Wesleyan concept of sin

[David van Beveren]

I am looking for some contemporary articles about the wesleyan concept of sin. Does anyone have some links to such articles?
Or if you have such an article would you upload it here?

Thank you.

[Bruce Carriker]

Although it is not original, Mark Quanstrom's "A Century of Holiness Theology" has a pretty comprehensive recounting of how we have viewed sin in the Church of the Nazarene for the last hundred years or so.

Among others, I would recommend:

Randy Maddox - "Responsible Grace"

Mildred Bangs Wynkoop - "A Theology of Love" Not "contemporary", but still very good.


You might also check out the Wesley Center for Applied Theology. Link is provided below:
http://wesley.nnu.edu/

Or Dr. Dennis Bratcher's website:
http://cresourcei.org/

[David van Beveren]

Thank you, Bruce,
I have two of the three books you mention and already have searched both of the sites.
But I have a person in church who is asking for clear and readable article about this.
Because of a theology class I taught in my church his interest is triggered. And I think I help him when I am not cover him with theological books. :D
Ok I know, he has me ;) , but I am only one source.

[Pete Vecchi]

Haven't you heard? We're Nazarenes and we're entirely sanctified, so we don't sin! :eek:






Edit to say that was a JOKE (in case anyone would have taken it any other way!)

[David van Beveren]

Haven't you heard? We're Nazarenes and we're entirely sanctified, so we don't sin! :eek: O that's why I hardly can find any papers about the subject. :D
Dumb, dub, dumb

[Bruce Carriker]

David,
A couple of other books you might consider are "Called to Be Holy" by John Oswalt, and "Five Views of Sanctification", a compilation published by Zondervan. These are not deep, theological tomes, but are rather very readable books. Neither of them is more than a couple of hundred pages, both available in paperback.

[Hans Deventer]

There is this old book by Richard S. Taylor, "A Right Conception Of Sin".

Also, I liked the approach W.T. Purkiser took in "Conflicting Concepts Of Holiness", p37-50. In short, he says try a legal (broad) and a ethical (narrow) definition of sin and just check your Bible!
The legal definition would be: "to deviate in any manner form an absolute standard of perfect behaviour", the ethical definition "to willfully transgress the known law of God".

Which one makes sense in the context of the verse you find the word "sin" in? He checked some 41 references and found that the ethical definition made sense in all of them, while the legal definition made only sense in 4 of them and made no sense at all in the remaining 37. Good example would be Jesus words in John 8: "Go and sin no more".

I found this exercise helpful because you refer a person right back to the Scriptures.

Nowadays we perhaps we call the ethical defitinion rather the relational definition, but the idea is still the same.