Methodist Theology
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2011
208 pages
978-0-567-31746-9 (ISBN)
Description
Methodism is serious about worship, public and personal, since it wants to celebrate the reality of God's presence with God's people - that is, as Methodists understand it, with all God's people. This volumes focuses on the origins of this theological tradition, its foundations, key concepts, eminent thinkers and historical development.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-31746-9 (9780567317469)
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Kenneth Wilson was educated at Cambridge and Bristol Universities and is a Methodist Minister. After chaplaincies to London University and Kingswood School, Bath, held the Rowbotham Chair in Philosophical Theology and Ethics at Wesley College Bristol and taught at Bristol University, (1973-80). 1980-1996 Principal Westminster College, Oxford; 1996-2001 Director of Research Queens Foundation, Birmingham. Currently: - Visiting Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University, and Chichester University. His publications cover: Making Sense of It (Epworth); Focus on God (with Frances Young, Epworth); Freedom and Grace (ed. with Ivor Jones, Epworth); Readings in Church Authority (ed. with Gerard Mannion, Richard Gaillardetz and Jan Kerkhofs, Ashgate, 2003); Learning to Hope (Epworth, 2006).
Content
Preface / Chapter 1: Foundations. / Chapter 2: Preaching and Singing the Faith. / Chapter 3: Grace Abounding. / Chapter 4 The Presence of God. / Chapter 5: A Revolutionary Gospel. / Chapter 6: A World Without Boundaries. / Chapter 7: The Mind of Christ. / Chapter 8: Listening and Hoping . / Chapter 9: The Wesleyan Revival: A Thankful Worshipping Community / Conclusion
