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Some Genuine Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Fletcher
True Christianity
Author: J. Russell Frazier
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 163087339X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John William Fletcher (1729-1785) was a seminal theologian during the early methodist movement and the Church of England in the eighteenth century. Best known for the Checks to Antinomianism, he worked out a theology of history to defend the church against the encroachment of antinomianism as a polemic against hyper-Calvinism, whose system of divine fiat and finished salvation, Fletcher believed, did not take seriously enough either the activity of God in salvation history or an individual believer's personal progress in salvation. Fletcher made the doctrine of accommodation a unifying principle of his theological system and further developed the doctrine of divine accommodation into a theology of ministry. As God accommodated divine revelation to the frailties of human beings, ministers of the gospel must accommodate the gospel to their hearers in order to gain a hearing for the gospel without losing the goal of true Christianity. This book contains insights for pastors, missionaries, and Christian thinkers on true Christianity from Fletcher, who devoted himself, according to Wesley, to being "an altogether Christian."
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Thirteen Original Letters
Letters of John Fletcher
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: Letters of John Fletcher
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781937428471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I went to see a man that had one foot in the grave, but I found a man that had one foot in Heaven!" So wrote a visitor to the sick bed of John Fletcher of Madeley. Indeed, so heavenly-minded and so saintly was this clergyman from Switzerland that his closest associates all agreed that they had never met his equal. John Wesley wrote of him: "In general, it is easy to perceive that a more excellent man has not appeared in the Church for some ages. It is true, in several ages, and in several countries, many men have excelled in particular virtues and graces. But who can point out, in any age or nation, one that so highly excelled in all-one that was enabled in so large a measure to 'put on the whole armor of God'? yes, so to 'put on Christ' as to 'perfect holiness in the fear of God'?" This book contains many letters from the pen of Mr. Fletcher. Some are written to his own parishioners, some to his friends, and others to ministerial colleagues. Through them all, the writer continually returns to that which is evidently uppermost in his thoughts: Christ and His wonderful salvation.
