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The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission

The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission 199 The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission Steven J. Land Melvin Dieter establishes well the general perspective that is the beginning context for this exploration of the bases of collaboration and theological vision shared by the Wesleyan and Pentecostal traditions. The tendency of these movements [Wesleyan-Holiness and Pentecostal] to finally relate the movements of the Spirit in which they felt they were par- ticipating with the consummation of history shaped every aspect of their . thinking, especially their concept of the church and its mission. It is not sur- prising then that John Fletcher, the intimate of Wesley and the first system- atic theologian of the Wesleyan Movement, should turn to a Trinitarian dis- pensationalism similar to that of the Cappadocians and Joachim to develop his hermeneutic of Wesley's doctrine of Christian perfection centered as it was on the Pentecost event and the age of the Spirit. Nor is it surprising that John Fletcher's identification of the experience of entire sanctification as Wesley taught it with the "baptism of the Holy Ghost" should have become ' the dominant motif for understanding and proclaiming the doctrine at the time that the Holiness churches were seeking to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission

Land, Steven J.
Pneuma , Volume 21 (1): 199 – Jan 1, 1999
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0272-0965
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10.1163/157007499X00143
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199 The Triune Center: Wesleyans and Pentecostals Together in Mission Steven J. Land Melvin Dieter establishes well the general perspective that is the beginning context for this exploration of the bases of collaboration and theological vision shared by the Wesleyan and Pentecostal traditions. The tendency of these movements [Wesleyan-Holiness and Pentecostal] to finally relate the movements of the Spirit in which they felt they were par- ticipating with the consummation of history shaped every aspect of their . thinking, especially their concept of the church and its mission. It is not sur- prising then that John Fletcher, the intimate of Wesley and the first system- atic theologian of the Wesleyan Movement, should turn to a Trinitarian dis- pensationalism similar to that of the Cappadocians and Joachim to develop his hermeneutic of Wesley's doctrine of Christian perfection centered as it was on the Pentecost event and the age of the Spirit. Nor is it surprising that John Fletcher's identification of the experience of entire sanctification as Wesley taught it with the "baptism of the Holy Ghost" should have become ' the dominant motif for understanding and proclaiming the doctrine at the time that the Holiness churches were seeking to

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