Reflecting the Divine Image: Christian Ethics in Wesleyan Perspective

John Wesley strived for a theology--a theology both written and lived--that delicately balanced sanctification and justification. He hoped to uphold both faith alone and holy living. Sadly says theologian H. Ray Dunning many of Wesleys followers have not maintained that balance. Some have tended toward legalism some toward a preoccupation with personal holiness and others toward social activism with little theological grounding. Dunning believes Wesleyanism possesses the resources to help all Christians reflect the divine image and to do so holistically in all aspects of life. His book incisively examines issues of ethical methodology and then shows how an ethic based on the Imago Dei shapes our relation to God to one another and to the earth. This introduction to and overview of ethics will enlighten and benefit Christians in all traditions not despite but especially because it is written in the true Wesleyan tradition--passionate profoundly faithful and plainspoken.