The historical conclusion is that Wesleyan and Keswick teachings about holiness have been influential mainly because they offer what all Christians long for: fuller deliverance from sin and closer fellowship with Christ than any yet experienced. In situations where Reformed Augustinianism was stressing the Christian’s continuing sinfulness, as part of its testimony against justification by works, a vacuum was felt to exist in relation to hopes of holiness, and these doctrines stepped in to fill it. They were heard, valued, and followed because of what they offered to the heart rather than
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