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    No Religion but Social Religion: Liberating Wesleyan Theology

    By Joerg Rieger, Paulo Ayres Mattos, Helmut Renders and Jose Carlos de Souza

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    In the Wesleyan traditions, social religion is more interesting and more
    challenging. Social religion is a matter of being in relationship with God and
    with others, and it is a public matter, as religion, in John Wesley's words,
    "cannot subsist at all without society, without living and conversing" with
    other people.3
    These others—and this is crucial—include not only other
    Christians but also those whom most Christians would rather avoid, like
    people who, according to Wesley, "do not obey, perhaps do not believe,
    the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ" and others who are hungry and naked.4
    This insight is a major contribution of Wesleyan theology picked up by liberation
    theologies (many of them Wesleyan, as we shall see), and it turns
    many dominant understandings of the church upside down.5
    Without such
    relationships there would be no real religion, and the gospel would make
    no difference.
    Pulling all stops, Wesley concludes that those who do not care about
    others "shall go away into everlasting fire."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 24, 2018
    ISBN9781945935176
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    No Religion but Social Religion: Liberating Wesleyan Theology

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