connexionalism

English

Alternative forms

• connectionalism

Etymology

connexional +‎ -ism

Noun

connexionalism (uncountable)

1. (theology) The theological understanding and foundation of Methodist polity, as practised in the British Methodist Church, the American United Methodist Church, and many of the countries where Methodism was established by their missionaries.
   • 2008, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology:

     Can it be said that here is an application of Methodism's concept of connexionalism to the embodiment of koinonia? That no indications in the dialogue point overtly in this direction does not rule out the possibility of it being in the Methodist mind and heart.