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The Wesleyan Church, also known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Wesleyan Holiness Church depending on the region, is a United States-based Christian denomination with congregations across North America, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Indonesia, and Australia.
Memorial to John Wesley and Charles Wesley in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Wesleyan theology, otherwise known as Wesleyan–Arminian theology, or Methodist theology, is a theological tradition in Protestant Christianity based upon the ministry of the 18th-century evangelical reformer brothers John Wesley and Charles Wesley.
The Church of the Nazarene, a large Wesleyan-Holiness denomination in the Methodist tradition, explains that: "We believe that entire sanctification is that act of God, subsequent to regeneration, by which believers are made free from original sin, or depravity, and brought into a state of entire devotement to God, and the holy obedience of ...
A parish church of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, one of the largest denominations in the conservative holiness movement. African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Today, Methodism is represented on the islands by the Free Church of Tonga and the Free Wesleyan Church, which is the largest church in Tonga. As of 2011 48% of Tongans adhered to Methodist churches. [310] The royal family of the country are prominent members of the Free Wesleyan Church, and the late king was a lay preacher.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church was a Methodist denomination in the United States organized on May 13, 1841. It was composed of ministers and laypeople who withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church because of disagreements regarding slavery and church polity, according to the Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection. [3]
The Wesleyan Quadrilateral, [1] or Methodist Quadrilateral, [2] is a methodology for theological reflection that is credited to John Wesley, leader of the Methodist movement in the late 18th century. The term itself was coined by 20th century American Methodist scholar Albert C. Outler .
The Church publishes a periodical known as The Earnest Christian and its seminary is the Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute (EWBI) in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania. [3] The denomination additionally operated the John Fletcher Christian College, though this closed in 1995. [6] Much of the denomination's literature is printed by LWD Publishing. [4]