The General Board of Church and Society, the United Methodist Church's own successor social witness agency, preserves the text of the Social Creed the Methodist Episcopal Church's General Conference adopted at Baltimore in May 1908, the founding statement of Methodism's institutional commitment to social reform.
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Citation
PublisherGeneral Board of Church and Society, The United Methodist Church
URLhttps://www.umcjustice.org/who-we-are/resolutions-adopted-by-general-conference-charlotte/the-1908-social-creed-of-the-methodist-episcopal-church
Source Typeinstitutional record
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Reliability Tier1
The United Methodist Church's own successor social witness agency's institutional record, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable denominational institutional accounts, used here for the Social Creed's 1908 adoption and text, corroborated by Charles Howard Hopkins's academic history of the Social Gospel movement. Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Spread Events, 11 claims: 3 well-attested, 7 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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