Volume 31, Number 1, Spring, 1996 
 

Editor’s Notes

“To Preach the Gospel to the Poor”: Missional Self-Understanding in Early Free Methodism (1860-90) 

          Howard A. Snyder 

Race Relations and the American Holiness Movement  

          James Earl Massey 

Foundations for Responding to Religious Pluralism  

          Dean Flemming 

What Is Spirituality? Historical and Methodological Considerations  

          Kenneth J. Collins 

Glossolalia as Foreign Language: Investigation of the Early Twentieth-Century Pentecostal Claim  

          D. William Faupel 

Third Wave of the Spirit, Pentecostalization of American Christianity: A Wesleyan Critique  

          Laurence W. Wood 

Women In Ministry: A Biblical Vision  

          Sharon Clark Pearson 

John Wesley: Revival and Revivalism, 1736-1768

          Charles H. Goodwin  

Response  

          Richard Steele 

John Wesley: Father of Today's Small Group Concept? 

          David Hunsicker 

In Honor of James Earl Massey  

          Barry L. Callen

Book Reviews  
 

Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 1996 
 

Editor’s Notes

The New Creation: A Wesleyan Distinctive

Theodore Runyon

Comparative Patterns of Church Historiography: North America and Southern Africa 

David P. Whitelaw 

Pietistic Influence on John Wesley: Wesley and Gerhard Tersteegen 

J. Steven O'Malley

Theosis and Sanctification: John Wesley's Reformulation of a Patristic Doctrine

Michael J. Christensen   

Reification of the Experience of Entire Sanctification in the American Holiness Movement  

Al Truesdale 

The Inverted Shadow of Phoebe Palmer  

            Charles Edwin Jones 

The American Holiness Movement's Paradigm Shift Concerning Pentecost  

Victor P. Reasoner 

Supernatural and Sanctification: Comparison of Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Views  

John E. Culp

John Wesley's "Evangelical" Theology of Infant Baptism  

G. Stephen Blakemore 

Presidential Address: Reuniting the Two So Long Disjoined: Knowledge and Vital Piety 

Donald A. D. Thorsen 

Book Reviews

Volume 32, Number 1, Spring, 1997 
 

Wesleyan Quest for Ancient Roots: The 1980s  

          Ted A. Campbell

The Cosmological Basis for John Wesley's "Gradualism"  

          Michael E. Lodahl

Anglican Influence On John Wesley's Soteriology  

          William H. Shontz

Presidential Address: The New Birth: John Wesley's Doctrine 

          Kenneth J. Collins

Means Of Grace: Toward a Wesleyan Praxis of Spiritual Formation

          Dean G. Blevins

Premillennialism in the Early Writings of Charles Wesley

          Kenneth G. C. Newport

Anthony Benezet: True Champion of the Slave

          Irv Brendlinger

Holiness and Higher Education  

          Merle D. Strege

Faith and Order: Holiness Church Participation  

          Gilbert W. Stafford

Reflections on Mark Noll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994)  

          David Bundy  

          Henry Knight  

          William Kostlevy

In Honor of Melvin Dieter: Introduction and Tribute  

          Paul M. Bassett

Wesleyan Theological Society: Constitution and Bylaws, Endowment Fund  

Book Reviews

Volume 32, Number 2, Fall, 1997 
 

Worship and Sanctification  

          Henry H. Knight III

Sacred Songs / Sacred Service 

          Sharon Clark Pearson

Watchnight, Covenant Service, and the Love-Feast in Early British Methodism  

          William Parkes

A Little Heaven Below: The Love Feast and Lord's Supper in Early American Methodism  

          Lester Ruth

Worship, Relevance, and the Preferential Option for the Poor in the Holiness Movement, 1880-1910  

          Rodney L. Reed

African-American Worship in the Pentecostal and Holiness Movements 

          Cheryl J. Sanders

The Wesleyan-Holiness Movement In Search Of Liturgical Identity 

          Steven T. Hoskins 

“Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi”: Cautionary Notes  

          Charles R. Hohenstein

Liturgy in Non-Liturgical Holiness-Pentecostalism  

          Estrelda Y. Alexander

In The Beauty Of Holiness: Wesleyan Theology, Worship, and the Aesthetic  

          Kenton M. Stiles

In Honor of William Melvin Arnett and Charles W. Carter  

Book Reviews

 Volume 33, Number 1, 1998 

John Wesley's Conception and Use of Scripture (Bibliographic Essay and the 1995 Book of Scott Jones) 

          William J. Abraham

Biblical Interpretation, American Holiness Movement, 1875-1920  

          Stephen J. Lennox

Presidential Address: Uniting Worship, Preaching, and Theology  

          Wesley Tracy

Methodist Pentecost: The Wesleyan Holiness Revival of 1758-1763  

          Charles H. Goodwin

Brethren in Christ: Uneasy Synthesis of Heritage Streams  

          Luke Keefer

Worship: Formation, Discernment, A Wesleyan Dialogue

          Dean Blevins

Homo Precarius: Prayer in the Image and Likeness of God  

          Craig Keen

Christian Perfection: Toward a New Paradigm  

          H. Ray Dunning

Reconfiguration of Power: Basic Trajectory of John Wesley's Practical Theology  

          Kenneth J. Collins

The Pentecostal League of Prayer: A British Holiness Movement  

          Ian M. Randall

A Wesleyan “Grammar”: Linguistic Analysis and Wesley Texts  

          Maxine E. Walker

In Honor of William Greathouse: Introduction and Tribute  

          Rob Staples

A Sermon: God's Outpoured Love: Our Holiness and our Hope  

          William Greathouse

Book Reviews 

  
Volume 33, Number 2, Fall, 1998  

Evangelical Theologians Facing the Future: Ancient and Future Paradigms  

          Clark H. Pinnock

Reconnecting the Means to the End: A Wesleyan Prescription for the Holiness Movement  

          Randy L. Maddox

A Wesleyan / Holiness Agenda for the Twenty-First Century  

          R. Larry Shelton

The Future of Wesleyan Biblical Studies  

          Robert W. Wall

Reading the Bible as Wesleyans: A Response To Robert Wall  

          Joel B. Green

Biblical Hermeneutics and the Wesleyan Message of Holiness  

          Alex R. G. Deasley

A Reconstruction of the Wesleyan Understanding of Christian Perfection  

          Henry W. Spaulding II

Embourgeoisement and the Formation of the Conservative Holiness Movement  

          Wallace Thornton, Jr.

A Wesleyan Perspective on Christian Unity  

          David L. Cubie

The Claude Thompson Controversy at Asbury Theological Seminary  

          Scott Kisker

Book Reviews  

 Volume 34, Number 1, Spring 1999 

Partners in Scandal: Wesleyan and Pentecostal Scholarship 

          Cheryl Bridges Johns

Pentecostal Sanctification in John Wesley and Early Methodism 

          Laurence W. Wood

Purity and Power According to the Acts of the Apostles 

          Robert Wall

The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission 

          Steven J. Land

An Ecumenical Vocation for the Wesleyan / Holiness Tradition? 

          Elizebeth H. Mellen

German Pietism in Nineteenth Century America Via a Missionary Periodical 

          J. Steven O'Malley

John Wesley’s Concept of Inspiration and Literary-Critical Approaches to Scripture 

          Richard P. Thompson

Formative Influences on B. T. Roberts: Abolitionism, Revivalism, Perfectionism 

          Howard A. Snyder

Restorationism in the Holiness Movement, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 

          Steven Ware

A Forward Trajectory: Irenaeus as Guardian and Pathfinder 

          David P. Whitelaw

Studying Text in Wesleyan Context (A Response to Robert Wall and Joel Green) 

          Russell Morton

Honoring R. Hollis Gause and David A. Seamands 

Book Reviews 

 Volume 34, Number 2,  Fall 1999

Church Discipline in the Amercian Methodist Experiance

         Michael G. Cartwright

Providence, Chance, and the Problem of Suffering

         Philip R. Meadows

Wesley’s Understanding of Christian Perfection: In What Sense Pentecostal? (Response to Laurence Wood) 

         Randy L. Maddox, and a Response by Laurence Wood

Biblical Texts: Past and Future Meanings

         Clark H. Pinnock

Trinitarian Grammar of the Liturgy and the Liturgical Practice of the Self

         E. Byron Anderson

Resident Aliens and the Exercise of Power: Toward a Wesleyan Postmodern Education

         Dean G. Blevins 

John Wesley and Depression In an Age of Melancholy

         Joe Gorman

An Evangelistic Pastorate: Unresolved Dilemma in Wesleyan Concepts of Ministry and Church Growth

         Charles H. Goodwin

The “Color Line” Washed Away in the Blood: In the Holiness Church at Azusa Street and Afterward

         Charles Edwin Jones

John Wesley’s Puritan and Pietist Heritages Reexamined

         Scott Kisker

Free Methodist Mission in South Africa, 1891-1960: Social Conformity or Prophetic Challenge?

         Sarah Elizabeth Johnson

In Honor of J. Kenneth Grider

         Tribute by Paul M. Bassett

Book Reviews

Volume 35 Number 1, Spring 2000

Volume 35 Number 2, Fall 2000

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