Bicentennial Edition of Wesley's works

This edition (available electronically, e.g. here: https://www.amazon.com/Works-John-Wesley-Bicentennial-CD-ROM/dp/0687053218) has often been requested on the forums as the definitive scholarly edition, e.g. here: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/176592/1141701.aspx#1141701
Given the publisher it may only come as eBook(s), but still be a quotable source.

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Mike Childs

This is the only scholarly edition of Wesley's Works. Notes by the best Wesleyan scholars in the world. Only edition in more than a century.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1331354#Comment_1331354

@mikechilds54-20 : Then vote it up! I know you're asking for years....

Mike Childs

Until Logos and Abingdon can come to an arrangement, the old Bicentennial Edition of John Wesley's Works cdrom can still be found on ebay and other places. It can be made to work on new computers. You must copy the cdrom to your harddrive as an .ios file. Mount the .ios file with Windows File explorer. It will treat the .ios file as if it were a crdrom. You can run the program. I run it almost daily on my new HP 360 laptop every day.

It doesn't have all the Bicentennial Wesley volumes, but it does have all the Journal volumes and all the Sermons volumes. Bit of a pain to run, but it is better than anything Logos offers on Wesley.

John Crowe

The current theological wave of discussion is largely surrounding both ancient Christian writers' theology of theosis and Wesley's theology of sanctification. In much of Christian academia and Christian ecumenicalism this topic and the early Christian writers who wrote about this; the Christian writers who wrote in defense of the fathers following the death of Harnack one of whom influenced a major leader of Russian Orthodoxy's neo patristics; plus the books since R Newton Flew's book who was the first to connect, those ancient Christian writers' theology of theosis and Wesley's theology of sanctification.

Logos has several of these, but it lacks some of the very important ones and is not up to date on Wesley and his publications as far as modern scholarship goes. I brought up the Oxford Handbook on Deification to one of the Logos sales people. They agreed that Logos should get that book. I see a note that they have been encouraged to buy it.

An absolute minimum reading list on the subject of Ancient theosis and Wesley's sanctification theology.

Core reference

Gavrilyuk, P. L., Hofer, A. and Levering, M. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Deification.

1. Primary Patristic Sources (recommended starting points):

Athanasius, On the Incarnation

Irenaeus, Against Heresies (esp. Book V)

Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations

Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses

Maximus the Confessor, Ambigua and Questions to Thalassius

2. Ivan Popov, the predecessor of the Neopatristic Revival

Ivan V. Popov, “The Idea of Deification in the Early Eastern Church,” in Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2011)

Pavel Gavrilyuk, “How Deification Was Rediscovered in Modern Orthodox Theology: The Contribution of Ivan Popov,” Modern Theology 38.1 (2021)

3. Neopatristic revival authors

The neopatristic revival is associated chiefly with Georges Florovsky and later Vladimir Lossky.

Florovsky, G., Ways of Russian Theology.

Lossky, V., The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church.

Popović, J., selected essays.

4. Primary Sources for Wesley's Theology of Sanctification: i.e., modern scholarly editions of his original works.

5. Historical and Scholarly Studies:

Jules Gross, The Divinization of the Christian According to the Greek Fathers

Norman Russell, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

Norman Russell, Fellow Workers with God: Orthodox Thinking on Theosis

Michael J. Christensen & Jeffery A. Wittung (eds.), Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions

Paul Copan & Michael M. C. Reardon (eds.), Transformed into the Same Image: Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification

Georgios I. Mantzaridis, The Deification of Man: St. Gregory Palamas and the Orthodox Tradition

Stephen Finlan & Vladimir Kharlamov (eds.), Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology

Vladimir Kharlamov (ed.), Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology, Volume Two

Ben C. Blackwell, Christosis: Engaging Paul’s Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters

6. Other secondary literature.

Fallica, M., “An Anglo‑Syrian Monk: John Wesley’s Reception of Pseudo‑Macarius,” Open Theology (2021).

7. Wesleyan Engagements with Theosis:

R. Newton Flew, The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology (original publication 1934)

R. Newton Flew, Jesus and his church : a study of the idea of the ecclesia in the New Testament (original publication 1938)

Randy Maddox, Responsible Grace

Kenneth Collins, The Theology of John Wesley

Jason Vickers (ed.), Wesleyan Theosis

Steve McCormick, “Theosis in Wesleyan Theology” (various articles)

8. Pentecostal / Charismatic engagements

Walter J. Hollenweger — The Pentecostals

Grant Wacker — Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture

Stanley M. Burgess & Eduard van der Maas (eds.) — The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

Allan Anderson — An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity

William K. Kay — Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

Veli‑Matti Kärkkäinen — Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in Ecumenical, International, and Contextual Perspective

Theological treatment of the Spirit that helps bridge Wesleyan sanctification, Pentecostal pneumatology, and patristic themes of participation.