Methodist
/ˈmɛθədɪst
/noun
A member of a Christian Protestant denomination originating in the 18th-century evangelistic movement of Charles and John Wesley and George Whitefield: it is next to impossible to swerve a determined Methodist from his inspired path...
- Other groups were gaining a significant foothold too, including Baptists, Methodists, Mennonites, Christian Reformed, and Episcopalians.
- Lutherans, Calvinists, Methodists, Baptists and even agnostics have found him deserving.
- Other Protestant groups include Methodists, Moravians, Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
The Methodist Church grew out of a religious society established within the Church of England, from which it formally separated in 1791. It is particularly strong in the US and now constitutes one of the largest Protestant denominations worldwide, with more than 30 million members. Methodism has a strong tradition of missionary work and concern with social welfare, and emphasizes the believer’s personal relationship with God.
adjective
Relating to Methodists or Methodism: a Methodist chapel...
- He arrived in Whitby at a time when rural Methodist chapels were closing one by one and believers were few and far between.
- The Anglican and Methodist churches have signed a covenant intended to heal their 200-year rift and pave the way to reunification.
- This hymn has traditionally been the first hymn in Methodist hymnals since the time of Wesley.
Derivatives
Methodism
/ noun ...- As a fresh presentation of John Wesley and early Methodism this book is warmly recommended.
- The various branches of Methodism - Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Bible Christians - united in 1902, ahead of a similar union in Britain.
- Someone said to me as the week came to a close that he was thanking God for the growth of experiential Calvinistic preaching which he had observed in the past years, that is, the old preaching of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism.
Methodistic
- I qualified for blacklisting by Methodistic Wesleyans,
- Prior was brought up as a Methodist, but while he was a student he came to consider Methodistic theology too unsystematic, and he became a Presbyterian.
- Interpreters within the Methodistic holiness movement have tended to emphasize the distinctions between the Wesleyan and Oberlin doctrines of Christian perfection.
Methodistical
Origin
Probably from the notion of following a specified ‘method’ of Bible study.