Edgardo A. Colon-Emeric is Assistant Research Professor of Theology and Hispanic Studies, Duke University Divinity School. He lives in Bahama, North Carolina.
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Introduction: Methodists and Catholics in Dialogue Chapter 1: Wesley on Christian Perfection Chapter 2: Wesley on the Way to Christian Perfection Chapter 3: Aquinas on Perfection Chapter 4: Aquinas on the Way to Perfection Chapter 5: Dialogue on the Beatitudes Chapter 6: Dialogue on Perfection Chapter 7: Prospects for Perfection Appendix: Aquinas on Women and the Image of God Bibliography
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 This study will not only be useful for the technical analysis it gives to a significant aspect of Methodist and Catholic witness to the common tradition, but it will also provide a stimulus for further studies verifying the agreement claimed in the Joint Declaration and potentially enriching the sharing of a spiritual life to which both Wesley and Aquinas were committed in their own time and historical contexts. -- Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C, Memphis Theological Seminary -- Journal of Ecumenical Studies