Progressive Protestantism and Education
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From Junipero Serra to the Jesus People: Southern California in the History of Christianity
Transcript of Progressive Protestantism and Education
From Junipero Serra to the Jesus People:
Southern Californiain the History of Christianity
February 15:
California as a Mission Field on the Far Side
of the World
Feb. 22: Mission San Luis Rey
and the Luiseño Indians
Occidental College in 1910
March 1Progressive Protestants:
Christian Liberal Arts in Southern California
March 8: Progressive Protestants:
The Ethnic Mission at Home
Aimee Semple McPherson , Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
March 15:
Southern California’s Leadership in Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
March 22:
Plain-FolkProtestantism:
Pasadena, Pepperdine,
andRonald Reagan
March 29:
The Jesus People
Movement In
Southern California
Main Missions (Many more Asistencias)
1769-1823Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769)
Mission San Carlos Borremeo de Carmelo (1770)Mission San Antonio de Padua (1771) Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (1771)
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (1772) Mission San Francisco de Asís (1776) Mission San Juan Capistrano (1776) Mission Santa Clara de Asís (1777)Mission San Buenaventura (1782)
Two Failures on Colorado River—not Serra’s
Mission Santa Bárbara (1786) Mission La Purisima Concepción (1787)
Mission Santa Cruz (1791) Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791)
Mission San José de Guadalupe (1797) Mission San Juan Bautista (1797)
Mission San Miguel Arcángel (1797) Mission San Fernando Rey de España (1797)
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (1798)Mission Santa Inés (1804)
Mission San Rafael Arcángel (1817) Mission San Francisco de Solano (1823)
The Plan:“Foster Parent” to Indians and Indian Land
Temporary –ideally 10 years (?)Membership: Neophytes/Baptized then Confirmed
Goal: Self-governing Indian Pueblos
with church on plaza: Indian priests and multi-racial congregation
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (1771)
Mission San Luis Rey and the Luiseño Indians
And St. Bartholmew’s Chapel
On the Rincon Reservation
Pablo Tac 1822-1841-Born at Mission San Luis Rey-Along with Agapito Amamix is taken by Fray Antonio Peyri in 1832 to College of San Fernando in Mexico City-Enter the Urban College in Rome on September 24, 1834 (12 years old)-Studying for priesthood, but both die of small pox.-Writes Conversión de los San Luiseños de la Alta California while in Rome.
Layers of History in San Pasqual Valley:-Indian Rancheria-Indian Pueblo—Mexican -Battle Site—Mex-Am War-Wild Animal Park-San Pasqual Academy for foster care of older kids.
Santa Margarita Indian Pueblo
San DieguitoIndian Pueblo
Three Indian Pueblos set up by Gov. Figueroa
1895 Landmarks Club—Restore Missions and build a “Camino Real Highway” 1901 Sequoya League: “To make better Indians and better treated ones.”
Zephyrin (Charles Anthony) Engelhardt, O.F.M., (1851-1934)Picture at Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1915Compiled a written vocabulary for Pomo Indians in Northern California,Ran a school at Aqua Caliente reservation, and tried to help the Cupeno at Warner Ranch when they were being moved by forced to Pala in 1902.
Indian Reorganization Act (1934): Return to self government on a tribal basis.
Revival of “Blood Quantum” as means to delineate tribal membership and Indian benefits. Key is to prove membership to one tribe by blood percentage. Many struggles as tribal membership entails access to wealth.
Methodist ministers and laymen founded University of the Pacific in 1851 in Santa Clara, California. Says it is oldest “chartered” college
Santa Clara University, the oldest college in California founded in 1851, is the only college in the state to be the successor of a Spanish mission. Below is Mission Santa Clara in 1849.
Colleges in Santa ClaraIn 1851
1852 : The Young Ladies’ Seminary in Benicia--now Mills College -Missionaries Cyrus and Susan Mills bought the Seminary in 1865 for $5,000, renamed it Mills College, and moved it in 1871-Led by Oberlin graduate Mary Atkins. -Equal education and opportunity for women.
Julia Morgan’s tower, 1903-4.
Samuel H. Willey (b. 1821)-Grad Dartmouth in 1845-Ordained Presbyterian - American Home Missionary Society, Willey, at age 27, was appointed to Monterey, California- Chaplain at the 1849 Constitutional Convention of the State of California.- Deep interest in education, especially for girls, Indians, and Mexicans - Moves to Benecia and helps found Young Ladies Seminary that is now Mills College.- In San Francisco helps found Hamlin School for girls.- 1853, in Oakland, he and the Rev. Henry
Durant founded the Contra Costa Academy. In 1855 the Academy was incorporated into the College of California 1868 the College become University of California.
Westward the course of empire takes its way. Time’s noblest offspring would be the last.
-Bishop George Berkeley
An Athens of the West.-Pres. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Sather Tower: Aspiration for Truth
Congregationalist College becomes University of California in 1868
California Domestic Progressivism: California as spiritually and physically healthy, a place where life can be good, maybe better.
Phineas Bresee : (1838 – 1915)-1883 comes to LA as Methodist minister -He was trustee of University of Southern California.-Social Gospel-Founder of Pasadena College in 1902 and Church of the Nazarene
Methodist Reform and Social Gospel Founding of USC, PLNU and Church of the Nazarene
Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1841 – 1938)-Followed Brothers to “Garden of Eden” in Calif-With brother he founded USC and became its
2nd president-A founder with Bresee of the Church of the
Nazarene and PLNU.-Wrote Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
best-selling, two volume work,about history of Aryan-Americansand responsibility to world “White Man’s Burden”
Bible Institute of Los AngelesFounded 1908 Funded by Lyman Stewart, co-owner of Union Oil Company of California
