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The History of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 1870-2009 (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011) 304pp; Stevens, Abel. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1884) online; Stowell, Daniel W. Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 Oxford University Press, 1998. Stroupe, Henry Smith.
It has grown steadily since, becoming autonomous in 1930. In the 1970s it ordained its first woman minister. In 1975 it also founded the first Methodist university in Latin America, the Methodist University of Piracicaba. [262] As of 2011, the Brazilian Methodist Church is divided into eight annual conferences with 162,000 members. [263]
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1884) online; Sweet, William Warren Methodism in American History, (1954) 472pp. Teasdale, Mark R. Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation: The Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860–1920 (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014) Tucker, Karen B. Westerfield.
Article XIV of The United Methodist Articles of Religion explicitly rejects "invocation of saints" (praying to saints). The text reads "—Of Purgatory—The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
A Michigan pastor and counselor told Christianity Today that some of the GMC ... which dates to America’s first Methodist bishops in 1784, most notably the tireless circuit rider Francis Asbury ...
The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology. [5] The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide. [6]
It surged to become America’s largest church early in the 19th century and, like United Methodism or predecessor bodies, it remained America’s largest Protestant church for most of the 20th ...