The Impulse to Reform: from Wesley and the Early Radical Holiness Movement to the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church and Nazarene Theological College

Both Seoul Theological University and Nazarene Theological College are heirs to the theological and reform traditions of the Radical Holiness networks. STU’s links are perhaps less complicated, coming primarily through Nakada and Thomas. Nazarene Theological College is a successor to Star Hall, by circuitous routes, and has drunk at the same British and North American sources. In their diverse ministries, both encompass the values of the Radical Holiness networks. It is therefore appropriate that Seoul Theological University and Manchester Wesley Research Center are beginning a conversation from our different cultural vantage points and common commitments of our shared heritage. We urge Christians to be more than “Almost Christians.” When Wesley was asked about his understanding of holiness or sanctification, he would often cite the “great commandment”: that we are to love God with all of our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves.