"From Faith to Faith": John Wesley’s Covenant Theology and the Way of Salvation [Paperback]

The very title of this volume makes a claim and extends an invitation. Simply put, the claim is this: John Wesley was an adherent of covenant theology. Consequently, a proper understanding of his theological thought - and of his soteriology in particular - is impossible apart from accounting for the influence of covenant theology on him. The invitation then, is to investigate Wesley's thought in light of this claim. Having started his research simply as an investigation into a rather curious distinction Wesley made among those to whom he gave spiritual counsel (some people, he said, have “the faith of a servant”; others have “the faith of a son”), Rodes soon realised that covenant theology was an immensely powerful influence on Wesley's thought and that he was even able to significantly and creatively adapted it to the template of his evangelical Arminianism.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 John Wesley’s Imaging of Covenant Theology
2 The Ancestry of Wesley’s Covenant Theology
3 Wesley’s Amendment of Covenant Theology
4 Wesley’s Covenant Theology and Holy Scripture
5 Wesley’s Covenant Theology in Context: I. The Evangelical Revival and the Conversation on Good Works
6 Wesley’s Covenant Theology in Context: II. The Conversation on Divine Favor
7 The Salvific Sufficiency of the Covenant of Grace
8 The Holy Spirit and the Salvific Perfection of the Covenant of Grace
9 "From Faith to Faith": John Wesley’s Pastoral Application of Covenant Theology
10 Epilogue
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