methodism

Etymology

From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.

methodism means the Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

Why this word is great

METHODISM — [Noun] The doctrines, practices, and Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England, emphasizing methodical personal piety and social holiness. From method (a systematic procedure) + -ism (denoting a system, practice, or doctrine). The term originated as a nickname for Wesley and his followers at Oxford University due to their methodical approach to religious devotion. Unlike Calvinism, which encloses salvation within an immutable divine decree, or formalism, which mistakes the ritual shell for the spiritual kernel, Methodism posits a practical, willful path to grace. It is the faint, rhythmic glow of a lantern in a pre-dawn study; the precise distribution of coins in a debtor's prison; the shared, tremulous warmth of a hymn sung outdoors by colliers with soot-stained hands—a testament to the belief that holiness is not a sudden miracle, but a daily habit, quietly built, a discipline to be worked out until the heart itself is made better.

noun

The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.“Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]”
Any of several related movements.
The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods.“Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.”