Methodism
A living tradition within Protestantism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Methodism is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written Wesleyan tradition.
Origin
Founders named in the sources: John Wesley, Charles Wesley. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Originated in 18th-century England in John Wesley's movement to reform the Church of England. Britannica records Wesley's Aldersgate experience of 24 May 1738, when he felt his heart 'strangely warmed' during a reading of Luther's preface to Romans. In 1784, faced with a shortage of ordained ministers in America after the Revolution and a refusal by the Bishop of London to ordain a Methodist, Wesley ordained Thomas Coke as superintendent and two others as presbyters; the Methodist Episcopal Church was established in 1784. No single founding year is asserted.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Methodism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-methodism.
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title = {Methodism},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}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.