Anita Monro
@anitamonro.substack.com
Interdisciplinary researcher. Tertiary educator. Feminist post-structuralist Christian theologian. Retired minister of the Word of The Uniting Church in Australia.
How can we re-build authentic theological identity after pain, trauma and abuse? Lorraine Cavanaugh recounts her own journey of re-building.
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Reading Lorraine Cavanaugh
The Journey After Abuse
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January 26, 2026 at 1:17 AM
How can we re-build authentic theological identity after pain, trauma and abuse? Lorraine Cavanaugh recounts her own journey of re-building.
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Update on intermittent blogging over the next few months. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
Trip of a Lifetime
On Intermittent Blogging
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Update on intermittent blogging over the next few months. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
In Standard Sermon 15, John Wesley tries to make sense of his conviction that those born of God do not sin.
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The Great Privilege of Those that are Born of God
John Wesley - Sermon 15 - A Summary
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In Standard Sermon 15, John Wesley tries to make sense of his conviction that those born of God do not sin.
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Why bother with John Wesley’s Standard Sermons? Because they bear the seeds of the destructive impetuses of contemporary evangelicalism.
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Why Wesley's Sermons
Responding to Questions
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November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Why bother with John Wesley’s Standard Sermons? Because they bear the seeds of the destructive impetuses of contemporary evangelicalism.
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John Wesley continues to expound the marks of being Christian—faith, hope and love—in Standard Sermon 14.
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The Marks of the New Birth
John Wesley - Sermon 14 - A Summary
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November 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
John Wesley continues to expound the marks of being Christian—faith, hope and love—in Standard Sermon 14.
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In Standard Sermon 13, John Wesley is still wrestling with what it means to be Christian.
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An Initial Reflection on The Circumcision of the Heart
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 13
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November 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In Standard Sermon 13, John Wesley is still wrestling with what it means to be Christian.
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John Wesley explores the virtues of the Christian disposition of the heart: humility, faith, hope and love in Standard Sermon 13.
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The Circumcision of the Heart
John Wesley - Sermon 13 - A Summary
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October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
John Wesley explores the virtues of the Christian disposition of the heart: humility, faith, hope and love in Standard Sermon 13.
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Despite contrasting participation in the activities of the Christian life with having the correct disposition of the heart, John Wesley argues for a “high” view of those activities as “means of grace.” #JohnWesley #meansofgrace #Christianlife open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
An Initial Reflection on The Means of Grace
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 12
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October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Despite contrasting participation in the activities of the Christian life with having the correct disposition of the heart, John Wesley argues for a “high” view of those activities as “means of grace.” #JohnWesley #meansofgrace #Christianlife open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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The Means of Grace
John Wesley - Sermon 12 - A summary
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October 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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The Means of Grace
John Wesley - Sermon 12 - A summary
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October 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In Standard Sermon 12, John Wesley argues for the importance of the activities of the Christian life.
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In Standard Sermon 11, John Wesley wrestles with his notions of Christian perfection and the role of the Christian’s own witness to being Christian. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
An Initial Reflection on The Witness of Our Own Spirit
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 11
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October 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In Standard Sermon 11, John Wesley wrestles with his notions of Christian perfection and the role of the Christian’s own witness to being Christian. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
A summary of John Wesley’s Standard Sermon 11. Wesley continues to define doubt and error out of being Christian.
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The Witness of Our Own Spirit
John Wesley - Sermon 11 - A Summary
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October 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A summary of John Wesley’s Standard Sermon 11. Wesley continues to define doubt and error out of being Christian.
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In Standard Sermon 10, John Wesley continues to provide the basis for enthusiastic claims while cautioning about enthusiasts. It’s all a bit circular.
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An Initial Reflection on The Witness of the Spirit
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 10
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October 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In Standard Sermon 10, John Wesley continues to provide the basis for enthusiastic claims while cautioning about enthusiasts. It’s all a bit circular.
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John Wesley Standard Sermon 10 - making important distinctions or labouring his understanding of faith as conviction? It's awfully repetitive in a minor area of theology. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
The Witness of the Spirit
John Wesley - Sermon 10 - A Summary
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October 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
John Wesley Standard Sermon 10 - making important distinctions or labouring his understanding of faith as conviction? It's awfully repetitive in a minor area of theology. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
James K. A. Smith wrestles with perhaps unexpected legacies of postliberalism. The dialectic rules!
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Postliberal in the (hymn)sheets, authoritarian in the streets?
Engaging David Congdon's "What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary?"
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September 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
James K. A. Smith wrestles with perhaps unexpected legacies of postliberalism. The dialectic rules!
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Reflection on Standard Sermon 9 of John Wesley - it’s heavy-going because Wesley has some convoluted understandings of what it means to be human.
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An Initial Reflection on The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 9
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September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Reflection on Standard Sermon 9 of John Wesley - it’s heavy-going because Wesley has some convoluted understandings of what it means to be human.
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In Standard Sermon 9, John Wesley makes tortuous distinctions between the “natural man”, the “legal man” and the “evangelical man”. Oh my goodness!
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The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption
John Wesley - Sermon 9 - A Summary
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September 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
In Standard Sermon 9, John Wesley makes tortuous distinctions between the “natural man”, the “legal man” and the “evangelical man”. Oh my goodness!
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Float Your Ideas
A Subscriber Survey
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September 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley ties himself in knots around notions of sin.
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An Initial Reflection on The First Fruits of the Spirit
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon
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September 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley ties himself in knots around notions of sin.
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In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley is struggling with the ongoing nature of sin despite the assurance of salvation - one of the many ambiguities of the Christian faith. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
The First-Fruits of the Spirit
John Wesley - Sermon 8 - A Summary
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September 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In Sermon 8 of the Standard Sermons, John Wesley is struggling with the ongoing nature of sin despite the assurance of salvation - one of the many ambiguities of the Christian faith. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
What then is faith? Part 2. open.substack.com/pub/anitamon...
V. Brümmer on Prayer and the Nature of Faith
What Then is Faith?--Part 2
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September 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Is there something else creeping into John Wesley's understanding of faith in Sermon 7 of his Standard Sermons?
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An Initial Reflection on The Way to the Kingdom
Engendered by John Wesley - Sermon 7
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August 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Is there something else creeping into John Wesley's understanding of faith in Sermon 7 of his Standard Sermons?
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Sermon 7 of John Wesley's Standard Sermons - is it more of the same or is there something else creeping into his understanding of faith? Commentary to come. #JohnWesley #faith #metanoia #repentance anitamonro.substack.com/p/the-way-to...
The Way to the Kingdom
John Wesley - Sermon 7 - A Summary
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August 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Sermon 7 of John Wesley's Standard Sermons - is it more of the same or is there something else creeping into his understanding of faith? Commentary to come. #JohnWesley #faith #metanoia #repentance anitamonro.substack.com/p/the-way-to...
Just conversing with a long-time friend on the nature of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed... anitamonro.substack.com/p/credo
Credo
Responding to John Squires on the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
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August 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just conversing with a long-time friend on the nature of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed... anitamonro.substack.com/p/credo
For those of you wanting to explore atonement theories further, Nathan Jacobs has a helpful series of posts on substack beginning with this one. Penal Substitution vs. Eastern Patristic Atonement: A Tale of Two Gospels
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Penal Substitution vs. Eastern Patristic Atonement: A Tale of Two Gospels
Theological Letters
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August 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
For those of you wanting to explore atonement theories further, Nathan Jacobs has a helpful series of posts on substack beginning with this one. Penal Substitution vs. Eastern Patristic Atonement: A Tale of Two Gospels
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