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Between the times of the Early Church and the Wesleyan Revival, who were the advocates of perfect love? Did John Wesley simply create a theological doctrine to fit his presuppositions - or did he build on the solid, Scriptural foundations of others who went before him?
To understand the meaning and scope of the doctrine of entire sanctification or Christian Perfection as taught by John Wesley, this enlightening book examines the principles upon which he built. These developments reach all the way from the apostles through the times of the Early Church Fathers, the medieval monasteries and the Reformation to the days of Wesley and the early Methodists.
William Greathouse takes the firm position that "the teaching of Christian perfection dereives essentially from the Scriptures, and that Wesley's doctrine, far from being a sectarian vagary, is...'an original and unique synthesis' of the Protestant ethic of grace and the Catholic idea of Holiness" (from the Preface).
Schmul Publishing Co., copyright 2002, paperback, 123 pages.