Methodist Doctrine
The Essentials, 2nd Edition
By Ted A. Campbell Published
John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the teachings of that church's tradition. In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms.
Endorsements
Dr. Ted Campbell as a scholar, teacher, and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church is a reflective and imaginative thinker. He has been on the cutting edge on subject matters dealing with Methodism and church history. A glance at the contents of his new book, the revised edition of Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, synthesizes a wealth of material and includes a wide variety of subjects on what we believe. This is an important book. I recommend it as a must read for clergy and lay.
--Bishop Gregory G. M. Ingram, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Tenth Episcopal District
About the Author
Ted A. Campbell
Ted A. Campbell is Associate Professor of Church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and has authored the following books for Abingdon Press: Methodist Doctrine, Wesley and the Quadrilateral, Wesleyan Essential in a Multicultural Society, John Wesley and Christian Antiquity, and The Religion of the Heart.
