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 known as the Tractarian Movement after its series of publications, Tracts for the Times (1833–1841); the Tractarians were also called Puseyites (usually disparagingly) after one of their leaders, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford. Other prominent Tractarians included John Henry Newman, a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, John Keble, Archdeacon Henry Edward Manning, Richard Hurrell Froude, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Wilberforce, Isaac Williams and Sir William Palmer (more…)
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 of 3) essay questions (30%)
The short answer questions will probably be famous names (cf that list etc) / date recognition (1815, 1869, 1962 etc)/ events (, Vatican 1 etc)
The paragraph questions will be explaining events (Tractarians, Chartists, Darwin controversy, Liberalism, Fundamentalism)
The essay questions will be a choice (Context and outcome of vatican 1 and 2/ Cause Course and Consequence of 1st or 2nd Awakening/ Impact of Industrial revolution on English religion etc)
Introduction to Doctrine
Short answer questions: famous names/ theological names (Harnack,Bultmann. kenosis, pneumatology, etc)
Paragraph questions: on theological themes
Essay questions on ;larger doctrinal themes: authority, revelation, scripture/ christology/ doctrine of God/ pneumatology (Holy Spirit in the Bible etc)
Christology
Just a reminder to Year 3 Christology module: there is no final exam but TWO ASSIGNMENTS (Jesus in John 1 and Christ to Constantine are due by June 4th (Sorry: this is final cut-off date…. we cannot accept late submissions on this one, because of marking exigencies)
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 typical question for your Modern Church History final would be to compare the historical contexts and outcomes of the two councils.
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!
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. (more…)
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 during the Twentieth Century until by 1993 they had become the largest family of Protestants in the world. With over 200,000,000 members designated as denominational Pentecostals, this group surpassed the Orthodox churches as the second largest denominational family of Christians, surpassed only by the Roman Catholics. (more…)
