Meanings
comparative more strangely warmed · superlative most strangely warmed
- MethodismExperiencing a fervent spiritual experience.
He may indeed have known St. Botolph's Church there at the gate where the heart of John Wesley was “strangely warmed” in his encounter with the Moravians as he listened to the scholarly words of Martin Luther's preface to Paul's letter to the Romans.
2012, Kenneth L. Vaux, The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art, page 31
Origin
First used by Anglican/Methodist theologian John Wesley.
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