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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Epworth Press, (c)1941.Description: 365 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
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Contents:
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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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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