Puritanism: The Shaping of America

As part of the iconography and symbology by which a sense of the American past is constructed, the entry of the Puritans into 17th century New England has been interpreted and re-interpreted as a shaping force of what has been recurrently described as that peculiar and essential figure, the being somehow common to every component [...]

Puritanism: The roots of Americanism?

Early in the 17th century some Puritan groups separated from the Church of England. Among these were the Pilgrims, who in 1620 founded Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the first major Puritan migration to New England took place. The Puritans brought strong religious impulses to bear in [...]

Movements in Victorian Christianity

Chartists on Kennington Common Tractarians, Chartists, Darwinists and Fundamentalists 1.Tractarians/ Oxford Movement   The Oxford Movement was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of which were members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Christian church established by the Apostles. It was also [...]

Worried? Notes on forthcoming exams

Worried? No need. Here’s some notes on the final exams in Modern Church History and Introduction to Christian Doctrine  Modern Church History We will follow the same pattern in MCH and in Doctrine as we went through in the Pentateuch preparation. As follows: 10 short answer questions (20 %) 5 paragraph questions (50%) 1 (out [...]

The Resurgence of Catholicism

Pope Pius IX: Architect of the First Vatican Council This week’s seminar is entitled the-resurgence-of-catholicism.ppt and charts the development of the Roman Catholic church from 1815 (the final defeat of Napoleon and the reshaping of Europe) to 1963 (the asassination of the first Catholic US President). Importantly, the period takes in the two VATICAN COUNCILS. A [...]

PEOPLE PROFILES 2

  mch-people-profiles-2.doc  This is another compilation of student assignments on the “movers and shakers” of the last three centuries of church history. Some good stuff here. Well done guys!

Modern Church History: PEOPLE PROFILES

mch-people-profiles.doc This is a compilation of the sketches sent in thus far.

Modern Church History: The Eighteenth Century English Church

Welcome to the Modern Church History group where we will enjoy a brisk sprint through three centuries of Christian development. The story starts with Modern Church History Seminar 1: The English Church in the Eighteenth Century, where we encounter and examine the work of George Whitfield and the Wesley brothers across the British Isles and into [...]

Links to Pentecostalism Web Sites

 The Origins of the Pentecostal Movement. This site provides a very extensive review on the origins of the Pentecostal movement beginning from the nineteenth century Holiness movement and ending with the emergence of Neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic movements of the 1960′s.

Modern Church History: Twentieth CenturyPentecostalism

A Brief Overview of the Pentecostal MovementNotes from Oral Roberts University http://www.oru.edu/university/library/holyspirit/pentorg1.html The Pentecostal movement is by far the largest and most important religious movement to originate in the United States. Beginning in 1901 with only a handful of students in a Bible School inTopeka, Kansas, the number of Pentecostals increased steadily throughout the world [...]