06652nam a2200169Ia 4500 231021s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97806870033410687003342 eng BX8495.W5 .M284 1994 Maddox, Randy L. Responsible Grace : John Wesley's Practical Theology / Randy L. Maddox Nashville, Tenn. : Kingswood Books, 1994 416 p. ; 23 cm. Chapter 1: Human knowledge of the God of responsible grace -- The fount of knowledge -- God's gracious Self-revelation -- Excursus: Wesley's epistemology -- The gracious character of all revelation -- Initial universal revelation -- Definitive Christian revelation -- Excursus: The possibility of extra-Christian salvation -- Excursus: The possibility and purpose of a natural theology -- Sources/criteria of Christian doctrine -- The "Wesleyan quadrilateral" -- Scripture -- Reason -- "Tradition" -- Experience -- Wesley's "method"? -- Chapter 2: The God of responsible grace -- The problem of God-knowledge -- Sources of human knowledge of God -- Nature of human "God-language" -- Reflexive nature of knowledge of God -- The nature of God -- God's natural attributes -- God's moral attributes -- Crucial concern: God's sovereignty -- Excursus: Wesley on predestination -- The work of God/Father -- God/Father as Creator and Sustainer -- God/Father as Provider -- God/Father as Governor or Judge -- God/Father as Physician -- Summary: God as Father -- Chapter 3: Humanity's need and God's initial restoring grace -- General character of Wesley's anthropology -- Humanity as God's gracious creation -- The image of God in humanity -- Wesley's relational anthropology -- Wesley's holistic psychology -- Wesley's holistic anthropology? -- Humanity as male and female -- Humanity as fallen: debilitated and depraved, but guilty? -- The two dimensions of sin -- original sin or inbeing sin? -- The source of inbeing sin -- The nature of inbeing sin -- The extent of inbeing sin -- total depravity -- Pause for perspective -- Humanity as nascently restored -- The provenience of restoring grace -- The character of restoring grace -- Prevenient grace as the beginning of restoration -- Excursus: Wesley's "synergism"? -- The resulting actual human situation -- Chapter 4: Christ -- The initiative of responsible grace -- General character of Wesley's Christology -- Christ -- an atonement for sin -- Atonement as liberation? -- Excursus: Wesley on the nature and uses of the law -- Atonement as pardon -- Atonement as display of God's love -- The point of the atonement -- The three offices of Christ -- Christ as Priest -- Christ as Prophet -- Christ as King/Physician -- "Preaching Christ in all His offices" -- The nature of Christ -- Stress on Christ's divinity -- Discomfort with accenting Christ's humanity -- Practical monophysitism? -- Wesley's concern? -- Chapter 5: Holy Spirit -- The presence of responsible grace -- The Holy Spirit as God's restored presence -- The Holy Spirit as Inspiring Physician -- The dimensions of the Spirit's inspiration -- The universal restoring presence of the Spirit -- The witness of the Spirit -- Excursus: Wesley on the assurance of faith -- Excursus: Wesley on the nature of faith -- Excursus: Wesley on the perceptibility of grace -- Summary and evaluation -- The fruit of the Spirit -- The guidance of the Spirit -- The gifts of the Spirit -- Excursus: Wesley the charismatic? -- Spirit, Son, and Father: Wesley on the Trinity -- The Spirit and the Son: the filioque? -- Unity or distinction of the Divine Persons -- Doctrine of the Trinity as a grammar of responsible grace Chapter 6: Grace and response -- the nature of human salvation -- The three dimensions of salvation -- The therapeutic focus of salvation -- The holistic scope of salvation -- Excursus: Wesley on physical health and healing -- The co-operant character of salvation -- Excursus: Wesley on justification by faith alone -- The possibility of apostasy -- The gradual process of salvation -- The place of instantaneous transitions in Christian life -- The individual variability of salvation -- Chapter 7: The way of Salvation -- grace upon grace -- Regeneration -- Awakening -- Repentance -- Repentance prior to justification/new birth -- Excursus: Wesley on sin in believers -- Repentance within the Christian life -- Justification -- Pardoned by the merits of Christ -- Pardoned in order to participate (adoption) -- Justification and sanctification -- First justification and the new birth -- Final justification and sanctification proper -- The dynamic tension -- Faith -- Faith and justification -- Faith and repentance -- Faith working by love -- Sanctification -- New birth -- "Growth in grace" -- Christian perspectives -- Central themes -- Summary -- Glorification -- Chapter 8: The means of grace and response -- The role of the means of grace in Christian life -- The mediation of grace -- Ordinary and extraordinary means of grace -- Effective means and requisite response -- Guarantees of pardon or means of healing? -- Nurturing grace and patterning exercises -- Means of sanctifying grace -- The Lord's Supper -- Corporate worship -- Formal prayers -- Scripture lectionary -- Church year -- Hymns -- Sermon -- Communal support -- Love feasts -- Watch-night services -- Covenant renewal -- Accountability -- The general rules -- Spiritual directors -- Accountability groups -- Private exercises -- Study of Scripture -- Devotional/catechetical readings -- Private prayers -- Works of mercy -- Love of God and love of others -- Formative effect of works of mercy -- The place of self-denial -- Means of justifying grace -- Historical perspectives on Wesley's pastoral challenge -- Wesley's pastoral response -- Call to renewed responsiveness -- Methodist society as catechumenate -- Excursus: The Lord's Supper as a converting ordinance -- Practical-theological implications for confirmation -- The importance of childhood catechesis -- The rite of confirmation -- Communion of children -- Means of prevenient grace? -- Chapter 9: The triumph of responsible grace -- The historical context of Wesley's eschatology -- Responsible grace's triumph in process -- Wesley's millennialism? -- The kingdom of grace and the kingdom of glory -- The reign of grace in and through the church -- Wesley's eschatological ethics -- Personal ethics -- Social ethics -- Ecological ethics -- Responsible grace's triumphant goal -- Death, immortality, resurrection -- Intermediate states -- Judgment -- The new creation Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Theology, Practical. 0 0 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2023-11-13 0 BX8495.W5 .M284 1994 00031881 2023-11-13 14:57:08 2023-11-13 BK 50260 50260