aldersgate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.78 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738.
name
A similar experience among his followers.
Example Sentences
- "Aldersgate is the expression Methodists use to refer to the powerful spiritual experience in which, in Wesley's own words, his "heart was strangely warmed.""
- "Consequently, Aldersgate is perceived as one more spiritual experience along the way of salvation"
- "J. Earnest Rattenbury, in his book, Wesley's Legacy in the World, quotes a man by the name of Riggs, author of The Churchmanship of John Wesley, as saying that: the Wesley before Aldersgate was not the same man as after Aldersgate."
- "Must our Aldersgate experience help us meet the needs of common men ?"
- "Now we know that only the road ahead can be our Aldersgate. And it can happen there, albeit, that road may lead through new battlefields of moral struggle for a Christian society before it emerges upon the heights of spiritual ecstasy."
- "We will not have had our Aldersgate until we can, on the one hand, confess with incredible joy that Christ has taken away our sins and then, on the other hand, plunge into the work of his kingdom"
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.