Articles of Religion (Methodist)
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The Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of Methodism —particularly American Methodism and its offshoots. John Wesley abridged the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England , removing the Calvinistic parts among others, reflecting Wesley's Arminian theology. [1]
The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, [2] 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 . [3] They have remained relatively unchanged since 1808, save for a few additional articles added in later years in both the United Methodist tradition and Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection , among other Methodist connexions . [4] [5]
References
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Melton, J. Gordon (1 January 2005).
Encyclopedia of Protestantism
. Infobase Publishing. p.
48.
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9780816069835
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Among the items deleted by Wesley as unnecessary for Methodists were articles on Of Works Before Justification, which in Calvinism are largely discounted, but in Methodism lauded; Of Predestination and Election, which Wesley felt would be understood in a Calvinist manner that the Methodists rejected; and Of the Traditions of the Church, which Wesley felt to be no longer at issue.
- ↑ Jonas, W. Glenn (9 October 2018). Religious Traditions of North Carolina: Histories, Tenets and Leaders . McFarland. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-4766-7646-3 .
- ↑ "Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" . Richard Allen and Jacob Tapsico. 1817 . Retrieved 27 July 2018 .
- ↑ The Discipline of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection (Original Allegheny Conference) . Salem : Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection . 2014. p. 11.
- ↑ Kurian, George Thomas; Lamport, Mark A. (10 November 2016). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 1808. ISBN 978-1-4422-4432-0 .
External links
- Methodist Articles of Religion. A.D. 1784. in Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. by Philip Schaff