Kingswood Books: 9 books

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Methodist and Pietist

Retrieving the Evangelical United Brethren Tradition

by Jason E. Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

In 1968, the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) churches merged to form The United Methodist Church.  More than forty years later, many United Methodists know very little about the history, doctrine, and polity of the EUB. To be sure, there are vestiges of the EUB, most notably the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

As a primary record of one of the founders of the Wesleyan/Methodist movement, Charles Wesley’s Journal is crucial to an understanding of the beginnings of that movement. It is an indispensable interpretive companion to John Wesley’s Journal, diaries, and letters. Since it provides important background...
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Wesleyan Beliefs

Formal and Popular Expressions of the Core Beliefs of Wesleyan Communities

by Ted A. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Wesleyan Beliefs examines foundational beliefs as expressed in the works of John and Charles Wesley in formal doctrinal statements adopted by Wesleyan communities and in a variety of other literature including hymnals, catechisms, and works of systematic theology approved for study by preachers. It...
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A Living Tradition

Critical Recovery and Reconstruction of Wesleyan Heritage

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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

This book engages in a critical recovery and reconstruction of the Wesleyan theological legacy in relation to current theological concepts and Christian practices with the intent to present opportunities for future directions. The contributors address urgent questions from the contexts in which people...
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Reconsidering Arminius

Beyond the Reformed and Wesleyan Divide

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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

The theology of Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius has been misinterpreted and caricatured in both Reformed and Wesleyan circles. By revisiting Arminius’s theology, the book hopes to be a constructive voice in the discourse between so-called Calvinists and Arminians. Traditionally, Arminius...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

For forty years on either side of the death of John Wesley in 1791, Thomas Coke was a key figure in the development of Methodism on both sides of the Atlantic. His surviving correspondence is the most personal evidence he has left us of a man who “wore his heart on his sleeve.” Coke's letters...
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by Russell E. Richey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996

In the Methodist lexicon, 'conference' refers to a body of preachers (and later, of laity as well) that exercises legislative, judicial, and executive functions for the church or some portion thereof. 'Conference,' says Richey, defined Methodism in more than political ways: on conference hinged religious...
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by Scott J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

Despite wide acceptance of the "Wesleyan quadrilateral", significant disagreements have arisen in both academic and church circles about the degree to which Scripture stood in a place of theological primacy for Wesley, or should do so for modern Methodists, and about the proper and appropriate...
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Offering Christ

John Wesley's Evangelistic Vision

by Jack Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

After decades of conversation serving up a mosaic of understandings of Wesleyan evangelism (focusing on proclamation, initiation, and embodiment), Jack Jackson offers a clearer portrait of Wesley’s evangelistic vision, understood through the lens of “offering grace.”   Any discussion of Wesley’s...
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