This collection dates from 1740 to 1917 and contains information about the lives of ministers, Wesleyan conference presidents, and their correspondents. Methodism, a religious and social holiness ...

Did Methodism prevent revolution, or the development of a revolutionary movement, in Britain ? The question has long interested historians. The period 1789-1848 is full of revolutions in all parts of ...

Methodism historically is not congregationalist. Like Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, among others, it has a connectional ecclesiology (theology of church organization and governance).

The first of five courses in the Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism series, designed to help engaged laypeople and clergy develop core capacities for innovative leadership within the Wesleyan ...

The Bishop of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Liberia, Samuel J. Quire Jr., has expressed concern over Methodist ...

Two hundred years. It is quite a milestone to celebrate, especially for area churches that have withstood the test of time.

The percentage of churches and percentage of congregants is not the same — it may be a smaller percentage of actual members ...

The DePauw University Archives and Special Collections serves as the repository of the United Methodist Church in Indiana. The guide below will help aid research on the history of the United Methodist ...

Pt 1. Establishment of the Wesleyan mission, Ngakuta Bay - 1840 : Rev. & Mrs Samuel Ironside / by F.W. Smith -- Pt 2. Methodism in Marlborough / by A.M. Hale -- Wesley Ladies' Guild / based on notes ...

Selina Shirley Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), was a noteworthy figure in eighteenth-century English Methodism. She was an admirer and follower of John Wesley yet made her own mark as a ...

now exists within a full-fledged church hierarchy that will seek to preserve a more orthodox brand of Methodism. It’s also better positioned to vie for congregations outside the U.S. that are ...

Jones himself never embraced Methodism although he admitted to having some sympathy with its aims. Methodism started off as a movement within the Church of England, with revival as its intention.