True Christianity

The Doctrine of Dispensations in the Thought of John William Fletcher (1729-1785)
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-227-17450-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: James Clarke

An analysis of the theological principles underlying and unifying the work of the early Methodist John William Fletcher.

John William Fletcher (1729-1785) was a seminal theologian during the early Methodist movement and in the Church of England in the eighteenth century. Best known for the Checks to Antinomianism, he established a theology of history to defend the church against the encroachment of antinomianism as a polemic against hyper-Calvinism. Fletcher believed that the hyper-Calvinist system of divine fiat and finished salvation did not take seriously enough either the activity of God in salvation history or an individual believer's personal progress in salvation.

Fletcher made the doctrine of accommodation a unifying principle of his theological system and further developed the doctrine of divine accommodation into a theology of ministry. As God accommodated divine revelation to the frailties of human beings, Fletcher argued that ministers of the gospel must accommodate the gospel to their hearers in order to gain a hearing for the gospel without losing the goal of true Christianity. 'True Christianity' contains insights from Fletcher, who devoted himself, according to Wesley, to being 'an altogether Christian'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frazier, J. Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Milieu of Fletcher's Theology
2 God of Nature and of Grace: Theological
3 The Doctrine of Dispensations: An Overview
4 The Dispensation of the Father
5 The Dispensation of the Son
6 The Dispensation of the Spirit
Conclusion
Bibliography