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Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of special focus in this reflective overview of Wesley's theological convictions is highlighting the practical-theological dynamics of Wesley's work and suggesting possible implications for contemporary attempts to recover theology as a practical discipline. Another distinctive focus of this work is a systematic consideration of the integration of theological emphases traditionally divergent in...

implications center on the point that in no situation are we ever separated from God’s grace or from our accountability.31 Another dimension of God’s infinitude is omniscience. As we have noted, Wesley assumed a very strong conception of this attribute, including the necessity of God knowing all future contingent events. He specifically rejected the suggestion that God may have voluntarily chosen not to know the future (in order to preserve human freedom). However, his reason for this was not philosophical,