Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: rb65@prism.gatech.edu (Butera, Robert J.) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Wesleyan Church Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 04:56:36 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute - ESML Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu If you can answer this without posting, feel free to do so! What is the Wesleyan Church? I've seen a few here in Atlanta and in listings in the newspapers. How does it differ from the United Methodist Church in terms of things like organizational structure, baptism, liturgy, etc? Is it another church that approaches christianity based upon the teachings of Wesley but didn't want to affiliate with the UMC (just as there are various Baptist Conventions)? Just curious. -- Robert J. Butera, Jr. Georgia Tech Research Institute Internet: rb65@prism.gatech.edu "My opinions, not Georgia Tech's" [(using my handy-dandy Dictionary of Christianity in America) The current Wesleyan Church is a merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Pilgrim Holiness Church. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was formed before the civil war by people who believed that the main body of Methodists were too tolerant of slavery. Later in the 19th Cent. it was influenced by the holiness movement (if you haven't heard of this, think of it as a brand of pentecostalism) and premillinealism, and had an emphasis on evangelism. When you consider that the United Methodist Church in the late 20th Cent. has become one of the more liberal churches, you can see that the two groups each moved away from the other. --clh]