CHURCH HISTORY IICHURCH HISTORY IILesson 19Lesson 19

Across the Water

Apostolic Church

Apostolic Fathers

Church Councils

Church History

Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD

Golden Age of Church Fathers

Reformation & Counter Reformation

Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism

Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism

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Ancient Church History Medieval Church History Modern Church History

The Pre-Reformers

The First Medieval Pope

The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire

The Crusades

The Papacy in Decline

1517 1648 1790 2007

MODERN ERA

Reformation and Religious Wars

Polemical Orthodoxy; rise of different schools of theological thought

Modern Missionary Era;

Includes infidelity & various forms of modernism

FOCUS ON AMERICA

Importance and interest to usImpact on the world

CHALLENGES

Multiplication of distinct and separate churches

Multiplication of locations

Multiplication of information

Across the water….Across the water….The Colonization of North America

Spanish & Portuguese Central & South AmericaFrench Canada, Louisiana,

Mississippi River Valley

“for God and gold”

Why is the study of the 13 colonies most important?

Sidney Ahlstrom A Religious History of the American People

•Sheer numbers “by 1710 Pennsylvania had more Europeans than all of New France

•The population of NE alone was greater than all white Spaniards

Huguenots

1562 Jean Ribaut

1564 Rene de Laudonniere

1555 Gaspar de Coligny - Brazil South America

North America

1685 revocation of edict of Nantes

Who came to America, and why?

I. Church of England (Anglican)

1607 Jamestown

1693 College of William & Mary

II. Pilgrims

1607 “Scroobyites” Holland

1620 Left England on Mayflower

Mayflower Compact

“church covenant applied to a political situation”

“Aimed for Virginia, hoped for Newfoundland, arrived in Mass”

After 7 years 267 came

58 died

53 moved

156 remained, plus servants

“But though these things did trouble them they did not dismay them, for since their desires were set on the ways of God and the enjoyment of his ordinances, they therefore rested on His providences and knew whom they had believed”

John Brown Pilgrim Fathers

III. Puritans

“It was an effort to rid the Christianity of England from all things contrary to biblical revelation, to remove all things whether in doctrine, discipline, ceremony or polity which had been added by Rome” Dr. Panosian

Ecclesiastical

Political

Doctrinal

Who were the Puritans?

Where did they come from?

“It was a vigorous effort to bring God’s discipline to this world, its people, and, preeminently, to God’s Church” Ahlstrom, p. 128

How did the Puritans leave England?

1628 New England Co.

1629 Massachusetts Bay Company

1630 April 8th Four ships sailed; Gov. John Winthrop

1. They had a firm covenant with one another;

2. They had a commission from God to go;

3. That the entire body must dwell together in Scriptural fashion; and,

4. That they would be examples to the present world and to future generations

‘a citty on a hill’

What did the Puritans seek to establish in New England?

A colony in which they could order their affairs so as to please God in everything they did

CHURCH

•They never renounced the Church of England

We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving England, “Farewell Babylon! Farewell Rome!” But we will say, “Farewell, dear England; farewell, the Church of God in England; and all the Christian friends there!” We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruption in it.

Francis Higginson

•They formed Churches by voluntarily covenanting together then calling or ordaining a pastor, or both

•They employed a congregational form of church government

CIVIL

•Civil government was God ordained

•Only church members should vote

•No democracy but oligarchy “the rule of the many by the few”

The church and state were separate, but dependent on each other

The Puritans wanted nothing of “religious toleration”

Applications or conclusions

•We must distinguish between our belief that they erred in their position regarding the relationship between the church and state while recognizing that they were following their own sincere convictions

•We must recognize that they attempted to maintain the unity of Christ’s universal church and not to be divisive