This slim volume containing nine essays by junior and senior Wesleyan scholars teaching in the United States (or, in one case, the Philippines) stems from the contributors' shared conviction that the Wesleyan theological tradition has the potential to provide a distinctive contribution to the practice of Christian theology in the twenty-first century. It is their bold claim that the renewal of classical Wesleyan theology with its characteristic theological method offers a fresh approach to articulating core Christian truths in the context of a postmodern, post-colonial, and post-Christian intellectual landscape.

Of course, the contributors are aware that the (modernist) theology of John Wesley and his nineteenth-century interpreters in the Wesleyan theological tradition will not provide ready answers to present-day questions. Significant changes in the intellectual (especially epistemological), historical, and socio-cultural landscape over the past 250 years inevitably affect contemporary theological methods, sources, and norms. In fact, these Wesleyan scholars acknowledge ‘that...

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