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Saint Daniels United Methodist Church

📍315 Edwards Street, Chester, PA ✝united_methodist
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AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What United Methodist Church teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms
Denies
  • Assumption of Maryweak
    Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
  • Immaculate Conceptionstandard
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • Marriage as one man and one womanweak
    PC(USA) 2015; ELCA 2009; TEC 2015; UMC 2024. Same-sex marriage authorized in polity.
  • Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
    Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
  • Transubstantiationstandard
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
  • Apostolic Successionweak
    Lutheran and Methodist bodies retain 'succession of doctrine' language without the tactile chain.
  • Believer's Baptismweak
    Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Real Presenceweak
    Calvin's spiritual presence (genuinely present but not physically) is neither strong affirm nor deny; Anglican/Methodist typically hold a receptionist view.
  • Theotokosweak
    Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.
In their own words

Statements

about_us
<!DOCTYPE html> ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC | Stdanielsumc top of page St. Daniels UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HOME HOPE POINT GIVING/SOW A SEED ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. ABOUT US WHAT WE BELIEVE NORTHEASTERN JURISDICTION EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE BLACK METHODIST FOR CHURCH RENEWAL More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. James W. Nicholas and Jacob Emory were discussing the need for a church while at work at an old stone quarry one day. Following this discussion, Benjamin Reed went to Camden and arranged with Rev. J. H. Pierce, Presiding Elder, to come to Chest
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<!DOCTYPE html> ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. | Stdanielsumc top of page St. Daniels UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HOME HOPE POINT GIVING/SOW A SEED ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. ABOUT US WHAT WE BELIEVE NORTHEASTERN JURISDICTION EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE BLACK METHODIST FOR CHURCH RENEWAL More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. Reverend Eric W. Carr Jr. (AKA Pastor &ldquo;E&rdquo;) is an ordained Elder of the United Methodist Church in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference currently serving on the pastoral team at St. Daniels, Chester.
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--> ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC | Stdanielsumc top of page St. Daniels UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HOME HOPE POINT GIVING/SOW A SEED ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. ABOUT US WHAT WE BELIEVE NORTHEASTERN JURISDICTION EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE BLACK METHODIST FOR CHURCH RENEWAL More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. James W. Nicholas and Jacob Emory were discussing the need for a church while at work at an old stone quarry one day. Following this discussion, Benjamin Reed went to Camden and arranged with Rev. J. H. Pierce, Presiding Elder, to come to Chester to organize
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--> ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. | Stdanielsumc top of page St. Daniels UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HOME HOPE POINT GIVING/SOW A SEED ABOUT St. DANIELS UMC ABOUT PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. ABOUT US WHAT WE BELIEVE NORTHEASTERN JURISDICTION EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE BLACK METHODIST FOR CHURCH RENEWAL More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. PASTOR ERIC W. CARR JR. Reverend Eric W. Carr Jr. (AKA Pastor &ldquo;E&rdquo;) is an ordained Elder of the United Methodist Church in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference currently serving on the pastoral team at St. Daniels, Chester. He is married to
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