
A Church’s Broken Heart: A Church’s Broken Heart
Understanding but Not Excusing Our Racial Divides How might United Methodism confront its continuing racial dilemmas and grasp how and why Methodism came to be so divided-organizationally, geo-politically, structurally, attitudinally-precisely where it proved most successful,...

A Wesleyan Theology Of The Eucharist
Recover the Eucharist for Church and Ministry. For John and Charles Wesley, few things were more important for both theology and ministry than attentiveness to the Lord’s Supper. But the commitment to the centrality of the...

Bid Our Jarring Conflicts Cease: A Wesleyan Theology and Praxis of Church Unity
Schism and heresy are not doctrinal divisions but failures to love. In theological discussions about diversity within Methodist Churches, people usually reference a few standard quotes from John Wesley, particularly his sermon “Catholic Spirit.” However,...

Displaced Persons: Theological Reflection on Immigration, Refugees, and Marginalization
Let us remember that Jesus was an immigrant. This book comes from an international dialogue on collegiate and campus ministry in The United Methodist Church and addresses the theological concerns of students on college and university...

El Camino Hacia La Cruz
Siguiendo a Jesús para server y no ser servidos Este libro tiene el propósito de explorar el camino de sufrimiento que Jesús voluntariamente escogió al morir en una cruz, porque conocía el poder redentor de...

Exploring a Wesleyan Political Theology
Transformation carries political consequences. Even in his own day, there were social repercussions to Wesley’s theology of transformational grace. The revivalistic nature of early Methodism included both an emphasis on individual salvation and corporate salvation,...

For Each and All: The Moral Witness of Asa Mahan
Even in post-modernity, there is such a thing as right and wrong The Civil War was about deciding who counted as one of us, and what rights, privileges, and duties we would afford each other....

Grace Under Pressure
Distancing himself from liberals and conservatives but also pointing to the uselessness of a middle way, Rieger explores the theology of grace in situations of human pressure. Following John Wesley in his move to consider...

Imagining Equity: The Gifts of Christian Feminist Theology
Imagine the possibilities of a non-sexist Church that advocates justice for all. Christian feminist theology challenges traditional theology and Church practices that have restricted half of God’s people from serving God and the Church as...

Introduction to Theology for Ministry
There is no ministry without theology. Written from a United Methodist perspective, this introduction begins, as did John Wesley, with scripture and an understanding of Jesus, who embodies ministry with theological integrity. From this starting...