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Christian perfection in Wesley and Fletcher with implications for today

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Gregory of Nyssa and John Wesley's theological dialogue on Christian perfection

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Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection”

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 2021
This essay argues that Blake rejected John Wesley’s teaching of “Christian perfection” and examines the implications of this rejection for Blake’s ideas of morality, conduct, and social and sexual freedom. More specifically, it intervenes in discussions of Blake’s relation to eighteenth-century evangelicalism by proposing, at least on the issue of ...
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The Cathars and Christian Perfection

Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 1999
The Church’s Founder enjoined the life of perfection on all his followers, but the Cathars were unique in describing themselves as perfect or as ‘good men’. In all other forms of Christianity it is an observable fact that the more devout church members are, the more they are conscious of their imperfections and lack of goodness.
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Notes on Christian Contemplation and Perfection

Life of the Spirit, 1951
A convenient text for these notes is provided by ‘A Challenge from the Cloister', printed in the May issue of the Life of the Spirit. It begins: ‘A Carmelite life in the world does not seem to be really possible'. There is much confusion of mind implicit in this statement, but its elucidation does not call for any profound analysis of the nature of man
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Desperately Seeking Perfection: Christian Discipleship and Medical Genetics

Christian Bioethics, 1999
The question of what, if anything, Christian theology as theology might contribute to ethical debates about appropriate uses of medical genetics has often been ignored. The answer is complex, and the author argues it is best characterized by an explanation of the analogous aspirations of the two: both have as their goal the perfection of the human ...
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Christianity and the Death Instinct: Perfect Together?

Pastoral Psychology, 2008
This article is a fictional letter. This “letter” is the fourth fictional letter published by the author. In each letter, I take on a different persona and address issues and questions of theological students at Princeton Seminary, all of whom I imagine to be in their early or mid-twenties, because that is when I attended Princeton Seminary (Carlin ...
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/ Christian Perfection and Its Pretenders

2000
Abstract Charles Wesley deemed Christian Perfection one of “the two great truths of the everlasting Gospel” (the other being “universal redemption”). It was the soteriological axis of his theology, a point around which a constellation of redemption themes revolved. Sanctification, as articulated in even his earliest preaching [No. 6],
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Human perfection, transfiguration and Christian ethics

International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
Most people would agree that human perfection is unattainable. Indeed, theologians have typically expressed ambivalence about the possibility of human perfection. Yet, paradoxically, depictions of human perfection are widespread. In this volume, Robin Gill offers an interdisciplinary study of human perfection in contemporary secular culture.
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Jesus, Sin, and Perfection in Early Christianity

2015
The first full-length study to trace how early Christians came to perceive Jesus as a sinless human being. Jeffrey S. Siker presents a taxonomy of sin in early Judaism and examines moments in Jesus' life associated with sinfulness: his birth to the unwed Mary, his baptism by John the Baptist, his public ministry - transgressing boundaries of ...
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