The evangelical doctrines of Charles Wesley's hymns / by J. Ernest Rattenbury. [print]

Introduction Part I : General and introductory Bibliographical facts and questions. Authorship ; Chronology ; Personation Literary characteristics. Values ; Metres ; Substance and texture ; Alleged literary defects John Wsley's use of his brother's hymns. As doctrinal statements ; Authorized hymns ; The large hymn-book : a Methodist manifesto ; The large hymn-book : doctrinal singificance Charles Wesley, theologian Part II : Hymns of the Hinterland The Hinterland God and man. The Calvinistic controversy ; God and man in hymns of everlasting love ; Charles Wesley's universalism The holy trinity. Trinitarian hymn-books ; Unity in plurality ; Trinity in unity ; Prayers to the trinity ; God the Father Our Lord Jesus Christ. Charles Wesley's Lutheranism ; The divinity of Christ ; Jesus the saviour of man ; The humanity of Christ ; Easter and ascension hymns ; Nativity hymns The Holy Spirit. The trinitarian hymns ; The Whitsuntide hymns and pamphlet ; The Holy Spirit and the mystic Christ ; Pentecost The atonement. The finished work illustrated from Hymns on the Lord's supper, part I, and by the hymn "All ye that pass by" ; The unfinished work illustrated by the hymn "Arise, my soul, arise" and by Hymns on the Lord's supper, parts V and Virgin Islands The Wesleys' doctrine of the atonement and the modern mind. Fact and theory : theory and metaphor ; Modern rejections of racial significance of the atonement ; The doctrine of Holy Scripture The Eucharist, church and Bible Part III : Hymns of the pilgrim way The pilgrimage : an introductory note The Wicket Gate and the cross. Legal night and the new day ; The conversion ; The results of the conversion ; Conversion as justification by faith Doctrines of the Wicket Gate. Justification and adoption ; John and Charles Wesley's doctrines of salvation ; The new birth ; The saving faith ; Assurance and witness of the Spirit ; Religion and the common life The pilgrim's progress. Charles Wesley's quest for love ; Pisgah views of the pilgrim way ; Hymns for love ; Nearing the goal Discussion of two pilgrims The earthly paradise. Hymns of two periods ; Charles's doctrine of suffering ; The common teaching of the brothers Hymns of the pilgrim band. A band of pilgrims ; A company of soldiers ; Angelology ; A society of friends ; Love and death Appendix 1 : Dr. Bett's second canon Appendix 2 : List of Charles Wesley's publications Appendix 3 : Methodist prosody.

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