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To: Patrick1
I consider Wesley more of a Methodist

He was an Anglican.

38 posted on 08/21/2008 5:11:23 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
I consider Wesley more of a Methodist

He was an Anglican

In Wesley's lifetime, ALL Methodists were Anglicans--except in America, where the Methodist Episcopal Church was a separate body following Wesley's consecration of Dr Thomas Coke and Rev Francis Asbury as the first two Methodist Episcopal bishops.

Further, in the sense that the previous poster was using the term, he meant Methodist as opposed to Arminian/Calvinist. Another term for it is Wesleyan-Arminianism (or High Arminianism), which is, to quote Wesley, "a hair's breadth from Calvinism."

43 posted on 08/21/2008 5:53:37 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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