Wesley Studies

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Part I. The Spiritual Formation of John Wesley and its Expression

in His Teachings on Christian Spirituality in His Letters

Chapter

I. A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE WHICH HAD FORMATIVE INFLUENCE ON JOHN WESLEY••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 10

Patristic Spirituality

The Spanish Mystics

French Spirituality

Puritan Spirituality

German Spirituality

Anglican Spirituality

American Spirituality

In a response to a culture of revolution, Wynkoop examines John Wesley and the ways in which he and his theology were revolutionary in their time. This book embraces Wesley's experiential theology rather than intricate and formal doctrinal theology. Wynkoop has transformed several of her lectures into these chapters which attempt to capture the Wesleyan theology of Perspective, Perfection, and Performance in a way that is accesible to a diverse group of students and readers.

"I say unto you, Make unto yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into the everlasting habitations." Luke 16:9.

"There is one God." Mark 12:32.

"How is the faithful city become an harlot!" Isa. 2:21.

Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, on Sunday, September 21, 1735. Published at the request of several of the hearers.

"There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest." Job 3:17.