H. Ray Dunning, Reflecting the Divine Image: Christian Ethics in Wesleyan Perspective. Downers Grove, EL: InterVarsity Press, 1998, 156 pp. $14.99.

H. Ray Dunning, recently retired from a long tenure at Trevecca Nazarene University, understands the Wesleyan ethic to be relational. The legalism characteristic of some strands of the holiness movement Dunning finds to be an inauthentic reading of Wesley's ethical focus. Instead, following Albert Outler, Dunning sees in Wesley an ethics of aspiration, a teleological ethic of "perfecting perfection." Dunning agrees with Outler that Wesley can be called a eudaimonist and that, in spite of his predilection for rules, he is not...