A Somewhat Slanted Look at the History of the Christian Church
By: Dr. T. Y. Hiter 24 November, 2018 There was a fairly constant stream of “reformers” of the Church at Rome during the late 1400s. Now,
...Read MoreBy: Dr. T. Y. Hiter 24 November, 2018 There was a fairly constant stream of “reformers” of the Church at Rome during the late 1400s. Now,
...Read MoreBy: Dr. T. Y. Hiter 19 October, 2018 Within the past few months, something HUGE has happened in terms of Church History. “Church”, in this
...Read MoreBy: Dr. T. Y. Hiter The very different nature of the eastern, or “orthodox” Churches, Greek-speaking (and writing) and the western, or
...Read MoreThe history of the Christian Church in the East has been one of virtually zero change, in terms of Theology and Churchmanship. The Greek Orthodox
...Read MoreThis is “out of order”, as readers will soon conclude. There’s a reason for that. The reason is that the writer just recently returned from a
...Read MoreIn seven of the 13 original Colonies, the “established” Church had been prior to the American Revolution, the Church of England. Being
...Read MoreThe dominant feature of the First Great Awakening was the return of people to the well-known and reasonably well-established Churches that already
...Read MoreAmong the preachers at Cane Ridge were three who, though they had not previously worked together (and may not have even met), had similar visions
...Read MoreThe “arrival” at some degree of standardization of religious message by the Baptists and the arrival on the American frontier of the
...Read MoreAs the Baptist movement struggled to define itself in the 1750s and 60s, another, completely unrelated, but soon to be inseparable, set of events
...Read MoreOne of the truly unexpected results of the “Great Awakening” was the boost it gave to the emerging Baptist movement in the Colonies. And, it
...Read MoreThe Great Awakening was huge by any measure, and especially so in terms of the already “churched” population of the Colonies that would become
...Read MoreMost of the articles in this several years-long series have been reasonably sequential, and they have dealt almost exclusively with the history of
...Read MoreThe Great Awakening was huge, as far as revivals go, and it changed forever the very nature of American worship. But like many revivals, it
...Read MoreReligion in what was to become the United States changed forever during the decade of the 1740s. It did so at the hands of a half-dozen or so
...Read MoreIt is not entirely clear when American colonists started becoming “American”, rather than English. Many historians place the beginnings of the
...Read MoreEven today, most Americans don’t completely understand that before the United States was formed, one’s religion was not chosen by one’s own
...Read MoreThis is the sixty-fifth in this series of articles on Church History, and since they’ve appeared roughly twice a month, that seems to indicate
...Read MoreThe Church in History – A Somewhat Slanted Look at the History of the Christian Church, Article 64 in a series By: Dr. T. Y. Hiter Ask any
...Read MoreAmong the “dissenting” bodies in England in the 1630s, 40s and 50s was one group (which has since become several) that called itself “Friends
...Read MoreSeveral times, in this series, the term “dissenters” has appeared. There are many meanings for that word, but the most significant, for us,
...Read MoreA Somewhat Slanted Look at the History of the Christian Church Imagine it’s 1600 or so and you’re a Christian in England. Your family and the
...Read MoreCranmer and the Church of England; Knox and the Presbyterians; all sorts of Puritans; sometimes, it seems that the best known English Churchmen are
...Read MoreEngland was never completely, absolutely, Anglican. Even though Henry VIII intended it to be so, and even though Elizabeth I tried to make it so,
...Read MoreThe course of the Anglican strand of Protestantism looks, on the surface, to be a very simple one. Actually, nothing could be farther from the
...Read MoreThe Reformation was not pretty anywhere, but in no place was it quite as confused as it was in England. Henry VIII clearly started the Anglican
...Read MoreWhen Henry VIII broke with Rome, he had no intention of starting a “new” Church. In this way, he was very like both Luther and Calvin, both of
...Read MoreHenry VIII knew perfectly well that his break with Rome would not go over smoothly, in Rome. One of the reasons he did it was that the Popes over
...Read MoreWe’ve looked several times at the first two “waves” of reform that swept Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Those resulted in the
...Read MoreThe Protestant Reformation, or, as it is more commonly known, simply, “the Reformation” started with Martin Luther, in Germany, in 1517. This
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