A Pentecostal Appropriation of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
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1. Cheryl Bridges Johns, “The Adolescence of Pentecostalism: In Search of a Legitimate Sectarian Identity.” PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies. 17, (Spring, 1995).
2. Donald N. Bowdle, “Informed Pentecostalism: An Alternative Paradigm.” The Spirit and the Mind. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000). p. 14.
3. Rick D. Moore, John Christopher Thomas, and Steven J. Land offer three distinct phases of Pentecostal scholarship. “First there came a generation of Pentecostal scholars who completed graduate theological programs in an environment which did not encourage nor even perceive the viability of interaction between Pentecostal faith and critical theological scholarship. A second generation of Pentecostal scholars found opportunity for the first time to bring their Pentecostalism to bear upon their graduate research, but only in the area of descriptive historical study or social scientific analysis of the Pentecostal movement. Now Pentecostalism is witnessing the rise of a third generation of theological scholarship, in which the distinctive of Pentecostal faith are informing critical theological research across the entire range of theological sub disciplines.” “Editorial,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 1, (1992). p. 4.
4. Donald Thorsen discusses the ecumenical nature of the Wesleyan quadrilateral in The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Scripture, Reason, Tradition, and Experience as a Model of Evangelical Theology. (Nappanee, IN: Francis Asbury Press, 1990).
5. For work on John Wesley’s pneumatology see Albert C. Outler, “A Focus on the Holy Spirit: Spirit and Spirituality in John Wesley.” Quarterly Review (1988). See also Randy L. Maddox, who says, “that Wesley placed the Spirit at the center of the Christian life.” Responsible Grace p. 119; Lycurgus M. Starkey, Jr., The Work of the Holy Spirit: A Study in Wesleyan Theology (New York: Abington, 1962); Timothy L. Smith, The Holy Spirit in Hymns of Wesley, WTJ, 16: 2, (1981); and A. Skevington Wood, “John Wesley, Theologian of the Spirit,” Theological Renewal 6 (1977); and the most recent work by Laurence W. Wood, The Meaning of Pentecost in Early Methodism: Rediscovering John Fletcher as Wesley’s Vindicator and Designated Successor. (Scarecrow Press, 2003).
6. Albert C. Outler, “A Focus on the Holy Spirit: Spirit and Spirituality in John Wesley.” Quarterly Review (1988).
7. Starkey, Lycurgus, M. The Work of the Holy Spirit: A Study in Wesleyan Theology. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962). p. 140. For further discussion on the ecumenical significance of pneumatology see also the works of the following contemporary theologians: Clark Pinnock, Jurgen Moltmann, and Wolfhart Pannenberg. Veli-Matti Karkkainen has demonstrated that pneumatology is a major category in the Roman Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue of recent years. (Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in Ecumenical, International, and Contextual Perspective; Ad Ultimum terrae: Evangelization, Proselytism and Common Witness in the Roman Catholic Pentecostal Dialogue (1990-1997); An Introduction to Ecclesiology: Ecumenical, Historical & Global Perspectives).
8. Michael Lodahl, The Story of God: Wesleyan Theology and Biblical Narrative. (Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press, 1994). p. 13-48.
9. Works 6:65-77. “The New Birth.”
10. See Works, 5:188. “The Means of Grace.” and 5:37 “Scriptural Christianity.”
11. Albert C. Outler, “The Wesleyan Quadrilateral – In John Wesley.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 20:1 (Spring, 1985). See also Wesley and the Quadrilateral: Renewing the Conversation for the most recent and much-needed commentary on the Quadrilateral, written by several important contemporary Wesleyan scholars in order to offer a balanced perspective of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral.
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