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The Methodist Religion

Abstract
Examination of the Methodist faith. Historical and cultural context. Concept of non-reliance on institutional authority for doctrinal guidance, spiritual and ritual tolerance. The current status of the Methodist faith. UMC's book of faith. Discusses attendance at Methodist service by a Catholic.

The Methodist Religion
This research examines the Methodist faith. The research will give an account of the historical and cultural context and current status of Methodism as a faith and also discuss attendance at a Methodist ritual service. One of the most serious challenges facing any comparative study of religion, particularly for the person of faith, is the impulse to break with scholarly objectively and embrace an ethos of evaluation that has the effect of making undue assumptions or judgments about the objects of investigation. The lessons of tolerance and humility in the face of the faith of those who to a student of religion who is......

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