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John D. Woodbridge,Frank A. James III

Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day

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Church history is the story of the greatest community the world has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the people who have made up the church down through the ages.

Church History, Volume Two is an account of the ups and downs, the triumphs and struggles, of the Christian movement. It offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the just prior to the Reformation and through the next five-hundred-plus years into the present-day. This book looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church, detailing the times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church.

Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
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1,486 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • Valerimae Tenderohas quoted6 years ago
    They sometimes linked moral decline to the nefarious influence of Arianism, atheism, and deism within English society. They believed that the real goal of atheistic and deistic authors was to justify licentious lifestyles.
  • Valerimae Tenderohas quoted6 years ago
    They were especially hostile toward the followers of George Fox (1624–91), who after a mystical conversion (1647) indicated that Christ, the “Inner Light,” through “immediate revelations” directly leads believers. Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers), was arrested eight times. In 1681 William Penn, who had also spent time in prison, was allowed to emigrate to America and there established a refuge for Quakers in what got called “Penn’s Woods” — that is, Pennsylvania.
  • Valerimae Tenderohas quoted6 years ago
    On January 22, 1689, Parliament approved the Declaration of Rights, or the English Bill of Rights, which redefined the authority of monarchs and also barred any Catholic from becoming a monarch in the future. The Anglican clergy rejoiced that their church could enjoy a renewed privileged status. On January 31 they praised God’s providence in delivering England. A much relieved Bishop John Tillotson declared that the English were “next to the Jewish nation … a people highly favored by God above all the nations of the earth.”

    On February 13 “William and Mary” —as they are commonly referred to—were proclaimed king and queen of England.

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