Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Methodists in Britain acquired their own bishops early in the 19th century, after the Methodist movement in Britain formally parted company with the Church of England.

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

They also took part in love feasts which allowed for the sharing of testimony, a key feature of early Methodists.

In the early 19th century the Welsh Methodists broke away from the Anglican church and established their own denomination, now the Presbyterian Church of Wales.

As early as 1888, local Methodists had begun using Logoly as a gathering place.

In the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains as a whole, Baptists and Methodists largely outnumbered Presbyterians during the early nineteenth century.

In the early 1870s, shortly after the B & O Railroad ’ s Metropolitan Branch ( now the MARC Brunswick Line )) was extended from Washington DC to Gaithersburg, Maryland, a group of Methodists purchased land nearby as a site for a camp meeting.

In the early years of Fair Grove, the citizens of the place, and community — mostly Methodists and Presbyterians met to worship under a brush arbor about where a small house of worship was built and afterward a spacious arbor supported by numerous posts and covered with clapboards, served a few years.

Theosis as a doctrine developed in a distinctive direction among Methodists, and elsewhere in the pietist movement which reawakened Protestant interest in the asceticism of the early Catholic Church, and some of the mystical traditions of the West.

Roberts was a staunch abolitionist and early Free Methodists derived their name in part from their opposition to slavery.

Many of the early Free Methodists were active in the operation of the Underground Railroad.

In addition to anti-slavery, the early Wesleyan Methodists championed the rights of women.

The practice was a major component of the Second Great Awakening, a rapid increase in the popularity of various Protestant denominations in the United States in the early 19th century, especially Methodists and Baptists.

The Presbyterians were soon joined by early Methodists from Maryland who initially took up residence near what is now Terrell, NC.

The Camp Meeting Methodists looked back to the early days of the Methodist movement and considered that field preaching was acceptable.

The United Methodist liturgical tradition is based on the Anglican heritage and was passed along to Methodists by John Wesley ( an Anglican priest who led the early Methodist revival ) who wrote that

Above the south entrance are the equestrian Circuit Riders, statues of the early Methodists engaged in spreading the Good Word.

Wesley Mission Victoria's heritage is founded on the response of Wesleyan Methodists in Victoria to the severe economic depression and associated inner city poverty of the early 1890s.

Congregationalists took over the school from the Methodists in the early 20th century.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

He may have acted as suffragan, or subordinate bishop, to his predecessor Lyfing before formally assuming the bishopric, as from about 1043 Ealdred witnessed as an episcopus, or bishop, and a charter from 1045 or early 1046 names Sihtric as abbot of Tavistock.

The Department acted as a catalyst for the admission of Africans to the University: as early as 1925 a limited number were admitted to the vacation course in African Studies.

The son of painter Dominick Elwes and designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, Elwes acted in off-Broadway plays during college and moved to the United States in the early 1980s.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

Luthor's trademark battlesuit from this era — a heavily-armored, flight-capable suit with kryptonite fixtures embedded in its gauntlets — was designed by George Pérez as part of the Super Powers toyline in the early 1980s and introduced as Luthor acted as Lexor's sovereign.

Gordon was signed to an MGM film contract for a brief period in the early 1930s but did not make a movie for the company until she acted opposite Greta Garbo in Two-Faced Woman in 1941.

Initially developing out of the trad jazz, skiffle and folk club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and The Kinks.

During Rilke's early years Phia acted as if she sought to recover the lost girl through the boy by dressing him in girl's clothing.

The couple ended their relationship in early 1995, but remain friends and later acted together in True Crime.

The Ibelin family, which had held much power in Jerusalem prior its downfall, acted as regents during these early years.

AD 1500 ), under régimes of the early national monarchies of Western Europe, the bourgeoisie acted in self-interest, and politically supported the king or the queen against the legal and financial disorder caused by the greed of the feudal lords.

" As such, Miller told Cleese that the episode would interpret Petruchio as an early Puritan, and that the part was not to be acted along the traditional lines of the swaggering bully a la Richard Burton in Zeffirelli's 1967 adaptation.

As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

He was also art director on most of the early films, editor or co-editor on many of them ( often credited as Franz Walsh, though the spelling varies ), and he acted in nineteen of his own films as well as for other directors.

The actress who appeared under the stage name of Suzanne Clair, in " Pimpernel " Smith and First of the Few in minor roles, acted as his secretary, but died in 1942 of pneumonia in her early 30s, six months before Howard's death.

From an early age Earhart, nicknamed " Meeley " ( sometimes " Millie ") was the ringleader while younger sister ( two years her junior ), Grace Muriel Earhart ( 1899 – 1998 ), nicknamed " Pidge ," acted the dutiful follower.

The expansion of the Metropolitan Railway in the early 20th century acted as a catalyst for development in the area.

Dr. John Blaisdell acted as agent for early proprietors.

* John Cook Bennett ( 1804 – 1867 ), physician and a ranking and influential ( but short-lived and controversial ) leader of the Latter-Day-Saint movement, who acted as second in command to Joseph Smith, Jr. for a brief period in the early 1840s

The early 1990s saw the Department of Forestry absorb the Forest Authority from the Commission, which had previously acted as a separate government department.

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s many Americans assumed as a matter of course that students ' self-esteem acted as a critical factor in the grades that they earn in school, in their relationships with their peers, and in their later success in life.

Murder, Inc. ( or Murder Incorporated or the Brownsville Boys ; known in syndicate circles as The Combination ) was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the " enforcement arm " of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia, the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere.

During her early career on stage she acted under the name Barbara Nichols but later changed it to Dandy, her childhood nickname.