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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...

are now in a position to summarize Wesley’s conception of the Holy Spirit’s witness to our spirit.76 His central claim is that the authentic basis for anyone’s assurance of God’s pardon is a direct activity of the Holy Spirit that inwardly impresses upon them that they are children of God. As he favored putting it (echoing Romans 5:5), the Spirit “sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts.”77 As this suggests, he did not construe the Spirit’s witness to be an ethereal verbal communication, but
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