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S U M ~ I E R 1 9 9 5 • V O L 1: \1 E 3, 1" o. 2 Wesleyan/Holiness Studies Center at Asburv l'hco'ogica c., ',lltnary BULLETIN Systematic Theology in the WesleyanIHoliness Traditions by David Bundy ontrary to the common W ES LEYAN/H o LI NESS T HEOLOGY including Milton S. Agnew, Perspective ( 1988) which was wisdom of a few decades FROM THE 70s TO THE '90s Wayne E. Caldwell, Eugene E. complemented by Jerry Walls' C ago, systematic theology In the Amencan Holiness Carpenter, Wilber 1. Dayton, Hell: The Logic of Damnation as a genre has not disappeared. In Movement: A Bibliographic Donald E. Demaray, Ralph Earle, (1992), Leon O. Hynson, To most traditions there has, in fact, Introduction, Donald Dayton J. Kenneth Grider, D, Michael Refonn the Nation : Theological been a resurgence in attempts to observed in 1970, that "systemat­ Henderson, Everett N. Hunt, Foundations of Weslty 's Ethics provide an overview of theology ics have not been the forte of the Wayne McCown, 1. Crichton (1984), made ethics the center reflecting a particular perspective. Holiness Movement." Most of Mitchell, James M. Ridgeway, R of a discussion which ranged This genre of systematic theology the volumes mentioned below Larry Shelton, David L. Smith, from creation to anthropology to has a long. albeit sparse, history do not meet classical definitions Timothy L. Smith, Richard S. ecclesiology and eschatology, within the Wesleyan/Holiness tra­ of systematic theology, but were Taylor, R Duane Thompson, W. Donald W. Dayton, The ditions. Since our concem here is efforts to reflect upon the whole Ralph Thompson, Albert Theological Roots of Pentecostalism with the more recent develop­ from a more limited beginning, Truesdale, and Charles R ( 1987), offered a history of ideas ments,' we will start with the The present theological renais­ Wilson, Although the contribu­ analysis of the tendencies of works of five remarkable theolo­ sance began with the publication tions were of differing value, the Holiness theology during the gians from the middle half of this of David McKenna's The Jesus work remains a crucial period 19th century which prepared century: Mary Ella Bowie, Model ( I 977) in which christol­ piece, The same can be said for the way for Pentecostalism. Vennard College, An Introduction ogy was the organizing focus, the five-volume Wesltyan Dayton's volume is an important to Systematic Theology (1942); H This was followed by Laurence Theological Perspectives Series statement of the logic and Orton Wiley, Nazarene educator, W. Wood's Pentecostal Grace (Wamer Press, 1982-1986) of Tendenzen of Wesleyan/ Christian Theology ( I 940-1943); ( 1980) which attempted to place the Church of God (Anderson), Holiness theology as well as of Mary Alice Tenney, Greenville Wesleyan/Holiness understand­ to which scholars from many the place of the tradition in College, Blueprint for a Christian ings of grace and sanctification in Wesleyan/ Holiness denomina­ American religious culture. In World: An Analysis of the Wesltyan the ongoing Wesleyan Theo­ tions contributed. The series cov­ Harvest of Humanity (1984), JT. Way (1952); Leslie D. Wilcox, logical Society debate about the ered the classical foci of theolo­ Seamands focused on mission God's Bible School, Be Ye Holy. A appropriateness of adapting the gy, in systemic if not systematic theory from a broadly Neo­ Study of the Teaching of Scripture Acts language of spirituality for fashion. Another volume, edited Evangelical perspective; George Relative to Entire Sanctification with a Wesleyan concems. Wood made by Charles W. Carter and G. Hunter III, in To Spread the Sketch of the History and Literature of his argument in dialogue with Wayne E. Caldwell, focused Power: Church Growth in the the Holiness Movement (1965); and Barth, Bultmann, Cull mann and exclusively on ecclesiology, The Wesltyan Spirit (1983), did the Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Rahner, but with an eye to his Genius of the New Testament same from a more Methodist T revecca Nazarene College, A Wesleyan/Holiness predecessors, Church (Schmul 1995). The point of view, In Liberating the Theology of Love: The Dynamic of Systematic in scope, if not in authors, in addition to the edi­ Church: The Ecology of Church Wesltyanism (1972). These writers material, was the two-volume tors, were CL. Bence, H, and Kingdom ( 1991 ), Howard adequately described the perspec­ work edited by Charles W. Gariepy, Lee M. Haines, Richard Snyder reflected upon mission, tives of the tradition in a systemat­ Carter entitled A Contemporary Taylor and R Jean C1eaveland­ ecclesiology and ethics along ic manner and were also determi­ Wesltyan Theology: Biblical, Tucker. Charles W. Carter also lines reminiscent of William native for the way subsequent Systematic and Practical (1983, contributed a volume on escha­ Taylor and E. Stanley Jones, Wesleyan/Holiness theologians reprint Schmul I 992), The vol­ tology, Life's Lordship Over Death. Other important volumes have would develop their craft. 2 umes spanned two generations A Study of Immortality and the recently treated the sacraments, of Wesleyan/ Holiness scholars Hereafter from a Wesltyan cO lltillu cd on page 3 The Bulletin of the WcsleyanlHolincss Studies Center Recent Dissertations on Wesleyan/Holiness Themes Burch, Maxie B. "Doing History Seminary, 1994. Order No. DA Charles Grandison Finney and Methodism and the Buffalo from the Inside: An 9428276. Samuel Simon Schmucker.' Middle Class." State University Examination of Evangelical Farkas, Thomas G. "William H. Luther Northwestem University, of New York at Buffalo. Order Historiography." Baylor Durham and the Sanctification 1994. Order No. DA 9424832. No. DA 9420209. University, 1994 Order No. Controversy in Early American Lum, Richard. "WH. Griffith Turley, Briane A. "A Wheel with­ DA 9429039. Pentecostalism, 1906-1916." Thomas and the Emergence of in a Wheel: Southem Cho, David. 'The Old Princeton Southem Baptist Theological American Fundamentalism.' Methodism and the Georgia Presbyterian Response to the Seminary, 1993. Order No. Dallas Theological Seminary, Holiness Association." University Holiness Movement in the Late DA 9420733. 1994. Order No. DA of Virginia, 1994. Order No. Nineteenth and Twentieth Koester, Nancy. "Enlightened 9428960. DA 9425684. Centuries in America. Evangelicals: Benevolence in the Revell, James A. 'The Nazarites: Westminster Theological Work of Jonathan Edwards, Bumed-Over District Recent Books on WesleyanIHoliness Themes Clark, George P., ed. Into the Old Hardman, Keith J. Seasons of the South, 1865-1900. Baton Friends United Press, 1994. Northwest: Journeys with Charles Refreshing. Evangelicalism and Rouge, LA: Louisiana State $18.95. Includes essay by H. Titus, 1841-1846 East Revivals in America. Grand University Press, 1993. $29.95. Hugh Barbour on the five vari­ Lansing, MI: Michigan State Rapids: Baker Book House, Noel, Jan. Canada Dry: eties of perfectionism among Univ~rsity Press, 1994. $27.95. 1994. $16.99. Temperance Crusade Before Friends. Conkin, Paul K. The Uneasy Lippy, Charles H. Being Religious, Confederation. Toronto: Soper, I. Christopher. Evangelical Center: Refol111ed Christianity in American Style: A History of University of Toronto Press, Christianity in the United States Antebellum America. Chapel Popular Religiosity in the United 1994. $19.95. and Great Britain: Religious Hill, NC: University of North States. Westport, CT: Green­ Oliver, lohn W, ed. f. Walter Beliefs, Political Choices. New Carolina Press, 1995. $16.95. wood Press, 1994. $19.95. Malone: The Autobiography of York: New York University Considerable material on Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. Religion an Evangelical Quaker. Lanham, Press, 1994. $40.00. Methodism. and Society in Frontier California. MD: University Press of Taggart, Norman W. William Dunning, H. Ray, ed. The Second New Haven, CT: Yale America, 1993. $27.50. Arthur. First Among Methodists. Coming: A Wesleyan Approach University Press, 1994. Snarr, D. Neil and Daniel L. London: Epworth Press, 1993. to the Doctrine of the Last Things. Montgomery, William E. Under Smith-Christopher. Practiced in $10.00. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: the Presence: Essays in Honor of 1995. $19.95 The African-American Church in T Canby Jones. Richmond, IN: Recent Articles on WesleyanIHoliness Themes Book, Leslie. "Howard and Pearl Studies of the Leaders of the Theological Society: The First Dieter, Melvin E. "Primitivism in Wolgemuth and the Beginning Modem Missionary Movement Decade." WeslEYan Theological the American Holiness of the Brethren