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Love Divine: A Wesleyan Systematic Theology
- GenresTheology
640 pages, Hardcover
Published May 12, 2026
About the author
Thomas H. McCall
25 books8 followersDr. McCall is Professor of Theology and Scholar-in-Residence at Asbury University. Prior to this, he served for sixteen years as Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he was also the Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. During this same time, he held an appointment as Professorial Fellow in Exegetical and Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews.
Dr. McCall is ordained in the Wesleyan Church and has pastored churches in southwestern Michigan and southcentral Alaska.
Dr. McCall is ordained in the Wesleyan Church and has pastored churches in southwestern Michigan and southcentral Alaska.
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McCall and Vickers offer an excellent explication of systematic theology from a Wesleyan perspective. In just over 600 pages, they cover in clear and compelling fashion the primary doctrines of the church. Though there is much that could be said, I think what stands out is how this reflects the best of the Wesleyan tradition, i.e., a semi-Augustianism which emphasizes the necessity of God's grace in salvation, a resistance to Pelagianism, and focus on God's love over against God's sovereignty. In addition, while rightly stressing the importance of good works, they make sure to affirm the solas of the Reformation, such as [justification] by faith alone.
But, in case the reader is wondering, they are not writing in a Wesleyan ghetto, shut off from the other theological traditions or Christian tradition in the broadest sense. They draw from authors from various traditions such as church fathers, modern theologians and, yes, even Reformed thinkers. While not everyone will agree with everything the authors have stated, this is a significant contribution to the growing body of systematic-theological literature, especially given the authors' distinct Wesleyan perspective and their attempt to ground it in and relate it to the Great Tradition of the Christian faith.
But, in case the reader is wondering, they are not writing in a Wesleyan ghetto, shut off from the other theological traditions or Christian tradition in the broadest sense. They draw from authors from various traditions such as church fathers, modern theologians and, yes, even Reformed thinkers. While not everyone will agree with everything the authors have stated, this is a significant contribution to the growing body of systematic-theological literature, especially given the authors' distinct Wesleyan perspective and their attempt to ground it in and relate it to the Great Tradition of the Christian faith.
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