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Title: Grace & Responsibility: A Wesleyan Theology for Today by John B., Jr. Cobb, Jr. Cobb ISBN: 0-687-00769-0 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Misses on 'for Today'
Comment: Cobb is a process theologian trying to communicate to the reader how Wesley's theology can be relevent today. He's not in his area of specialization in this book and doesn't seem to really want to carry on. I expect that Cobb knows of what he speaks, but the book is burdened with academic language and, in my opinion, missed opportunities at connecting Wesleyen tradition to today. As a well-educated reader with a keen interest in Christianity's search for relevence in today's world, even I had trouble slogging through this one. Your experience may be better than mine, but I would recommend this one only reluctantly. Not an old book, but seems dated.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting Commentary...But Misses Fidelity
Comment: John Cobb notes that much of what John Wesley addressed in his writing was situational in nature, and that Wesley's theology needs to be 'made relevant' if it is to be useful today. From this starting point, Cobb writes an interesting theological commentary with a 'Wesleyanist' slant. His ideas are useful, and sometimes profound. But they are not essentially faithful to Wesley. Indeed, they are so far removed from Wesley as to make it appear that John Wesley simply provides a scarcely related background to Cobb's own theological discourse. In some ways, it is not unlike hearing a sermon that ignores the text that is being preached.
Ultimately, I think one's comfort or discomfort with Cobb's attempt will be shaped by whether or not the reader agrees with the claim that Wesley's theology is too particular to his own time to be relevant today. For my part, I think there is much in Wesley that is still relevant. I therefore disagree with Cobb's premise.
Nevertheless, this book IS worth reading, and no student of contemporary Methodism should be unfamiliar with it.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Liberal Approach to Wesleyan Theology
Comment: Cobb, John B., Jr. Grace & Responsibility: A Wesleyan Theology for Today. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Cobb writes from the perspective that because our current situation is very different from the culture that John Wesley lived in, much of what Wesley taught is no longer useable for today's United Methodist. Cobb recognizes the lack of a unified sense of identity among United Methodists and suggests that a clarified role in the mission of the church must be preceded by a unified theology. He attempts to come to terms with the theological heritage from Wesley by reappraising his work and finding relevance of Wesleyan thought for the contemporary world.
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Title: John Wesley by Albert C. Outler, John Wesley ISBN: 0195028104 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: John Wesley's Sermons: An Anthology by Albert C. Outler, Richard P. Heitzenrater, John Wesley ISBN: 068720495X Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters and Treatises by Frank Whaling, John Wesley, Albert Outer ISBN: 0809123681 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Outward Sign and Inward Grace: The Place of Sacraments in Wesleyan Spirituality by Rob L. Staples ISBN: 0834113783 Publisher: Nazarene Publishing House Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
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Title: The Scripture Way of Salvation: The Heart of John Wesley's Theology by Kenneth J. Collins ISBN: 0687009626 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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