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Author : Robert G. Tuttle
Publisher : Francis Asbury Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mysticism in the Wesleyan Tradition written by Robert G. Tuttle and published by Francis Asbury Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Friedman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498278388
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Union with God in Christ written by Matthew Friedman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant number of Muslim communities throughout the world reflect varying degrees of involvement in Islamic mysticism. What bridges are present in this context that will facilitate not only evangelism, but also discipleship and community formation? Matthew Friedman guides the reader on a journey examining the response of the early Christian community to the challenges of ancient Jewish and Hellenic mysticism, focusing on the central idea of “union with God in Christ.” Far from finding this to be a leftover from the early Church, he discovers that this theme remained crucial into the Reformation, particularly in the writing and work of eighteenth-century figures John and Charles Wesley.Join Friedman as he explores resources for discipleship and community building that will be relevant to both scholars and practitioners alike, and will be effective for witness within modern contexts of Islamic mysticism worldwide.
Author : Gregory S. Clapper
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871478
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book As If the Heart Mattered written by Gregory S. Clapper and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As If the Heart Mattered expounds on John Wesley's image of religion as a house by exploring three main parts: the porch of repentance, the door of faith, and holiness (the house itself). Useful study helps include references to John Wesley sermons and Charles Wesley hymns. But this approach to spiritual life transcends Methodism and provides essential biblical truth applicable to all Christians. Questions for reflection or discussion are provided at the end of each chapter.
Author : Elaine A Heath
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903315
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Naked Faith written by Elaine A Heath and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebe Palmer's honour was lost posthumously, for within a few decades after her death her name all but disappeared. Palmer's sanctification theology was separated from its apophatic spiritual moorings, even as her memory was lost. To this day the Motherof the Holiness Movement still awaits her place of recognition as a Christian mystic equal to Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, or Therese of Lisieux. This book locates Palmer's life and thought within the great Christian mystical traditions, identifying her importance within Methodism and the church universal. It also presents a Wesleyan theological framework for understanding and valuing Christian mysticism, while connecting it with the larger mystical traditions in Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox communions. While Palmer was a powerful revivalist in her own day, in many ways she could be the patron saint for contemporary Methodists who are drawn to the new monasticism and who long for the renewal of the church. Saint Phoebe is precisely the one who can help Methodists envision new forms of Christian community, mission, and witness in a postmodern world.
Author : Ernest Richard Rugenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The Influence of Mysticism on Rev. John Wesley's Theology written by Ernest Richard Rugenstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest R Rugenstein
Publisher : Zadkiel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781786956057
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Influence of Mysticism on John Wesley's Theology written by Ernest R Rugenstein and published by Zadkiel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodist denominations have Wesley's theology in common and the distinctive of not just justification by faith but additionally the distinctives of sanctification and entire sanctification, the idea of Christian perfection. This concept of Christian perfection fascinated me; to be perfect, how? How fif this theology of John Wesley come about? How is it actuated? Was mysticism involved? This is what led me to writing this book.
Author : Lorna Lock-Nah Khoo
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920691318
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Wesleyan Eucharistic Spirituality written by Lorna Lock-Nah Khoo and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of the book is that there is a distinctive Wesleyan eucharistic spirituality. Looking at Wesleys's eucharistic practices, theology and sources, the writer identifies a spirituality that has a number of key themes. These revolve around the dynamic encounter with a personal Christ, the grace filled life, the therapeutic growth towards holiness and wholenes. They provide a way of looking at life and the formation of characters which may conform to the image of the Christ. While there were several reasons for the decline of Weslyean eucharistic spirituality after the death of the Wesleys, the writer maintains that this spirituality can be rediscovered, revived and communicated in new forms so as to impact Methodists around the world who are facing the challenges of the 21st century. The author is a pastor in a Methodist Church in Singapore.
Author : Steven P. Tungate
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666781576
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Almost Mystic written by Steven P. Tungate and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley, eighteenth century Church of England priest and founder of Methodism, was strongly influenced by the works of Roman Catholic mystics early in his ministry. These writings shaped his widely known doctrine of Christian perfection or entire sanctification. The mystics inspired Wesley to advocate for a lofty spiritual goal that he believed to be attainable in this life. In time, however, he developed many contentions with extremes as well as some particulars found in the mystical tradition. Beginning in 1749, Wesley began to publish his Christian Library—a fifty-volume compilation of abridged works that he believed to be among the best writings on practical divinity that had been published in English. Among this vast collection, he incorporated two works originally written in Spanish including a sampling of Letters by Juan de Ávila and the Spiritual Guide by Miguel de Molinos. This book examines Wesley’s editing of these works as a way of evaluating Wesley’s theology in comparison and contrast with Spanish mysticism. In particular, this book serves as a comparative study among these authors on matters of theological authority, self-knowledge and epistemology, soteriology, spiritual growth, suffering and divine withdrawal, prayer, meditation, contemplation, and the spiritual goal.
Author : Richard P. Heitzenrater
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 142674224X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Wesley and the People Called Methodists written by Richard P. Heitzenrater and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical and theological development of eighteenth-century Methodism.
Author : Michael B. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Formation in the Wesleyan Tradition written by Michael B. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Fanning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134590989
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Mystics of the Christian Tradition written by Steven Fanning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition. Full of colourful detail, this book examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity.
Author : David Knowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Mystics written by David Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph W. Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317110447
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book John Wesley's Pneumatology written by Joseph W. Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptible inspiration, a term used by John Wesley to describe the complicated relationship between Holy Spirit, religious knowledge, and the nature of spiritual being, is not unlike the term 'Methodist' which was also coined by critics of Methodism during the eighteenth century in Britain. John Wesley's adversaries, especially the pseudonymous John Smith with whom Wesley exchanged letters for a period of three years, frequently challenged the plausibility of direct spiritual sensation, which Wesley defended. What does Wesley mean by perceptible inspiration? What does the teaching reveal about the nature and existence of God in Wesley's thinking? What does it suggest about the spiritual nature of humankind? In John Wesley's Pneumatology, it is argued that 'perceptible inspiration' more than a sidebar of Methodist thought, offers a useful model for considering the various features of Wesley's views on the work of the Spirit in relation to human existence, participatory religious knowledge, and moral theology.
Author : Steven P. Tungate
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166678155X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Almost Mystic written by Steven P. Tungate and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley, eighteenth century Church of England priest and founder of Methodism, was strongly influenced by the works of Roman Catholic mystics early in his ministry. These writings shaped his widely known doctrine of Christian perfection or entire sanctification. The mystics inspired Wesley to advocate for a lofty spiritual goal that he believed to be attainable in this life. In time, however, he developed many contentions with extremes as well as some particulars found in the mystical tradition. Beginning in 1749, Wesley began to publish his Christian Library--a fifty-volume compilation of abridged works that he believed to be among the best writings on practical divinity that had been published in English. Among this vast collection, he incorporated two works originally written in Spanish including a sampling of Letters by Juan de Avila and the Spiritual Guide by Miguel de Molinos. This book examines Wesley's editing of these works as a way of evaluating Wesley's theology in comparison and contrast with Spanish mysticism. In particular, this book serves as a comparative study among these authors on matters of theological authority, self-knowledge and epistemology, soteriology, spiritual growth, suffering and divine withdrawal, prayer, meditation, contemplation, and the spiritual goal.
Author : Kevin Twain Lowery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556353774
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Salvaging Wesley's Agenda written by Kevin Twain Lowery and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Twain Lowery believes that two of John Wesley's most distinctive doctrines--his doctrines of assurance and Christian perfection--have not been sufficiently developed. Rather, these doctrines have either been distorted or neglected. Lowery suggests that since Wesleyan ethics is centered on these two doctrines, they need to be recast in a schema that emphasizes the cognitive aspects of religious knowledge and moral development. Salvaging Wesley's Agenda constructs such a new framework in three stages. First, Lowery explores Wesley's reliance upon Lockean empiricism. He contends that Wesleyan epistemology should remain more closely tied to empirical knowledge and should distance itself from mystical and intuitionist models like Wesley's own spiritual sense analogy. Second, examining the way that Wesley appropriates Jonathan Edwards's view of the religious affections, Lowery shows that Wesleyan ethics should not regard emotions as something to be passively experienced. Rather, emotions have cognitive content that allows them to be shaped. Third, Lowery completes the new framework by suggesting ways to revise and expand Wesley's own conceptual scheme. These suggestions allow more of Wesley's concerns to be incorporated into the new schema without sacrificing his core commitments. The final chapter sketches the doctrines of assurance and perfection in the new framework. Assurance is based on religious faith and on self-knowledge (both empirical and psychological), and perfection is understood in a more teleological context. The result is a version of Wesleyan ethics more faithful to Wesley's own thought and able to withstand the scrutiny of higher intellectual standards.
Author : Rob L. Staples
Publisher : Beacon Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 9780834113787
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Outward Sign and Inward Grace written by Rob L. Staples and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly exploration of Wesleyan theology and the sacraments.
Author : Robert Pelfrey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100057654X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec written by Robert Pelfrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theology of spiritual formation developed by fourteenth-century Flemish mystic John of Ruusbroec, arguing that his formational path clearly and consistently displays the characteristics of the archetypal narrative structure of the hero’s journey. To start with, a hermeneutical dialogue between scholars of the hero’s journey and Ruusbroec is established, employing the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The author then examines the stages and tropes of the hero’s journey according to Vladimir Propp, Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, René Girard, Dean Miller, and others, exploring the parallels in Ruusbroec’s writing and theology of spiritual formation. The book follows Ruusbroec’s story of answering the divine call, journeying inward and experiencing the trials of spiritual transformation, attaining the treasure of divine union, and returning in loving service to others. Finally, the ramifications of the argument for the interpretation and application of other mystical and heroic narratives are considered. Offering a new perspective on John of Ruusbroec, mystical theology, and the hero’s journey as a spiritual quest, this volume will be of interest to scholars of mysticism, theology, formative spirituality, narrative theory, and religious literature of the Low Countries.
