Religious Ecstasy and Personality Transformation in John Wesleys Methodism:

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" Religious Ecstasy and Personality Transformation in John Wesleys Methodism: "
Keith Haartman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065270
Doc. No	:	LA108899
Call No	:	‭10.1163/008467207X188531‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Keith Haartman
Title & Author	:	Religious Ecstasy and Personality Transformation in John Wesleys Methodism: [Article] : Theoretical and Methodological Considerations\ Keith Haartman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Archive for the Psychology of Religion
Date	:	2007
Volume/ Issue Number	:	29/1
Page No	:	3–35
Abstract	:	This paper examines the contemplative techniques that comprised wesley's method of spiritual transformation. By employing a psychoanalytic perspective that explains the pastoral effectiveness of the method, I claim that Wesley's view of spiritual growth was therapeutic and transformative as measured by contemporary clinical standards. Wesley's developmental model involved a series of spiritual phases each characterized by techniques and meditations (ritual mourning, the practice of the presence, introspection) that culminated in sanctification, a cognitive-emotional transformation marked by the eradication of sinful temptations and the perfection of altruism. Couched in a theological idiom, the method helped individuals to work through conflicts created by the three main traumata of British middle class childhood: authoritarian parenting and unresolved bereavement grief. This paper argues that religious-cultural symbolism may promote transformations of archaic affect and neurotic conflict that progressively reshape these pre-reflective materials into complex existential insights and convictions. This paper examines the contemplative techniques that comprised wesley's method of spiritual transformation. By employing a psychoanalytic perspective that explains the pastoral effectiveness of the method, I claim that Wesley's view of spiritual growth was therapeutic and transformative as measured by contemporary clinical standards. Wesley's developmental model involved a series of spiritual phases each characterized by techniques and meditations (ritual mourning, the practice of the presence, introspection) that culminated in sanctification, a cognitive-emotional transformation marked by the eradication of sinful temptations and the perfection of altruism. Couched in a theological idiom, the method helped individuals to work through conflicts created by the three main traumata of British middle class childhood: authoritarian parenting and unresolved bereavement grief. This paper argues that religious-cultural symbolism may promote transformations of archaic affect and neurotic conflict that progressively reshape these pre-reflective materials into complex existential insights and convictions.
Descriptor	:	ECSTASY
Descriptor	:	EGO IDEAL
Descriptor	:	EVANGELICAL NURTURE
Descriptor	:	JOHN WESLEY
Descriptor	:	METHODISM
Descriptor	:	POSITIVE SUPEREGO
Descriptor	:	PSYCHOANALYSIS
Descriptor	:	RITUAL MOURNING
Descriptor	:	TRANSFORMATION
Descriptor	:	UNITIVE ECSTASY
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/008467207X188531‬