William J. Abraham | Author

About the Author

William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

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Works by William J. Abraham

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The Logic of Evangelism (1989) 246 copies

Wesley for Armchair Theologians (2005) 162 copies

Canonical Theism: A Proposal for Theology and the Church (2008) — Editor; Contributor — 74 copies

Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation (2006) 74 copies

Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism (1998) 66 copies

The Logic of Renewal (2003) 58 copies

Waking from Doctrinal Amnesia: The Healing of Doctrine in The United Methodist Church (1995) 45 copies

Methodism: A Very Short Introduction (2019) 40 copies

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1985) 39 copies

Key United Methodist Beliefs (2013) 33 copies

Aldersgate and Athens: John Wesley and the Foundations of Christian Belief (2010) 29 copies

The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (Oxford Handbooks) (2017) 28 copies

Among the Ashes: On Death, Grief, and Hope (2017) 24 copies, 1 review

Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism (1982) 23 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies (2009) — Editor; Contributor — 23 copies

The Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture (1981) 20 copies

The coming great revival: Recovering the full evangelical tradition (1984) 17 copies

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I: Exploring and Evaluating the Debate (2017) 10 copies

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II: Soundings in the Christian Tradition (2017) 9 copies

The Rationality of Religious Belief: Essays in Honour of Basil Mitchell (1987) — Editor — 9 copies

Analytic Theology: A Bibliography (2012) 7 copies

The Art of Evangelism (1993) 7 copies

The Bible: Beyond the Impasse (2012) 6 copies

Art of Evangelism: Evangelism Carefully Crafted into the Life of the Local Church (2009) 5 copies

Celtic Fire: Evangelism in the Wisdom and Power of the Spirit (2012) 4 copies

Dialogues: Amongst the People Called United Methodists (2014) 3 copies

El arte de la evangelización (Coleccion Seminari) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 3 copies

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume IV: A Theological and Philosophical Agenda (2021) 3 copies

Shaking hands with the Devil : the intersection of terrorism and theology (2013) 2 copies

El arte de la evangelización : la evangelización ajustada a la vida de la iglesia local (2006) 2 copies

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III: Systematic Theology (2018) 2 copies

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (Volume XLVIII Number 2, April 1994) (1994) 2 copies

Toronto, Revival and the Church Today (1995) 1 copy

Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism 1 copy

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God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason (1994) — Contributor — 306 copies, 1 review

The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology (2005) — Contributor — 145 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (2007) — Contributor — 143 copies

Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contributor — 107 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (2007) — Contributor — 82 copies, 1 review

Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology (2009) — Contributor — 55 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (2009) — Contributor — 47 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology (2010) — Contributor — 45 copies

The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (2009) — Contributor — 42 copies

Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 2: Providence, Scripture, and Resurrection (2009) — Contributor — 20 copies

The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (2013) — Contributor — 20 copies

Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer (2009) — Foreword — 15 copies

From the Margins: A Celebration of the Theological Work of Donald W. Dayton (Princeton Theological Monograph) (2007) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Other names: Abraham, William James
Birthdate: 1947-12-19
Date of death: 2021-10-07
Gender: male
Education: University of Oxford (Regent's Park College|DPhil|1977)
Asbury Theological Seminary (MDiv|1973)
Queen's University Belfast (AB|Philosophy and Psychology)
Occupations: cleric
seminary professor
Organizations: Seattle Pacific University
Harvard Divinity School
Southern Methodist University (Perkins School of Theology)
United Methodist Church
Baylor University
Nationality: Northern Ireland
UK
Places of residence: USA
UK

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Among the Ashes: On Death, Grief, and Hope by William J. Abraham

Excellent short book! Self-aware and philosophically robust. His analysis of hope leaves me unsatisfied, but is still very good. The last chapter, "Death and the Death of Christ" is particularly great.

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Apr 5, 2025