Baptism and Justification:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Baptism and Justification: "
Sarah Heaner Lancaster

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065921
Doc. No	:	LA109550
Call No	:	‭10.1163/174553108X341288‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Title & Author	:	Baptism and Justification: [Article] : A Methodist Understanding\ Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Ecclesiology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	4/3
Page No	:	289–307
Abstract	:	The association of the Methodists with the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was a significant ecumenical event. The Methodist Statement that allowed this agreement, though, does not include a description of the connection between baptism and justification. This paper examines John Wesley's understandings of baptism and justification to suggest a way that they may be held together in Methodist theology. The Methodist practice of infant baptism stands in tension with an understanding of justification built on the model of adult conversion experience, and this tension is found in Wesley's own work. It is possible, though, to find in the way Wesley engaged certain questions some indications of how baptism and justification may be both connected and distinguished in order to display a flexible understanding of God's ongoing work in human life. The association of the Methodists with the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was a significant ecumenical event. The Methodist Statement that allowed this agreement, though, does not include a description of the connection between baptism and justification. This paper examines John Wesley's understandings of baptism and justification to suggest a way that they may be held together in Methodist theology. The Methodist practice of infant baptism stands in tension with an understanding of justification built on the model of adult conversion experience, and this tension is found in Wesley's own work. It is possible, though, to find in the way Wesley engaged certain questions some indications of how baptism and justification may be both connected and distinguished in order to display a flexible understanding of God's ongoing work in human life.
Descriptor	:	BAPTISM
Descriptor	:	JOHN WESLEY
Descriptor	:	JUSTIFICATION
Descriptor	:	METHODIST
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/174553108X341288‬