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Can Pentecostals Be Wesleyans? My Reply to Don Dayton's Rejoinder

Can Pentecostals Be Wesleyans? My Reply to Don Dayton's Rejoinder PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Volume 28, No. 1, Spring 2006 © 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden pp. 120–130 1 Outler, Sermons ., 2:554, “The Wisdom of God’s Counsel.” Can Pentecostals Be Wesleyans? My Reply to Don Dayton’s Rejoinder Larry Wood Don reminded us in his rejoinder in the last issue of the Pneuma that he was well trained as a church historian. I agree, but the issue here is documentary evidence and not characterizations based on unsubstantiated typologies and general impressions. Don seriously misunderstood and misquoted his sources. My hope is that in our conversations we will try to get the information right because the vital issue at risk is a proper understanding of our religious heritage, even if we wish certain facts could be undone. First, Don says that Wesley only “spoke of two covenants or ‘dispen- sations’ (that we live in the ‘Christian’ rather than the ‘Jewish’ age, not the ‘age of the Spirit’ of a variety of forms of dispensationalism).” Providing exact quotations from the later Wesley will show otherwise. In his ser- mon, “The Wisdom of God’s Counsels” (April 28, 1784), Wesley used Fletcher’s dispensational categories beginning with “Noah, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Can Pentecostals Be Wesleyans? My Reply to Don Dayton's Rejoinder

Wood, Larry
Pneuma , Volume 28 (1): 120 – Jan 1, 2006
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PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Volume 28, No. 1, Spring 2006 © 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden pp. 120–130 1 Outler, Sermons ., 2:554, “The Wisdom of God’s Counsel.” Can Pentecostals Be Wesleyans? My Reply to Don Dayton’s Rejoinder Larry Wood Don reminded us in his rejoinder in the last issue of the Pneuma that he was well trained as a church historian. I agree, but the issue here is documentary evidence and not characterizations based on unsubstantiated typologies and general impressions. Don seriously misunderstood and misquoted his sources. My hope is that in our conversations we will try to get the information right because the vital issue at risk is a proper understanding of our religious heritage, even if we wish certain facts could be undone. First, Don says that Wesley only “spoke of two covenants or ‘dispen- sations’ (that we live in the ‘Christian’ rather than the ‘Jewish’ age, not the ‘age of the Spirit’ of a variety of forms of dispensationalism).” Providing exact quotations from the later Wesley will show otherwise. In his ser- mon, “The Wisdom of God’s Counsels” (April 28, 1784), Wesley used Fletcher’s dispensational categories beginning with “Noah,

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