Holiness movement
- Grew from
- Methodist / Wesleyan
- From
- 1867 AD
- Origin
- The United States
A revival within Methodism that held Wesley's teaching on entire sanctification was being quietly dropped, and organised camp meetings from 1867 to press it. Congregations that left or were pushed out formed bodies of their own, the Church of the Nazarene among them, and the movement's expectation of a second work of grace is the soil Pentecostalism grew in.
What marks it out
A definite experience of sanctification after conversion, sought and datable rather than gradual. Plain living, and historically abstinence from alcohol. Early and unusual openness to women preaching, and to mixed congregations in a segregated country — both of which carried into Pentecostalism at Azusa Street.
Alongside it
Also from Methodist / Wesleyan.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.