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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 32 European Christianity in the 19 th Century

CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 32 European Christianity in the 19 th Century. ENGLAND. I. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. A. The Broad Church. Latitudinarianism. The Church is NOT in good condition. B. The evangelical movement. The “low” church. 1. Evangelical revival.

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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 32 European Christianity in the 19 th Century

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  1. CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 32European Christianity in the 19th Century

  2. ENGLAND

  3. I. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND A. The Broad Church Latitudinarianism The Church is NOT in good condition B. The evangelical movement The “low” church 1. Evangelical revival 2. Departure of the Methodists 3. Church evangelicals-late 18th, early 19th century

  4. The Force of Truth Commentary on the Bible John Newton 1725-1807 Thomas Scott 1747-1821 “the Bible will teach predestination, election, and final perseverance in spit of my twisting and expounding it to try to make it teach something else.” “If there be anything of the work of God in my soul, I owe much of it to his (Scott’s) preaching when I first set out in the way of the Lord” Wm Carey

  5. Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge Charles Simeon 1759-1836 THE CLAPHAM SECT Horae Homileticae Lay Christians putting evangelical life into practice 21 volumes 2,536 sermons

  6. “God Almighty has put before me two great objects-the abolition of the slave trade and the reformation of the manners (conduct) of England.” 1807 Abolition of slave trade 1833 Emancipation of slaves William Wilberforce 1759-1833 A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (1797)

  7. Development of an Evangelical Party in the Church of England J. C. Ryle (1815-1900) Handley G C Moule 1841-1920 J. I. Packer Bishop of Liverpool Bishop of Durham John R W Stott

  8. Bishop Ryle: 1) Broad Church 2) Efforts to ‘un-Protestanize’ Church of England C. Anglo-Catholicism the ‘high’ church The Oxford Movement Tractarians John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Cardinal Newman Apolgia Pro Vita Sua

  9. Rt. Rev. Katherine Jeffers Schori Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church USA Bishop Gene Robinson

  10. II. THE NONCOMFORMIST Great Preacher Doctrinal Preacher The Forgotten Spurgeon Iain Murray Defender of the Evangelical Faith Downgrade Controversy C H Spurgeon (1834-1892) “The best preacher to preach Reformed Doctrine so that the common man could understand it” Dr. David Calhoun, 1999

  11. SCOTLAND

  12. The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk John Lorimer

  13. I. BACKGROUND A. Settlement of 1690 1560-1690 ‘tumultuous years’ Church of Scotland 1603 One King 1660-1689 Restoration of Stuarts Anglican-England Presbyterian-Scotland 1690: One King/Two Churches B. Outside Groups 1. Scottish Episcopalians 2. Covenanters 1743 The Reformed Presbyterian Church “Associate” “The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America”

  14. II. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND A. Thomas Halyburton (1664-1712) “Sanctification by Vinegar” B. Marrow Controversy • Archerader Presbytery • “Do you subscribe to the following: I believe that it is not sound and orthodox to teach that we must forsake sin in order to come to Christ?”

  15. The Marrow of Modern Divinity Edward Fisher (1645-48) • Is anything required before we come to Christ, or is coming to Christ all that we need to do? • Can we tell people that? Thomas Boston 1676-1732 Ettrick, Scotland Human Nature in its Four Fold State Crook in the Lot

  16. C. The Moderates John Witherspoon 1723-94 “Moderate preaching is like a winter’s day-brief, dark, and cold.” Robert Burns “My creed is very nearly expressed by the words ‘Lord grant that we lead a good life for a good life makes a good end; at least it helps!”

  17. D. Two Great Problems 1. Dead Orthodoxy 2. Patronage IV. “The Seceders” 1. The Associate Presbytery, 1733 2. Relief Presbytery, 1761 Ebenezer Erskine 1680-1754

  18. V. Other Church Bodies 1. Scottish Episcopalians 2. Congregationalists & Baptists Robert Haldane 1764-1842 James Haldane 1768-1851

  19. Roman Catholicism VII. Renewal and Division A. Missions 1829 Alexander Duff B. Robert Murray McCheyne Missions abroad Holiness at home

  20. “Ten Years Conflict” • “The Disruption” 1743 400 Ministers, 400 Elders, 1/3 of the Churches The Free Church of Scotland “I am now most thoroughly convinced that in the system of ‘do this and live’ there is no peace; it is ‘believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved!’ Thomas Chalmers 1780-1847

  21. William Cunningham ‘Rabbi’ John Duncan “he was the only man I ever knew who appeared to me to believe and to love every word of God without preferring one above another” A. Moody Stuart “Every sin will be adequately punished, bless be God, not every sinner!” Horatius Bonar

  22. Evangelicals in Scotland Today • Free Church of Scotland • “Wee Free’s” 2. Church of Scotland William Still Eric Alexander Rutherford House What J.I. Packer Would Say to a New Christian

  23. J.I. Packer

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