Sinless perfection
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Sinless perfection is a term sometimes used to describe the Wesleyan teaching of Christian perfection by the opponents of this doctrine. John Wesley himself did not use this term and noted in his book A Plain Account of Christian Perfection that "...sinless perfection is a phrase I never use, lest I should seem to contradict myself."[1]
However John William Fletcher, an interpreter of Wesleyan theology in the 18th century, used the term "evangelically sinless perfection" or "evangelically sinless" but notes in his book The Last Check to Antinomianism that "With respect to the FIRST, that is, the Adamic, Christless law of innocence and paradisiacal perfection, we utterly renounce the doctrine of sinless perfection."[2]
