Albert Outler

Now, it is important to say John Wesley didn't know about the Wesleyan quadrilateral.

This term was coined by a scholar called Albert Outler in the 1960s.

who was trying to summarize Wesley's approach.

And he said this, he said, the living core of the Christian faith was revealed in scripture, illumined by tradition, vivified in personal experience and confirmed by reason.

John Wesley's theology is often taught as a fully formed practical system, a soteriology more than a systematic account of the faith, soteriology being the study of the way of salvation.

Albert Outler, in his great retrieval of Wesleyan thought, even admitted as much.

I have a larger argument about Wesley as a systematic theologian and metaphysician that can be found in my book Wesley's Metaphysics.

but it focuses on the late sermons printed in the Armenian magazine.