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The religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals
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Methodism is a Protestant Christian movement encompassing numerous denominations. Methodism may also refer to: Methodism (philosophy) , an approach in philosophy Methodic school , an ancient Greek school of medicine, referred to as Methodism Methodist Hospital ...
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Methodism \Meth"o*dism\, n. (Eccl.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. --Bp. Warburton.
Usage examples of methodism.
Weak minds were seduced by the delusion of a superstition styled Methodism, raised upon the affectation of superior sanctity, and maintained by pretensions to divine illumination.
It has usually been supposed that Hattie Wesley knew more about it than she cared to tell and, as far as the illustrious founders of Methodism were concerned, there the matter rests.
Many revivals in the Protestant church, such as Methodism, were, like the original movement, returns to personal piety and biblicism.
At the rate this latter was taking place it seems probable that had he lived to write another novel on a theme similar to this, his hero would have been compelled to abandon his belief in Presbyterianism, Congregationalism, Methodism, or some other ism before he would be found worthy of being joined in the marriage relation to his Episcopalian bride.
Something might be necessary, he observed, to excite the affections of the common people, who were sunk in languor and lethargy, and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an effect.
These little acts of courtesy, so natural to the gentleman, were anything but natural to one suddenly impressed with the ascetical temper of methodism.
His great-grandson (the grandfather of my correspondent), being converted to Methodism by some wayside preacher, discarded in a moment his name, his old nature, and his political principles, and with the zeal of a proselyte sealed his adherence to the Protestant Succession by baptising his next son George.
In fact, the nearest thing Grantville had to the Anglican Communion was the Reverends Jones and their congregation, and the history of Methodism didn't start for another century, and that with their divergence from the Church of England.
If this be Methodism, Plato and Socrates were arrant Methodists, and New Light men.
For Methodism, on the contrary, unless there have been a crisis of this sort, salvation is only offered, not effectively received, and Christ's sacrifice in so far forth is incomplete.