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Let Go and Let God? A Survey and Analysis of Keswick Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Keswick theology—one of the most significant strands of second-blessing theology—assumes that Christians experience two “blessings.” The first is getting “saved,” and the second is getting serious. The change is dramatic: from a defeated life to a victorious life, from a lower life to a higher life, from a shallow life to a deeper life, from a fruitless life to a more abundant life, from being...

essence is unreserved love for God with one’s whole being and, consequently, love for fellow humans. Edward M. Panosian summarizes this in six words: “perfect love toward God and man.”26 J. I. Packer summarizes it in two: “total love.”27 This complete sanctification occurs instantaneously at a point in time subsequent to one’s justification, but God’s gradual working both precedes and follows it.28 The point in time “ordinarily” comes “a little before death,” but those who expect it sooner may experience
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