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| A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God |
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| Written by Jonathan Edwards. Lays out morphology of his services. Put yourself in the best place possible for the surprising work of God to happen. Deep emotion is essential to genuine religion. |
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| Early protestant missionary to India. Wife goes crazy.Translates bible. Provided the theological/global rationale for global missions. christians have obligation to preach gospel to those who have never heard it. |
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| First catholic bishop in America, 1790 Helped rescue Catholicism in america from widespread suspicion. |
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| Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery |
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| Challenges classic limited atonement and election in presbyterian doctrines in Kentucky. Barton Stone. Initiates restorationist movement. Rejects calvinism and being known as part of a denomination. Non-denominational over and against man-made denominations. |
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| The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry |
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| Gilbert Tennent- 1726 Revival, we need to beware of ministers who are living moral lives but are not living a regenerative conversion. During first great awakening. |
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| Representative of a response against Diest rationalism. 1. reason cannot inspire actions nor prevent them. 2. rationalism cannot explain life's mysteries. 3. Rational conclusions based not on objectivity, but on subjective experience 4. Concern for experience, reducing reason to experience, experience moves to continued skepticism 5. Turn reason to skepticism. *experience over reason* |
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| The Religious Instruction of Negroes |
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| Written by Charles C. Jones. 1. Deal with the evangelical problem 2. slavery as a deliverance from paganism 3. Bible mandates Christian concern for slaves 4. conversion leads to obedience-Christianity keeps africans in slavery |
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| Founder of Oneida community in Burned over district NY. Perfectionism- living by HS means you can go long time w/o sin. Jesus returned in 70CE. Communitarianism. Oneida community: mutual crit., complex marriage, stirpiculture (pick parents for having children), community raises children |
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| Calvinist missionary to Native Americans near pennsylvania and NJ, who was engaged to Jonathan Edwards daughter, Kind of crazy, even edwards thinks so. Natives had to be saved before Jesus comes back. |
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| English egalitarian socialist sect. bring Jesus teachings relative to the poor, marginalized and into mainstream of English governmental life. Only one house- house of commons. it is of the closest to the people and the most importance for the people. Primary leader is John Liburn. "Agreement of the People" stated Basic beliefs: Annual elections, Universal manhood suffrage, diestablished churches no church taxes, anti-royalty, no military compulsion, no death penalty save for treason or murder (extremely radical in this period) |
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| Early 19th century, Self appointed preacher, nat turner rebellion result in in hundreds of deaths and saw the act as God's use of him as an instrument for the Day of judgement which was at hand. |
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| transcendentalist and early feminist/advocate for women's rights. Writer |
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| The Theology of a Social Gospel |
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| Beloved community, social progress; humanity organized according to the will of God- kingdom of God as it is with us-live radical calling. Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch (grounded in but beyond the sermon on the mount) |
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| self management, self support, self propagation. evangelizing in Chinese terms not western terms. Y.T. Wu. Okay under communism |
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| Founder of the Shakers, second incarnation of Christ, sexual intercourse is the source of the fall. Communitarian society with no sex. |
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| First black methodist ordained. Founds African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philly, becomes first bishop. |
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| Essay on Human Understanding |
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| John Locke. 1. human reason discovers and expounds basic religious truth- religious truth at its best begins with reason 2. God exists, no doubt about it 3. belief grows from rational proof- belief is verified and proved 4. basic docrtine of Christianity: jesus is messiah- god is giving proof f godself, salvation is to confess Jesus as messiah, jesus is picture of what god is like 5. god is impersonal and demands duty and obedience- god orgainized the universe around rational laws that are at their heart moral. 1690 |
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| "Christianity and Liberalism" 1923, one of the princeton theologians. you are either a christian or a liberal. Led conservative response to modern thought. Established scholarly norm to love modern world less and the ancient truths more. Thought that modern liberal Church were primarily interested in defending contempt. culture under the guise of reforming and refining New Testament religion. |
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| Shall the Fundamentalists Win? |
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| Harry Emerson Fosdick, sees division in China and comes back and preaches this sermon, hopes it will develop dialogue. Presented liberals as Sincere christians who struggled to understand their faith in light of new discoveries. Virgin Birth no longer fact, literal inerrancy of scriptures to be incredible and 2nd coming of christ to be an outmoded phase of hope. |
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| Missionary to India. Linguist, mother, teacher/preacher, protector of husband an family. A Hagiography (life of the saint) developed around her and women like her |
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| Methodist superintendent/bishop in America, started circuit rider trend on frontier. emerged as leading voice of Methodism in America |
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| 1800, one of young people converted in college in 2nd great awakening, pastor of three churches, sacramental meetings- one of which is on red river at log church there, hundreds of ppl show up, start of frontier camp revival |
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| Puritain turned quaker who was hanged in Boston for being a Quaker. Got involved with Anne Hutchinson and banished to RI. Her death eased some anti-quaker sentiments bc they say her punishment as too much. |
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| Formed Seventh Day Adventist Church 1846, Jesus came back, prepared a room in God's mansion. Most significant movement to arise after Miller prediction of second coming failed again in 1844. Early stages of pre-millenial dispensationalism. |
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| Evangelicalism, in burned over district, revivals "new measures"- prayer of faith, right use of means- god wants to save you now & there are things you can do to make conversion happen, anxious bench (get prayed through), women testimonies in mixed company, free will;shortened conversion experience-first stage of conersion as a transaction |
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