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Authors: Albert Cook Outler, Richard P. Heitzenrater
ISBN-13: 9780687204960, ISBN-10: 0687204968
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)
For the first time, students of Wesley have access to Albert C. Outler's widely acclaimed "introduction" to Volume 1 of The Works of John Wesley in a single inexpensive paperback.
No student of John Wesley will need to be reminded of Albert Outler's stature, or the significance of his contribution to twentieth-century Wesleyan studies.
Contents
Foreword | 9 | |
1. | A Career in Retrospect | 11 |
2. | The Preacher and His Preaching | 24 |
The Tradition of Popular Preaching in England | 28 | |
'Plain Truth for Plain People' | 31 | |
3. | The Sermon Corpus | 39 |
The Early Sermons | 39 | |
Sermons on Several Occasions, Volumes 1-4 | 47 | |
Sermons on Several Occasions, Volumes 5-8 (1788) | 54 | |
The Other Sermons | 57 | |
A Conspectus | 62 | |
4. | Theological Method and the Problems of Development | 64 |
5. | Wesley and His Sources | 75 |
Holy Scripture | 77 | |
The Classics | 79 | |
Christian Antiquity | 82 | |
From the Age of the Fathers to the English Reformation | 84 | |
The Anglican and Puritan Traditions | 87 | |
Contemporary Culture | 96 | |
6. | On Reading Wesley's Sermons | 104 |