THE PUBLISHED CLAIM
The Wesleyan quadrilateral is Wesley’s framework for weighing scripture, tradition, reason, and experience.
OR-C-2026-006 · CORRECTION
Wesley did not author the Wesleyan quadrilateral.
THE CORRECTED BOUNDARY
Wesley never used the term. Albert Outler coined it and later regretted it.
Evidence gradePopular repetition onlyGrade of the published claim
DispositionCorrectedThe action taken by the House
OriginInherited or source-borne claimThe method corrected its own work
THE CORRECTION · WHY THE CLAIM MOVED
The boundary beneath the tab.
Outler wrote: “I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued.”
It also specifies no weighting between its four sources, so it cannot adjudicate a conflict—which is precisely what it is usually invoked to do.
THE RECORD STATE
What is public, and how precisely dated.
The claim and correction are published at tab and entry depth. Dependent copy is governed by this boundary wherever the claim appears.
Affected locationsAssessed for the Codex
Date precisionDay-level date preserved from the supplied register.
As-run reportThe source-linked report has not yet been transferred from the working record. No report has been invented to close the seam.
SOURCES · NAMED AND LOCATABLE
The evidence remains outside the claim.
An entry is not permitted to make a missing report look complete. Published source trails remain linked; pending transfers remain visibly pending.
TRANSFER STATUS
The correction is public. Its source-linked as-run report is not yet published in this Record. The wording above is transferred from the supplied standing register; it is not a substitute for the report.
SUPERSESSION
This is the current entry.
It supersedes no earlier published entry and has not been superseded. If that changes, both directions of the chain will remain visible here.
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