The history of the religious movement of the eighteenth century, called Methodism ...
Subtitle: Vol. 2
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781425554132
Subjects: Methodist Churches; Religion & Beliefs; Religion; Religion - Denominations - Religions; Christianity - Methodist; United States - General; History / United States / General; History : United States - General; Religion / Methodism
First sentence: HAD a studious heathen sought to ascertain the nature of the Christian religion, immediately after the completion of its canonical records, and solely from those records, he would have been surprised by its contrast with nearly all prior religious systems, in its suggestion rather than prescription of ecclesiastical arrangements, its general abstinence from ritual forms, and its total abstinence from dogmatic definitions.