The Wesleyan Recovery: A Review of The Faith Once Delivered.

A recovery of Wesleyan theology is underway in the United States, and the document called The Faith Once Delivered articulates this recovery's major theological commitments. The general approach of this document brings together the evangelical and catholic sides of historic Wesleyanism in a way that seems promising. The sacramental theology of the document is of particular interest for evangelical Anglicans. The teaching on baptism raises questions about the understanding of regeneration in the Wesleyan recovery, and the eucharistic theology is notably high. Two other areas of doctrine, sanctification and church order, deserve more attention than is given in the document. Nevertheless, Anglicans ought to take seriously this Wesleyan recovery, since it may emerge as a popular centrist kind of evangelicalism and may overlap with Anglicanism as the original Wesleyanism did. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]