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The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 12)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight An Aside (Between Parts Eight and Nine) Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven John Wesley changed the doctrine of salvation, and the effects reached far beyond Methodism. Fundamentally, […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 10)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight An Aside (Between Parts Eight and Nine) Part Nine Each branch from Wesleyanism took certain fundamental unbiblical characteristics from its trunk, while also adding unique innovations. The Holiness Movement (part 9) […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 9)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight An Aside (Between Parts Eight and Nine) Wesleyanism, which began with John Wesley’s theology, supplied the historical architecture for a two-tier conception of salvation. This architecture subsequently changed names, crossed denominational […]
An Aside on the Two-Tier Salvation Problem
I am writing this post as an aside from the series – “The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification” – and especially part 8, which showed how this corrupted the gospel in all of evangelicalism. The series has 8 parts so far: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 8)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven John Wesley’s two-tiered framework of initial and then entire sanctification has since produced a false gospel in many different iterations. It mutated into various versions, forking off like branches from the root or trunk of […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 7)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Wesley’s two-tiered innovation of initial and entire sanctification gave rise to new variations downstream from Wesleyanism. Despite the variation, the commonality among them is a net, common perversion of the gospel. John Wesley brought salvation by works: the […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 6)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five The baptismal regeneration piece of John Wesley’s doctrine of salvation and sanctification phased out of Wesleyanism and Methodism during the 19th century, leaving two remaining that were hugely problematic to a biblical, historical, true, and saving faith. Of the two, one […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 5)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Like many other movements since the first century, when Jesus started His church, John Wesley’s movement claimed a kind of return to primitive Christianity. In fact, he tried to reform the Church of England (COE) with a novel patchwork of salvation and sanctification doctrine […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 4)
Part One Part Two Part Three One Gospel, One Birth, One Standing, One Savior The System Assessed and the Alternative Declared John Wesley was a man responding to real and observable spiritual decay — the deadness of the Church of England (COE) was not imaginary, and his zeal for genuine holiness was […]
The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 3)
Part One Part Two Wesley’s Incoherent System: Baptismal Regeneration, Apostasy, and the Second Blessing Very few modern Wesleyans and Methodists deal with or consider at all their historical and theological foundations in baptismal regeneration. What has happened across the spectrum of Wesleyan and Methodist denominations is not a careful theological resolution of the contradiction […]
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