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From Faith to Faith: John Wesley’s Covenant Theology and the Way of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Covenant theology and John Wesley’s theology sounds dissonant. What would an evangelical Arminian have to do with a theological framework that historically belongs to a Reformed understanding of salvation? How could this possibly square with his ongoing controversy with the Calvinism of his day? On the basis of compelling evidence from his sermons and correspondence, this investigation dares to...

As was noted earlier, Wesley does not explicitly address the matter of the role of covenant theology in his theological thought. For him, covenant theology is a given—a fact easily overlooked by those of us so far removed in so many ways from the setting in which he labored. Thus, his repeated distinction between those who have “the faith of a servant” and those who have “the faith of a son” appears to present-day readers of Wesley as something of an enigma, as evidenced in the array of conclusions
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