The Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of

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—particularly American Methodism and its offshoots. John Wesley abridged the

Thirty-nine Articles The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles) are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the ...

of the

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, removing the

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parts among others, reflecting Wesley's Arminian theology. The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, and are found in the Books of Discipline of Methodist Churches, such as Chapter I of the ''Doctrines and Discipline'' of the

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and paragraph 103 of the '' United Methodist Church Book of Discipline''. They have remained relatively unchanged since 1808, save for a few additional articles added in later years in both the United Methodist tradition and Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, among other Methodist connexions.

References

External links

Methodist Articles of Religion. A.D. 1784.
in ''Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.'' by Philip Schaff {{DEFAULTSORT:Articles Of Religion (Methodist) Christian statements of faith Methodism 18th-century Christian texts