John Wesley and Methodist Apostasy
Rev. Angus Stewart critiques John Wesley's theological inconsistencies, particularly his departure from Reformed doctrine on predestination, grace, and justification despite Wesley's strong polemics against Roman Catholic errors. The article argues that Wesley's fundamental error—shared with Rome—was his doctrine of free will, which undermined key biblical truths upheld in the Thirty-Nine Articles he professed to follow. This resource evaluates Methodist theology through a confessional Reformed lens, highlighting doctrinal departures from Reformation principles.
Rev. Angus Stewart “It is manifest that the public worship of the Roman Church is wholly degenerated from the nature of Christ’s kingdom,” so declared John Wesley. He protested against Rome’s doctrines of tradition, seven sacraments, transubstantiation (“nonsense, absurdity and self-contradiction,” he called it), pilgrimage, purgatory, indulgences (which “strike at the root of all religion”), veneration of relics, worship of images (“gross, open, palpable idolatry”), the intercession of the...