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The Entire Story of the Church
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With the birth of the church, do all these
problems disappear?
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History repeats itself. Has to. No-one listens.
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What spectacles are we looking through?

• the selectivity of those who made records
• generations of church history interpretation
• what I think is important! including the
  understanding of the cross, and the working of
  the Holy Spirit, the work of the church
• We have to understand the CONTEXT WHEN THESE
  EVENTS OCCURED

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What we can learn
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The Spreading Fire
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The Rapid Spreading of the Good News

• enabled by effective transport, communication,
  and Pax Romana
• overseen by apostles
• early persecution prompts widening circle
  Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and beyond

49 AD
54 AD
58 AD
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Understanding the place of Jewish faith

• Council of Jerusalem AD 44
  (no need for convert to become a Jew to be a
  Chrsitain)
• Council of Jamnia c AD 90
  (Christians excluded from synagogues as heretics)

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Challenges of change as time passes
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• Jesus hasnt returned!
• the apostles have all died

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Persecution

• destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70) scatters
  Christians
• ongoing danger under Roman rule
• varied worst offenders
  Nero (60s) and Domitian (90s)

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Persecution

• destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70) scatters
  Christians
• ongoing danger under Roman rule
• varied worst offenders
  Nero (60s) and Domitian (90s)

• recognising martyrs.
• (emergence of god-parents)

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Defining faith combating heresy

• Gnosticism Special knowledge physical evil
• Docetism Jesus only appeared to suffer
• Justin Martyr c 100 c 165 Faith reason
• Irenaeus c 130 c 200 First great theologian
• Tertullian c 160 c 225
• Most of Bible accepted by AD 200

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Emergence of Christian monasticism

• in Egypt Antony (?251-356) pursues disciplines
  holiness in desert
• foundations of Coptic church

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By this time

• Aided by easy travel in the Roman Empire,
  Christian faith in the near East, much of Europe,
  parts of N. and Central Africa, India, Sri Lanka,
  Afghanistan
• 12 of the world is Christian
• of these 66 non-white, 34 white
• world 36 evangelised
• There is no nation indeed that is not Christian
  Tertullian, AD 197
• scriptures in 13 languages

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• The prophetical gifts remain with us Justin
  Martyr (c 100 c 165)
• Some do certainly and truly drive out devils
  others have foreknowledge of things to come
  others still, heal the sick the dead even have
  been raised up (Irenaeus 140 203)
• How many have been delivered from devils, and
  healed of diseases! (Tertullian, c 160 c
  215)

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• understanding rooted in experience and the
  examination of (Old Testament) scripture
• victory over powers of death and sin
• sacrifice
• the death of Gods servant in our place (but as
  representative rather than substitute)
• Origen (c185 c254) death of Jesus ransom paid
  to Satan

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• Christian faith first reaches Britain around AD
  61 through Roman soldiers merchants
• origin of Celtic churches

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• God uses persecution and suffering

• important task of defining faith
• how much can be done without church buildings!
  (first permanent church buildings c. AD200)

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Respectability!
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• conversion of Constantine
• Christian faith first legalised, (313) then
  compelled (394)

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• conversion of Constantine
• Christian faith first legalised, (313) then
  compelled (394)

• Constantines mother, Helena, starts building
  churches over Holy Land sites

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
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• conversion of Constantine
• Christian faith first legalised, (313) then
  compelled (394)
• Constantines mother, Helena, starts building
  churches over Holy Land sites
• Arian heresy (Jesus the Son but not truly
  divine) rejected at Council of Nicea (325)

• Capital of Roman Empire moved to
  Byzantium?Constantinople? Istanbul (foundations
  of East/West divide)

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Constantinople
Rome
Respectability!
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• canon of New Testament agreed (367)
• creeds developed to define faith (Nicene
  ?381)
• Vulgate (Latin translation of Bible) completed by
  Jerome (404)
• Augustine of Hippo completes City of God (426)
  Believe in order to understand
• conversion by community (c 450)
• end of Roman Empire in West (476)

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By this time

• Christian faith now further into Africa
  (Ethiopia?, Sudan), widely into central Asia
• 22 of the world is Christian
• of these 62 non-white, 38 white
• 80 of Roman Empire is Christian
• world 42 evangelised
• scriptures in 13 languages
• From India to Britain, all nations resound with
  the death and resurrection of Christ
  (Jerome, 378)

Respectability!
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It is sometimes objected that the miracles,
which Christians claim to have occurred, no
longer happen The truth is that even today
miracles are being wrought in the name of Christ,
sometimes through His sacraments and sometimes
through the intercession of the relics of his
saints. (Augustine, 354-430) This account, in
The City of God, continues to give many
specific examples of healing and raising from
death
Respectability!
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In this era, the theological focus is on Jesus
being fully God, and the nature of the Trinity
there is no significant development of
understanding about why Jesus died for us
Respectability!
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• evidence of organised church in England bishops
  attend council! (314)
• first Christians (monks from Crete) reach
  Hibernia ( Ireland) (350)
• Patrick evangelises Ireland (432)

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• evidence of organised church in England bishops
  attend council! (314)
• first Christians (monks from Crete) reach
  Hibernia ( Ireland) (350)
• Patrick evangelises Ireland (432)
• first Christians on the Isle of Man (442)

Respectability!
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• advantages and disadvantages of linking church
  and state
• essential to defend Jesus and the Holy Spirit as
  fully God (e.g.in answering cults)

Respectability!
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Disintegration
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Disintegration in society

• the Dark Ages
• no Emperor in West
• urban life virtually disappears

Disintegration
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The abuse of power

• the rise of an institutional church in
  the West, political power for the Pope
• rivalry between Rome Constantinople
• forced baptisms
  c 540 - Emperor Justinian 70,000 Asia Minor
• c 780 - Charlemagne Saxon race. Pope Leo
  III crowns Charlemagne as first Holy
  Roman Emperor in 780
• c 870 Boris, King of the Bulgars - Serbs

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The rise of Islam
622 Muhammads flight Mecca ? Medina 638
Jerusalem falls to Muslims 660 mass
conversions to Islam in Egypt 697 North Africa
under Muslim control 837 Prohibitions for
Christians in Egypt 949 50 of former
Christendom now under Muslim control
Disintegration
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Some positive dimensions

• rise of Western monasticism
  Benedict, 529 Odo at Cluny 927-942
• continuing geographical spread of gospel
• vigour of Celtic Christianity

Disintegration
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By this time

• Christian faith has reached untouched parts of
  Europe (Netherlands, East Germany, Sweden,
  Denmark, Norway, Czechoslovakia) Mongolia,
  Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan, Iceland. In parts
  of China, it is becoming the dominant religion
• but now only 19 of world Christian
• of which 58 white, 42 non white
• world 26 evangelised
• scriptures in 17 languages

Disintegration
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Records of supernatural works of the
Holy Spirit in this era are sparse, but they
are there for
example in the ministry of Gregory of Tours
(c 538-594 healing,
deliverance, raising the dead) and Gregory the
Great (540-604
visions, prophecy miracles)
Disintegration
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No significant development
Disintegration
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c 510 for next 400 years, Irish Peregrini c
550 Christianity reaches Channel Islands
563 Scotland evangelised by Columba (from
Ireland)
Disintegration
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c 510 for next 400 years, Irish Peregrini c
550 Christianity reaches Channel Islands
563 Scotland evangelised by Columba (from
Ireland) 596 Augustine sent by Pope to
England baptises King (597)
10,000 Saxons

parliament adopts Christian faith
Disintegration
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c 510 for next 400 years, Irish Peregrini c
550 Christianity reaches Channel Islands
563 Scotland evangelised by Columba (from
Ireland) 596 Augustine sent by Pope to
England baptises King (597)
10,000 Saxons

parliament adopts Christian faith
c 670 songs of Caedmon 730 Bedes Church
History of the English People
Disintegration
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• the inheritance left by each generation
• the dangers of civil power and compulsion
  regarding Christian values
• how Islam looks compared
  to Christian faith

• the values of the Celtic
  church

Chapel at the Northumbria Community
Disintegration
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A Golden Age of Spirituality (and
Holy War)
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Renewal-focussed monasticism

• Christian mysticism St Bernard of
  Clairvaux (1090-1153)
• Cluny return to pure Benedictine (but
  integrated to society)
• St Francis of Assisi (1186-1226)
  ? Franciscans

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Renewal-focussed monasticism

• Christian mysticism St Bernard of
  Clairvaux (1090-1153)
• Cluny return to pure Benedictine (but
  integrated to society)
• St Francis of Assisi (1186-1226)
  ? Franciscans
• Dominic (1170-1221)
  ? Dominicans

Spirituality (and Holy War)
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Challenge to the Institutional church

• Peter Valdes (d. c 1210) - movement of
  preaching, voluntary poverty rejecting
  worldliness, church clericalism, hierarchy,
  saints relics
  ? Waldensians
• Church treats as heresy
  then friars adopt many of their values
  regarding simplicity!
• 1199 Pope Innocent III Inquisition
• Conflict between Popes Kings Pope to
  France in 1305

Spirituality (and Holy War)
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Serious Systematic thinking

• Anselm of Canterbury (c 1033 1109)
• Peter Abelard (1079 1102)
• Thomas Aquinas (c 1225 1274)
  Summa Theologica Five Ways
  
  (In 1879, Pope declares Aquinass
  theology eternally valid)

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Serious Systematic thinking

• Anselm of Canterbury (c 1033 1109)
• Peter Abelard (1079 1102)
• Thomas Aquinas (c 1225 1274)
  Summa Theologica Five Ways
  
  (In 1879, Pope declares Aquinass
  theology eternally valid)

• William of Ockham (c 1290-1349)

Spirituality (and Holy War)
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but also some less helpful things
1054 Great Schism between West (Rome) and East
(Constantinople)
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but also some less helpful things
1095 start of Crusades
1099 Jerusalem taken
1187 Jerusalem lost
1228
Jerusalem regained (by negotiation)
1244 Jerusalem recaptured by Muslims
1291 final fall of Crusader states
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but also some less helpful things
1347 Black Death sweeps across Europe 33 killed

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By this time

• Christian faith has reached Poland, Greenland,
  Finland, Gibraltar, Ukraine but the church in
  North Africa is almost extinguished. 1266 missed
  opportunity Kubla Khan Russia, Persian

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Send me 100 men skilled in your religion and
so I shall be baptised, and then all my barons
and great men, and then their subjects. And so
there will be more Christians here than there are
in your parts
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By this time

• Christian faith has reached Poland, Greenland,
  Finland, Gibraltar, Ukraine but the church in
  North Africa is almost extinguished. 1266 missed
  opportunity Kubla Khan Russia, Persian

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• 24 of world Christian
• 67 white, 33 non white
• the world is 28 evangelised
• scripture in 28 languages

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concerning this anointing of the sick, we hold
it as an article of faith, and profess sincerely
from the heart that sick persons, when they ask
it, may lawfully be anointed with the anointing
oil by one who joins them in praying that it may
be efficacious to the healing of the body The
Waldensians
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• first developed doctrine of why Jesus died
• Cur Deus Homo
• based on mediaeval honour
• What could repay the debt of honour owed to God
  by human rebellion? (objective theory of
  atonement)

Anselm c1033-1109 Archbishop of Canterbury
1093
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• love affair with Heloise

• effect of Calvary is through the response of love
  that it evokes in the sinner
  (subjective theory of atonement)

Peter Abailard 1070-1142
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• much church-building (romanesque gothic)
• issues of state and church Henry II sought
  superiority for the state over the churchs
  courts
• murder of Thomas Becket (?1118-1170)

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• rhythms of monastic life
• value of systematic theology
• issue of Holy War

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Confusion Corruption
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Spiritual ground lost
1378 The (second) Great Schism (choice of
Popes) 1415 Jan Hus martyred for seeking
reform 1478 The Spanish Inquisition 1480s Church
grows in wealth Popes grow in corruption
(Borgias) St Peters Sistine chapel built
start of shift
from universal to national church
Confusion Corruption
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More geographical territory lost
Mongols take China, India, Asia, parts of
Mediterranean
Confusion Corruption
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Some positives
Growth of Christian mysticism
Catherine of Siena, The Cloud of Unknowing,
Julian of Norwich Thomas à Kempis (c1380-1471)
The Imitation of Christ First printing (1450)
leads to more Bibles Mission (Franciscan
Dominican) to Muslims to Central Asia start of
Portugese Spanish exploration to the West

Confusion Corruption
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Christian faith has reached Senegal, Zaire,
Nigeria, Kenya, Haiti, Dominican Republic but
virtually extinct in Central Asia 19 of world
is Christian of which 92 white world 21
evangelised printed scriptures available in
12 languages
Confusion Corruption
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Colette of Corbi known
for miraculous works
Confusion Corruption
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No significant development
Confusion Corruption
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John Wyclif c 1329-1384.
Opposed corrupt clergy, transubstantiation.
First English Bible.
FollowersLollards
Confusion Corruption
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The dangers of church wealth
and political power
Confusion Corruption
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reactions to it)
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Martin Luther 1483 -1546
1517 Academic paper by obscure monk Rejected
theology based solely on tradition and
indulgences. Sought personal understanding
experience of Gods word 1520 Excommunicated
1521 Diet of Worms
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1545 Against the Roman Papacy, instituted by the
Devil
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Martin Luther 1483 -1546
1517 Academic paper by obscure monk Rejected
theology based solely on tradition and
indulgences. Sought personal understanding
experience of Gods word 1520 Excommunicated
1521 Diet of Worms
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1545 Against the Roman Papacy, instituted by the
Devil
Reform (and reactions to it)
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Martin Luther 1483 -1546
1517 Academic paper by obscure monk Rejected
theology based solely on tradition and
indulgences. Sought personal understanding
experience of Gods word 1520 Excommunicated
1521 Diet of Worms
Should the devil come to me by night and harass
me, I drive him away with a ft
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1545 Against the Roman Papacy, instituted by the
Devil
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Reform (and reactions to it)
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Reformation principles

• Church founded on scripture
  Reject authority of Pope, good works,
  indulgences, mediation of Mary,
  transubstantiation, masssacrifice, prayers for
  dead, celibacy of clergy, private confession to
  priest, Latin, associated paraphenalia
• Salvation by grace alone
• Priesthood of all believers

John Calvin (1509-1564) Institutes
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Reformation principles

• Church founded on scripture
  Reject authority of Pope, good works,
  indulgences, mediation of Mary,
  transubstantiation, masssacrifice, prayers for
  dead, celibacy of clergy, private confession to
  priest, Latin, associated paraphenalia
• Salvation by grace alone
• Priesthood of all believers

John Calvin (1509-1564) Institutes
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Reaction to the Reformation

• Anabaptists
  Most radical reformers adult
  baptism
• Council of Trent (1545-1563)
  Dealt with most flagrant
  abuses, but reaffirmed mediaeval orthodoxy
• Birth of non-conformity in England

Reform (and reactions to it)
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Christian faith reaches much of South America,
much of southern Africa, the Far East, the USA
(1526), Canada (1534), Japan world is 21
Christian of which 83 white printed
scriptures in 45 languages
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Luther instructs on deliverance
prophecy Ignatius of Loyola speaks of the freedom
of the Spirit to distribute gifts as He
wills Teresa of Avila talks of a language of the
Spirit used in prayer Quakers shake
Reform (and reactions to it)
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Luther rejects satisfaction, teaches voluntary
substitution Calvin advocates Penal theory Law
inherently requires that punishment must be made
Is forgiveness real?
Difficult implications for trinity?

• Father who cannot look on sin, Son who is friend
  of sinners
• Fathers wrath must be satisfied, Son appeases Him

Reform (and reactions to it)
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The State
1534 Henry VIII proclaims
himself Head of
Church of England 1555/6 Martyrdom of Ridley,
Latimer, Cranmer
(Queen Mary)
1560 Act of Uniformity
Reform (and reactions to it)
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Birth of nonconformity

• Puritans latter 16th century
• Congregationalists from 1581

• Baptists from 1608

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• Quakers from c 1650

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• personal faith
• rejection of meaningless tradition
• centrality of Scripture
• grace not works

• priesthood of all believers

• Mercy is when God does not give us
  what we deserve
  Grace is when He gives us
  what we do not
  deserve

Reform (and reactions to it)
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Reason Revival
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Changing world-view the place of Reason (The
Enlightenment)

• Descartes (1596-1650) Doubt. Cogito ergo sum
• Spinoza (1632-1677) God nature
• Locke (1632-1704) tabula rasa
• Hume (1711-1776) miracles against nature
• Kant (1724-1804) impossible to think
  coherently about God

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Reason Revival
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A season of revival
Jonathan Edwards from 1734, New England USA
(1792)
Howell Harris from 1739, Wales
(1785, 1786, 1791, 1805, 1810)
John Wesley from 1739, England ? Methodists
George Whitefield from 1741, England Wales
Reason Revival
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A bigger picture of mission

• Baptist Missionary Society 1792

• Sunday Schools Robert Raikes 1780

• Evangelicals
  1783 Charles Simeon, evangelical student
  movement 1807 Wilberforce slave
  trade
  later (from 1840s),Lord Shaftesbury, social
  reform
• Church Missionary Society 1799
• (British Foreign) Bible Society 1804

Reason Revival
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Christian faith has reached Gambia, Nepal,
Falkland Islands, New Zealand, Australia world is
24 Christian of which 86 white world 30
evangelised printed Bible in 44 languages
(portions in 86)
Reason Revival
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Supernatural manifestations
in revival
Jonathan Edwards, Wesley
Reason Revival
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No significant development in theory dread of
hell judgement in revival
Reason Revival
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From 1800, awakenings in Scotland
Reason Revival
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Gods sovereign hand in revival
Reason Revival
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Industrialisation, Empires Institutions
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Many changes!
Society industry gt urban concentration
Science Darwins theory of evolution Study Bibl
ical criticism Thinking Hegel, Marx,
Nietzsche Empires Russian, British, Belgian,
Dutch, French, US, German
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• Papal infallibility 1870
• France secularised 1870
• growth of evangelical influence
• pulpit power authority of scripture Finney,
  Moody, Sankey, C.H. Spurgeon. USA
  inter-denominational city wide mission
• structured mission through empire Hudson Taylor,
  David Livingstone

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• Azuza Street revival (1906 USA) pentecostalism
• foundations of ecumenical movement
• beginnings of cults Mormons 1830,
  Christadelphians 1844, Jehovahs witness 1870,
  Christian Scientists 1879, Spiritualists 1893

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• Christian faith continues to reach into Africa,
  Hong Kong, isolated islands
• world 34 Christian
• of which 76 white
• world 52 evangelised
• printed scriptures in 676 languages

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Resurgence of gifts of
tongues, prophecy, healing
manifestations
in revivals in Wales. Second blessing theology
emerges Little impact in mainstream of church
Industrialisation, Empires Institutions
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Exploration of dimension of penitence
(penitentiaries in USA)
leads to growth in subjective
theories about why
Jesus died
Industrialisation, Empires Institutions
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• growth of non-conformity church/chapel divide
• Brethren 1827
• repealed laws re nonconformists RCs 1828 gt
• awakening in Scottish Highlands 1839-43
• the Oxford Movement 1845
  250 clergy
  enter church of Rome by 1862

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• revival in England, Scotland Wales 1859
• Cornish revivals 1861
• Salvation Army 1865
• Keswick Covention 1875
• revival in Wales 1904/5 Evan Roberts gt world
• disestablishment Ireland 1869 Wales 1914

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• city mission
• the whole church of Jesus

Industrialisation, Empires Institutions
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• horror of WW I II despair nuclear threat
• Communist purges in USSR from 1917
  Persecution of church in soviet bloc, China
• refugees from 1945
• emerging recognition of
  female leadership

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• growth of Messianic believers
• World Council of Churches 1948 147 churches
• mass evangelism 1950 Billy Graham
• international radio 1954
• Albania first Atheist state 1966
• failure of economic promise in West
• rise of interest in West in other faiths /
  new age

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• decline of church in West
• growth of church in Africa from 1950s, South
  America from 1970s
• Rise of Pentecostals /
  charismatics
• more appropriate recognition
  of indigenous churches

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• Pope Patriarch meet 1964 first time in 900 yrs!
• expansion of evangelicalism
• Church of North India 1970
• Liberation Theology
  South America 1970s, Palestine
• City-wide movements
  Korea (prayer mountains, worlds largest church)
  
  South America (power of unity)

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• March for Jesus
  United world-wide witness by millions

• emergence of deeper intimacy in worship

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only most isolated regions not touched world is
32 Christian 50 white world 75-85
evangelised 93 have
church in own culture 98 has resident national
or expatriot witness printed scriptures in 2708
languages 405 whole Bible 1034 NT 864
some scripture
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• growth of charismatic belief 345 million
  
• renewal movements

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themes of
healing of relationship, reconciliation,
return of prodigal
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The whole church

• challenge of multi-faith society
• movements towards structural unity United
  Reformed Church
• unity as foundation for mission
  partly as a response to massive numerical decline

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Renewal

• Smith Wigglesworth 1947 Word and
  Spirit prophecy

• charismatic renewal
  1960 gt C of E 1962 gt RCs 1967

• John Wimber from 1980s

• Toronto from 1994

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partnership reconciliation in church recognise
we dont have right to be heard! honesty in
renewal accept that the Holy Spirit may
surprise us again!
Anxiety, Adaptation Anticipation
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