Wednesday with Wesley: On Original Sin and Total Depravity

This post has been updated since it was originally posted on November 18 ,2009

John Wesley (1703-1791) was an Arminian theologian and Anglican preacher credited with founding the Methodist movement.

In Wesley’s days (as in ours) the term Arminian was considered an “ambiguous term” and “something very bad”. In Wesley’s treatise What is an Arminian, he lists 5 errors that the Arminians are accused of holding. These are: Continue reading