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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 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.
Faith and good works go hand in hand in Methodist theology: a living tree naturally and inevitably bears fruit. Wesleyan theology rejects the doctrine of eternal security, believing that salvation can be rejected. [90] Wesley emphasized that believers must continue to grow in their relationship with Christ, through the process of Sanctification.
The United Methodist Church ... Methodism flows out of the Wesleyan holiness tradition—named after Protestant reformer John ... The division rarely has to do with differences in theology proper ...
In 1945 Kingsley Ridgway offered himself as a Melbourne-based "field representative" for a possible Australian branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, after meeting an American serviceman who was a member of that denomination. [296] The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was founded on his work.
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]
Arminianism (specifically Wesleyan–Arminian theology) is taught in the Methodist churches, [52] inclusive of those denominations aligned with the holiness movement such as the Evangelical Methodist Church, Church of the Nazarene, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Church, [47] and the Salvation Army. [53]
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 .