Holiness movement
A living tradition within Protestantism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Holiness movement is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written Wesleyan-Holiness movement.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. A 19th-century movement among Protestant churches in the United States, rooted in John Wesley's teaching on Christian perfection, emphasising a post-conversion experience of sanctification. Britannica notes that between 1880 and World War I numerous Holiness groups appeared, including the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Free Methodist Church, the Church of God, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Salvation Army and the Church of the Nazarene. No founding year is given.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Holiness movement.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-holiness-movement.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.