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JOHN WESLEY ON RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS: his views on experience and emotion and their role in the Christian life and theology GREGORY S. CLAPPER JOHN WESLEY ON RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS: his views on experience and emotion and their role in the Christian life and theology by GREGORY S. CLAPPER with an Introduction by Don E. Saliers Pietist and Wesleyan Studies, No. 1 The Scarecrow Press, Inc. N.J., Metuchen, & London 1989 Thea uthogrr atuelflayc konwledgetsh ef ololwingfo r grantipnegr misstioor nep ritnhte imra terials: AbingdoPnr esfso re xcerpfrtosm The Works of John Wesley, Vol.4, editebdy A lberOtu tlerC.o pyirgh©t 1987 by AbingdoPnr esUss.e db yp ermission. EpwortPhr esfso er xcerpfrtosm Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, byJ ohnW esleyR.e printebdyE pworth Pres1s97,6 . BritisLhi brarCya taloguing-in-Publicdaattiaao vna ilable Libraroyf C ongressC atalogi-nign-PublicatiDoant a ClapperG,r egoryS cott. 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Followiunngd ergradsutautdei aetCs a rthaCgoel lege 1974), (B.A. GregorCyl appepru rsuegdr aduastteu dy in philosopahty t heU niversoift Wyi sconsin--Milwaukee iii (M.A. 197a7n)d i nt heoloagtyG arrett-Eavngelical TheologiSceamli na(rMy. Div1.9 79)H.e undertohoiks doctoral sattuE dmioersyU niversiintt yh eolo(gPyh .D. 1985)C.l appre isA sscoiatPero fessoro fR eligiaonnd PhilosoapthW ye stmaCro llege. We arep leasteodp ublihsihss tudayst hef irvsotl ume ofP ietainsdtW esleySatnu dies. DaviBdu ndy J.S tepheOn' Malley AssociPartoef esosfo r Profesosfo r ChristOiraing ins Church History CollectDieovne lopment andH istorical Librarian Theology AsburTyh eological AsburyT heological Seminary Seminary WilmorKeY, WilmorKeY, iv JOHN WESLEY ON RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS: His Views on Experience and Emotion and Their Role in the Christian Life and Theology Table of Contents Preface ix .......................................................................................... Introduction by Don E. Saliers .................................................x i Chapter One: An Introduction to the "Religious Affections" and "Experience" and the Critical Questions That They Raise . . 1 .............................................. -"Experience" and the Affections in Wesley's Thought -The Context of This Study -The Present Need for a Truly Practical Theology -Contemporary Challenges to "Heart Religion" -The Scope of This Study -The Method of This Study -The Plan of This Study Chapter Two: The Man of One Book and One Desire: Scripture, the Affections and Wesley's Notes on the Old Testament.. 16 ................. -The Affections and the Bible -The Importance of Scripture for Wesley -The Task of Interpretation -The Nature and Uses of Scripture v Chapter Two, Continued: -The Notes in Oveiview -The Religious Affections and the Old Testament -The Heart -The Specific Affections Chapter Three: "St. Paul was no Stoic": Wesley's Afef ctive Vocabulary in his Notes on the New Testament ... ......................... . . . 42 . ............ -The Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament -The "Affections" and Related Terms -The "Heart" -The "Affections" and the "Tempers" -"Passion" -"Experience" -The "Spiritual Sense" -"Pleasure" and "Comfort" -"Feelings," "Impressions" and "Impulses" Chapter Four: "The Fixed Posture of the Soul": The Holy Spirit, the Christian Character and the Afef ctions in Wesley's Notes on the New Testament... ................................. . . . 66 ..... -The Affections, Natural and Otherwise -The Supernatural, the Holy Spirit and the Affections -The "Inner" and the "Outer" -The Transitivity of Emotion -Society and the Affections -Reason and its Contrary -Self-Deception and the Affections -The Affections to be Sought and Shunned -Doctrines and Issues Shaped by Affective Language -The Kingdom of God . -Soteriology and Pneumatology vi Chapter Four, Continued: -The Passibility of God -Ecclesiology -Prayer -Sex Role Differences -Conclusion: The Affections in the N.T. Notes Chapter Five: The Word Proclaimed: True Religion and its Counterfeit as Seen in Wesley's Sermons 98 ........................................... -The Sermons as a Whole -Wesley's Own View of the Sermons -The Early Unpublished Sermons -The Published Sermons -What Christianity is, and What it is Not -The Assurance of Faith -Sin, the Believer and Perfection -Works and the Heart -The Affections in the Sermons: Conclusions Chapter Six: True Religion and the Affections: Wesley's Other Publications and His Abridgement of Jonathan Edwards's Treatise on Religious Affections . . . . . . . 127 ....................... . ........ -Wesley's Other Writings and Abridgements -Wesley's Own Heart in the Journals and Letters -Theological Views in the Journals and Letters -Wesley's Other Publications -The Treatise on Religious Affections -Wesley and Edwards -Wesley's Abridgement of Edwards's Treatise -What Wesley Deleted -What Wesley Retained -Conclusions vii
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