Quest for Love Divine

Paul W. Chilcote served as Director of the Centre for Global Wesleyan Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge from 2021-22. Since being awarded his PhD in Historical Theology from Duke University in 1984, his interest in John Wesley and early women preachers and their theology has been the focus of his extensive list of publications.

Foreword by Randy L. Maddox
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: Charles Wesley's Lyrical Theology
1. Charles Wesley's Lyrical Credo
2. Charles Wesley and the Language of Faith
3. "All the Image of Thy Love": Charles Wesley's Vision of the One Thing Needful
Part 2: John And Charles Wesely's Practical Divinity
4. Rethinking the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
5. "Practical Christology" in John and Charles Wesley
6. John and Charles Wesley on "God in Christ Reconciling"
Part 3: Early Methodist Women
7. Biblical Equality and the Spirituality of Early Methodist Women
8. An Early Methodist Community of Women
9. Sanctification as Lived by Women in Early Methodism
Part 4: Wesleyan Spiritual Practices
10. Spirituality in the Weselyan Tradition
11. Charles Wesely and Christian Practices
12. A Faith That Sings: The Renewing Power of Lyrical Theology
Part 5: Worship, Sacraments, and Leadership
13. John and Charles Wesley's Theology of the Sacraments
14. The Integral Nature of Worship and Evangelism: Insights from the Wesleyan Tradition
15. "Claim Me for Thy Service": Charles Wesley's Vision of Servant Vocation
Part 6: Missional Ecclesiology and God's Rule
16. The Mission-Church Paradigm of the Wesleyan Revival
17. Lessons from the "Society Planting" Paradigm of Early Methodist Women
18. Charles Wesley and the "Peaceable Reign" of Christ

Appendix A: A World Methodist Affirmation
Appendix B: A Progressive Wesleyan Declaration
Bibliography