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  1. Gerhard Ebeling,Wort und Glaube (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1975), p. 14. See also, “Schrift und Erfahrung als Quelle theologischer Ausagen,”Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 75.1 (1978): 99–116.

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  2. A partial listing of this literature would include the following: Eilert Herms,Theologie — eine Erfahrungswissenschaft (Munich: Christian Kaiser, 1978) andTheorie für die Praxis (Munich: Christian Kaiser, 1982); Jürgen Moltmann,Experiences of God (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980) andDer Geist des Lebens (Munich: Christian Kaiser, 1991); Peter Stuhlmacher, “Exegese und Erfahrung” inVerifikationen [EbelingFestschrift] (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1982), pp. 67–89; Karl Ernst Nipkow,Grundfragen der Religionspädagogik, Vol. 3 (Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1982); Walter Mostert, “Erfahrung als Kriterium der Theologie,”Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 72.4 (1975): 427–460; Edward Schillebeeckx,Christ:The Experience of Jesus as Lord (New York: Crossroad, 1988). In the United States: Bernard Cooke,Sacraments and Sacramentality (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1983).

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  3. E.g., David Tracy,The Analogical Imagination (New York: Crossroad, 1986).

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  4. E.g., James H. Cone,My Soul Looks Back (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982); C. Eric Lincoln,The Black Experience in Religion (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974).

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  6. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in Creation:Or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, Vol. 2 (New York: Bangs & Mason, 1823), pp. 431–455.

  7. Excerpts from theEssay were published in Volumes 5 to 7 (1782–84) of theArminian Magazine. See also two recent very helpful studies on Wesley's relationship to Locke: Richard E. Brantley,Locke, Wesley and the Method of English Romanticism (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1984) and Rex D. Matthews, “‘With Eyes of Faith:’ Spiritual Experience and the Knowledge of God in the Theology of John Wesley,” inWesleyan Theology Today, Theodore Runyon, ed. (Nashville: Kingswood Books [Abingdon Press], 1985), pp. 406–415.

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  8. Works, Vol. 2, pp. 570f. References to Wesley's Sermons are to the Abingdon Bicentennial Edition of the Works.

  9. Ibid., Vol. 4, pp. 169f.

  10. Works, Vol. 4, pp. 171f.

  11. Ibid., pp. 172f.

  12. Luther'sWorks, Vol. 6 (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1932), pp. 451f.

  13. Wesley'sWorks [Jackson edition], Vol. 1, 103.

  14. Works [Abingdon edition], Vol. 2, pp. 482f.

  15. Ibid., p. 502.

  16. Ibid., p. 499.

  17. Ibid., p. 483.

  18. Robert S. Brightman,Gregory of Nyssa and John Wesley in Theological Dialogue on the Christian Life (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969), pp. 273.

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Portions of this article appeared in “A New Look at Experience,”Drew Gateway, Volume 51, no. 3 (1987) and appear here with permission of the publisher.

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Runyon, T. The role of experience in religion. Int J Philos Relig 31, 187–194 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307992

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