Question for former Weslyans and Methodist (now Catholics)

[Clairvaux]

I have a question for former Weslyans and Methodist whom are now Catholics :

Myself i was a former evangelical whom loved the writings alot of John Wesley and John Fletcher and also to read books about the great awekening.
Sinds i came back in Catholic Church last year and embraced fully it’s teaching, but i still love to read the works of and about John Wesley, John Fletcher and the great awekening.

I was wondering how former members of Wesleyan/ methodist churches are now viewing John Wesley, John Fletcher and the great awekening ?

Is there still someting of the Weslyan tradition which you admire or uphold ?

Any thoughts would be apreciatted !

 

[Contarini]

I have a question for former Weslyans and Methodist whom are now Catholics :

Myself i was a former evangelical whom loved the writings alot of John Wesley and John Fletcher and also to read books about the great awekening.
Sinds i came back in Catholic Church last year and embraced fully it’s teaching, but i still love to read the works of and about John Wesley, John Fletcher and the great awekening.

I was wondering how former members of Wesleyan/ methodist churches are now viewing John Wesley, John Fletcher and the great awekening ?

Is there still someting of the Weslyan tradition which you admire or uphold ?

Any thoughts would be apreciatted !

I am not at this point in communion with Rome, but I am an Anglican and believe that we all ought to be in communion with Rome (the only question for me for a long while has been whether I ought to do so individually or to work for a communal reunion, however unlikely such a thing seems), so I’m relatively close.

I believe that Wesleyan soteriology is very close to that of Catholicism, while preserving the strengths of evangelical Protestantism (such as the understanding of faith as a dynamic, powerful thing that naturally results in good works, even though Wesleyans, like Catholics and unlike Calvinists, recognize that one can choose not to live out one’s faith and thus lose faith). Charles Wesley’s hymn “O Thou Who Camest From Above” reads like a paraphrase of the Council of Trent on justification.

I also think that the Wesleys modeled an approach to renewal that can work (and often has worked) for Catholics–better than for Anglicans, because acceptance of the Reformation meant that their appeals to Methodists not to leave the C of E fell flat and couldn’t be made without serious qualification.

And Charles Wesley’s hymns are among the great treasures of Christian liturgy. I wish Catholics would make more generous use of them (and I wish that they would replace the silly, mutilated version of “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” they currently use with the original text–the mutilations have nothing to do with theology but with post-Vatican–II Catholic aversion to any language that is remotely archaic).

Edwin