Why did Methodist split from Catholic?

Answer 1

In 1610, John Smyth and Thomas Helwys helped to found the Baptist religion. However, it did not separate directly from Catholicism but from the Church of England, which had previously left the Catholic Church.

Answer 2

Strictly speaking, the Methodist movement didn't split from Catholicism, it split from the Church of England. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley, his brother Charles, and George Whitefield and their attempts to reform the Church of England. The Church of England had already officially split from the Catholic church in 1534 in connection with the efforts of King Henry VIII to obtain a divorce from his first wife. Wesley, along with his brother and Whitefield, were branded as "Methodist" by opposing clergy within the Church of England.

Initially Whitefield and the Wesleys merely sought reform, by way of a return to the gospel, within the Church of England, but the movement spread and soon a significant number of Anglican clergy became known as Methodists in the mid eighteenth century.

Many members of England's established church feared that new doctrines promulgated by the Methodists, such as the necessity of a New Birth for salvation and Justification by Faith would appeal unduly to weak-minded people and cause trouble. Theophilus Evans, an early critic of the movement, even wrote that it was:"...the natural Tendency of their Behaviour, in Voice and Gesture and horrid Expressions, to make People mad."

William Hogarth, an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist of the time also attacked Methodists as "enthusiasts" full of "Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism." Many of the early Methodist preachers seem to have been of the "charismatic" or "revival preacher" type.

With the advent of the Revolutionary War in America, most of the Anglican (Church of England) clergy fled the colonies, leaving the members there without much ecclesiastical leadership to administer their sacraments. Without this leadership, a group of native preachers ordained themselves. Francis Asbury, who was already working to organize the Methodists in America and who had been ordained by Wesley did not approve. In 1784, Wesley sent the Rev. Dr. Thomas Coke to America to form an independent American Methodist church. Coke had orders to ordain Francis Asbury as a joint superintendent of the new church. However, Asbury said he would not accept it unless the preachers voted him into that office. This was done, and from that moment forward, the general superintendents received their authority from the conference. Later, Coke convinced the general conference that he and Asbury were bishops and added the title to the discipline. It caused a great deal of controversy. Wesley did not approve of 'bishops' who had not been ordained by bishops.

By the 1792 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the controversy relating to episcopal power peaked. Ultimately, the delegates sided with Bishop Asbury. However, the Republican Methodists split off from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) in 1792. Also, William Hammet (a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791. The movement did not form a separate denomination in England until after John Wesley's death in 1795.

Answer 3

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Catholic AnswerThe question, as asked, makes no sense, as baptism is the foundational sacrament through which one enters the Catholic Church "as if through a door." Anyone who is validly baptized outside of the Catholic Church is baptized and a member of the Catholic Church, although in a crippled and invisible manner.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

The Sacrament in which, by water and the word of God, a person is cleansed of all sin and reborn and sanctified in Christ to everlasting life. (Etym. Latin ba;tisma; from Greek baptisma, a dipping.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

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Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which give access to the other sacraments. through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God' we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made shares in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word

Answer 4

The Baptists separated from the Anglican Church, not the Catholic Church.

Answer 5

The Baptists did not split from Catholicism but from the Anglican Church.

Answer 6

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