What is faith? Is it cognitive, affective, volitional? The Basis of Union of The Uniting Church in Australia appeals to a very different understanding of faith from a key source of one of the uniting traditions, The Methodist Church of Australasia.
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Here John Wesley focusses on meekness, hungering for righteousness and being merciful. Both gems and cringes for contemporary readers. In advocating strongly for mercy, without an analysis of power, Wesley sets up a situation where prejudice rather love may triumph! open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
Oh Queensland, why do you keep on doing it? A proposed electoral re-distribution in the state of Queensland, Australia, once again seeks to suppress indigenous knowledges and naming.
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For John Wesley, the marks of new birth in Christ are faith, hope and love; but to whom do they belong? Individuals who are divinely convicted; or the people of God incorporated into the very life of God?
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I'm back to summarising and reflecting on John Wesley's 44 Standard Sermons. I felt the need to boost the content warning on this summary. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
How can we re-build authentic theological identity after pain, trauma and abuse? Lorraine Cavanaugh recounts her own journey of re-building.
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In Standard Sermon 15, John Wesley tries to make sense of his conviction that those born of God do not sin.
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Why bother with John Wesley’s Standard Sermons? Because they bear the seeds of the destructive impetuses of contemporary evangelicalism.
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John Wesley continues to expound the marks of being Christian—faith, hope and love—in Standard Sermon 14.
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In Standard Sermon 13, John Wesley is still wrestling with what it means to be Christian.
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John Wesley explores the virtues of the Christian disposition of the heart: humility, faith, hope and love in Standard Sermon 13.
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Despite contrasting participation in the activities of the Christian life with having the correct disposition of the heart, John Wesley argues for a “high” view of those activities as “means of grace.” #JohnWesley #meansofgrace #Christianlife open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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In Standard Sermon 11, John Wesley wrestles with his notions of Christian perfection and the role of the Christian’s own witness to being Christian. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
A summary of John Wesley’s Standard Sermon 11. Wesley continues to define doubt and error out of being Christian.
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In Standard Sermon 10, John Wesley continues to provide the basis for enthusiastic claims while cautioning about enthusiasts. It’s all a bit circular.
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John Wesley Standard Sermon 10 - making important distinctions or labouring his understanding of faith as conviction? It's awfully repetitive in a minor area of theology. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
James K. A. Smith wrestles with perhaps unexpected legacies of postliberalism. The dialectic rules!
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Reflection on Standard Sermon 9 of John Wesley - it’s heavy-going because Wesley has some convoluted understandings of what it means to be human.
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In Standard Sermon 9, John Wesley makes tortuous distinctions between the “natural man”, the “legal man” and the “evangelical man”. Oh my goodness!
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In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley ties himself in knots around notions of sin.
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In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley is struggling with the ongoing nature of sin despite the assurance of salvation - one of the many ambiguities of the Christian faith. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
Is there something else creeping into John Wesley's understanding of faith in Sermon 7 of his Standard Sermons?
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Sermon 7 of John Wesley's Standard Sermons - is it more of the same or is there something else creeping into his understanding of faith? Commentary to come. #JohnWesley #faith #metanoia #repentance anitamonro.substack.com/p/the-way-to...
