Salvaging Wesley's Agenda: A New Paradigm for Wesleyan Virtue Ethics
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781556353772 |
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Publisher: | Pickwick Publications |
Publication date: | 03/15/2008 |
Series: | Princeton Theological Monographs , #86 |
Pages: | 350 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations for Citations x
Introduction xiii
The Need to Develop Wesleyan Virtue Ethics
The Loss of Wesley's Agenda 3
The Call for a New Paradigm 41
The Intellectual Roots of Wesley's Thought
Wesley and Lockean Empiricism 65
Wesley and Lockean Ethics 95
The Rejection of Mystical Spirituality 122
The Cognitive Content of Emotions 152
Constructing a New Paradigm
The Basic Conceptual Elements 201
Incorporating Kantian Concepts 236
Reformulating Wesley's Two Distinctive Doctrines 270
Bibliography 315
What People are Saying About This
"Lowery approaches Wesley with the issues and problems that arose in the Holiness and Pentecostal movements chiefly in view! This leads to fresh appraisals of Wesley's doctrines of assurance and perfection and to his constructive proposal of a Wesleyan ethical theory. That the latter can make such extensive use of Kant is surprising and challenging. This book places Lowery as a major contributor to the construction of new Wesleyan theologies for our day."
John B. Cobb Jr.
Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology
"Seeking new ways to formulate and revitalize Wesley's ethics, Dr. Lowery has placed Wesley in dialogue not only with John Locke and Jonathan Edwards, whom Wesley knew and admired, but also with Immanuel Kant whom he did not know. Yet Lowery finds key similarities between Wesley's doctrines of assurance and perfection and Kant's ethics, similarities that enable Lowery to enlarge and refine Wesley's doctrines in significant and creative ways. This is clearly a groundbreaking book for Wesley research and promising for new developments."
Theodore Runyon, Professor Emeritus
Candler School of Theology, Emory University