Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 Methodism and the Work of the Spirit: Making Good on the Deficit 1
The Spirit of Methodist Theology: Pneumatological Deficit and Reduction to Political Projects 3
Prospects for Retrieval and Development 16
2 Sanctifying Love: The Holy Spirit and Sanctification in John Wesley 17
A Theology of Christian Perfection 18
Wesley's Trinitarian Understanding of Sanctification 29
Conclusion 61
3 The Holy Spirit as Personal Love in Thomas Aquinas 63
The Trinitarian Basis of Pneumatology 69
The Holy Spirit: Love in Person 71
Conclusion 100
4 Aquinas on the Holy Spirit as Mutual Love 101
The Spirit as Mutual Love in Aquinas: Two Interpretations 103
Mutual Love in the Summa 113
Conclusion 140
5 Gift of the Spirit: The Holy Spirit, Love, and the Christian Life in Aquinas 141
The Holy Spirit, Gift of the Father and the Son 142
The Spirit's Gift of Love 146
The Christian Life as Gift 165
Conclusion 179
6 Toward Greater Love: Aquinas, Wesley, and Life in the Spirit 181
Aquinas and Wesley as Sources for Pneumatological Recovery 181
Thomists and Wesleyans: Mutual Enrichment on and in the Spirit 225
The Holy Spirit and the Sharing of Gifts in Catholic-Methodist Dialogue 256
Lessons from Wesley and Aquinas on the Spirit: The Politics of Participation in the Life and Love of God 268
Conclusion: Further Paths to Mutual Thomist and Methodist Enrichment 277
Bibliography 281
Index 293