Wesleyanismn.
/ˈwɛzlɪənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈwɛslɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈwɛsliəˌnɪzəm/, /ˈwɛzliəˌnɪzəm/ The system of Arminian theology introduced and taught by John Wesley; the doctrines and church polity of the Wesleyans; Wesleyan Methodism.
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1774 J. W. Fletcher Hist. Ess. in First Pt. Equal Check 22 They have departed from what we call Christianity, and what you are at full liberty to call..Wesleianism.
1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 163 Wesleyanism then was said to be ‘degenerating into a developed heresy,’ in that it substitutes for the Catholic teaching, a doctrine of justification, for which there is ‘no warrant in the Word of God’.
1861 R. S. Hawker in Life (1905) 345 No sooner did he find that Wesleyans formed the majority of —— Parish, than he began to preach and to talk Wesleyanism.
1904 Q. Rev. July 243 Wesleyanism was traditional in the family.
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