Study Material. — is being prepared, and is available, for the average Joe or Josephine, to take a quick overview (by concentrating upon some of the Major Turning Points) of 2000 years of Christian activity:
TURNING POINTS:
UNDER CHRIST’S PRESENT REIGN
The book Turning Points, by historian Mark Noll has been the primary book from which the studies have been prepared. Indeed, Mark has chosen the following as Turning Points worth focussing upon:
The Fall of Jerusalem |
70 AD |
The Church Pushed out on its own |
1 |
The Council of Nicaea |
325 |
Realities of Empire |
2 |
The Council of Chalcedon |
451 |
Doctrine, Politics, and Life in the Word |
3 |
Benedict’s Rule |
530 |
The Monastic Rescue of the Church |
4 |
The Coronation of Charlemagne |
800 |
The Culmination of Christendom |
5 |
The Great Schism of East and West |
1054 |
Division Between East and West |
6 |
The Diet of Worms |
1521 |
The Reformation: Protestantism |
7 |
The English Reformation |
1534 |
A New Europe |
8 |
The Founding of the Jesuits |
1540 |
Catholic reform & global Outreach |
9 |
The Conversion of the Wesley’s |
1738 |
The New Piety |
10 |
The French Revolution |
1789 |
Discontents of the Modern West |
11 |
The Edinburgh Missionary Conference |
1910 |
A Faith For All the World |
12 |
Further Turning Points of the 20th Century |
to 2000 |
Pentecostalism/Communism etc. |
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