Editors Introduction (Jun 2009)

Welcome to Didache Faithful Teaching volume 9:1 (Summer 2009). The edition offers a wide array of articles addressing the major themes of this journal, a compilation of new writings available to our readership, and also an introduction to a new project exploring our generational heritage in theological education. The volume incorporates insights from a wide variety of Wesleyan perspectives while also exploring the future of Wesleyan Higher Education.

(Dean Blevins) Our first three articles engage our theological convictions and missional practice. John Wright and Greg Voiles offer two distinctly theological trajectories, justification and reconciliation, and situate them in a larger conversation with current church practice… particularly in our understanding of personal and social responsibilities in light of God’s grace. David Wesley explores short term missions through the lens of a local congregation, raising issues and implications around this popular approach to missional engagement. Finally the journal turns to Wesleyan explorations in the fields of science and social science. Mark Maddix provides an intriguing overview of John Wesley’s formative influences and their impact on his educational practice.  Burton Webb, Professor of Biology, and Keith Drury, Associate Professor of Religion at Indiana Wesleyan University closes this section with an interesting exploration into genetic research and its implication for our understanding of sanctification.

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Introduction

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INTRODUCTION: Dean G. Blevins and Matt Price, Didache Editors

Table of Contents

John W. Wright, “When Did Relationship Replace Repentance and Faith?”

Greg Voiles, “Imagining Reconciliation: The Eucharist as the Reconciling Act of God”

David Wesley, “Short Term Missions: A Research Project”

Mark A. Maddix, "John Wesley’s Formative Experiences: Foundations for his Educational Ministry Perspectives"

Burton Webb and Keith Drury, “Possible Influence of Genetic Factors on Sin, Sanctification and Theology”

Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Catherine Keller, Donald A. Thorsen, Dennis C. Dickerson and Charles M. Wood, “What Makes Theology ‘Wesleyan’?” Courtesy Methodist Review and Rex D. Matthews, ed.

Thomas Jay Oord, Dana Hicks and Terry Fach, Excerpts from Postmodern and Wesleyan? Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities. Courtesy Nazarene Publishing House and Brent Peterson, ed.

Andy Johnson Book Review, “A (Partial) Vision of Christian Holiness for the 21st Century: Kent Brower’s Holiness in the Gospels”

Generations Review

Kent Brower and Deirdre Brower Latz

Wilfredo Canales Farfan and Marcos Canales

Ruben Fernandez and Juan Fernandez

David M. Phillips and Wesley Phillips

Padu Meshramkar and Atul P. Meshramkar

Mark Quanstrom, Ryan Quanstrom, and Dan Quanstrom

Garry Sivewright and Jason Sivewright

Robin Smith and Joshua Smith

Henry W. Spaulding and Hank Spaulding

E. LeBron Fairbanks, “The Global System of Nazarene Education”

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