Calvin’s Doctrine of Divine Accommodation and Its Correspondence with the Methodist Triumvirate

Authors

J. Russell Frazier, Africa Nazarene University

Abstract

The doctrine of accommodation is the idea that God has, out of love, accommodated divine revelation to human frailty and sinfulness. This article summarizes the contributions of secondary resources on the doctrine of divine accommodation in John Calvin’s thought. These sources provide a paradigm for examining the doctrine of accommodation in the thought of the Methodist triumvirate, i.e., John and Charles Wesley and John William Fletcher. The author emphasizes that the Methodist triumvirate adopted and adapted the doctrine of accommodation and suggests that it provided a theological underpinning for the early Methodists’ accommodative practice of ministry.

DOI

10.7252/Journal.02.2023F.08

Recommended Citation

Frazier, J. Russell (2023) "Calvin’s Doctrine of Divine Accommodation and Its Correspondence with the Methodist Triumvirate," The Asbury Journal: Vol. 78: No. 2, p. 375–396.
Available at: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/vol78/iss2/9