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Scripture’s legal address is the church. Not only was Scripture formed for its various uses there, but its essential nature is decided by what the church believes about this biblical word. This matter is not incidental but pivotal to its in…
Nov/01/2009
The “Culture Wars” of the last several decades have pitted those who think of America as fundamentally a Christian nation against those who see America as essentially secular. Hosts of books and internet sites purport to prove one side or t…
Nov/01/2009
Philosophers are bound to have, along with a favorite philosophical hero, a favorite philosophical whipping boy. For many post-foundationalists, perhaps the favorite whipping boy is the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes. But be…
Apr/01/2009
According to Francis Watson, theological interpretation is but one subset of “a new paradigm for biblical interpretation [that] has begun to take shape and to establish itself” (Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology [Eerdmans, 1997] …
Apr/01/2009
Jean Guillaume de la Fléchère was born in 1729 in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. He attended the academy in Geneva (later, the University of Geneva), although it is not clear how long he was there. He emigrated to England at the a…
Apr/01/2009
John Wesley’s sermon “Catholic Spirit” has been rightly seen as a landmark statement in support of Christian unity. What has sometimes been missed is how in this sermon Wesley transcends either/or thinking.
His central argument is that a…
Apr/01/2009
John R. Mott—ecumenical Christian, statesman, and Nobel Prize winner—was a Methodist layman whose lifelong aim was to mobilize lay and ordained Christians for social and evangelical concerns. Exactly one century ago, Mott called his contemp…
Mar/01/2009
Numerous scholars have explored Wesleyan contributions to social reform and justice concerns, noting the complex history and multiple trajectories (cf., e.g., D. Dayton, R. Heitzenrater, T. Jennings, R. Maddox, M. Marquardt, M. Meeks, T. Sm…
Mar/01/2009
Despite the apparent prevalence of family matters in the practice of medicine (as well as, of course, the reverse—the prevalence of medical matters in the practice of family), an understanding of the goods and goals of family is conspicuous…
Mar/01/2009
Roger Olson is a prominent evangelical theologian, who champions Arminianism, reflective of the 16th-century theology of Jacob Arminius. Olson laments that few refer to the term Arminianism even though many Christians, especially evangelica…
Mar/01/2009
For John Wesley the means of grace were the environment in which persons first came to know and love God, and then grew in their relationship with God. They were essentially human practices or activities through which the Holy Spirit worked…
Mar/01/2009
At the level of basic principles, a Wesleyan environmental ethic should be fairly obvious and straightforward—right? Wesley’s accent on love for God and neighbor means loving all that God has made (including the created order) and everythin…
Feb/01/2009
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