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History of Christianity

20 cards·by wcriley
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wrote “true thoughts of christianity and was the father of pietist Christianity
Johannes Arndt
Wrote Pious Desires and wanted practical use for theology
P.J. Spener
professor of Greek origins at Halle University
August Herman Francke
right after he died his book was published. "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies" Simple way of understanding the planets
Copernicus
altered by moving from mathematical understanding of the universe to a quantitative understanding. "Nothing can be known except quantities
Kepler
discovered Copernicus' law to the earth, and distinguished between primary and secondary characteristics
Galileo
believed that justification is what God does for us, Sanctification is what God does in us salvation is offered and must be accepted
John Wesley
influential Great Awakening preacher
Jonathan Edwards
rained as a lawyer, became song leader, started preaching, sermon became like attorney's closing argument. Said to have piercing eyes.
Charles G. Finney
appealed to the cultural elite through emotions to convince them to return to the faith. Wrote On Religion Cultural Despisers
F. D. E. Schleiermacher
danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
S. Kierkegaard
preached toleration of faiths other than one’s own in response to 30 years war and other fights between Protestants and Catholics.
John Locke
, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.
(John Henry) Cardinal Newman
Christian theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. was a figure in the Social gospel
Walter Rauschenbusch
series of religious wars waged in Europe from ca. 1524 to 1648, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Western and Europe
Wars of Religion
the school of thought that God created the world and left it
deism
protestant intellectual movement applied christian ethics to social problems
social gospel
counter reaction to enlightenment thinking choosing feeling over logic
romanticism
Rise of the Beacher family and Blanchard family both represented sides of Christianity
American Evangelicalism
began when dutch pietists came to the colonies and had an impact on a few ministers the Tenants
The Great Awakening