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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]
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.
United Methodist Free Churches, sometimes called Free Methodists, was an English Nonconformist denomination in the last half of the 19th century. It was formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the Wesleyan Association (which had in 1836 largely absorbed the Protestant Methodists of 1828) and the Wesleyan Reformers (dating from 1849, when a number of Methodist ministers were expelled from the ...
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United Methodism’s global nature, with millions of church members in Africa, long kept it from liberalizing on sexuality issues, as other Mainline Protestant denominations did years ago.
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 .
Other Holiness advocates stayed in the United Methodist Church and are represented in the Good News Movement and Confessing Movement. These movements eventually led to the creation of the Global Methodist Church. [83] Many United Methodist clergy, and now Global Methodist clergy, in the holiness tradition are educated at Asbury Theological ...
The congregation, down to around 35 people, voted last year to leave the United Methodist Church and become non-denominational to head off the possibility of allowing LGBQT clergy to serve the ...