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Article: The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace
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- July 1, 2009
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The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace by Kenneth J. Collins Abingdon, Nashville, 2007. 423 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-687-4633-3.
WORKS ON JOHN WESLEY'S theology that are inspired by Albert Cook Ouder, including this one, follow a common strategy. Initially, they begin with a candid admission that John Wesley was not a systematic theologian. By extension, they acknowledge that Wesley himself did not have an organizing principle or theme around which he sought coherently to organize and to relate the various loci of Christian theology. Next, they suggest that Wesley was a practical theologian who produced a range of catechetical and liturgical materials designed to orient ...