The ordination of women has been commonly practiced in Methodist denominations since the 20th century, and some denominations earlier allowed women to...

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings...

The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains...

Methodism has historically followed the Protestant tradition of referring to sanctified members of the universal church as saints. However, as a title...

Methodist Church. The denomination's name was chosen in the spirit of a quote from the father of Methodism, John Wesley, who stated with regard to evangelism...

importance of a woman's headcovering, the ordination of women in Methodism, and missions. Walter Ashbel Sellew was born in Gowanda, New York on 27 February 1844...

impact of his writings eventually prevailed in the church. The Free Methodist Church affirmed the ordination of women in 1911. As of June 2008, women represented...

based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism...

The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan...

lines of the historic episcopate; these include the threefold office of deacon, priest, and bishop. It does affirm the ordination of women in Methodism. The...

designed by 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...

African Methodist Episcopal Church is not in favor of the ordination of openly gay persons to the ranks of clergy in our church. This position reaffirms our...

movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism...

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...

approximately 50,000. The governing body of the Methodist Church in Ireland is the annual Conference. Methodism was founded in England by John Wesley and his younger...

while in between others spent the time praying. From May 1807 to the establishing of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811, a series of 17 camp...

The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia is a Christian denomination with its origins in Wesleyan Methodism. It is the organisational name for contemporary...

in the interest of the drink traffic. In British Methodist Church, the Commission on Methodism and Total Abstinence in 1972 reported that only 30% of...

enthusiasm. In England, evangelical Anglicans would grow into an important constituency within the Church of England, and Methodism would develop out of the ministries...

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...

are not in full communion with the Anglican Communion. Some churches split due to changes in the Book of Common Prayer and the ordination of women, forming...

spiritual writings of the Wesleys and their contemporary coadjutors such as John William Fletcher, Methodism's systematic theologian. In 1736, the Wesley...

principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent...

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...

The Twenty-five Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of Methodism—particularly American Methodism and its offshoots. John Wesley abridged...

Covenant Service, was adapted by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for the purpose of the renewal of the Christian believer's covenant with God. Wesley's...

The Social Creed originated to express Methodism's outrage over the miserable lives of the millions of workers in factories, mines, mills, tenements and...

African Union Methodist Protestant Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States; in 1866, the First Colored Methodist Protestant Church...

Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is...

"Works of piety", in Methodism, are certain spiritual disciplines that along with the "works of mercy", serve as a means of grace, in addition to being...