• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Anglicanism, Baptists, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Quakerism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Reformed Christianity, and Waldensianism. Reformed Christianity...
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    act of prevenient grace and on individual personal responsibility before God. Through local congregations and missions, Methodism inspired an evangelistic...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • believe in the one true, holy and living God, Eternal Spirit, who is Creator, Sovereign and Preserver of all things visible and invisible. He is infinite...
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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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    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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  • In Methodism, a steward is a member of a local church who is elected by the congregation to help in the practical life of the church. The position of...
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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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    online. A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 23 January 2024. Williamson, G. I. (1976). Wine in the Bible and the Church (PDF). Pilgrim...
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  • formation of the Bible Missionary Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States. Prior to its existence, a multitude of conservative...
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  • Holiness Consortium, is an interdenominational organization of denominations and congregations, with membership primarily including those aligned with the...
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    Second work of grace (category Methodism)
    Methodism "emphasized sanctification or holiness as the goal of the Christian life", something that "may be received in this life both gradually and instantaneously...
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