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A reappraisal of Wesleyan Methodist mission in the first half of the nineteenth century, as viewed through the ministry of the Rev John Smithies (1802-1872)Roy, Richard B. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Edith Cowan University, 2006. / Submitted to the Faculty of Education and Arts. Includes bibliographical references.
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Methodism and anti-Catholic politics, 1800-1846Hempton, David Neil January 1977 (has links)
The growth of popular protestantism and the increased demands of Irish Catholicism were two nineteenth century developments which would not take place without conflict. The high Churchmanship and Toryism of Wesley coupled with Methodist experiences in Ireland ensured that Wesleyans would not support concessions to the Irish Catholics. The remarkable numerical growth of Methodism in England only highlighted its apparent failure in Ireland when confronted by a surprisingly resilient Catholicism. Most religious and social conflicts have political ramifications and this one was no exception. Battle lines were dram over three important questions. Were Roman Catholics entitled to the same political, rights as everyone else? What were the relative responsibilities of Church and State in the provision of education? What was to be the fate of protestantism in Ireland when it was in such a hopeless minority? In all of these questions Methodism and Roman Catholicism found themselves on completely opposite sides. As with later non-conformists the Wesleyans could not accept that what was theologically and morally wrong could ever be politically right. In response the Irish Catholics could appeal to the government for change in a country where the religion of the majority was politically and socially in subjection to the religion of the minority. Methodism's allies were the Established Church and the Tory party, and both let them down. In the disappointment of political failure over the Maynooth Bill the Wesleyans reaffirmed their belief in religious methods by participating in the Evangelical Alliance. In spite of short term successes Methodism's political objectives were not achieved and participation in public affairs often produced connexional disharmony.
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Revivalism in central Canadian Wesleyan Methodism, 1824-1860Samms, Robert Oswald Anthony. January 1984 (has links)
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Charles Wesley and the construction of suffering in early English MethodismCruickshank, Joanna Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
This work examines the construction of suffering in the hymns of Charles Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Wesley wrote thousands of hymns, many of which focus on the experience of overwhelming pain. As eighteenth-century men and women sang or read Wesley's hymns, they were encouraged to adopt a distinctive approach to suffering, one which drew on long-standing elen1ents within Christian tradition as well as new patterns in eighteenth-century English culture. Identifying the construction of suffering in the hymns illuminates the culture of early Methodism and its complex relationship to its eighteenth century English context. / My analysis places the hymns within the broader ‘narrative culture’ of early Methodism, which encouraged individuals to interpret their lives and experiences within a story of great spiritual significance. The hymns engaged men and women with a spiritual drama of conviction, conversion, sanctification and heavenly reward. I argue that suffering was central to Wesley's depiction of this drama. I examine his construction of the suffering of Christ, the suffering of Christians and of Christian responses to the suffering of others, den10nstrating that each of these had an important place in his depiction of the normative Christian experience. Those who read or sang the hymns were exhorted to embrace and endure suffering as an experience that offered opportunities for intill1acy with, and imitation of, Christ. / Recognising Wesley's construction of suffering does not explain exactly how Methodist men and Women responded to affliction, but it does illuminate their responses. I explore the implications of Wesley's construction of suffering for early Methodist understandings of the self, spirituality, charity and gender, as well as specific kinds of pain such as childbirth and bereavement. These understandings contributed to a Methodist identity that was both related to, and distinct from, the eighteenth-century English culture in which the hymns were written.
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Charles Wesley and the construction of suffering in early English MethodismCruickshank, Joanna Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
This work examines the construction of suffering in the hymns of Charles Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Wesley wrote thousands of hymns, many of which focus on the experience of overwhelming pain. As eighteenth-century men and women sang or read Wesley's hymns, they were encouraged to adopt a distinctive approach to suffering, one which drew on long-standing elen1ents within Christian tradition as well as new patterns in eighteenth-century English culture. Identifying the construction of suffering in the hymns illuminates the culture of early Methodism and its complex relationship to its eighteenth century English context. / My analysis places the hymns within the broader ‘narrative culture’ of early Methodism, which encouraged individuals to interpret their lives and experiences within a story of great spiritual significance. The hymns engaged men and women with a spiritual drama of conviction, conversion, sanctification and heavenly reward. I argue that suffering was central to Wesley's depiction of this drama. I examine his construction of the suffering of Christ, the suffering of Christians and of Christian responses to the suffering of others, den10nstrating that each of these had an important place in his depiction of the normative Christian experience. Those who read or sang the hymns were exhorted to embrace and endure suffering as an experience that offered opportunities for intill1acy with, and imitation of, Christ. / Recognising Wesley's construction of suffering does not explain exactly how Methodist men and Women responded to affliction, but it does illuminate their responses. I explore the implications of Wesley's construction of suffering for early Methodist understandings of the self, spirituality, charity and gender, as well as specific kinds of pain such as childbirth and bereavement. These understandings contributed to a Methodist identity that was both related to, and distinct from, the eighteenth-century English culture in which the hymns were written.
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ORIGEM E INSTITUCIONALIZAÇÃO DA IGREJA METODISTA WESLEYANA / Wesleyan Methodist Church Origin and Institucionalization, Masters degree DissertationSantos, Valter Borges dos 14 April 2014 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2014-04-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This text is the result of an undertaken research about the Wesleyan Methodist Church historical origin and its features, a pentecostal dissident of the Brazils Methodist Church, started in Rio de Janeiro, in the late 1960s. Aimed with this investigation, analyze the intrafield reasons and religious extra field that stimulated that happening. We emphasize the shepherd, administrative and theological conflicts which made of the Brazils Methodist Church First Ecclesiastical Region a battle field where shepherds, lay and bishop involved themselves in fights that generated this split. The sources of this split are, in our point of view, in the lack of the historical protestantism adequacy to the country s social, economic and cultural conditions. Different from pentecostalism that found a bigger identification with Brazilians culture, the protestantism, including methodist, which were not able to gain the poor layers, getting to the middle class. So then the appearance of pentecostalization process in many Brazilian denominations between the presbyterians, the baptists, congregational, lutherans, methodists and others. The Wesleyan Methodist Church has emerged institutionalized, following the models of the Methodist Church of Brazil, where the group left. Then she was taking a Pentecostal identity perpetuating the religious field by creating their own institutional and bureaucratic mechanisms. / Este texto é o resultado de uma pesquisa empreendida sobre a origem histórica e características da Igreja Metodista Wesleyana, uma dissidência pentecostalizante da Igreja Metodista do Brasil, iniciada no Rio de Janeiro, no final dos anos 1960. Objetivou-se com essa investigação analisar as causas intracampo e extracampo religioso, que estimularam tal acontecimento. Enfatizamos os conflitos pastorais, administrativos e teológicos que fizeram da 1ª Região Eclesiástica da Igreja Metodista do Brasil um campo de batalha, onde pastores, leigos e bispo se envolveram em lutas que geraram a referida cisão. Diferente do pentecostalismo, que encontrou uma maior identificação com a cultura brasileira, o protestantismo, inclusive metodista, não conseguiram ganhar as camadas pobres da população, ficando com a classe média. Daí o aparecimento de processos de pentecostalização em várias denominações brasileiras como entre os presbiterianos, batistas, congregacionais, luteranos, metodistas e outros. A Igreja Metodista Wesleyana já surgiu institucionalizada, seguindo os modelos da Igreja Metodista do Brasil, de onde o grupo saiu. A seguir ela foi assumindo uma identidade pentecostal se perpetuando no campo religioso por meio de criação de seus próprios mecanismos institucionais e burocráticos.
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Termination of mission : an exit strategy for the Wesleyan mission of AfricaCameron, Lindsay Logan 11 1900 (has links)
This dissertation develops an exit strategy for missions, drawing upon the experience of the Wesleyan Church in Africa. This is approached in four sections: a literature review, a summary of Wesleyan mission work in Africa, a model for mission work that has been developed within the Wesleyan Church, and applications of the model. The model proposes five stages through which the work of missions progresses: the development of converts, disciples, pastors, leaders and partners. The fourth chapter includes a discussion of related models: the Three Eras of Missions and the Two Types of Missions. At the completion of the 5 Stages of Missions the establishment of a mature national church, fully engaged in international missions and international church leadership, has been achieved. This dissertation concludes that final departure may not be necessary for all missionaries. However, complete handover of leadership is essential. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th.
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The impact of liberation theology on methodism in South Africa with regard to the doctrine of christian perfectionBailie, John 01 1900 (has links)
Thesis / There is potential for a schism, within the Methodist Church of
Southern Africa (MCSA) today, between Fundamentalist and
Liberationist Methodists, who struggle to find common identity
and vision.
A question that needs examination is whether it is possible to
develop an authentically, uniting Southern African Methodist
Theology within the current Institutional structure of the MCSA.
For this to become possible, some key areas of discussion are
highlighted in this paper, such as the training of ministers and
the MCSA as Institution.
This paper attempts to enter into conversation between
Fundamental and Liberation Methodism using the Doctrine of
Christian Perfection, 'the Grand Depositum' of Methodism, as a
point of reference and develop an epistemological framework
based on Wesley’s 'quadrilateral' of Scripture, reason, experience
and tradition.
This paper takes as a standpoint the need for an authentically
Southern African Methodist theology, which is both uniting and
transformatory, in order for the MCSA to fulfil its vision of “A
Christ Healed Africa for the Healing of Nations.” / Systematic theology and Theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Testament)
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Termination of mission : an exit strategy for the Wesleyan mission of AfricaCameron, Lindsay Logan 11 1900 (has links)
This dissertation develops an exit strategy for missions, drawing upon the experience of the Wesleyan Church in Africa. This is approached in four sections: a literature review, a summary of Wesleyan mission work in Africa, a model for mission work that has been developed within the Wesleyan Church, and applications of the model. The model proposes five stages through which the work of missions progresses: the development of converts, disciples, pastors, leaders and partners. The fourth chapter includes a discussion of related models: the Three Eras of Missions and the Two Types of Missions. At the completion of the 5 Stages of Missions the establishment of a mature national church, fully engaged in international missions and international church leadership, has been achieved. This dissertation concludes that final departure may not be necessary for all missionaries. However, complete handover of leadership is essential. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th.
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The impact of liberation theology on methodism in South Africa with regard to the doctrine of christian perfectionBailie, John 01 1900 (has links)
Thesis / There is potential for a schism, within the Methodist Church of
Southern Africa (MCSA) today, between Fundamentalist and
Liberationist Methodists, who struggle to find common identity
and vision.
A question that needs examination is whether it is possible to
develop an authentically, uniting Southern African Methodist
Theology within the current Institutional structure of the MCSA.
For this to become possible, some key areas of discussion are
highlighted in this paper, such as the training of ministers and
the MCSA as Institution.
This paper attempts to enter into conversation between
Fundamental and Liberation Methodism using the Doctrine of
Christian Perfection, 'the Grand Depositum' of Methodism, as a
point of reference and develop an epistemological framework
based on Wesley’s 'quadrilateral' of Scripture, reason, experience
and tradition.
This paper takes as a standpoint the need for an authentically
Southern African Methodist theology, which is both uniting and
transformatory, in order for the MCSA to fulfil its vision of “A
Christ Healed Africa for the Healing of Nations.” / Systematic theology and Theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Testament)
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