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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...

7. Wesley expects the biblical text to challenge and change the reader. Critical, suspicious, or detached readings of the Bible are unacceptable. 8. The biblical text causes a change in the life of the Spirit-illumined reader, including attitudes, affections, thoughts, speech, and behaviors. 9. The Spirit-illumined reader is also missionally aware of her or his own cultural environment and thus reads the Bible with neighbor in mind, as to how to live the text faithfully among neighbors so that neighbors
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