Dr. Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
A panel discussion on the republication of Mildred Wynkoop’s A Theology of Love. Wynkoop was a theologian in the Wesleyan-holiness tradition and a Trevecca professor from 1966 to 1976. The panel will be led by Dr. H. Ray Dunning. Panelists were Nina Gunter, Tim Gaines, and Howard Plummer. The discussion focused on a newly discovered chapter, giving deeper insights into Wynkoop’s work. |
“To affirm that holiness and sin are personal relationships, not things which can be counted and weighed, often sounds like a betrayal of holiness doctrine, and actually heresy. When the very words in Scripture that arise out of the most vital and living situations are interpreted in a way that robs them of life, a transvaluation of the gospel becomes both alarming and dangerous. That biblical exegesis should become the victim of this transvaluation is spiritual tragedy.”
― Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, A Theology of Love
“no man is ever given any comfort by the suggestion that since he is “in sin” and under the bondage of sin, and deceived, and his mind is darkened and his will perverted, he is absolved from responsibility regarding it.”
― Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, A Theology of Love
“No induced, or forced, or imposed, response satisfies love. Each of the persons involved must elect from the core of the self to open itself to and reach out for the other. What God in Christ has done for us is to remove the barriers between man and God. Every man is born into a world of love— God's love. God has anticipated every situation. No man need beg God to forgive him. This God has done. This God offers to all men through Christ. No one needs to cry and plead for the Holy Spirit. He is pleading for us and crowding us and wooing us. We need to recognize this call and open the door to Him. The change of attitude needs to come from our side. We do not earn God's favor by our crying and working.”
― Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, A Theology of Love
“Much blood has been needlessly spilt in history, and the Christian witness has been needlessly clouded, simply because men have equated their opinions with the authority of the Bible itself by fallacious logic.”
― Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, A Theology of Love
“There is no ceiling to love.”
― Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, A Theology of Love
