Aldersgate

English + Etymology religious experience Short for Aldersgate Street, the site of a Moravian meeting at which John Wesley had a religious experience. Proper noun en ward in the city:Pref/London co/Greater London cc/England OS grid ref TQ3281. Ward map (London) en historical A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738. en Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0252025903 Jan Shipps 2000 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." en Methodist History 43-44 268 https://books.google.com/books?id=8gfrAAAAMAAJ 2004 Consequently, Aldersgate is perceived as one more spiritual experience along the way of salvation en John Wesley and the American Frontier 150 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1604771666 John Fremont Beeson 2007 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. A similar experience among his followers. en Christian Advocate Pacific 87 565 https://books.google.com/books?id=_vgtAQAAIAAJ Edward Laird Mills 1938 Must our Aldersgate experience help us meet the needs of common men ? en Michigan Christian Advocate 70 xxii https://books.google.com/books?id=srvmAAAAMAAJ 1943 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. en Motive 23 16 https://books.google.com/books?id=LJBGAQAAIAAJ 1962 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 References en Religion