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Author_Joseph W. Cunningham
Believers Sense
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Creaturely Existence
Direct Witness
Dispositional Growth
doctrine
Draw Back
Dual Witness
eighteenth-century religion
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Fetter Lane Society
Fides Qua
ghost
God's Essence
God’s Essence
grace and faith studies
Gradual Trust
holy
Holy Spirit experience
Holy Spirit's Power
Human Spiritual Nature
Immediately Conscious
Indirect Testimony
Indirect Witness
Lord's Sermon
lords
Lord’s Sermon
Methodist theology
moral formation
outward
Pneumatological Dimension
Prevenient Grace
sermon
spirit
spiritual epistemology
Sun Shine
theology
understanding
Vice Versa
Wesley's Doctrine
Wesley's Theology
Wesley's Understanding
Wesley's View
Wesleyan spiritual sensation model
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Wesley’s Theology
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138274242
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Joseph W. Cunningham has a PhD from the University of Manchester (Nazarene Theological College), UK. He is an assistant editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies, a peer-reviewed journal annually published by the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He teaches in the department of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University, USA and is senior minister at Saginaw First Free Methodist Church.
