Edwin Lewis

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Edwin Lewis (1881–1959) was an American Methodist theologian primarily associated with Drew University in New Jersey. Born in Great Britain, Lewis traveled to Canada as a missionary before continuing his education in the United States. He eventually became a professor of theology at Drew. His book Jesus Christ and the Human Quest is an example of his early perspective. In the book, Lewis argues that the Christian faith has its foundation in the nature of persons and personhood. In 1929 he was named editor of the Abingdon Bible Commentary. While preparing the massive reference work, Lewis claimed to have “rediscovered the Bible” for himself. He reacted strongly to the 1931 Laymen’s Missionary Report, which he believed hampered the Christian missionary effort, in his article “The Re-thought Theology of the Re-thinking of Missions” which appeared in the Christian Century. Growing more suspicious of the subjective theological liberalism of the day, he published A Christian Manifesto in 1934. In the book, Lewis railed against liberal theology (which he referred to as modernism), reasserting classical Christian themes such as the transcendence of God, the sinfulness of humankind, the divinity of Christ, and the objective work of the atonement. Lewis wrote: “No statement of Christian belief which does not include a supernatural reference…is a true statement.”[1] He followed A Christian Manifesto with A Philosophy of Christian Revelation and The Creator and the Adversary, both of which continued his reclamation of Christian orthodoxy from an Armenian perspective. Lewis argued that Gods triumphs over evil by outsuffering and outloving his adversary.[2] Lewis’ work proved influential to an entire generation of Methodist theologians, notably Carl Michalson and Albert C. Outler. Notes 1.↑ Edwin Lewis, A Christian Manifesto (Nashville: Cokesbury, 1934), p. 16. 2.↑ Thomas A. Langford, Practical Divinity: Theology in the Wesleyan Tradition (Nashville: Abingdon, 1983), p. 205. http://www.theopedia.com/Edwin_Lewis

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Jesus Christ and the human quest
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Wings Of Dawn
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Welsh Dictionary
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Welsh Dictionary
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The ministry of the Holy Spirit
Representative edition published 1954
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The Biblical faith and Christian freedom
Representative edition published 1953
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Christian truth for Christian living
Representative edition published 1942
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The practice of the Christian life
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A new heaven and a new earth
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A philosophy of the Christian revelation
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The faith we declare
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A Christian manifesto
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Great Christian teachings
Representative edition published 1933
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Preaching and theology
Representative edition published 1931
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God and ourselves
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The Abingdon Bible commentary
Representative edition published 1929
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A manual of Christian beliefs
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Y Geiriadur Cryno
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Welsh
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The Creator and the adversary
Representative edition published 1948
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