Table of Contents

Introduction: Orientation
1: Prolegomena: Theology as Christian Instruction
2: Prolegomena: Presuppositions and Tasks
3: The Divine Trinity
4: The Attributes of God
5: The Person of Christ
6: Atonement and Work of Christ
7: The Person of the Holy Spirit
8: The Work of the Holy Spirit
9: Divine Creation
10: Divine Providence
11: Human Agents Made in the Image of God
12: Human Action in the Fall
13: The Church: Images, Origins, and Identity
14: The Church: Work, Ministry, and Sacraments
15: Salvation: Predestination, Grace, and Conceptual Orientation
16: Salvation: The Possibility of Conspicuous Sanctity
17: Eschatology: Life After Death
18: Eschatology: The Final Consummation
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About the Author

William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Southern Methodist University. His publications include volumes one and two of Divine Agency and Divine Action (2017), The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies (2011), Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism (2000), and Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology (1998).