Pietism, the Moravian Brethren, and the Wesleys
This chapter highlights how Pietists, Moravians, and the Wesleys converge and diverge on the themes of deification and participation. A convergence point would be their shared language of "heart religion" and its accompanying experiential expectation of assurance and affective transformation. A point of divergence would be that, whereas Pietists and Moravians at times show some Lutheran soteriological tendencies, the Wesleys were Anglicans who were influenced by ancient Christian sources, particularly Eastern ones. Even between the Wesley brothers themselves, one notices some differences as well, as reflected in John's writings broadly and Charles' verse in particular. Whereas John at times shifted his views on Christian perfection on the basis of a kind of "pragmatics of ministry," Charles retained the ancient vision of participation's "vertical dimensions.".
