John Wesley's Life & Ethics
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780687056323
Subjects: Methodist Churches; Religious; Christianity - Methodism; Biography / Autobiography; Religion; Wesley, John,; Christianity - History - Protestant; Christianity - Methodist; Ethics; 1703-1791
Description: "This book analyses John Wesley's personal and social ethical thought by placing him in social location and examining his ethics biographically." "Stone argues that in the case of John Wesley, the Christian traditions provide a biblically informed, deontological ethic of love. This ethic is grounded in Christian community to form the individual, and in social reform to transform the nation within the limits of Christian realism concerning human nature and social order.".

"The book covers the ethical reflection and teaching of Wesley and at appropriate points places it in comparative perspective with other eighteenth-century contributors to ethics and social thought. Ethical topics addressed in the volume include: abolition, vocation, family, money, the social nature of humanity, politics, economics, imperial relations, and war and peace."--BOOK JACKET.