005, 206 pp. paper, $14.99

Whatever Happened to Truth?
Andreas Kostenberger, ed.
Wheaton: Crossway
2005, 173 pp. paper, $15.99

But Is It All True?: The Bible and The Question of Truth
Alan G. Padgett and Patrick R. Keifert
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
2006, 187 pp. paper, $16.00

Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins

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Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit
W. Stephen Gunter
Nashville: Abingdon Press
2005, 335 pp., paper, $33.00
Reviewed by Kenneth ]. Collins

Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality
S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., ed.
Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
2002, 285 pp., paper, $17.95
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice
S. T. Kimbrough Jr., ed.
Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
2005, 330 pp., paper, $17.95
Reviewed by Kenneth J Collins

Grace Notes: Layering Small Grace Upon Small Grace, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

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Journal In Entirety

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial
Terry C. Muck

Introduction to Watchwords
Gareth Lloyd

Watchwords
Names of Christ
Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher

Almighty, Babe, Bread, Bride Groom, Branch, Captain, Consolation, Christ, Cornerstone, Covert, Counsellor, Creditor, Dew, Desire of all the Nations, Door, Eternal Life, Express Image of His Father, Emmanuel, Ensign, Eagle, Foundation, Feeder, Faithful Witness, Fountain, Flesh, Friend of Sinners, Gift, Guide, Glorious, God Manifested in the Flesh, Head, Holy Child, Husband, Horn, Highest, Habitation, Help, Jesus, Jah, Judge, King, Leader, Life, Lion, Ladder of Jacob, Lovely, Long, Suffering, Love, Lamb, Merciful, Messenger, Messiah, Melchisedec, Nazarene, Ointment, Prophet, Purifier, Propitiation, Priest, Passover, Prince …

New Perspectives On Time-Honored Practices: A Review Essay, Virginia Todd Holeman

The Asbury Journal

A Book of Courtesy: The Art of Living with Yourself and Others
Sister M. Mercedes, O.P.
New York, New York: HarperSanFrancisco
2001, xvii; 108 pp. hardback, $14.95

Humility Matters for Practicing the Spiritual Life
Mary Margaret Funk
New York, New York: Continuum
2005, 188 pp. hardback, $19.95

On Apology
Aaron Lazare
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2004, ix, 307 pp. paper, $24.00

Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Paul Woodruff
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2001, x, 248 pp. hardback, $12.95

Watchwords: The Names Of Christ, Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher

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Watchwords: The Names of Christ

• Almighty
• Babe
• Bread
• Bride Groom
• Branch
• Captain
• Consolation
• Christ
• Cornerstone
• Covert
• Counsellor
• Creditor
• Dew
• Desire of all the Nations
• Door
• Eternal Life
• Express Image of His Father
• Emmanuel
• Ensign
• Eagle
• Foundation
• Feeder
• Faithful Witness
• Fountain
• Flesh
• Friend of Sinners
• Gift
• Guide
• Glorious
• God Manifested in the Flesh
• Head
• Holy Child
• Husband
• Horn
• Highest
• Habitation
• Help
• Jesus
• Jah
• Judge
• King
• Leader
• Life
• Lion
• Ladder of Jacob
• Lovely
• Long
• Suffering
• Love
• Lamb
• Merciful
• Messenger
• Messiah
• Melchisedec
• Nazarene
• Ointment
• Prophet
• Purifier
• Propitiation
• Priest
• Passover
• Prince of Life
• Physician
• Rose of Sharon
• Rock
• Refuge
• Sun
• Shepherd
• Tree of Life …