Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… in the seventeenth century. The calls for a broad church after the Glorious Revolution (1688), which led to the Act of Toleration 6 , went together with the idea that Christians, whatever their denominations, could agree on the main tenets … Methodist preaching appeared as a scandalous threat to the very fabric of society and sociability. 6 . The Act of Toleration (1689) was an Act of Parliament that granted freedom of worship to dissenters who pledged allegiance to King William III, believed in the Trinity, and were not Catholic. It was inspired by John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration, published in the same year. 7 . See for instance anonymous religious pamphlets like An Antidote against …
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