A Wesleyan Account of Sin and the Fall
What follows is an account of the crucial doctrine of the fall of man and woman as well as the accompanying biblical doctrine of sin.
What follows is an account of the crucial doctrine of the fall of man and woman as well as the accompanying biblical doctrine of sin.
What follows is a summary of John Wesley’s theology of the imago dei (Gen. 1:26–27).
What follows is an account of the biblical doctrine of creation, as taught by John Wesley and early Methodism.
Does someone whose life seems so messy fit into the orderly picture of God’s good creation?
Our bodies carries a sacramental presence in the world—they are the ways in which we extend grace to people.
The incarnation is God’s great testament to the holiness of the body; we are all designed to be icons of the incarnation.
As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. (C. S. Lewis)
In his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth (1886-1968) refers to God’s “everlasting covenant” with earth and its creatures a dozen times (CD I/2, 47; CD II/1, 117, 124, 413, 496; CD II/2, 102; CD III/1, 149f,
Helping our churches make this transition from Christendom to post-Christendom may be one of the most important pastoral challenges we have faced in decades.
A key building block in our theology of the body is the recognition that our physical bodies are signs to the world as we embody God’s saving purposes and his holy love.
Biblical singleness more closely aligns to the concept of “single-minded focus” or “exclusivity of intent” or the “undivided life.”
A proper theology of the body embraces the sacredness and sanctity of all our embodied existence and sees the eternal significance in each day.