Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection

Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric is Assistant Research Professor of Theology and Hispanic Studies, Duke University Divinity School. He lives in Bahama, North Carolina.

• Introduction: Methodists and Catholics in DialogueChapter 1: Wesley on Christian PerfectionChapter 2: Wesley on the Way to Christian PerfectionChapter 3: Aquinas on PerfectionChapter 4: Aquinas on the Way to PerfectionChapter 5: Dialogue on the BeatitudesChapter 6: Dialogue on PerfectionChapter 7: Prospects for PerfectionAppendix: Aquinas on Women and the Image of GodBibliography

This carefully crafted and original work will help Protestants to understand Aquinas, and Catholics John Wesley, better, and thus both to approach one another 'by drawing attention to the primacy of prayer and the ministry of the saints (p 183).' -- Paul Ellingworth -- Journal of Theological Studies