Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

9-24-2012

Scholarship Domain(s)

Scholarship of Faith Integration

Abstract

This presentation explores how Wesley’s philosophical and theological commitments shaped his approach to scriptural interpretation, and how this has particular implications for doing faith integration. Within this presentation, the empiricist tradition is defined and compared with rationalism, Catholic and Reformed/Calvinist views on human nature and divine providence are compared with Wesleyan views, the Wesleyan doctrine of grace is explained, and the roots of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral are traced.

Wesleyan values call for an integrative approach to faith. Knowledge should not be compartmentalized into sacred and secular spheres. An integrative approach to knowledge and faith suggests that we should seek to organize our knowledge and beliefs into a coherent whole, and this implies that there should also be no division between the theoretical and the practical.

Comments

Presented at Olivet Nazarene University on September 24, 2012 as a faculty workshop on faith integration.

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