Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Methodism and the Work of the Spirit: Making Good on the Deficit
The Spirit of Methodist Theology: Pneumatological Deficit and Reduction to Political Projects
Prospects for Retrieval and Development
2. Sanctifying Love: The Holy Spirit and Sanctification in John Wesley
A Theology of Christian Perfection
Wesley's Trinitarian Understanding of Satisfaction
Conclusion
3. The Holy Spirit as Personal Love in Thomas Aquinas
The Trinitarian Basis of Pneumatology
The Holy Spirit: Love in Person
Conclusion
4. Aquinas on the Holy Spirit as Mutual Love
The Spirit as Mutual Love in Aquinas: Two Interpretations
Mutual Love in the Summa
Conclusion
5. Gift of the Spirit: The Holy Spirit, Love, and the Christian Life in Aquinas
The Holy Spirit, Gift of the Father and the Son
The Spirit's Gift of Love
The Christian Life as Gift
Conclusion
Aquinas and Wesley as Sources for Pneumatological Recovery
Thomists and Wesleyans: Mutual Enrichment on and in the Spirit
The Holy Spirit and the Sharing of Gifts in Catholic-Methodist Dialogue
Lessons from Wesley and Aquinas on the Spirit: The Politics of Participation in the Life and Love of God
Conclusion: Further Paths to Mutual Thomist and Methodist Enrichment
Bibliography
Index