or more properly in Wesley’s understanding, how Wesley’s via salutis conceptualized conversion. Wesley’s overarching soteriological schema has four primary features (that which comes before conversion, that which happens in the moment of instantaneous conversion, that which follows conversion, and the possibility of backsliding or reversal through the via salutis) that provide the foundational theological framework from which emerges the overarching conceptualization of conversion in terms of inaugurated
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