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WORKS OF THEOLOGY
IN THE WESLEYAN-ARMINIAN PERSPECTIVE
These works of theology are presented for the benefit of ministers and students that may be unaware of their existence or are unable to afford the sets of books—or even to find them. This list is representative of holiness theology but not exhaustive and the fact that any author has been omitted is not necessarily a reflection on the author but merely that a particular work is unknown to this website or is substantially repetitive in content to the works presented here. The theology of holiness churches falls under the general classification of Arminian Theology and the subset known as Wesleyan-Arminianism; and, the particular emphasis on the second blessing teaching, which became popular in the late Nineteenth Century, is a subset of the latter known as Wesleyan-Holiness. The
Arminian perspective on theology began with James Arminius, a Dutch clergyman
and university professor of theology. John Calvin was a leading theologian at
the beginning of the Protestant Reformation; as Arminius studied Reformed
Theology he discovered what he believed to be a significant inconsistency with
Calvin’s theology in that a logical conclusion to his theory of predestination
is that God is the author of sin. This was the beginning point where Arminianism
diverges from Calvinism. The
major difference has to do with the Arminian understanding of the synergy
between the sovereignty of God and the free will of man. Critics of Arminian
theology try to classify it as Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism because of our
belief in free will. However, the Arminian view strongly disagrees with
Pelagianism because it does believe in moral depravity arising from the Fall of
Adam and that the grace of God is the only way in which man’s will can be
freed to cooperate with the will of God. Modern Arminianism is largely
associated with John Wesley and referred to as Wesleyan-Arminianism (however,
not ALL Arminians are Wesleyan). The concept of synergism is the reason that Arminianism lends itself to holiness teaching. If God’s grace frees the will and the Holy Spirit lives in the believer to aid that will, it then is possible for a regenerate and Spirit-filled person to live a holy life: to obey what he knows to be the will of God. The
theologies presented here are listed in chronological order. They reflect
developing understanding of the theology over time and greater clarification of
doctrines where clarification was needed. [Note to the student: Most 18th and 19th Century Wesleyan-Arminian theologians were Methodists and favored infant-baptism and opposed baptism by immersion. Most holiness churches, while Wesleyan-Arminian in theology, believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. There also are differences of opinion concerning eschatology; particularly having to do with millennialism. The Lawton Church of God is ammillenial in its eschatology but we present these theologies, some of which tend to premillenialism because that was the author's viewpoint on the subject.]
by John Fletcher
THE LAST CHECK TO ANTINOMIANISM by John Fletcher
by Adam Clarke
by Adam Clarke
by Richard Watson
by G. F. Wiggers
by John Miley
by John Miley
A COMPENDIUM OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY by William Burt Pope
By Daniel Steele
by Philip Mauro
by H. Orton Wliey
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