The Rhythm of Grace

The Rhythm of Grace: A Broad Vision for Wesleyan-Holiness Theology gathers decades of scholarly reflection from Henry W. Spaulding II and his son Hank Spaulding to offer a renewed, expansive, and justice-oriented vision of holiness. Through essays that engage theological aesthetics, political theology, Wesleyan ecclesiology, and the challenges of postmodernity, this collection weaves a tapestry of sanctified imagination for a fragmented world.
With both previously published and original chapters, The Rhythm of Grace challenges the privatization of holiness and reclaims it as a public, prophetic witness. It is a book for pastors, scholars, and laity who long to see holiness reimagined as the liberating grace of God active in the world.

Henry Walter Spaulding III is editorial assistant for the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Christian ethics at Ashland University, Ashland Theological Seminary, George Fox University, and Indiana Wesleyan University. He is the author of several books including Iconoclastic Sex: Christian Sexual Ethics and Human Trafficking and the forthcoming Between Two Gileads with Cascade. He has published a number of articles in journals such as the Wesleyan Theological Journal, Review and Expositor, and Literary Imagination. He is also pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio.




Henry W. Spaulding II is retired president of Mount Vernon Nazarene University and former professor of philosophical theology and Christian ethics at Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has also taught theology at Trevecca Nazarene University and Eastern Nazarene College. An ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, he is a pastor and scholar who has published widely on Wesleyan theology. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Sharon.