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Today’s reading will be from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley pages 476-481. You can download it by clicking on this link or read it right here within the site. After reading, please leave a comment below. What do you think about the individual nature of Church?…
Today’s reading will be from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley pages 470-476. You can download it by clicking on this link or read it right here within the site. After reading, please leave a comment below. Do you think that Christians make good politicians? Why or…
Read The Story of Christianity chapter “The 20th to the 21st Century: The Rise of a New Christendom” on pages 336-343. And answer the reading comprehension questions below. In the comments, I’d love to hear what you think about denominations. Do they matter? Was it inevitable that Christianity would splinter…
Read The Story of Christianity chapter “The Most Violent Century in History” on pages 329-335. And answer the reading comprehension questions below.
Read The Story of Christianity chapter “The 20th Century in America” on pages 322-328. And answer the reading comprehension questions below.
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Read “The Story of Christianity” Chapter: The 19th Century: A Time of Fervent Faith on pages 314-321 and leave a comment on the reading that is at least three sentences long.
The reading assignment below comes from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley. [responsivevoice_button] In an English village, late in the eighteenth century, stood a humble workshop. Over its door, a sign announced, “Secondhand shoes bought and sold.” Inside, the shoemaker, William Carey, repaired a neighbor’s boot or,…
Read “The Story of Christianity” Chapter: The 19th Century: A Time of Radical Doubt on pages 306-313 and leave a comment on the reading that is at least three sentences long.
The reading below comes from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley. At the opening of the Age of Progress, the greatest power in English religious life was the evangelical movement, sparked and spread by John Wesley and George Whitefield. The chief marks of the movement were its…
When you look back at the history of the United States, this strand of anti-Catholicism becomes very prominent. We desire to show this idyllic idea that we were a melting pot of religious freedom, but as we have already seen, people wanted religious freedom for themselves, not freedom for others.…
Watch the video below and comment on one of the excesses or errors that became evident in the Second Great Awakening and also one positive thing that came from this period.
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John Wesley was a famous preacher of the 18th century. After coming into contact with the Moravians on his way to Georgia, he was deeply impressed by their piety. After returning to London, he heard Martin Luther’s Preface to Romans and said, ‘I felt my heart strangely warmed.’ He helped…
How did we get from a Protestantism based upon theology and confession like traditional Lutheranism and Calvinism to the modern idea of Christianity with a focus on personal devotion and individual sanctification that we see in the preaching of Whitefield. This shift towards Pietism is the missing link. Watch the…
Please read Story of Christianity, “Eastern Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period” pages 299-305. Answer the questions below that correspond with your reading. Important to Know: The Orthodox Church in the United States is relatively small in comparison with other religious groups perhaps numbering in the range of one million…
[responsivevoice_button] Religion offered many American revolutionaries moral approval of their opposition to British rule. However, not all religious sects or religious believers supported the Revolutionary War. Many looked at Romans 13:1-7 as we did yesterday and saw a very clear teaching that they should submit to the governing authorities. The…
[responsivevoice_button] The Great Awakening also had a powerful political dimension, particularly in the southern colonies. The Anglican faith had long nurtured the old ties between the colonies and the Mother Country. Baptists and Methodists, however, felt no such connection. Moreover, as the new sects emphasized personal belief and action over…
[responsivevoice_button] The traditional religions of Great Britain’s North American colonies—Puritanism in New England and Anglicanism farther south—had difficulty maintaining their holds over the growing population. The main reason for this was that the frontier kept pushing further west, and the building of churches almost never kept up with this westward…
Please read Story of Christianity, “Deism, Enlightenment, and Revolution” pages 294-298. Answer the questions below that correspond with your reading. Important to Know: The words atheism and agnosticism are forms of Greek words and the prefix a, which means “no” or “none.” Theos is the Greek word for “God,” and…
<== Previous (Church History) Lesson <== Previous (Ancient History) Lesson Happy Friday, join me for a quick Zoom meeting at 9 am to make sure everyone is on top of their work for the week. [zoom_api_link meeting_id=”721646941″ link_only=”no”] Then take the remainder of the class periods to finish your Galileo…
<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Many in the next generation, the first of the eighteenth century, felt fewer obligations to the Christian past, so instead of trying to harmonize nature and Scripture, they simply set aside revelation. Many intellectuals claimed that the parts of the Bible that agree with reason are…
<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Another root of the Age of Reason sprang from the soil of a new faith in law and order. Modern science arose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and filled men with visions of a new day of peace and harmony. These pioneers of modern science…
<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] If Americans believed in Saints, Benjamin Franklin would be among them. He exemplified so many virtues Americans have come to admire. People found him practical, earthy, witty, and above all, tolerant. A few weeks before he died, Franklin responded to an inquiry concerning his religious faith.…
<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Read the chapter entitled “The Church and The Scientists” in Story of Christianity by David Bentley Hart on pages 288-293. I would like you to write a short paper (at least 5 paragraphs) explaining the Christian beliefs and education of Galileo Galilei, his discoveries and contributions…