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Believers And Engagement In Society: A Review Essay, James R. Thobaben

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A sampling of books from the perspectives of:

Mainliners

Secularists

Roman Catholics

Evangelicals

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

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No abstract provided.

The Spirit, Christian Practices, And The Religions: Theology Of Religions In Pentecostal And Pneumatological Perspective, Amos Yong

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The discussion of Christian theology of religions has focused primarily so far on the question of whether or not the Christian understanding of salvation is available through other religions to their adherents. The predominant responses of exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism have shaped the debate and serve as a typology for organizing the various theologies of religions. While Pentecostals have generally fallen into the exclusivist category - e.g., that salvation is available only to those who have converted to Christian faith - there are also other resources related to their views regarding the universal work of the Holy Spirit that have …

What Is The Range Of Current Teaching On Sanctification And What Ought A Wesleyan To Believe On This Doctrine?, Christopher T. Bounds

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This article seeks to answer two questions: What is the range of teaching on sanctification in Protestantism and what ought a Wesleyan to believe on holiness? In response to the first question, we summarize the different positions on sanctification in the major theological traditions of Protestantism, beginning with the most optimistic views and ending with the most pessimistic. The similarities and differences among the major Christian traditions are brought to the fore, as well as the nuances of understanding among Wesleyan-Arminians. We seek to foster an appreciation for each tradition's understanding of holiness, while arguing for the need of the …

John Wesley's Use Of The Atonement, Darren Cushman Wood

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Even though John Wesley claimed that the atonement was crucial to his theology, he never articulated a systematic theory of the atonement. This paper explores the way in which the atonement functions within his theology as the best approach for deciphering his understanding of the atonement as a foundational concept for his moral theology. The cross functions in his via salutis in two ways. It plays a substitutionary role in the removal of sin and guilt and has a participatory function, through the work of the Holy Spirit, to affect holiness in the life of the believer. These aspects of …

"We Would See Jesus..." A Wesleyan Approach To Three Recent Films, Fred Guyette

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Many Hollywood films are content to offer Americans an escape from the conflicts of contemporary life. A handful of special films lead us instead to probe and question the way we live. Here we look at three films through the lens of John Wesley's theology: Forrest Gump, Babbette's Feast, and Places in the Heart. The aims of the essay are threefold: (1) to initiate a more meaningful conversation about the way film can help us raise religious questions, (2) to learn more about God's power to renew His image in our lives, and (3) to seek the transformation of society …

The Eucharist: A Disputed Question, Leon O. Hynson

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No abstract provided.

Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins

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Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History
Riley B. Case
Nashville: Abingdon Press
2004, 32 pp. paper, $25.00
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
New York: Twelve Press
2007, 307 pp. paper, $14.99
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Sanctified Sanity: The Life and Teaching of Samuel Logan Brengle
David Rightmire
Alexandria, Virginia: Crest Books
2003, 235 pp. paper, No price given.
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Wesley and Men Who Followed
Iain H. Murray
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust
2003, 210 pp. paper, $21.00
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

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

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God's truth comes to us from different places at different times. Each truth event sounds a small note of grace that together, if we listen, make up the musical score of God active in the world today. Listen to these ten small notes ofgrace from ten recent books.

Journal In Entirety

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Spirit, Christian Practice, and the Religions: Theology of Religions in Pentecostal and Pneumatological Perspective
Amos Yong

What is the Range of Current Teaching on Sanctification and What Ought a Wesleyan to Believe on this Doctrine?
Christopher T. Bounds

John Wesley's Use of the Atonement
Darren Cushman Wood

"We Would See Jesus..." A Wesleyan Approach to Three Recent Films
Fred Guyette

The Twentieth Century Holiness Movement and Korean Holiness Groups
Myung Soo Park

The Eucharist: A Disputed Question
Leon 0. Hynson

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Book Reviews

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Situating The Word: The Significance Of Christian Space For Evangelism, Laceye Warner

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With Protestant denominational membership declining steadily, and at times dramatically, since the 1960s, numerous local churches eagerly search for ways to attract new members. In efforts to reverse this trend, or at least slow it down, many have turned to techniques more informed by market logic and capitalist ideologies than the triune God revealed in biblical texts. One such technique insists upon creating "gathering spaces" with little if any evidence of Christian identity. Not even the nomenclature (e.g. "gathering space" instead of "worship space" or "sanctuary") indicates the nature of the purposes intended for these spaces. Many conclude the more …

Dramatic Enactment Of Christian Faith: A Review Essay, Sarah Heaner Lancaster

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The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story

Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic

2004, 252 pp. paper, $19.99

Theology and the Drama of History, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine series

Ben Quash

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2005, xiv, 235 pp. hardcover, $15.00

The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press

2005, 488 pp. paper, $39.95

Anticipating The New Creation: Wesleyan Foundations For Holistic Mission, Randy L. Maddox

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This essay provides a brief orientation to the public debate over the last forty years about the implications of the Christian worldview for environmental concern. It then explores the mature writings of John Wesley (and some of Charles Wesley's hymns), seeking to highlight those convictions that emphasize God's care for the whole creation and that call upon us to participate in this care. These Wesleyan convictions are developed in direct dialogue with the most common charges leveled against the Christian worldview as unsupportive or even detrimental to environmental concern. The article also highlights how Wesley sharpened his commitment to those …

Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins, Frances S. Adeney

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An Introduction to World Methodism

Kenneth Cracknell and Susan J. White

New York: Cambridge University Press

2005, 298 pp., paper, $24.99

Reviewed by Kenneth J Collins

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit

David Hempton

New Haven: Yale University Press

2005, 304 pp., paper, $18.00

Reviewed by Kenneth J Collins

Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities

Roger E. Olson

Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press

2006, 250 pp., paper, $25.00

Reviewed by Kenneth J Collins

Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

Mark W. T. Harvey

Seattle: University of Washington Press

2005, 325 pp., cloth, $35.00

Reviewed by Frances S. …

Paved With Good Intention...Sometimes: A Review Essay, Randy Woodley

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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

John Tayman

New York, NY: A Lisa Drew Book-Scribner

2006, 421 pp., hardcover, $27.50

By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans

Greg Robinson.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

2001, 322 pp., paper, $19.95

The 20th Century Holiness Movement And Korean Holiness Groups, Myung Soo Park

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The Korean Christianity has been influenced by the American mission work whether its influence is good or bad. This study demonstrates how much the holiness movements in America have changed Korea Holiness churches. A schism among the American Holiness churches brought another one among Korean people; a revival in America brought another one in Korea. A theological change in American Holiness circle made the same kind of change in Korea. Therefore, we might study the Korea Holiness movement in relations with American Holiness movement.

Editor's Introduction, Terry C. Muck

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

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

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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 …

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

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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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Biography

Timeline

Bibliography

Anniversary Events

Sermon On The Trinity, Mike Pasquarello

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John Wesley: Homiletic Theologian

Journal In Entirety

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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

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No abstract provided.

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

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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

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

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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

No abstract provided.

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 …

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 …