The online scriptorium of author and pastor Matthew Burden
Reflections on the Christian Life
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Photo of the Week
Monday, January 29, 2024
Sunday, January 21, 2024
No New Posts This Week
I'm taking a week off to focus on some writing and grant applications for a patristics research project. Normal posts should resume next week.
Friday, January 19, 2024
A Prayer from Macarius the Great (adapted)
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Church History: American Christianity in the Nineteenth Century
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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)
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Photo of the Week
Monday, January 15, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
A Prayer from John Paul II (adapted)
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Church History: From Europe to the World - Nineteenth-Century Movements
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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
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Photo of the Week
Monday, January 08, 2024
Quote of the Week
"Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, defend the truth even to death."