Thursday, December 07, 2023

Church History: The Age of Reason and Awakenings, Part 2 (17th-18th centuries)





Lecture Notes Outline

-        Nonconformists in England

-   Origins of the Congregationalists & Baptists

-   Persecution of Nonconformity

-   Isaac Watts & the rise of English hymnody

-   Rise of evangelicalism

-        The Evangelical Revival & the Great Awakening

-   Jonathan Edwards

-   John Wesley (Arminian)

-   George Whitefield (Calvinist)

-   Isaac Backus & Francis Asbury

-        Challenges of the Enlightenment

-   Unitarianism

-   Deism

-        English Protestant missions & activism

-   David Brainerd & the Native Americans

-   William Carey & world missions

-   William Wilberforce & the abolition of slavery