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            <title><![CDATA[The Consequences of Sanctification on Gender Roles in the Early Salvation Army, 1865–1912]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The early Salvation Army’s theology of sanctification led them to theologically challenge and develop the assumed gender roles of its members. This paper argues that the early Army’s understanding of sanctification, particularly the emphasis on empowerment and eschatological fulfilment, informed and affected its approach to gender roles. The Army’s theology of sanctification had a real-term impact on the Army’s understanding of gender roles. A deeper understanding of how the Army’s theology of sanctification influenced its approach to gender roles will provide a more nuanced framework for interpreting the early Army’s claims of gender equality.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worship, Doctrine and Mission: The Contribution of Geoffrey Wainwright to a Developing Methodist Theology]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it aims to honour the contribution made to Methodist scholarship, ecumenical dialogue and Christian theology by Geoffrey Wainwright. Second, it will set out some of the key elements in Wainwright’s work and suggest how these very diverse enterprises might cohere. Finally, it will propose that eschatology and mission are twin themes that point to a lasting legacy for Wainwright’s work.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World is Not My Parish: Toward a Post-Colonial View of Christian Witness]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of John Wesley’s famous quotes, “The world is my parish” is often used to support international missions in Methodism. However, the original intent of the quote was a way for Wesley to justify his irregular practices of preaching in local parishes where he was not the priest in charge. Drawing on research in Post-Colonial studies in theology and biblical studies, the paper provides a critique of Wesley’s view of mission. It also provides the following avenues of Christian practice toward a Post-Colonial form of Christian witness: Re-membering Christ’s body, table fellowship (hospitality), ecumenical engagement, and storytelling.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ernest Gordon Rupp (1910–1986): Historian of Spiritual Experience]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It was in 1945 that Rupp came to public notice when he wrote to challenge the allegation – made in a widely-distributed pamphlet by Peter F. Wiener – that Martin Luther was the spiritual ancestor of Hitler. Rupp’s reputation as a Reformation scholar was immediately established. He undertook a great deal of work on Luther, but his writing ranged much more widely. This study has a particular focus on the way in which Rupp’s historical work traced aspects of spiritual experience. For him this was a crucial theme. However, so far no essay on Rupp has had his engagement with spirituality as its subject. Although Rupp’s own experience could be looked at more closely, and his career is sketched in this article, an examination of his work as a Methodist minister and leader has not been the purpose here. Rather, it is his extensive writing which has been utilised. While further research has developed his topics, his work remains significant.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Recontextualizing John Wesley’s Class Meeting for Holistic Discipleship and the Contemporary Methodist Church Ghana]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This paper explores the recontextualization of John Wesley’s Class Meeting as a framework for holistic discipleship within the contemporary Methodist Church Ghana (MCG). Rooted in Wesley’s eighteenth-century vision of accountable small-group discipleship, the Class Meeting historically nurtured spiritual growth, mutual care, and lay leadership formation. In Ghana, however, rapid urbanization, youth disengagement, and declining participation in small-group ministries have created significant discipleship gaps—relational, practical, and leadership-oriented. Drawing on Wesleyan theology and the Akan concept of abusua (extended family), this study proposes a contextual model that frames Class Meetings as “spiritual families” embodying communal identity, accountability, and intergenerational mentorship. A sample liturgical framework is outlined, integrating accountability, sermon application, and missional outreach. The paper highlights potential challenges—cultural sensitivities, clerical inertia, leadership quality, sustainability, and theological depth—and offers mitigation strategies through training, participatory leadership, and contextualized liturgy. Ultimately, the re-envisioned Class Meeting emerges as a vital complement to preaching, the sacraments, and other means of grace, positioning the MCG for ecclesial renewal and transformative discipleship in Ghana’s evolving sociocultural landscape.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diversity, Disagreement and Debate: A theology of impure holiness in the early church and modern Methodism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article explores the concepts of holiness and purity, suggesting that the latter can be understood as culturally shaped ways of living out the former, which in turn is an expression of a relationship with God. It considers debates around purity of belief and practice among first century Christian communities, holding these as a paradigm for the Methodist Church in Britain and elsewhere today; it argues that holiness, rather than one particular means of maintaining purity, should be the guiding principle, creating an atmosphere in which healthy diversity – and accompanying disagreement – can enrich community life for all.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editors Note]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Christian Outside the Church: Exploring Prevenient Grace Through Simone Weil]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article seeks to read prevenient grace through the lens of Simone Weil, interpreting the Methodist understanding of prevenient grace in terms of Weil' account of grace through attention. It highlights John Wesley's optimism of grace—his conviction that God's prevenient grace is free for all—as a framework that resonates with Weil' vision of attentive openness amid suffering. It considers how this dialogue between Wesley and Weil can inform Christian engagement in pluralistic societies. It concludes with a holistic proposal for rethinking what grace could look like in a multireligious and multicultural context as a theological authority.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reprising the case for disestablishment]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article presents a fresh case for the disestablishment of the Church of England. It opens by noting recent developments that are putting pressure on the public legitimacy of Anglican establishment. It then defines the current relation of the Church of England to the British state in terms of a distinction between ‘high’ and ‘earthed’ establishment, expressing support for the latter. Seven key components of high establishment are then described, and disestablishment defined as the progressive ending of these components. A theological case for disestablishment is then articulated in terms of two central principles: the ecclesiological principle of the spiritual autonomy of the church, and the political principle of the religious impartiality of the state. The seven features of high establishment are found to breach one or both of these principles. The final section critically assesses four prominent arguments often deployed in defence of establishment, finding them all unpersuasive.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wisdom, Salvation and the Environmental Crisis: The Case of Proverbs 2 and the Galamsey (Illegal Mining) Menace in Ghana]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Within Christian theology, salvation cannot be fully understood apart from its implications for the environment. While some dismiss this connection due to the otherworldly outlook of soteriology, this paper argues that biblical salvation encompasses ecological restoration, a concept resonant with the Wesleyan emphasis on holistic, transformative grace. Navigating the theological complexities of environmental crises requires wisdom, particularly the practical, earth-affirming wisdom of Proverbs. Using Ghana’s galamsey (illegal mining) crisis as a case study, this paper demonstrates how wisdom theology, specifically Proverbs 2, can reshape Christian responses to ecological degradation, offering a salvation that is both spiritual and environmental.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Re-Innergized, The Ministry of the Holy Spirit for such a time as this]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This essay explores why the rural church is in decline or dying. This project, “utilized the research method provided by Portland Seminary, at George Fox University, which ‘blended research and design methodology called ‘Collaborative Design for Ministry and Nonprofit Contexts’. In Collaborative Design, practitioners work with stakeholder representatives to address a Need, Problem, or Opportunity (NPO) in their context. Using a combination of bibliographic resources, local knowledge derived from stakeholder Workshops, and an iterative process of continuous adjustment using ‘just enough’ feedback information at each juncture of development, practitioners produce an application-oriented Project that seeks to effect Christ-centered change.’”In discovery workshops, one- to-one interviews, design workshops, stakeholder feedback, academic resources, and primarily scripture I identified a key finding; when a church embraces the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it will live again. This finding came from my personal experiences of the Holy Spirit resurrecting three small rural churches which were in decline/death back to life. I will focus the personal stories of these three churches along with the historical, biblical, and current work of the Holy Spirit in reviving what was once dead. My proposal identifies the need of invoking an anointing of the Holy Spirit by the church. My rational lies in the quantitative and qualitative results of the dying church brought to life through pneumanatuic leadership, creativity and innovation, an outward focus, spiritual maturity, church growth, and sustainable vitality.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice in Methodist Hymnody]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Report to the 2023 British Methodist Conference, A justice-seeking Church1, contains a short section on ‘justice and Methodist hymns’. This article explores in more detail how the word justice is used and understood over time and argues that the notion of social justice as we currently understand it only entered our hymnody in the twentieth century. We outline reasons for this, offer some reflections on justice in Methodist hymns and suggest that we need to continue to create hymns that feed a justice-seeking church.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ecclesial Belonging as Salvific Praxis: Toward a Concrete Methodist Ecclesiology]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the church may be described as an ‘actual communal expression of salvation,’ how do ordinary Methodists experience and articulate the significance of belonging? This paper explores the salvific dimension of belonging through a case study of a Methodist church in Cornwall, UK. Drawing on a practical theological reading of Philippians and in dialogue with Tom Greggs’ Dogmatic Ecclesiology, I argue that belonging is a concrete ecclesiological concept which serves as a vital locus of salvation in the world today.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Wesley’s Catholic Spirit and United Methodist Schism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper argues that the inability of the United Methodist Church to live together with difference over human sexuality, represents the failure of twenty-first century Methodists to live out of John Wesley’s catholic spirit. In elevating views on human sexuality to a church-dividing principle, the Gospel as a revelation of God’s reconciling work for the world, has been displaced from the centre of Methodist discourse, an action that will result in exclusionary harm for LGBTQI+ Methodists. Queer holiness is real and a recognition of this is necessary for the fully affirming Methodism of the future.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book Review: Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology Through the Wisdom of Women. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht and Darryl W. Stephens (eds) T&amp;T Clark (T&amp;T Clark Studies in Anabaptist and Ethics), London and New York, 2020.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Wesley’s Thoughts upon Slavery and Wesleyan Pro-LGBTQ Social Ethics]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article explores how John Wesley’s theological arguments in Thoughts upon Slavery can be used as a pattern for developing a Wesleyan pro-LGBTQ social ethic. After exploring Wesley’s experiential and practical approach to social ethics in general and Wesley’s theological approach to slavery in particular, the article provides a detailed analysis of Wesley’s theological arguments in Thoughts upon Slavery. The article then demonstrates how similar theological approaches and arguments can be used as the basis of a pro-LBGTQ social ethic, focusing on pro-LGBTQ apologetics, Wesleyan queer theology, and pro-LGBTQ arguments in The United Methodist Church.]]></description>
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