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Denominational divisions over slavery |
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- MEC South forms due to issue of Bishop Andrew owning slaves
- The MEC is divided between the North and South
- SBC (Southern Baptist Convention formed over issue of owning slaves as missionaries
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The Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church |
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- written by Charles Hodge
- says old & new school Presbyterians should divide
- Henry Thorwell radicalizes the Doctrine
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- The Puritans came to the colonies with 10,000 barrels of beer on the Arabella
- democrats opposed prohibition
- voting against democratic party risked racial status quo
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Richard Niebuhr's "Christ and Culture" |
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- Christ AGAINST culture- withdrawl from world
- Christ OF culture-combination of Church & State
- Christ ABOVE culture-Christ is superior to worldly things
- Christ & Culture IN PARADOX- struggle between belief & faith
- Christ THE TRANSFORMER of culture- make society in God's image
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Earlier American attitudes toward alcohol |
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- Quaker writes pamphlet saying alcohol is detrimental to the body
- Methodists prohibit minister from selling alcohol
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Origins of the temperance movement |
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- Methodists make prohibition of minsters to sell alcohol
- causes formation of first temperance society
- called for use of alcohol in moderation (no "hard liquor")
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- Philly doctor who dispelled popular myths about drinking benefits
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- use of morals to get people to not consume alcohol without making laws against it
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- complete prohibition of all alcohol
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- Jesus drank wine at Lord's Supper
- Thomas Welch replaces wine with grape juice
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Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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- first major issue with actual women involvment
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- attacked saloon with a hatchet
- feminist prohibitionist
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- 18th amendment making prohibition legal in all 50 states
- repealed with 21st amendment
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- German theologian & philosopher
- wanted to reconcile enlightenment criticisms with Protestant Orthodoxy
- Religious self-conscientiousness leads to absolute dependence
- consciousness of our sin leads to deny dependency
- consciousness of forgiveness leads to Christ provides consciousness of divine through Church
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- religion is base of all thought & action
- emphasized feeling in a higher sense
- this feeling is minimum of anithetic consciousness
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Focus on sense of utter dependence on the divine |
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- we look to religion as higher, organic, sense of reason
- objectivity is detached observance
- thinking must stop, for individual to act
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- Copenhagen, Denmark
- youngest of 7 kids
- wealthy, educated Lutheran with Moravian influence
- wanted to reintroduce Christianity into christendom, if possible
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Soren Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms |
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- like characters in a novel, represent various points of view that may not be Kierkegaards perspective
- deal with topics like "what is Christianity?"
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Soren Kierkegaard's relationship with brother |
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- refused to see brother as he was dieing because he was a priest
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Soren Kierkegaard's leap of faith |
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- thinking must stop and must make a decisive act
- faith is proper way to relate with God becacause you can't wait to comprehend him
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Soren Kierkegaard's attitude towards the Church |
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- what is good for Denmark is good for Church
- should be one with the world, priests are state functionaries, everyone is born Christian
- wrote "Church Militant" (in the world but not part of it)
- Christianity is a task
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Neo-orthodoxy in the 20th century |
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- reaction against 19th century literal theology & reemphasized Reformation
- transcendence of God, Existentialism, Sin, & Human Nature
- can't speak of God because we are human
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- Swiss theologian
- started dialectical theology (stressing paradoxical nature of divine truth)
- attacks liberalism of Schleirmacher because it denies reality of human sin
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Critiques of liberalism and conservatism |
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Pentecostalism in the 20th century |
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Holiness movement vs Pentecostalism |
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- Oberlin College -Ohio
- Finney says Christians move towards moral perfection
- progressive sanctification
- roots in Methodism led to ability for Christians to move towards perfection through love
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Pentecostalism VS charismatic movement |
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- 1960s- mainstream denominations adopt certain practices from Pentecostal Church
- use baptism, snake handling, faith healing, and raising of hands
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- spoke of instant sanctification & all Christians should claim perfection
- caused split in Methodist Church
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- began in england in 1840s
- holy spirit continually counteracts sinfullness
- gives us power to serve (baptism of the Holy Spirit)
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Pentecostalism beginnings |
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Charles Parham, Topeka KS |
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- starts Bethel Bible College
- seeks third blessing
- spoke in tongues that couldn't be understood
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William Seymour, Azusa Street, L.A. |
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- believed movement would create a "second coming"
- revival that lasted for months
- sent missionaries throughout world without them knowing languages
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- Baptism of the Holy Spirit
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"Baptism of the Holy Spirit" |
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- some churches did snake handling because of Biblical verses with snakes
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- heal people that have faith in God
- cast out demons
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A.A. Allen & Oral Roberts |
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Charismatic leaders who focused on faith healing in the 1940s |
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Modernity and Christian reactions to it |
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- Guilded age was time of radical social & cultural change
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immigration, industrialization, urbanization, darwinism, etc. |
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- immigration- from east Europe
- industrialization- growth of railroads & disparity of wealth
- darwinism- undermined belief in human ability to improve world
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conservative reactions = reaffirm external authorities |
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- reaffirmed authority of Church confessions
- reaffirm authority of Catholic church- (oxford movement)
- reaffirm authority of Pope & Bible (infallibility of Pope)
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The Bible contains no errors |
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- full inspiration from Bible
- Bible contains reliable facts
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- evangelicals who are angry about something
- sought to rid Christianity of modern sin
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- 1909-1912
- established 5 fundamental christian doctrins
- virgin birth of Jesus
- physical ressurection of Jesus
- inerrancy of Bible
- substitutionary atonement
- physical second coming of Christ
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- 1925
- conservative Christians are successful in banning evolution teaching in school
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Fundamentalism resurgence in politics and denominations |
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- Southern Baptist Convention
- fundamentalist get control of convention agencies & committees
- division within Baptist & Presbyterian denominations
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active on topics of abortion, evolution in schools, school prayer, homosexuality, and communism |
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- american evangelical pastor
- cofounded Moral Majority
- socially conservative policies
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- believed in progress, thought doctrine should catch up with current lifestyles
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- rejected trinitarianism
- emphasis on reason
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- grew in response to labor crises
3 varieties
- emphasis on individual sufferer
- progressive reformers
- socialist
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- emphasis on individual sufferer
- founded by William & Catherine Booth in england
- believed people couldnt receive gospel until material conditions improve
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- socialist that sought to establish a kingdom of God on earth
- would be a place of Justice & equality
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- different Christian denominations talk about issues
- desire to unite and work through differences in theology & practice
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Edinburgh Missionary Conference |
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- 1910
- beginning of modern protestant ecumenical movement
- protestant denominations & missionary societies sent 1200 representatives
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World Council of Churches |
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- 1848
- promote talking between Christians
- meet every 3 to 4 years
- includes major denominations except Roman Cath
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- met for 4 years at a time
- reps from africa, asia, and latin america
- reformed liturgy (used vernacular and increased preaching of Biblical texts)
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