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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...

was more interested in the modest critical tasks of discerning genuine from embellished texts and orthodox from spurious interpretations according to the criteria established by the ancient church and reaffirmed more recently during the Magisterial Reformation. Accordingly, Wesley believed that “the whole of Scripture is not merely God’s address to the believer; it is inspired by the Holy Spirit who in turn inspires the believer’s understanding.”2 The dogmatic soil into which he roots this more functional
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