About the Contributor(s): J. Gregory Crofford (PhD, University of Manchester) is Coordinator of Education and Clergy Development for the Africa Region, Church of the Nazarene. He is the author of Streams of Mercy: Prevenient Grace in the Theology of John and Charles Wesley (2010).

This study of prevenient grace in the Wesleys opens new ground in understanding the seminal doctrine of prevenient grace in Methodism. He does so by uncovering a diversity of sources used by John Wesley in his exposition of this biblical concept. He also includes an in-depth examination of the complementary role of Charles Wesley's poetical discourse on the theme, which results in a more comprehensive presentation of its form and function in early Methodism. Finally, Crofford demonstrates major ways in which prevenient grace was deployed in the writings of selected Methodist theologians.