John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

This insistence on a degree of faith in the communicant is also illustrative of Wesley’s belief in the necessity for the co-operation of an active faith in man with the gift of God’s grace to...

Despite the differences in detail and in emphasis in Wesley’s exposition of the two sacraments, there is an underlying unity in his sacramental theology. He regarded both sacraments as means whereby God could confer grace...

Wesley’s theology was, then, largely a theology of reaction. Most of his theological output had polemical overtones, and some works were devoted exclusively to that end. The direction and the intensity of the challenge determined...

Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From all the filth of self and pride.The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once...