All Along This Pilgrim Journey: Advent and Lenten Devotions and Reflections For the Way

Leon O. Hynson

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The materials contained in this collection are offered toward daily devotions for Advent and Lent, seventy in all. Advent and Lenten homilies are given at the end of each section. The essays deal with varying topics, some sacramental matters, and some the insights derived from hymns or subjects like the holy life and consecration, and in the acts of God, often mysterious, as providence and what theologians call theodicy, i.e., explaining the love of God in a world of terror, pain, and death. War may require the most exacting interpretation of theodicy when we look at it.

About the Author:

     Dr. Leon Orville Hynson was President of Evangelical School of Theology from 1975 to 1982 and served as Wesley Scholar from 1992-2002. He was Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary from 1983-85. Hynson’s ministry in pastoral service covered twenty years. From 1963 to retirement in 2002, with a five year pastoral interlude, he taught at United Wesleyan College, Spring Arbor College, where he was chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, at Asbury Theological Seminary, and Evangelical School of Theology.

     Dr. Hynson graduated from United Wesleyan College (Th. B), and Asbury College, (A. B.). Graduate work followed at the University of Delaware (M. A.), Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia (M. Div.), Princeton Theological Seminary (Th. M., 1966), and the University of Iowa in Religious Studies (Ph.D., 1971).

     His major interests have been in Christian Ethics and in Historical Theology, particularly in issues of Church and State. To Reform the Nation: Theological Foundations of Wesley’s Ethics (Zondervan: 1984), with a foreword by Albert C. Outler, is considered a classical work in Wesley Studies. His journal articles have appeared in Wesleyan Theological Journal, Methodist History, Drew Gateway, Religion in Life, Asbury Seminarian, Asbury Theological Journal, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Journal of Religious Thought, A. M. E. Zion Quarterly Review, and others.

    Leon and Ruth (Hallam) Hynson were married on January 20, 1951, and have three sons: Leon P., Jonathan, and David, and ten grandchildren. Having been brought up in the Wesleyan tradition from his birth, Dr. Hynson devoted his life and ministry to theological education for more than forty years until his death in 2006.