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Description: Powerful ideas have the capacity to inspire great
good. They also have the capacity to prompt unspeakable acts of
evil. The ideas of ""America"" and ""the gospel"" have been used
for both. The situation was no different when the Methodist
Episcopal Church (MEC) brought these two ideas together in its
evangelistic work from 1860 to 1920, including during the Civil War
and the First World War. Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation
traces the MEC's home missions among African Americans and whites
in the South; among Native Americans, Mexicans, and white settlers
in the West; and among newly arrived immigrants, their children,
the poor, and the rich in the East's burgeoning cities. It shows
the innovative and courageous work of the MEC to improve the
quality of life for these most marginalized populations in the
United States. It also shows the fear the MEC had that these
populations would overthrow American civilization if they did not
conform to the values held by white, middle-class, native-born
Americans.
John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which
agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or
church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though
today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once
a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the
historic teachings of that church's tradition.
In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines
historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist
Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the
doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian
tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches
historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what
is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various
contemporary forms. Documents examined include The Twenty-Five
Articles of Religion, The General Rules, Wesley's Standard Sermons
and Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, The Methodist Social
Creed, and the Apostles' Creed. En este libro conciso y sencillo,
Ted Campbell nos da un breve resumen de las doctrinas mas
importantes que la familia de denominaciones wesleyanas comparten.
Escrito con un lenguaje conciso y directo, Campbell estructura el
material en categorias sistematicas: la doctrina de la revelacion,
la doctrina de Dios, la doctrina de Cristo, la doctrina del
Espiritu, la doctrina de la humanidad, la doctrina del "camino de
la salvacion" (conversion/justificacion/santificacion), la doctrina
de la iglesia y los medios de gracia y la doctrina de lo por
venir.
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In this concise, accessible book, Dr. Ted Campbell provides a brief
summary of the major doctrines shared in the Wesley family of
denominations. Writing in concise and straightforward language,
Campbell organizes the material into systematic categories:
doctrine of revelation, doctrine of God, doctrine of Christ,
doctrine of the Spirit, doctrine of humanity, doctrine of "the way
of salvation" (conversion/justification/sanctification), doctrine
of the church and means of grace, and doctrine of thing to come. He
also supplies substantial but simplified updated references in the
margins of the book that allow for easy identification of his
sources. John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on
which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about
theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed.
Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal
commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important
to know the teachings of that church's tradition. In Methodist
Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical
doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a
comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance
of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the
book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in
common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about
the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms. For more
information, please see the author's website: http:
//tedcampbell.com/methodist-doctrine/
Wesleyan Beliefs examines foundational beliefs as expressed in the
works of John and Charles Wesley in formal doctrinal statements
adopted by Wesleyan communities and in a variety of other
literature including hymnals, catechisms, and works of systematic
theology approved for study by preachers. It further considers the
expression of these core beliefs through such popular means as
personal testimonies and spiritual autobiographies and in the
architectures of Methodist Wesleyan and Methodist worship spaces.
A documented history of seven generations of a Campbell family,
from Malcolm Campbell (ca. 1715 - 1763) to Elam Campbell
(1898-1995) through Scotland and Ulster, Virginia, Tennessee, and
Texas.
The historic teachings of four major Christian
traditions--Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Reformation and
Union Churches, and Evangelical and Free churches--are set forth
here in a comparative framework. Following a brief historical
introduction of each tradition, Ted Campbell provides an extensive
overview of the tradition's beliefs on religious authority, God and
Christ, human nature and salvation, and church, ministry, and the
sacraments. He concludes by considering whether a definable core of
Christian teachings cuts across denominational and confessional
boundaries.
Throughout the history of Christianity, there have been theological
disputes that caused fissures among the faithful. There were the
major ruptures of the Great Schism of 1054 and the Protestant
Reformation. Since the Reformation, though, there has been an
eruption of new denominations. The World Christian Database now
list over 9000 worldwide. And new denominations are created every
day, often when a group splits off from an established church
because of a dispute over doctrine or leadership. With such a
proliferation of denominations, could there possibly be one core
Christian message that all churches share?
That's the question that Ted Campbell sets out to answer in this
book. He begins his examination of Christian doctrine where it
started: in the gospels. He then shows how the gospel has been
received and professed by Christian communities through the
centuries, from the first "proto-Orthodox" Christian communities
right through the modern evangelical, Pentecostal, and ecumenical
movements. Campbell shows that, despite all the divisions, there is
indeed a single unifying core of the faith that all Christians
share. In the process, he offers a brief, well-written, and
acceptable history of Christian doctrine that will be ideal for
courses in the history of Christian thought.
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