Wesleyan
/ˈwɛzlɪən
/ /ˈwɛslɪən/adjective
Relating to or denoting the teachings of John Wesley or the main branch of the Methodist Church which he founded.From unassuming beginnings in the 1760s, Wesleyan Methodists had achieved many successes in America by the close of the eighteenth century....
- Forty-four percent of Tongans belong to the Free Wesleyan Church.
- I devoted my life to God as his servant in a conservative Pentecostal movement… the Apostolic church, I attended a largely mainline Protestant bible college and now I am part of the Wesleyan Methodist church.
noun
A follower of Wesley or adherent of the main Methodist tradition.The various branches of Methodism - Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Bible Christians - united in 1902, ahead of a similar union in Britain....
- Conflict between the Wesleyans and the Anglican Missionary Society caused the stations to be abandoned in 1836.
- In 1900, the Bible Christians, who had been active since 1879, combined with the Wesleyans to form the Methodists and became part of the Johnburgh Carrieton United Methodist Circuit.
Derivatives
Wesleyanism
- Rejecting the characterization of Wesleyanism as ‘Scriptural Christianity,’ his unflattering portrait emphasizes the ‘enthusiastic’ side that paralleled Catholicism.
- Neither was Wesleyanism the source of evangelical Anglicanism, which Kent identifies instead as being the single-issue societies such as the anti-slavery movement.
- He elevates Wesley and Wesleyanism to too momentous a role in British history although this is necessary to build up the book's importance.