Rather, reimagining with doctrine unlocks, from its centuries of patriarchal constraint, the kingdom-infused power of Christianity, with its core tradition of a thirst for justice and righteousness; it also keeps the way open for glimpsing divine action in the economy of salvation in terms of ...
Let us understand that the power of Christianity lies, not in hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth, and in the doctrine of Christ crucified and risen from the dead. Unless Christianity be more tnan ethical, it is...
For example, New York Methodist minister Timothy Merritt (1775–1845) charged that "the modern doctrine of universal salvation . . . lays another foundation [than tra- ditional Christianity]" and constitutes "another gospel" altogether.10 Historian Ann Lee Bressler has pointed out that, in the ...