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This article aims to explore John Wesley’s Understanding of Wealth and the Ideal of Methodist Society or Methodism. The aim of the Methodism as conceived by John Wesley was not to establish a prosperous and successful denomination, but to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land and thence throughout the earth. While John Wesley did emphasize personal conversion and personal holiness, this was always inseparably linked to a whole sphere of life including economic world.
John Wesley recognized that eighteenth-century economic reality was not the same as that which obtained for first-century Palestine where the early Christian community described in Acts 2:41-47; 4:32-37 was situated. Still John Wesley thought the gospel was not irrelevant to the task of clarifying the nature of an appropriate participation in the economic reality of his own time. Theodore W. Jennings termed the set of notions that Wesley developed on the basis of his reading of the Bible to illuminate and to govern the activity of Christian in the world of economics as “evangelical economics.” It refers to the interrelationship of the criticism of wealth or the Demystification of wealth, a preferential option for the poor, the notion of stewardship, and vision of an economic practice based on the example of the Pentecostal community of the Acts.
John Wesley feared that wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion, sanctification has decreased in the same proportion. According to his experience, true faith must necessarily produce both industry and frugality. And these cannot but produce riches. As riches increase, so do pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches. That is what John Wesley feared. He couldn’t forbid his Methodists ton to be diligent and frugal. He exhorted Methodist to gain all they can, and save all they can. What is more important to him is to give all they can, in oder to prevent the continual fall from the scriptural holiness. He believed that without this, the power of the Gospel and the vitality of faith will disappear.
Unfortunately, the Methodists became less identified with the poor and increasingly aligned with the status quo as the 18th century wore on. The Methodist Movement’s earlier advocacy for the poor was transformed into an alignment with the middle class. To renew the Methodism, Methodists must remember that there is at the heart of John Wesley “evangelical economics” for and with the poor.
John Wesley recognized that eighteenth-century economic reality was not the same as that which obtained for first-century Palestine where the early Christian community described in Acts 2:41-47; 4:32-37 was situated. Still John Wesley thought the gospel was not irrelevant to the task of clarifying the nature of an appropriate participation in the economic reality of his own time. Theodore W. Jennings termed the set of notions that Wesley developed on the basis of his reading of the Bible to illuminate and to govern the activity of Christian in the world of economics as “evangelical economics.” It refers to the interrelationship of the criticism of wealth or the Demystification of wealth, a preferential option for the poor, the notion of stewardship, and vision of an economic practice based on the example of the Pentecostal community of the Acts.
John Wesley feared that wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion, sanctification has decreased in the same proportion. According to his experience, true faith must necessarily produce both industry and frugality. And these cannot but produce riches. As riches increase, so do pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches. That is what John Wesley feared. He couldn’t forbid his Methodists ton to be diligent and frugal. He exhorted Methodist to gain all they can, and save all they can. What is more important to him is to give all they can, in oder to prevent the continual fall from the scriptural holiness. He believed that without this, the power of the Gospel and the vitality of faith will disappear.
Unfortunately, the Methodists became less identified with the poor and increasingly aligned with the status quo as the 18th century wore on. The Methodist Movement’s earlier advocacy for the poor was transformed into an alignment with the middle class. To renew the Methodism, Methodists must remember that there is at the heart of John Wesley “evangelical economics” for and with the poor.
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I. 들어가는 말
II. 존 웨슬리의 “복음적 경제학”(Evangelical Economics)의 특징
III. 존 웨슬리와 메소디스트 공동체의 이상과 현실
IV. 나오는 말
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