Download or read book A Concise History of the Methodist Protestant Church from Its Origin written by Ancel Henry Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise of the Methodist Protestant Church written by James Elwood Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Methodism written by David Hempton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Methodism written by Matthew Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Wesley written by John Munsey Turner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2003 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Wesley. Wesley did not originate the Evangelical Revival, which was transatlantic in its origins, but became the most energetic, original and pragmatic of the evangelical leaders, founding - even if it was not his intention - a world-wide Protestant Communion. This text seeks to set Wesley firmly in his historical context, analyzing his life, practice and theology. It shows that while there were many Methodisms, there was a central core of spirituality and style which had a great influence on the artisan groups of men (and women), providing stability, purpose and meaning, and enabling nobodies to become somebodies.

Download or read book A Concise History of the Methodist Protestant Church from its Origin written by Ancel H. Bassett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Download or read book A Church in Crisis written by Elizabeth A. Georgian and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of American Methodism from 1777 to 1835 presents a puzzle. During those years the Methodist Episcopal Church grew into the largest denomination in the United States while fashioning the most hierarchical organization in American Protestantism. In other words, the Methodist Episcopal Church leaders steadily denied the laity any role in the ecclesiastical government over the same period that most Americans embraced a political order based on republicanism and democracy. Over time the government grew more complex, the bishops more autocratic, and the number of people excluded from participation greater and greater. Solving this puzzle sheds new light not only on the Methodist Episcopal Church, but on the competitive evangelical marketplace churches found themselves in after the American Revolution, and on the relationship between Americans' secular ideals and their religious expectations. This dissertation explores the role of two schismatic movements in shaping the development of the church and explaining its remarkable success. The James O'Kelly schism took place in 1792, when O'Kelly stormed out of the General Conference, frustrated by yet another failure to limit the growing hierarchy and the power of the bishops. He took with him one-fifth of the church's members and formed the Republican Methodist Church--a remarkably egalitarian denomination. The church leaders foundered for years, failing to respond as O'Kelly attacked them in spirited, popular published works. Eventually they issued a rejoinder and the membership rolls again began to grow. In 1820, the Methodist Episcopal Church came under a sustained attack by reformers demanding lay representation in the church government. This time, the church's leaders responded differently, learning from the mistakes of the past and from their critics. They acted immediately, expelling those who advocated for reform, and offering mercy to those who repented of their sins and returned to the fold. Finding their petitions ignored, their people expelled, and their names tarnished, the reformers left to form the Methodist Protestant Church in 1830, one that drew away only a trivial number of people from the Methodist Episcopal Church. The key to understanding the contradiction between the Methodist Episcopal Church's success as the most hierarchical Protestant church, in America's increasingly democratic political culture, lies in its image as a folksy church that appealed to every day Americans, hiding its fundamentally undemocratic nature. The Methodist itinerants--uneducated, poor men of little social standing--met the people where they were, and literally met them in their homes where they graciously accepted whatever hospitality the laity could offer them. Later, the editors of the nation's most widely read evangelical magazines met them in print--running short, readable stories of an entertaining nature. The populist campaign worked--Americans flocked to a church that looked like it represented them, even as its leaders expelled them for daring to call for change and looked down on them as spiritual inferiors. And today, the image of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a democratic institution still triumphs over the reality.

Download or read book Methodism and the Centennial of American Independence With a brief history of the various branches of Methodism etc written by E. M. WOOD (Ph.D., Methodist Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Methodism and the Centennial of American Independence written by Ezra Morgan Wood and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Methodist Reform Synoptical of General Methodism 1703 1898 1820 1898 written by Edward Jacob Drinkhouse and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Methodism written by Matthew Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of Methodist Reform Synoptical of General Methodism 1703 1898 written by Edward Jacob Drinkhouse and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: