Church HistoryBraving the WorldNew

the Word & Tablethrough two millennium

A Timeline ofChurch History

Medieval ChurchAncientChurch

600 1500

ReformationChurch

2000

ModernChurch

ca. 33

The Diet of Worms

Unless by Scripture or Clear Reason…

The Solae of the Reformation

Christian Historians Record Five Solae:

Sola Scriptura

Sola Fide

Sola Gratia

Solus Christus

Soli Deo Gloria

The Legacy ofThe Reformation

Results of the Reformation:

The Bible is Made Available to the “Laity.”

Pockets of Christianity Spring Up All Over

Rise of the Secular State

New Ideas Spread Rapidly

UnfetteredMinds

Rene Decartes (1596-1650)

“I think, therefore I am.”

Cartesian Doubt – “never to accept anything as truth which I do not clearly know to be such.”

UnfetteredMinds

Voltaire (1694-1778)

“I believe in God; not the God of the mystics and the theologians, but the God of nature, the great geometrician, the architect of the universe, the prime mover, unalterable, transcendent, everlasting.”

UnfetteredMinds

Rousseau (1712-1778)

“Our most sublime notions of the Deity come to us through reason alone. Gaze upon nature, give heed to the inner voice.”

Rejected the uniqueness of Christ and Christianity.

UnfetteredMinds

John Locke (1632-1704)

-Revelation is a legitimate source of knowledge, yet it is subject to the scrutiny of reason.-Natural Rights of Man/Social Contract.-Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions

UnfetteredMinds

David Hume (1711-1776)

“It is contrary to experience that a miracle should be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false.”

Enlightened, but…Unfettered Minds

The Basic Ideas Rejected:

The Indissolubility ofHuman Guilt.

The Radical Enslavementof Man to Sin.

“Things aren’t so bad with mankind.”

Beyond theEnlightenment

Responding to Reason:

Pietism – Practical Christianity vs. Intellectual

Revivalism – Missions & Evangelism Explode

Immanuel Kant – Writes against the use of strict reason, but grounds religion in human faculty…duty.

The New Worldis Braved

Beginnings of the American Experience:

Pilgrimage of the Separatists Puritans, “a city set upon a hill.”

Maryland – quasi-Catholic Colony.Carolinas– Anglicanism.Georgia – anything goes.Rhode Island – the Baptists.

Revival &Revivalism

Jonathan Edwards (1632-1704)

“I was preaching the Word & praying...”

…and so were others, who were trained, mobilized, and willing to proclaim.

Church HistoryBraving the New World

the Word & Tablethrough two millennium