• issue of homosexuality, with many denominations holding homosexual practice to be sinful, while other denominations ordain LGBT clergy and marry same-sex...
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  • Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings...
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  • of Methodism, John Wesley, who stated with regard to evangelism, that "The world is my parish." Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to discuss and formalize...
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  • mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal...
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    John Wesley (category Founders of English schools and colleges)
    cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded...
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  • Methodism has historically followed the Protestant tradition of referring to sanctified members of the universal church as saints. However, as a title...
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    for earnestly advocating what they saw as the doctrines and usages of authentic Wesleyan Methodism. Under the leadership of the Rev. Benjamin Titus (B. T...
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    John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Meredith G. Kline did pioneering work in the field of Biblical studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, building on prior...
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  • North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. Formed in the early 1900s in Texas, the denomination is now headquartered...
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  • chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism. Churches aligned...
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    and Methodism would develop out of the ministries of Whitefield and Wesley. In the American colonies, the Awakening caused the Congregational and Presbyterian...
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  • Baptism by fire (category Methodism)
    concept of baptism by 'fire and the Holy Spirit' lies behind the Consolamentum rite of the Cathars or Albigenses. In Methodism (inclusive of the holiness...
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    Camp meeting (category Christian worship and liturgy)
    River: Primitive Methodism till 1868 (Stoke-on-Trent: Tentmaker Publications) Young, D. M. (2017) Change and Decay: Primitive Methodism from late Victorian...
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    of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan and Robert...
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  • revival class meetings referred to as "bands" and "societies." Its doctrines and polity are based on Methodism, though it prefers to be a "non-denominational...
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    baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the second work of grace. Holiness Pentecostalism inherited the same terminology from Methodism, with exception of the fact...
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  • Twenty-five Articles (category Methodism)
    of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of Methodism—particularly American Methodism and its offshoots. John Wesley abridged the Thirty-nine...
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    Primitive Methodism was a major movement in English and Welsh Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. It emerged from a revival at...
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  • List of Methodist churches - local churches of notability History of Methodism in the United States List of Christian denominations Methodist Church...
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  • Methodist Episcopal Church (category History of Methodism in the United States)
    Awakening when Methodism emerged as an evangelical revival movement within the Church of England that stressed the necessity of being born again and the possibility...
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  • Anglicanism, Baptists, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Quakerism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Reformed Christianity, and Waldensianism. Reformed Christianity...
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  • people Rev. Dr. Henry Brown – Methodist minister and author of The Impending Peril: Or, Methodism and Amusement William Gannaway Brownlow – Governor of...
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  • homosexuality. The issue of homosexuality and Christianity is a subject of ongoing theological debate within and between Christian denominations and this...
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  • 52, from hepatitis. Biography portal LGBTQ portal Paul Abels Homosexuality and Methodism Karen Oliveto "Blair Blurb from UM Affirm's Archive". "Gay ex-minister...
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  • permission by God. Wesley accepted this idea, and formally began to allow women to preach in Methodism. Later, Wesley also licensed other women as preachers...
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  • Methodist local preacher (category Methodism in the United Kingdom)
    ministers) and the local preachers who assisted them. Local preachers have played an important role in Methodism since the earliest days of the movement, and have...
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    2023 Asbury revival (category Methodism in Kentucky)
    place in 1970, which had far-reaching consequences in Methodism, culture of the United States, and the growth of the Jesus movement. Notably, news of the...
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    Methodist Church, 2016–present Biography portal LGBTQ portal Homosexuality and Methodism LGBT-affirming religious groups Julian Rush Gene Leggett Paul...
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    the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Free Methodist Church, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and the Presbyterian...
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    Wesleyan theology (category History of Methodism)
    diaries, hymns, and other spiritual writings of the Wesleys and their contemporary coadjutors such as John William Fletcher, Methodism's systematic theologian...
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