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ISBN-10: 1606085735
Copyright: June 5, 2009
ISBN-13: 9781606085783
Discusses natural man, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Quakerism, Mysticism and Deism - where they go wrong in Wesley's opinion and whether or not they can be saved.
Wesley is a great ecumenical theologian, writer, editor, preacher, etc.
This book is a book of theology written for the lay person as well as for the scholar. It is a unique look at the theology of John Wesley who was the founder, with his brother Charles, of what became the Methodist Church.
John preached and wrote. Today we have the 14 volume set of his Works, and 8 volumes each of his Letters and his Journals, and the Notes on the Old and New Testaments. He also edited countless volumes, depending on the publisher, of others people's works from the Church Fathers to his day so that they could be published cheaply and purchased by the common man of his day.
This book studyies what John Wesley thought about others of his day and their thoughts about God. Natural man is studied as well as Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Quakerism, Mysticism and Deism.
One is another religion, one no particular religion, one a philosophy and the others are different Christian groups. He has a lot to say about what he perceives as their differences from "True Christianity."
Readers will be surprised as what he has to say about them and what he believes about their possible salvation.
Excerpt
"Wesley makes another helpful distinction concerning Christian doctrine. He finds a difference between the basic Christian doctrines and theological opinions. Some doctrines are basic, and some are only opinions. Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is not the ultimate in Christian experience. Orthodixy or right opinion may be helpful and important in the interpretation of doctrine, but is is not the sum and total of Christianity. One may hold to the right in opinion and be wrong in salvation, yet again; the reverse may equally be true.
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