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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...

understanding of the task of Scripture, I would suggest, better comports with the church’s actual experience and engagement of the Bible than does a primarily epistemic framing of the Bible’s task. This is not to imply that truth and knowledge are unimportant to God’s saving purposes or to the place of Scripture within those purposes. The point is that the relationship between the Bible and knowledge is framed in terms of Scripture’s role within the economy of salvation. Scripture’s authority does
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