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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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method † systematic treatment of a disease; special form of procedure; orderly arrangement. XVI. — F.
méthode or L.
methodus — Gr.
méthodos pursuit of knowledge, mode of investigation, f.
metá META- +
hodós way.
So
methodical (hist.) belonging to a school of physicians (between ‘dogmatists’ and ‘empirics’); pert. to method XVI. f. late L.
methodicus — Gr.
methodist physician of the methodical school; one who follows a certain method XVI; member of the Holy Club established at Oxford in 1729; member of religious bodies originating in this. — modL.
methodista; hence
methodism XVIII.
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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton. New Haven...cloth), $18.00 (paper). In his third book on Methodism, David Hempton attempts to explain the heart of Methodism and the reasons for its rise and fall. Hempton, who...
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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton...by David Hempton is not so much a history of Methodism as it is an extended essay regarding how to understand and interpret Methodism as both an institution and as a transnational...
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Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810.(Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Lyerly, Cynthia Lynn Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810...and carefully researched account of Methodism's appeal in the South in the days...hardship and hostility while taking Methodism to the southern backcountry and frontier...
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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton...Press, 2005. 320 pp. $30.00. In Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, distinguished...eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Methodism. In the rise of Methodism, Hempton...
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Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity...greater scholarly attention to American Methodism and whose Democratization of American...Heaven by Storm focuses on American Methodism in its formative years, 1770-1810...
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Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...H. Wigger. Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity...that in the postrevolutionary decades Methodism was a primary shaper of American culture...After establishing the historical fact of Methodism's "virtual miracle of growth" between...
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Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810...Historians of eighteenth-century southern Methodism have the great good fortune to enjoy...must-read for religious specialists. Methodism and the Southern Mind demonstrates how...
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The Genesis of Methodism.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Genesis of Methodism. By Frederick Dreyer. Cranbury...in these two statements: "In its [Methodism's] pedigree it owes nothing to High...Lutheran Pietism" (113), and "Methodism as a finished and developed system...
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A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism. By J. Gordon Melton. Lanham, Md...writing of books on African American Methodism there will be no end, but this book...master. Most writing on African American Methodism focuses on individual denominations...
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Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity...Wigger contends that "American Methodism was the largest, most geographically...p. 7). According to Wigger, Methodism flourished in a post-Revolutionary...
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methodism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
methodism began as a religious revival in the 18th...was completed in 1932. Theologically, methodism differed little from the evangelical...atoning death of Christ. But socially methodism was a transforming force. Most of the...
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Methodism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Methodism. Originally a term of abuse applied...x2019; in Oxford in the 1730s, Methodism came to be used as a generic term for...growth began in the 1750s. Although Methodism benefited from generational pulses of...
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Calvinistic Methodism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Calvinistic Methodism. The Church which emerged in Wales through the revivalist preaching of Howel Harris and others. They had contacts with English...
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North and South
Book article from: American Eras
...and Southern Old School Presbyterians. Methodism. The Methodists also felt the divisive...slavery. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had discouraged slaveholding, but...However, two other characteristics of Methodism guaranteed that, sooner or later, slavery...
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Asbury, Francis (1745-1816)
Book article from: American Eras
...backcountry. These men together made Methodism the fastest-growing Protestant denomination...States during the Revolutionary War. Methodism was suspect during this period because...Asbury a joint superintendent of American Methodism, together with Thomas Coke, whom they...
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