Methodists

Examples of Methodists in the following topics:

• Protestantism

  • There are different kinds of Protestant denominations such as Methodists and Baptists, which are both Christian.
  • The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century.
  • The Second Great Awakening has been called the "central and defining event in the development of Afro-Christianity. " During this movement, Baptists and Methodists converted large numbers of blacks.
  • They were also disappointed that Baptists and Methodists, many of whom had advocated for abolition after the American Revolution, ended up backsliding on that commitment.
  • In 1787, Richard Allen and his colleagues in Philadelphia broke away from the Methodist Church and, in 1815, they founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.

• Frontier Revivals

  • Stone (1772–1844) and Alexander Campbell (1788–1866), the camp meeting revival became a major mode of church expansion for denominations such as the Methodists and Baptists.
  • Numerous Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist ministers participated in the services.

• The Second Great Awakening

  • The movement began around 1790 and gained momentum by 1800; after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.
  • The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period, such as the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.
  • The burst of religious enthusiasm that began in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s and early 1800s among Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians owed much to the uniqueness of the early decades of the republic.
  • The Methodists had an efficient organization that depended on ministers known as "circuit riders," who sought out people in remote frontier locations.

• Religion

  • Methodists and Lutherans (two moderately formal Protestant denominations) tend to have about average SES.

• Widespread Belief

  • That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.

• The Anglican Class

  • The Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and other evangelicals directly challenged these lax moral standards and refused to tolerate them in their ranks.

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • The Great Awakening saw the rise of several Protestant denominations, including Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists (who emphasized adult baptism of converted Christians rather than infant baptism).
  • They traveled to the new world in 1769 to start American Methodist societies; Pilmore in Philadelphia, and Boardman in New York.

• Markets and Missionaries

  • Thomas Uzzel led the Methodist People's Tabernacle from 1885 to 1910.
  • Its members and leaders were of both races and chiefly affiliated with Congregationalist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.

• Progressivism and Religion

  • The promotion of "muscular Christianity" became popular among young men on campus and in urban YMCA's, as well as such denominational youth groups such as the Epworth League for Methodists and the Walther League for Lutherans.
  • At the same time, Methodist minister Timothy Merritt of Boston founded a journal called the Guide to Christian Perfection, later renamed The Guide to Holiness.

• Free Blacks in the South

  • For instance, Wilberforce University, founded in Ohio in 1856 by Methodist and African Methodist Episcopal (AME) representatives for the education of African-American youth, initially received most of its funding from wealthy southern planters who wanted to pay for the education of their mixed-race children.