Salvaging Wesley's Agenda: A New Paradigm for Wesleyan Virtue Ethics

Kevin Twain Lowery believes that two of John Wesley's most distinctive doctrines--his doctrines of assurance and Christian perfection--have not been sufficiently developed. Rather, these doctrines have either been distorted or neglected. Lowery suggests that since Wesleyan ethics is centered on these two doctrines, they need to be recast in a schema that emphasizes the cognitive aspects of religious knowledge and moral development.

Salvaging Wesley's Agenda constructs such a new framework in...