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Author | : Edgardo Antonio Colón-Emeric |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Employing fresh readings, the author examines & underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas & John Wesley, & finds them to be largely complementary.
Author | : John Wesley |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2023-11-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
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A Plain Account of Christian Perfection by John Wesley is about the theory of perfection according to Christian theology. Excerpt: "1. WHAT I purpose in the following pages is, to give a plain and distinct account of the steps by which I was led, during the course of many years, to embrace the doctrine of Christian Perfection. This I owe to the serious part of mankind; those who desire to know all the truth as it is in Jesus. And these only are concerned with questions of this kind. To these I would nakedly declare the thing as it is, endeavoring all along to show, from one period to another, both what I thought, and why I thought so."
Author | : John Wesley |
Publisher | : Whitaker House |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1629113018 |
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John Wesley offers a comprehensive teaching on the doctrine of Christian perfection. In it, he describes the evolution of his own theological reasoning, telling the story of how he came to understand and preach this doctrine in his own life.
Author | : John Wesley |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1785 |
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Download A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, as Believed and Taught by the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, from the Year 1725, to the Year 1777. The Fifth Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Wesley |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Christian life |
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Author | : John Wesley |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Perfection |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1763 |
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Download Farther Thoughts upon Christian Perfection. [By John Wesley.] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edgardo Antonio Colón-Emeric |
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Perfection |
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Methodists and Catholics have enjoyed almost forty years of ecumenical dialogue. From the beginning of these conversations, both sides were pleased to discover a certain spiritual kinship: sanctification lay at the heart of both their soteriologies. However, in spite of this harmony of wills with respect to the goal of the Christian life, the doctrine of Christian perfection or "perfect love", as Wesley preferred to call it, has not been the subject of sustained ecumenical inquiry. In light of the continuing need for ecumenical rapprochement, this dissertation studies the doctrine of perfection as taught by John Wesley and Thomas Aquinas. A close reading of the chief texts by these two theologians, in critical conversation with their respective interpretive traditions, yields important ecumenical insights. First, this dissertation underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for both Aquinas's and Wesley's theologies. Perfection is the organizational principle of the Summa Theologiae and Wesley's missiological imperative. Moreover in their exposition of this doctrine, both Wesley and Aquinas emphasize some of the same common elements: the importance of beatitude, the centrality of love, the universality of the call to perfection, the importance of the life of the virtues and the social character of holiness. Second, in light of these convergences, this dissertation proposes that the respective theological approaches of Aquinas and Wesley are largely complementary. Aquinas offers Methodists the speculative theological principles that Wesley considered to fall outside "practical divinity" and hence never developed. Wesley offers Catholics another practitioner of perfection next to the likes of St. John of the Cross who applies the speculative theology of Thomas Aquinas in a practical way, a way leading not up Mount Carmel to a life of contemplation but down the plain to a life of action. Finally, perhaps the most important conclusion of this dissertation is the claim that a generous reception of the teaching of Aquinas and Wesley on perfection offers the Church catholic a grammar of holiness which empowers the practice of a "kneeling ecumenism" that both affirms and recognizes the ecclesial significance of sanctity.
Author | : John Wesley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Methodism |
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Author | : John Wesley |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Holiness |
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