What is Wesleyanism?
Wesleyanism or Wesleyan theology is the system of Christian theology of Methodism taught by John Wesley. At its heart, the theology of John Wesley stressed the life of Christian holiness: to love God with all one's heart, mind, soul and strength and to love one's neighbour as oneself. Wesley's teaching also stressed experiential religion and moral responsibility.
Wesleyanism, manifest today in Methodist and holiness churches, is named for its founders, John Wesley and, his brother, Charles Wesley. In 1736, these men traveled to the Georgia colony in America as missionaries for the Church of England; they left rather disheartened at what they saw. Both men then had "religious experiences," especially John in 1738, being greatly influenced by the pietist movement. They began to organize a movement within the Church of England to focus on personal faith and holiness, and they succeeded. John Wesley took the reformation churches to task over the nature of sanctification, the process by which a believer is made to conform to the image of Christ, and in many ways restored the New Testament teachings regarding the work of God and the believer in sanctification. The movement did well within the Church of England in Britain, but when the movement crossed the ocean into America, it took on a form of its own, finally being established as the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784. The Wesleyan churches are very similar to Anglicanism, yet have added a strong emphasis on personal faith and personal experience.
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Nazarene Manifesto
There has long been a call for a definitive statement of the theology of the Church, and of the church of the Nazarene in particular. The distinctives of our doctrine and polity have needed to be enunciated. Our mission in the world, our reason for being, and our position in the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ have needed to be defined, particularly in the light of the modern ecumenical movement.
This became a major topic for discussion at the Nazarene Theology Conference held in Kansas City, August 27-29, 1967, and the basic paper on the subject was prepared by Dr. Ross E. Price, H. Orton Wiley professor at Pasadena College, Pasadena, California. His presentation won high praise, and the Book Committee felt that its very significant message needed broad distribution. Hence its appearance here in book form. It merits careful reading by every minister and thoughtful layman in the church.
Ye are thus saved, not by any power, wisdom, or strength, which is in you, or in any other creature; but merely through the grace or power of the Holy Ghost, which worketh all in all.
John Wesley from The Sermons of John Wesley - Sermon 16. The Means of Grace