John Wesley's Sermons: An Introduction

by Albert Cook Outler

For the first time, students of Wesley have access to Albert C. Outler's widely acclaimed "introduction" to Volume 1 of The Works of John Wesley in a single inexpensive paperback.

No student of John Wesley will need to be reminded of Albert Outler's stature, or the significance of his contribution to twentieth-century Wesleyan studies.

Contents

A Career in Retrospect
The Preacher and His Preaching
The Sermon Corpus
Theological Method and the Problems of development
Wesley and His Sources
On Reading Wesley's Sermons

Genres: Theology, Christianity

108 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 1991

About the author

Albert Cook Outler (November 17, 1908 – September 1, 1989) was a 20th-century American Methodist theologian and philosopher. Outler is generally considered to be one of the most important Wesley scholars in the history of the Church as well as the first real United Methodist theologian. He was also a key figure in the 20th century ecumenical movement.

Reviews

[J. Ewbank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Albert C. Outles's John Wesley's Sermons, an Introduction is an excellent book, well done by one of the ablest Wesleyan scholars we have had in the last several years. He was Professor of Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

This book includes the introductory remarks he hade to the first four volumes of John Wesleys sermons. He tells us about John as a pareacher which he was primarily, his theological methods, his sources. All in all it is a very well done read in which nothing important is missing.

J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great. I love this stuff. Wesley's sermons fascinate me and help me to remember what is essential for a good sermon. This intro highlights the basics for understanding Wesley's sermons, his thoughts, and his theology. His theology was certainly a theology communicated through homiletics. He was always doing theology on the run. I find Wesley's preaching interesting because he spoke with a plain style but also from an educated background. Wesley had a "passion for a message that would rather gather into itself the riches of both Christian and classical traditions and that still could be shared with his 'plain people'."
Alright.

Reviewed.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent overall summary of John Wesley. Honestly, it was presented in a full fashion and I became bored with it rather quickly. However, it did provide some important information about the life and ministry of John Wesley.