methodism meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

methodism

nounalso spelled Methodism

Etymology From method + -ism.

The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods.

Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:

Methodism

noun

Etymology From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.

Usually The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.

Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

Usually Any of several related movements.

Hypernyms: Protestantism