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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...

nascent regenerating effect of Prevenient Grace.”7 This involves Maddox in making an important shift, conceiving of the continuum of grace8 as a continuum of regeneration. Accordingly, he concludes that Wesley understood faith to be “justifying from its earliest degree—i.e., the mere inclination to ‘fear God and work righteousness.’ ” However, lacking “clear assurance,” this “nascent faith was not yet the fullness of Christian faith” but was “the faith of a ‘servant.’ ”9 Thus, the difference between
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