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Introduction: John Wesley's Practical Divinity: A Theology of Holy Love | p. 1 |
John Wesley as a Practical Theologian | p. 1 |
The Style of Wesley's Practical Theology | p. 3 |
The Axial Theme of Wesley's Practical Theology | p. 5 |
The Axial Theme of Holiness and Grace | p. 6 |
Holiness as Holy Love: The First Half of the Axial Theme | p. 6 |
Law and Grace | p. 10 |
Grace: The Other Half of the Axial Theme | p. 11 |
Work of God Alone/Synergism | p. 12 |
Favor/Empowerment | p. 13 |
Receiving/Responding | p. 14 |
Instantaneous/Process | p. 15 |
The Flow of the Book | p. 16 |
The God of Holy Love | p. 19 |
The Personal and Essential Attributes of God | p. 19 |
Holy Love | p. 20 |
Eternity | p. 22 |
Omnipresence | p. 23 |
Omniscience | p. 25 |
Omnipotence | p. 26 |
The Essential Attributes and Predestination | p. 29 |
The Work of God/Father | p. 33 |
Creator | p. 34 |
Sovereign | p. 37 |
Governor | p. 38 |
The Moral Law | p. 39 |
Providential Provider | p. 40 |
Summary of the Attributes | p. 42 |
Today and Tomorrow: Recent Trends in Cosmology | p. 43 |
Humanity: Created in Holy Love, Fallen in Nature | p. 49 |
Humanity Created as Complex Beings | p. 50 |
The Image of God | p. 51 |
The Fall of Humanity | p. 57 |
The Effects of the Fall | p. 59 |
Original Sin | p. 64 |
How Original Sin Is Transferred | p. 66 |
The Consequences of Original Sin | p. 68 |
Total Depravity | p. 70 |
Prevenient Grace | p. 73 |
The Benefits of Prevenient Grace | p. 77 |
Today and Tomorrow: Contemporary Views of the Self | p. 82 |
Jesus Christ: The God of Holy Love Revealed | p. 87 |
The Person of Christ | p. 88 |
The Divine Nature | p. 88 |
The Human Nature | p. 92 |
The Work of Christ | p. 95 |
Prophet | p. 96 |
Priest | p. 98 |
Atonement | p. 99 |
Objective Elements | p. 103 |
Subjective Elements | p. 108 |
King | p. 110 |
Today and Tomorrow: The Christ of the Qur'an | p. 113 |
The Holy Spirit: The Presence of the God of Holy Love | p. 121 |
Administrator of Redemption | p. 122 |
Convincing Grace | p. 122 |
The Moral Law | p. 123 |
The Presence of the Spirit as Holy Love | p. 124 |
The Gifts and Fruit of the Spirit | p. 127 |
The Assurance of the Holy Spirit | p. 129 |
Assurance Nuanced | p. 131 |
The Full Assurance of Faith | p. 136 |
The Question of a Specialized Vocabulary | p. 137 |
The Full Assurance of Hope | p. 140 |
The Perceptibility of Grace | p. 142 |
The Trinity | p. 143 |
The Filioque Clause | p. 144 |
Wesley on Trinitarian Language | p. 145 |
The Trinity and the Language of Holy Love | p. 148 |
Today and Tomorrow: The Rise of Pentecostal Religion | p. 149 |
Justification: The God of Holy Love for Us | p. 155 |
Co-operant Grace (Catholic Emphasis) | p. 155 |
Repentance | p. 156 |
Works Suitable for Repentance | p. 157 |
The Necessity of Repentance and Works Suitable Thereto | p. 158 |
Free Grace (Protestant Emphasis) | p. 160 |
Justifying Faith | p. 165 |
Justification Itself: The First Focus of the Wesleyan Order of Salvation | p. 169 |
Justification as Freedom from Guilt: The First Liberty of the Gospel | p. 172 |
Imputation | p. 174 |
The Question of Sola Fide | p. 176 |
Justification and Regeneration Are Linked | p. 181 |
The Difference between Acceptance and Justification | p. 182 |
Temporal Elements as the Key | p. 184 |
Today and Tomorrow: The Realities of Forgiveness | p. 189 |
The New Birth: The God of Holy Love in Us | p. 195 |
Regenerating Grace as the Favor of God | p. 196 |
Regenerating Grace as the Power of God | p. 197 |
The Contribution of Peter Bohler | p. 199 |
Defining Regeneration | p. 200 |
The New Birth as a Necessary Change | p. 205 |
The New Birth as a Vast Change | p. 207 |
The Influence of German Pietism | p. 208 |
The New Birth as a Crucial Change | p. 211 |
The Contribution of August Hermann Francke | p. 214 |
The Temporal Elements as Key | p. 215 |
The New Birth as Liberating Change: The Second Liberty of the Gospel | p. 217 |
Did Wesley Maintain His Standard of the New Birth? | p. 222 |
The New Birth as the Freedom to Love God and Neighbor | p. 226 |
Today and Tomorrow: Conversion Revisited | p. 229 |
The Church and the Means of Grace: The Community of Holy Love | p. 237 |
The Church | p. 238 |
The Church in Decline | p. 240 |
Methodism as a Reform of the Church | p. 244 |
The Significance of German Pietism and Moravianism | p. 247 |
The Methodist Infrastructure | p. 249 |
The Practical Christian Life | p. 253 |
The Means of Grace | p. 257 |
The Instituted Means of Grace | p. 257 |
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper | p. 259 |
The Sacrament of Baptism | p. 262 |
Prudential Means of Grace | p. 266 |
Works of Mercy | p. 267 |
Today and Tomorrow: What Are They Thinking about Natural Law and Politics? | p. 270 |
Entire Sanctification: The Purity and Excellence of Holy Love | p. 279 |
Evangelical Repentance | p. 280 |
Works Suitable for Repentance | p. 282 |
Faith | p. 286 |
The Balance of Wesley's Conception of Grace | p. 288 |
The Temporal Dimensions of Entire Sanctification | p. 293 |
Entire Sanctification Itself: The Second Focus of the Wesleyan Order of Salvation | p. 297 |
What Entire Sanctification Is Not | p. 298 |
What Entire Sanctification Is: The Third Liberty of the Gospel | p. 300 |
The Full Assurance of Faith | p. 303 |
Pastoral Considerations on the Way to Eternity | p. 304 |
Today and Tomorrow: Rethinking the Wesleyan Ordo Salutis? | p. 307 |
Eschatology and Glorification: The Triumph of Holy Love | p. 313 |
Revivalism and Millennialism | p. 314 |
Eschatology and the Reign of God | p. 316 |
Death | p. 316 |
The Intermediate State | p. 318 |
Resurrection and Judgment | p. 320 |
Final Justification | p. 321 |
The Question of Merit | p. 322 |
The New Creation | p. 324 |
Today and Tomorrow: John Wesley's Practical Theology as a Resource for Discipleship and Service | p. 327 |
Notes | p. 333 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 401 |
Index | p. 413 |
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