methodism in English

noun

[Meth·od·ism || 'meθədɪzəm]

faith principles of the Methodist church advocating strict adherence to the moral ethics of Christianity, doctrine of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of a revival led by John Wesley (Religion)

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1. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the area underwent a religious revival that ultimately produced Primitive Methodism, and at its peak, in the 19th century, Methodism was the dominant faith in much of Northern England.

2. Apportionments Using Apportionments to support annual conference and denominational benevolences is a distinctive feature of United Methodism

3. The custom of adding Amens to hymns did not exist in Lutheran, Reformed, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Anglican (including the Wesleys and early Methodism) or evangelical congregational song

4. ‘He was an Adherent of liberation theology, a progressive movement that advocated for the poor.’ ‘He was, in his younger days, an Adherent of socialist views.’ ‘John Duncan was born in Athy in or about 1785 and unlike his brother Thomas he became an ardent Adherent of Methodism.’

5. The key years in the foundation of English Methodism were between 1739, when the brothers Charles and John Wesley, both themselves Anglican priests, broke with the Moravian church and set up their own first chapel in Bristol, and 1743, when they drew up their General Rules.