The late H. Orton Wiley was one of my favorite Wesleyan Holiness theologians. He was not perfect (no one is), but his writings are far more biblically sound than more recent Nazarene theologians such as Mildred Wynkoop, H. Ray Dunning and Thomas J. Oord. (Click here for my blog which discusses the increasing liberalization of Nazarene theology textbooks over the years.)
Below I’ve reposted Wiley’s list of books on the Atonement and related doctrines, from his three-volume Christian Theology. Click here for the original source of this list – as well as Wiley’s entire three-volume Christian Theology – viewable online.) Note – I’m in the process of alphabetizing this list by author. Also note – the original list was not scanned accurately by those who put Wiley’s three-volume Christian Theology into digital form.
I plan to add links to author bios, as well as links to online books.
Please note that these books present many different theological positions, not just the Wesleyan Holiness position. I am working on separate blogs which list only books of the Wesleyan Holiness position.
THE ATONEMENT (III, 419-421)
Anselm (1033-1109), Cur Deus Homo, English Translation by Deane, Chicago, 1903 (free online Google eBook of first edition, 1858)
Albert Barnes (1798-1870), The Atonement in Its Relation to Law and Moral Government, Philadelphia, 1859 (free online Google eBook)
Charles Beecher, Redeemer and Redeemed, Boston, 1864 (free online Google eBook)
B.R. Brasnett, The Suffering of the Impassible God, 1928
Horace Bushnell (1802-1876), Christ and His Salvation, 1865 (free online Google eBook)[I added this title-DM]
Horace Bushnell, The Vicarious Sacrifice (2 volumes), New York, 1891 (this free online Google eBook includes both volumes under one cover)
John M. Campbell, The Nature of the Atonement, London, 1873
R.S. Candlish (1806-1873), The Atonement: Its Efficacy and Extent, Edinburgh, 1867 (free online Google eBook)
S. Cave, The Scripture Doctrine of Sacrifice, T. & T. Clark
H.S. Coffin, Social Aspects of the Cross, New York, 1911
Thomas J. Crawford, The Doctrine of the Holy Scripture Respecting the Atonement, 1875
M.C. D’Arcy, The Pain of This World and the Providence of God, 1936
R.W. Dale, The Atonement, New York, 1876
James Denney, The Atonement and the Modern Mind, London, 1903
James Denney, The Christian Doctrine of Reconciliation, New York, 1918
James Denney, The Death of Christ, New York, 1903
George C. Foley, Anselm’s Theory of the Atonement, New York, 1909
L.W. Grensted, A Short History of the Doctrine of the Atonement
Grotius, De Satisfactione (Editions from 1617-1730), English Translation by Foster, Andover
James Hinton, The Mystery of Pain, 1866
F.R.M. Hitchcock, The Atonement and Modern Thought, London, 1911
A.A. Hodge, The Atonement, Philadelphia, 1867
E.W. Johnson, Suffering, Punishment and Atonement, 1919
Albert C. Knudson, The Doctrine of Redemption, Abingdon, 1933
J. S. Lidgett, The Spiritual Principle of the Atonement, London, 1901
Clark Robert Mackintosh, Historic Theories of the Atonement, New York, 1920
H.R. Mackintosh, The Christian Experience of Forgiveness
William Magee, Scripture Doctrine of Atonement and Sacrifice, New York, 1839
Howard Malcom, The Extent and Efficacy of the Atonement, Philadelphia, 1870
F.D. Maurice, The Doctrine of Sacrifice Deduced from the Scriptures, 1854
John Miley, The Atonement in Christ, New York, 1879
R.C. Moberly, Atonement and Personality, New York, 1901
R.C. Moberly, Sorrow, Sin and Beauty, 1903
J.K. Mozley, The Doctrine of the Atonement, Scribners, 1916
J.K. Mozley, The Impassibility of God, 1926
H.N. Oxenham, The Catholic Doctrine of Atonement, London, 1865
A.S. Peake, The Problem of Suffering in the Old Testament, 1904
Leighton Pullen, The Atonement, London, 1913
Lonsdale Ragg, Aspects of the Atonement, London, 1904
Rashdall, The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology, MacMillan, 1920
G.W. Richards, Christian Ways of Salvation
Ritschl, The Scripture Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation,
H. Wheeler Robinson, Suffering: Human and Divine, MacMillan, 1939
A. Sabbatier, The Doctrine of the Atonement and Its Historical Evolution, English Translation, New York, 1904
D.W. Simon, Reconciliation Through Incarnation, Edinburgh, 1898
D.W. Simon, The Redemption of Man, Edinburgh, 1899
G. Smeaton, The Doctrine of the Atonement as Taught by Christ Himself, Edinburgh, 1868
P.L. Snowden, The Atonement and Ourselves, London, 1919
G.B. Stevens, The Christian Doctrine of Salvation, 1905
William Symington, The Atonement and Intercession of Jesus Christ, New York, 1849
T.V. Tymns, The Christian Idea of Atonement, London, 1904
Ralph Wardlaw, Discourses on the Nature and Extent of the Atonement, Glasgow, 1844
J.S. Whale, The Christian Answer to the Problem of Evil, 1936
THE PRELIMINARY STATES OF GRACE (III, 423-424)
The best treatment of the Preliminary States of Grace, as also the subjects of Justification and Regeneration, will be found in the standard works on Systematic Theology. Representing the earlier, or what is some times known as modified Arminianism, are the following: Watson, Institutes; Wakefield, Christian Theology; Summers, Systematic Theology; Pope, Compendium of Christian Theology; and Ralston, Elements of Divinity. The last named work contains an excellent discussion of the Calvinistic and Arminian positions. As representative of the so-called later Arminianism, Raymond, Systematic Theology; Miley, Systematic Theology; Whedon, Commentaries, and A. M. Hills, Fundamental Christian Theology. In the Calvinistic theology, Dr. W. G. T. Shedd represents the realistic position, and Dr. Charles Hodge, the Federal or Representative position. Among the older works on both the Calvinistic and Arminian positions, may be mentioned the following:
James Arminius, Writings, Volume III
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Examination of Edwards on the Will, An; Philadelphia, 1845
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Theodicy, A; or Vindication of Divine Glory, New York, 1853
John Calvin, Institutes, Book III, Chapters xxi-xxiv
Edward Copleston, Enquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity and Predestination, London, 1821
Jonathan Edwards, A Divine and Supernatural Light Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God, 1734 (A sermon noted for its spiritual philosophy)
Jonathan Edwards, An Essay on the Freedom of the Will, 1754
W. Fisk, The Calvinistic Controversy, New York 1837
John Fletcher, Checks to Antinomianism, Volumes I-H
John Forbes, Predestination and Free Will Reconciled, or Calvinism and Arminianism United in the Westminster Confession, 1878
Randolph S. Foster, Objections to Calvinism, Cincinnati, 1848 (many editions)
Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will
Asa Mahan, Election and the Influence of the Holy Spirit, 1851
Asa Mahan, System of Intellectual Philosophy, New York, 1845
J.B. Mozley, Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination, 1855
Henry Philip Tappan Doctrine of the Will Applied to Moral Agency and Responsibility, 1841 (Single volume, Glasgow, 1857)
Henry Philip Tappan Doctrine of the Will Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness, 1840
Henry Philip Tappan, Review of Edwards on the Will, A, New York, 1839
George Tomline, A Refutation of Calvinism, London, 1811
Thomas C. Upham, Treatise on the Will, 1850 [early Wesleyan Holiness?]
Richard Watson, Theological Institutes, Part II, Chapters xxv-xxviii
John Wesley, Works, Volume VI, On Predestination
Daniel D. Whedon, Freedom of the Will, 1864
CHRISTIAN RIGHTEOUSNESS (III, 424)
Here again, the best treatment of the subject will be found in the standard works on theology. The clearest and most specific treatment is found in the earlier treatises. ‘
James Buchanan, The Doctrine of Justification, Edinburgh, 1867
John Calvin, Institutes, III, xi-xxiii
G. Cross, Christian Salvation, Chicago, 1925
John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification (2 volumes), London, 18441846
R.N. Davies, A Treatise on Justification, Cincinnati, 1878
Jonathan Edwards (the younger), On the Necessity of the Atonement, and Its Consistency with Free Grace in Forgiveness, Three addresses, 1875, which form the basis of the “Edwardean Theory” of the Atonement, generally accepted by the “New England School.”
Faber, The Primitive Doctrine of Justification
Julius Charles Hare, Scriptural Doctrine of Justification
Charles Abel Heurtiey, Justification, 1845 (Bampton Lectures)
M. Loy, The Doctrine of Justification, Columbus, Ohio, 1869, 1882
Martin Luther, On Galatians
H.R. Mackintosh, The Christian Experience of Forgiveness (previously mentioned)
S.M. Merrill, Aspects of Christian Experience, Chapters iv-vii
John H. Newman, Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification, London, 1874
John Owen, Works, Volume V, The Doctrine of Justification
G.W. Richards, Christian Ways of Salvation, New York, 1923
Albrecht Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation, (Translated by Mackintosh and Macaulay)(Second Edition, 1902)
Richard Watson, Theological Institutes, II, Chapter xxiii
John Wesley, Sermons, V, VI, and XX. (Harrison, Wesleyan Standards, Volume I)
John Witherspoon, Essay on Justification, 1756 (Considered one of the ablest Calvinistic expositions of the doctrine)
CHRISTIAN SONSHIP (III, 424-425)
Outside of the standard works on theology, the literature of Christian Sonship or Regeneration is not extensive.
H. Begbie Twice-Born Men, New York, London and Edinburgh, 1909 (previously cited)
Stephen Charnock, On Regeneration, (Complete works in Nichol’s Series of Standard Divines, 5 volumes, Edinburgh, 1864)
R.N. Davies, A Treatise on Justification, 1878 (Lecture x)
Jonathan Edwards, On Spiritual Light (mentioned in connection with Prevenient Grace)
Faber, Primitive Doctrine of Regeneration
John Fletcher, Discourse on the New Birth
G.H. Gerberding, New Testament Conversions, Philadelphia, 1889
G.H. Gerberding, The Witness of the Spirit
John Howe, On Regeneration (Sermons xxxviii-xlix) Complete Works (2 volumes), London, 1724; New York, 1869
G. Jackson, The Fact of Conversion, London, 1908
Archbishop Leighton, On Regeneration
N.H. Marshall, Conversion or the New Birth, London, 1909
S.M. Merrill, Aspects of Christian Experience (Chapter x)
H.E. Monroe Twice-Born Men in America, 1914
Austin Phelps, The New Birth, Boston, 1867
Walton Witness of the Spirit
John Wesley, Sermons, X, XI, XII, XVIII and XIX (Harrison, Wesleyan Standards, Volume I)
John Witherspoon Treatise on Regeneration, 1764 Calvin, Institutes, III, i-ii
Witsius Covenants, III, vi
Young, The Witness of the Spirit, 1882
ADDITIONAL READING (Wesleyan Holiness books on Salvation, Evangelism and related topics; I am also preparing some lists offline)
The Wesleyan Heritage Library CD contains the following, among eBooks on many other subjects:
Amos Binney, Binney’s Theological Compend
Samuel Logan Brengle, The Soulwinner’s Secret
Charles Ewing Brown, The Meaning of Salvation
James Blaine Chapman, All Out For Souls
James Blaine Chapman, Nazarene Primer
List of PDF books from various theological viewpoints