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Articles of Religion, What We Believe, The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (thecmechurch.org)

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This is the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church's own statement of its doctrinal basis, published on the denomination's own website; a custodian source describing what the denomination itself teaches, not an outside historian's account of it. Its own text states that these Articles are derived from the Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles, which this atlas holds as a separate record, and abridged for American Methodists by John Wesley in 1784; citing this record alongside the Thirty-Nine Articles for the same doctrinal claim is the same Reformation-era confession counted twice across a documented abridgment, not two independent statements of doctrine. Use it for what the CME Church states as its own current doctrinal basis; it is not evidence for how the Thirty-Nine Articles themselves read, nor for Wesley's own 1784 Methodist abridgment, which this register does not hold as a separate intermediate record.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
Tier one: the denomination's own statement of its doctrinal basis, published on its own official site, a custodian source rather than an outside account of what the church teaches.
Notes
The denomination stating its own doctrinal basis: the foundational doctrines are the Articles of Religion, derived from the Church of England and abridged by John Wesley for Methodists in America in 1784.
Citation
Author
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
URL
https://thecmechurch.org/what-we-believe/
Source Type
Official doctrinal statement
Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

John Wesley, Figures

This source names John Wesley directly: "abridged for American Methodists by John Wesley in 1784; citing this record alongside the Thirty-Nine Articles for the same doctrinal claim is the same Reformation-era confession counted twice..."

Popularized Derivative Of

This record's own text states plainly that its foundational doctrines are "derived from the Church of England and abridged by John Wesley for Methodists in America in 1784"; a documented abridgment of the Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles, which this register holds as a separate record, not an independently drafted confession.

Claims Backed By This Source (45 claims)

This source backs 45 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds, 1 connected, 1 rejected Here, 1 held Differently. Plus 12 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Beliefs & Restrictions, 10 claims: 5 holds, 5 general references.
  • Creeds & Confessions, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected.
  • Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
  • Scriptures & Texts, 4 claims: 1 holds, 1 rejected Here, 2 general references.
  • Denominations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Doctrines, 2 claims: 1 held Differently, 1 general references.

Rejected Here

1

Scriptures & Texts

Held Differently

1
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