Wesleyan theology today : a bicentennial theological consultation / edited by Theodore Runyon. - Nashville : Kingswood Books, (c)1985. - vii, 426 pages ; 29 cm.

"Methodist bicentennial 1784-1984"--P. 1 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Plenary papers -- What is Methodism's theological contribution today? How theology emerges from polity Methodism and new issues in ecumenism Wesleyan constructive theology for the future -- Wesleyan theology : heritage and task John Wesley's heritage and the future of systematic theology Wesleyan constructive theology? Perspective for a Wesleyan systematic theology Constructive theology in the Wesleyan tradition Process theology and Wesleyan thought -- Process theology and the Wesleyan witness Process theology and Wesleyan thought : an evangelical perspective The idea of perfection in a future Christian theology Wesley, process and liberation theologies : a test case Feminism, process thought, and the Wesleyan tradition Methodism and biblical authority -- The Wesleyan quadrilateral Biblical theology : issues in authority and hermeneutics Constructing a feminist theology in the Wesleyan tradition -- Toward a feminist theology in the Wesleyan tradition : insights from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Methodists Feminist theology and the women of Mr. Wesley's Methodism The conflict over sexual roles in Pauline churches So that heart purity might rule the land Toward a Wesleyan-feminist Christology : can a disembodied Christ help anybody? The women pioneers of early Methodism Contemporary issues and implications for women in lay and clergy ministries in the Black church of the Wesleyan tradition A Black feminist critique of feminist theology The transformed life in Jesus Christ : toward a feminist perspective in the Wesleyan tradition Black and ethnic religion and the theological renewal of Methodism -- The appeal of Methodism to Black Americans Black Methodists and the Methodist romance Wesleyan mission and evangelism in global context -- Prophetic evangelism : the good news of global grace Methodist societies in the eighteenth century and Christian base communities in the twentieth century : an initial exploration of Wesleyan heritage from a Latin American perspective A theology of evangelism The ethics of character and the people called Methodist -- Characterizing perfection : second thoughts on character and sanctification The physics of true virtue Spirituality, perfection, and the human vocation : Wesley and human development -- An empirical study of early Methodist spirituality Wesleyan spirituality : meeting contemporary movements Some Biblical foundations and metaphors of vocational ideals in the Wesleyan tradition Ecumenism and Methodism : issues in ministry, sacraments, and order -- Wesley's theology and the future of the church Eucharist, ecumenism, Methodism Baptism : the ecumenical sacrament and the Wesleyan tradition The development of the 1972 United Methodist Eucharistic rite Ordination, reconciliation, and the ecumenical future Wesleyan thought and Christian social ethics -- The Methodist social creed and ecumenical ethics Toward a Wesleyan social ethic Implications of Wesley's ethical method and political thought The Wesleyan tradition and the social challenges of the next century Religious affections and the knowledge of God -- John Wesley's Sunday service and Methodist spirituality "With the eyes of faith" : spiritual experience and the knowledge of God in the theology of John Wesley "True religion" and the affections : a study of John Wesley's abridgement of Jonathan Edwards's Treatise on religious affections Donald H. Treese -- John L. Topolewski -- Theodore Runyon -- Theodore Runyon -- James S. Thomas -- J. Robert Nelson -- Durwood Foster -- M. Douglas Meeks -- Charles Wood -- H. Ray Dunning -- Thomas A. Langford -- Schubert M. Ogden -- Paul A. Mickey -- Carl Bangs -- Ignacio Castuera -- Sheila Greeve Davaney -- William J. Abraham -- Bruce C. Birch -- Jean Miller Schmidt -- Earl Kent Brown -- Robert Jewett -- Joanne Carlson Brown -- Jean C. Lambert -- Paul Wesley Chilcote -- Mozella G. Mitchell -- Emilie M. Townes -- Rosemary Keller -- William B. McClain -- C. Eric Lincoln -- David Lowes Watson -- Mortimer Arias -- Roy I. Sano -- Stanley Hauerwas -- Robin W. Lovin -- Thomas R. Albin -- Mary Elizabeth Moore -- Donald M. Joy -- Norman Young -- J. Robert Nelson -- James C. Logan -- James F. White -- Gerald F. Moede -- Walter George Muelder -- James C. Logan -- Leon O. Hynson -- J. Philip Wogaman -- James F. White -- Rex D. Matthews -- Gregory S. Clapper.



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