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The "Doctrine and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" is revised at every AME General Conference and published every four years. The AME Church also follows the rule that a minister of the denomination must retire at age 75, [ 38 ] with bishops, more specifically, being required to retire upon the general conference nearest ...
The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, [3] and are found in the Books of Discipline of Methodist Churches, such as Chapter I of the Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline. [4]
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Reality of the Black Church. Charlotte, North Carolina: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House. OCLC 897864. The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, with an Appendix; Revised by the General Conference, Atlanta, Georgia July 16–22, 2008. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion ...
A number of black churches were formed as African Americans withdrew from the MEC, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. By the 1830s, however, a renewed abolitionist movement within the MEC made keeping a neutral position on slavery impossible. Ultimately, the church divided along ...
[4] As of 2015, "the AME Church’s Doctrine and Discipline [had] no explicit policy regarding gay clergy." [5] Regarding LGBT clergy, in 2003, Bishop Richard Franklin Norris, a regional bishop, declared his official position of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and instructed pastors of the denomination to read it to their congregations: [1]
The foundational doctrines of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church are found in what is commonly referred to in Wesleyan Methodism as The Articles of Religion. The Articles of Religion were derived from the Church of England and abridged by John Wesley, Founder of Methodism, for Methodists in America in 1784.
A Book of Discipline (or in its shortened form Discipline) [1] is a book detailing the beliefs, standards, doctrines, canon law, and polity of a particular Christian denomination. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are often re-written by the governing body of the church concerned due to changes in society and in the denomination itself. [ 4 ]
The A.M.E. Church Review is the journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Established in 1841 and revived in 1884, it is arguably the earliest published African-American journal. It publishes articles on religion, politics, history, and world events.