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experience, john wesley, scripture
Wesleyan Quadrilateral Fixed: Part Two
09.08.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsLast week I talked about my problems with the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. This week I propose a revision that I hope Unitarian Universalists (and others) will find more helpful. Super cool graphic toward the end (I promise). To review, the main problem with the Wesleyan Quadrilateral is that experience is always primary—there is no direct access […]
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john wesley, methodist, scripture
Wesleyan Quadrilateral Fixed: Part One
09.01.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsOne of my first moves away from orthodox Christianity as a Methodist seminary student was when I realized I disagreed with John Wesley about the primacy of scripture. Wesley taught that religious understanding comes to us in four ways: Revealed in Scripture Illimined by Tradition Vivified in Experience, and Confirmed by Reason Scripture, though, is […]
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bible, canon, heresy, orthodoxy, philosophy, scripture, theology
Salvos against Christian orthodoxy
06.02.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIn a discussion at Eclectic Itchings, I'm reminded of my own journey away from Christian orthodoxy some years ago. No one of the thoughts listed below convinced me on its own, but taken together I found them compelling. What I would like to see the Emerging Church do is to deeply engage questions like […]
