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The Second Great Awakening – camp meetings and
revivals
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Charles Finney & revivalist preaching
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Isaac Case’s ministry in Maine
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D. L. Moody’s evangelistic rallies
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Religious ferment produces new movements
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Earlier minority movements expand – Quakers and
Shakers
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Millenarian Christian movements –
Dispensationalists (Darbyites/Brethren), Seventh-Day Adventists, Advent
Christian Church
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Restorationist Christian movements –
Stone-Campbell Movement, Churches of Christ, Christian Churches (Disciples of
Christ)
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Pseudo-Christian movements – Mormonism,
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and others
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Ethnic churches – immigrant denominations,
Native American movements, and African-American churches
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The Holiness Movement
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Phoebe Palmer & women in ministry
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Faith and prayer – George Mueller, J. Hudson
Taylor
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Nazarenes, Keswick movement, and early
Pentecostal-style movements
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Slavery and Abolition
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Denominational debates over slavery – splits in
Wesleyans/Methodists, Northern/Southern Baptists, Northern/Southern
Presbyterians, etc.
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Maine authors and abolition – Harriet Beecher
Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) & Mary Hayden Pike (Ida May)
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Developments in Europe
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Revolutions, scientific progress, and
colonialism
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Eastern Orthodoxy re-emerges on the world stage
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Roman Catholicism versus modernism
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Papal infallibility, immaculate conception, and
the First Vatican Council
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Anglicanism continues to explore its identity –
high-church or low-church?
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Evangelicals in Britain – from the Clapham Sect
to Charles Spurgeon
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Global Christianity
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William Carey & the Protestant mission
movement
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American missionaries – ABCFM & Adoniram
Judson
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Early pioneers in Bible translation
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Christianity & colonialism
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Indigenous missionary movements
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