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Methodism
Wesleyanism
1738 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · UK, US, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Korea, Fiji
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1729 CE The Holy Club at Oxford; the nickname Methodist is an insult that sticks.
- <strong>24 May 1738 CE</strong> Wesley's Aldersgate experience.
- 1739 CE Whitefield persuades Wesley to preach in the open air at Bristol.
- 1744 CE First Methodist Conference.
- 1760s–70s CE Split with Whitefield's Calvinistic Methodism, which becomes the Presbyterian Church of Wales.
- 1784 CE Wesley ordains ministers for America; the Methodist Episcopal Church forms at the Christmas Conference.
- <strong>1787, 1816 CE</strong> Richard Allen and others walk out of a segregated Philadelphia church; the African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded, the first independent Black denomination in America.
- 1791 CE Wesley's last letter, days before his death, urges Wilberforce on against slavery.
- 1844 CE American Methodists split north and south over slavery; reunited 1939.
- 1867–1900s CE The Holiness movement; the Church of the Nazarene, the Salvation Army (William Booth, a Methodist), and then Pentecostalism all emerge from Wesleyan sanctification teaching.
- 1968 CE The United Methodist Church formed.
- 2019–2024 CE The UMC splits over sexuality; around a quarter of US congregations disaffiliate, and the 2024 conference removes the restrictive language.
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