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Wesleyan ministers and counselors who deal with congregational leadership often discover an interesting observation when reviewing the history of their own founder, John Wesley. When surveying the early primary documents that govern Methodist practice, many theorists realize that the Question and Answer format used by Wesley when compiling the Larger Minutes of Methodist conduct (the polity guidelines for early Methodist leadership) resembles certain catechetical models intended not only to instruct but also to form novices into the Christian life (Wesley, 1872, 1986; v.8, pp. 278-338) The term, catechesis, describes approaches to ongoing Christian formation, where church leaders and ministers seek to shape persons into distinctly Christian character (Westerhoff and Edwards 1981). This educational format raises the question whether certain structures within church polity implicitly form Christians into particular expressions of Christ-likeness or into some other antithetical expression.
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KeywordsClergy Education, IBOE Church of the Nazarene, Holiness, Cathechesis of Politics, Personhood, Restorative Justice, Social Justice,
Periodical TitleDidache
Periodical Year2008
Periodical MonthJune
Periodical Volume Number08
Periodical Issue Number01
Periodical ISSN1536-0156
Peer Reviewed?Yes
Place of PublicationKansas City, Missouri
EditorDean G. Blevins
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Didache Volume 08, Number 01
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