This Fernley-Hartley Lecture represents an avowed attempt by Eric Baker, a leading Methodist scholar and statesman, to ""reach the ordinary man in the pew and the street."" This does not mean that scholarly precision in this important lecture is in any way lacking, but simply that the distinguished author has taken pains to express himself, as is his wont, with clarity and simplicity. Baker virtually claims, as did John Wesley himself, that ""the faith of a Methodist"" is just plain Christianity But Wesley was led to emphasize certain aspects of the gospel that had become obscure in the cold...