Where Higher Life Theology Came From,
What It Is, and Why It’s Harmful
Andrew David Naselli
No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It’s Harmful
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PART 1: Where Higher Life Theology Came From and What It Is
What Is the Story of Higher Life Theology?
PART 2: Why Higher Life Theology Is Harmful
The Fundamental Reason Higher Life Theology Is Harmful
Nine More Reasons Higher Life Theology Is Harmful
Afterword by John MacArthur
Appendix: A More Excellent Way: Recommended Resources on the Christian Life
Fig. 1.1. Where Did Higher Life Theology Come From?
Fig. 1.2. The Wesleyan View of Sanctification
Fig. 1.3. The Pentecostal View of Sanctification
Fig. 1.4. Chafer’s Two Categories of Christians: Carnal and Spiritual
Fig. 1.5. The Chaferian View of Sanctification
Fig. 1.6. Ryrie’s Contrast between Spirit-Baptism and Spirit-Filling
Fig. 2.1. “A Spiritual Clinic”: The Early Keswick Convention’s Progressive Teaching
Fig. 2.2. Illustrations of Counteracting Sin
Fig. 2.3. Two Categories of Christians
Fig. 2.4. The Higher Life (or Keswick) View of Sanctification
Fig. 2.5. Illustrations of Sanctification as a Crisis Followed by a Process
Fig. 2.6. Illustrations of Appropriating the Gift of Sanctification
Fig. 2.7. Illustrations of Spirit-Filling
Fig. 3.1. Higher Life Theology vs. the New Testament
Fig. 3.2. Three Tenses of Sanctification
Fig. 3.3. Contrasts between Justification and Progressive Sanctification
Fig. 3.4. Phrase Diagram of Romans 6:1–23
Fig. 3.5. Phrase Diagram of 1 Corinthians 2:6–3:4
Fig. 3.6. Translations of Key Words in 1 Corinthians 2:14–15; 3:1, 3
Fig. 3.7. Two Categories in Which All Humans Fit
Fig. 3.8. The Reformed View of Progressive Sanctification
Fig. 3.9. Illustrations of Content vs. Means
Fig. 3.10. The Components of Jesus’ Metaphor in John 15
Fig. 3.11. Explaining John 15:4 with 15:7, 9–10
Fig. 4.1. Illustrations of How Christians Must Become What They Are
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About No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came from, What It Is, and Why It’s HarmfulIn No Quick Fix, a shorter and more accessible version of his book Let Go and Let God?, Andy Naselli critiques higher life theology from a biblical perspective. He shows that it leads not to freedom, but to frustration, because it promises something it has no power to deliver. |
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