Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0121
N. Aston
This article is an attempt at recovering the Oxford contexts of John Wesley’s young manhood, charting his milieu more exactly in the light of the most recent scholarship, and, in so doing, moving away from the outworn depiction of the virtuous and misunderstood young Wesley in a university setting largely deficient in its Christian practices. It argues that Oxford’s unsuccessful relationship and persistent ambivalence toward the mature John Wesley was due at least as much to him as it was to the university.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0218
D. Chapman
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0230
M. Wellings
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0216
M. Wellings
cites a number of divines from the Mother Country who made such arguments. Steward does admit, though, that most Church of England ministers supported passive obedience in all cases whatsoever, whereas most of Britain’s dissenting clergy backed the colonists. Although the author states that liberal as well as orthodox dissenters supported the American cause, he does not adequately explain this dichotomy. Gary Steward’s Justifying Revolution joins a growing number of insightful monographs by scholars such as Daniel Dreisbach and Mark David Hall, which not only articulate the deeper historical and biblical roots of American resistance, but which also argue for the centrality of religion during the nation’s founding era. Steward’s prose is clear and accessible, although this writer thinks he tended to overquote his sources when he could have cited them in his own words. The research notes are thorough and provide several interesting insights into his evidence and argument. In sum, Justifying Revolution is a deeply researched volume that specialists in the American Revolution will find well worth reading.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0199
R. Gladwin
This article argues that the late Argentine liberation theologian José Míguez Bonino was a Wesleyan theologian, although he is usually noted for having other theological influences. First, the article documents how Míguez emerged as a constructive theologian with numerous theological influences and concerns for ecumenism and liberation. Second, the article confronts the difficulties of using Wesleyanism as a hermeneutical lens for interpreting Míguez’s theology. Third, the article proposes that Míguez is an implicit Wesleyan theologian and that this is most clearly seen in his overarching desire to form a theology committed to social efficacy.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0220
A. Chandler
critique of writers and historians who have tried to interpret Anglican responses to the outbreak of war in 1914 through the lens of later attitudes to war. The breadth of the canvas and the emphasis on war means that there are aspects of the story being told that do not receive the attention that might have helped the argument. The absence of a mention of the 1867 Army Chaplains Act passed by the British parliament, together with other subsequent attempts to define the place of British military chaplaincy within the organizational structure of the Church of England, overlooks a theme that might have been a fruitful source of enquiry. As late as 1989, an “uncontroversial” attempt to repeal the 1867 Act resulted in a row in the General Synod of the Church of England that laid bare the ambiguities of military chaplaincy when provided within the United Kingdom—an ambiguity that remains unresolved. The earlier abolition, by archbishop Ramsey, of the Bishops’ Board overseeing military chaplaincy was another twist in the story of the governance of Anglican chaplains by their Communion. Given the discussion of the criticism of Anglican chaplains in Robert Graves’s polemical memoir, Goodbye to All That (Jonathan Cape, 1929), it is a pity that reference was not made to Robert Keable’s Simon Called Peter (U.S. ed. E.P. Dutton, 1922), not least because of its mention in The Great Gatsby (Scribner’s, 1925) and thus its resonance in the United States as a description of Anglican World War One chaplaincy in France. Another of Keable’s books, Standing By (Nisbet, 1919), with its argument that Anglican chaplains would have been better to have become either Catholic chaplains or workers for the YMCA, is similarly overlooked. The debate about the efficacy of chaplaincy, particularly during the wars described in this book, remains live. The difficulty for Snape is that the debate is not merely about Anglican chaplains. This is an Anglican book. Other churches receive only occasional mentions. The ecumenical aspect of the development of military chaplaincy is thus lacking. The importance to British army chaplaincy of the 1999 Spiritual Needs Study (unpublished Ministry of Defence paper, 1999) and the consequent adoption of an “all souls” ministry that allows the army to view all chaplains as interchangeable might follow a traditional Anglican model of chaplaincy but results in a theology of chaplaincy that is more “Church of Army” than “Church in the Army” that would merit more discussion. As Snape has shown, this is a vast subject with important questions for the contemporary world in the light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As he would be the first to accept, there is still more research to be done in this field.
对作家和历史学家的批评，他们试图通过后来对战争的态度来解释英国圣公会对1914年战争爆发的反应。画布的广度和对战争的强调意味着故事的某些方面没有得到可能有助于争论的关注。由于没有提及英国议会通过的1867年《陆军牧师法》，再加上随后试图界定英国军事牧师在英国国教组织结构中的地位，忽略了一个可能是富有成效的调查来源的主题。直到1989年，一次“无争议”的废除1867年法案的尝试在英国国教总议会引发了一场争吵，暴露了英国国内军事牧师职位的模糊性——这种模糊性仍未解决。拉姆齐大主教早些时候废除了负责监督军事牧师的主教委员会，这是圣公会牧师通过其圣餐管理故事的又一转折。鉴于罗伯特·格雷夫斯（Robert Graves）的论战回忆录《再见一切》（Goodbye to All That，Jonathan Cape，1929）中对英国圣公会牧师的批评进行了讨论，遗憾的是，没有提及罗伯特·基布尔（Robert Keable）的《西蒙叫彼得》（Simon Called Peter，美国编辑E.P.Dutton，1922），尤其是因为它在《了不起的盖茨比》（斯克里布纳出版社，1925年）中被提及，因此它在美国引起了共鸣，被描述为英国圣公会在法国的一战牧师。基布尔的另一本书《袖手旁观》（Nisbet，1919）也同样被忽视，该书认为圣公会牧师最好成为天主教牧师或基督教青年会的工作人员。关于牧师效力的争论，特别是在本书中描述的战争期间，仍然存在。斯内普面临的困难在于，这场辩论不仅仅是关于圣公会牧师的。这是一本圣公会的书。其他教堂只是偶尔被提及。因此，军事牧师的发展缺乏普世性。1999年精神需求研究（国防部未发表的论文，1999年）对英国军队牧师的重要性，以及随后采用的“所有灵魂”牧师制度，允许军队将所有牧师视为可互换的牧师，可能遵循传统的圣公会牧师模式，但导致牧师神学更像是“军队的教会”而不是“军队中的教会”这将值得更多的讨论。正如斯内普所表明的那样，鉴于俄罗斯入侵乌克兰，这是一个对当代世界具有重要问题的广阔课题。由于他将是第一个接受这一观点的人，在这一领域还有更多的研究要做。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0228
M. Wellings
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0145
K. Tucker
The article considers the viability of the Methodist/Wesleyan love feast today based on historical, liturgical, and practical investigations of its use in selected ecclesial contexts from the eighteenth century to the present. Six categories derived from Wesley’s description of the practice in his ‘Plain Account’ focus the study, enabling an examination of the love feast as an experiential event marked by prayer, a common ‘meal’, and the sharing of God’s love, and done in imitation of apostolic practice as a prudential means of grace.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0177
John R. Tyson
This article explores John and Charles Wesley’s ambiguous relationship with the soteriology of Martin Luther. Their early admiration for Luther’s theology of justification by faith played a significant role in the conversion experience of both men, but subsequently, John wrote that Luther was ‘ignorant of the doctrine of sanctification’ and ‘confused in his conception of it’. The ‘new’ Finnish reading of Luther’s soteriology, pioneered by Tuomo Mannermaa, opens new avenues for soteriological conversation and consensus between Lutherans and Methodists. A few of the old misunderstandings are untangled and more congenial theological trajectories are suggested by this article.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.2.0223
Adam D. Ployd
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