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The theology of John Wesley has proven exceedingly influential in the religious and spiritual lives of Wesley’s followers and his critics. However, Wesley did not leave behind a written doctrine on Scripture. This collection presents an array of diverse approaches to understanding John Wesley’s charge to read and interpret the Bible as Scripture. Contributors move beyond the work of Wesley...

practice, especially reading the Bible and the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist. In response to what Wesley felt was a dangerous form of enthusiasm, he wrote “The Means of Grace” to insist that the three “chief ordinances”—prayer, searching the Scriptures, and the Eucharist—were necessary for Christian formation.9 While acknowledging that God is able to mediate grace directly to humans without these ordinary means, for example, in times of imprisonment or other circumstances preventing access
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