Thursday, January 18, 2024

Church History: American Christianity in the Nineteenth Century



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Lecture Notes Outline

-        The Second Great Awakening – camp meetings and revivals

o   Charles Finney & revivalist preaching

o   Isaac Case’s ministry in Maine

o   D. L. Moody’s evangelistic rallies

-        Religious ferment produces new movements

o   Earlier minority movements expand – Quakers and Shakers

o   Millenarian Christian movements – Dispensationalists (Darbyites/Brethren), Seventh-Day Adventists, Advent Christian Church

o   Restorationist Christian movements – Stone-Campbell Movement, Churches of Christ, Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ)

o   Pseudo-Christian movements – Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and others

o   Ethnic churches – immigrant denominations, Native American movements, and African-American churches

-        The Holiness Movement

o   Phoebe Palmer & women in ministry

o   Faith and prayer – George Mueller, J. Hudson Taylor

o   Nazarenes, Keswick movement, and early Pentecostal-style movements

-        Slavery and Abolition

o   Denominational debates over slavery – splits in Wesleyans/Methodists, Northern/Southern Baptists, Northern/Southern Presbyterians, etc.

o   Maine authors and abolition – Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) & Mary Hayden Pike (Ida May)