Thursday, November 30, 2023

Church History: The Age of Reason and Awakenings, Part 1 (17th-18th centuries)





Lecture Notes Outline

-        The Puritans in England

-   Discontentment with the Anglican settlement

-   Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War

-   The Westminster Confession

-   The Act of Conformity (1662)

-        Stagnation: Religious Wars & Nominal Faith

-   The Wars of Religion & the Peace of Westphalia (1648)

-   State religion

-   Life in the parish system

-   Sacraments vs. personal faith

-        Stirrings on the Continent: Quietism & Pietism

-   Madame Guyon, Francois Fenelon, and Catholic Quietism

-   Philip Spener & Lutheran Pietism

-   Zinzendorf & the Moravians