Wesley, Whitefield, and the 'Free Grace' Controversy: The Crucible of Methodism

ISBN-13: 9781032086132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Joel Houston

Opis

This book answers the complex debate over predestination by setting out the definitive account of the ‘Free Grace’ controversy in first decade of the Evangelical Revival (1739-49).

Spis treści

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 – Historical Development of the Doctrine of Predestination;1 The 'Location' of the Free Grace Controversy: Historical and Theological Precedents; Excursus: Supra, Infra, and Sub-Lapsarianism; 2 Arminius and British Predestinarianism; Part 2 – Wesley, Whitefield, and the Function of Predestinarian Doctrine; 3 Wesley and Whitefield: Formative Influences; 4 "Beginning a Society of Their Own": The Bristol Division; 5 Analysis of the Sermon, ‘Free Grace’, and Whitefield’s Response. Doctrine and Polemic in Context; 6 An Awkward Armistice: The Cessation of the ‘Free Grace’ Controversy; Conclusion

O autorze

Joel Houston is Assistant Professor of Theology at Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan, Canada, and a junior fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre in Manchester, UK.