United Methodists have a long history of splits and separations.
In this six-week and highly detailed course, you'll learn the reasons behind, context for, and about the leaders of the splits, separations, and reconciliations in our United Methodist heritage. Incorporating opening prayers, scriptures, written text, recorded video, and discussion questions, this course is perfect for anything between an individual devotional, seminary workshop, Sunday School series, or congregational study.
Example Curriculum
Introduction
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United Methodist Origins
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"The World is My Parish:" Itineracy and its Discontents
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“Thoughts Upon Slavery:” Antebellum Discussions Over Race
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- Part 3: Opening Scripture and Prayer
- Context: Methodism and America’s Original Sin (3:48)
- African Methodist Episcopal Church (1787 & 1816)
- Mother Zoar MEC (1796)
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion (1821)
- Methodist Protestant (1830)
- Wesleyan Methodist (1843)
- Methodist Episcopal Church South (1844)
- Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (1870)
- Abolition: Taking on the Armor of God
The Holiness Effect: Splits and Internal Divisions
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- Part 4: Opening Hymn
- Context: Reconstruction and Post-War Theology (4:37)
- Holiness Movement (1830s-1850s) (5:58)
- Free Methodists and Church of the Nazarene (1860, 1905)
- Evangelical Association and United Brethren (Old & New) (1889/1890) (3:29)
- Azusa Street and origins of Pentecostalism in the U.S. (1906)
- Holiness: Perfectly Restored in Thee
The World is Our Parish: Ecumenical Comity
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- Part 5: Opening Scripture and Prayer
- Context: Liberal Ecumenism and the Threat of Communism
- Evangelical Church (1922) (4:45)
- The Methodist Church (1939)
- Small Splinters: Southern Methodist Church & Evangelical Methodist Church (1940, 1946)
- Evangelical United Brethren (1946) (4:46)
- Comity: The Spirit of Unity
Inheriting the Past: Reconciliation, Restitution, & Their Discontents
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- Part 6: Opening Scripture and Prayer
- The 1960s: A Decade of Rapid Social Change (5:09)
- The United Methodist Church (1968)
- Autonomous Methodist Denominations
- Our current situation - Split? Splinter? Schism? (2004....2016....2019....2022)
- Continuing UMC
- New Horizons: Where is God Calling Methodism Now?
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