Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… preaching. Concepts > Spirituality Practices > Associational culture Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Catholicism Churches Dissent Methodism North America Sermon The development of Methodism in Britain and in colonial … considered that the established Churches in England, Wales and Ireland were an ideal via media between the horrors of Catholicism and of Puritanism that had plagued the country in the seventeenth century. The calls for a broad church after … theology was also deemed suspicious as it could easily be mistaken for a belief in transubstantiation, that is, for Catholicism. 12 Moreover, the organisation of tightly-knit societies, as Methodists gathered weekly in private houses to …
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