Wesley Study Bible: Analogy of Faith

From the Wesley Study Bible, the Wesleyan Core Term, “Analogy of Faith”:

The word analogy comes from a Greek word that means “proportion,” an analogy of faith draws from the idea of proportion and harmony. Protestants since the Reformation have used the phrase to convey the idea that there is a deep pattern in the message of Scripture that helps us interpret it. Individual passages of Scripture are read in relation to each other according to how they fit into this pattern. What guides our understanding is not any single statement but a sense of the whole shape of Christian faith. For John Wesley, that “sense of the the whole” was reflected in how he understood the way of salvation: humans have a problem that God overcomes in Jesus Christ, so that our sin is forgiven and we are able to live a new life of inward and outward holiness. The basic framework guided his reading of Scripture, as well as formed the structure for the way he proclaimed the gospel.

I wonder what different analogies of faith we would find guiding Scripture interpretation in the United Methodist Church if we could collect them. What different kinds of “senses of the whole” do we bring to the Bible and individual texts?

Of course, I anticipate someone will say an analogy of faith is part of modernity and we post-moderns have no use for it.