SANCTIFICATION and LIBERATION
Lincoln College, July 18-28, 1977
Attendance: 91 members + 3 visitors
Warden: Rena Karefa-Smart
Keynote Speaker:
José Míguez-Bonino
“Wesley’s Doctrine of Sanctification from a Liberationist Perspective”*
Other Plenary Speakers:
James H. Cone
“Sanctification and Liberation in the Black Religious Tradition with
Special Reference to Black Worship”*
Rupert E. Davies
“Justification, Sanctification, and the Liberation of the Person”*
Donald W. Dayton
“Whither Evangelicalism?“*
Kwesi A. Dickson
“The Methodist Witness and the African Situation”*
John Kent
“Methodism and Social Change”*
Dow Kirkpatrick
“A Liberating Pastoral for the Rich”*
W. Dayalan Niles
“Search for Community: A Preliminary Exploration of the Theology of Daniel T. Niles”
Theodore Runyon
“Wesley and the Theologies of Liberation”*
Timothy L. Smith
“Holiness and Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century America”*
Bible Study: Dorothy Valenzuela, selected passages on liberation
Observers: Cuthbert Rand (Roman Catholic), F. W. Dillistone (Anglican)
*Marked papers were published as proceedings of this Institute in:
Runyon, Theodore, ed. Sanctification and Liberation: Liberation Theologies in the Light of the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981.
(The text of Runyon’s preface)
Essays also published in proceedings, not presented orally at meeting:
Nancy A. Hardesty
“The Wesleyan Movement and Women’s Liberation”
Thomas W. Madron
“John Wesley on Economics”
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