The Salvation Army
- Grew from
- Methodist / Wesleyan
- From
- 1865 AD
- Origin
- East London
- Confession
- Doctrines of The Salvation Army 1878 AD
Begun by William and Catherine Booth as a mission in the East End of London, reorganised on military lines in 1878. It went worldwide within twenty years and is now better known for disaster relief and shelters than as the church it also is.
What marks it out
Ranks, uniforms and brass bands, adopted because they worked among people the churches were not reaching. It observes no sacraments at all — neither baptism nor communion — holding that grace does not depend on them, which makes it almost unique in Christianity. Catherine Booth established from the start that women would preach and command on the same terms as men.
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.