Second Great Awakening and Later Teaching on NT Authors Grid – Nov. 2023

 

 

Legend for Cells

Na1. Matthew wrote the Gospel of Matthew

Na11. Paul wrote Philippians Php 1:1

W = Wrote explicitly on this teaching

Na2. Mark wrote the Gospel of Mark

Na12. Paul wrote Colossians Col 1:1

I = Implied this is true or opposite is false

Na3. Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke

Na13. Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians 1 Th 1:1

N = Implied since accepted Nicene Creed

Na4. John wrote the Gospel of John

Na14. Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians 2 Th 2:1

M = Mixed: some agree, others would not

Na5. Luke wrote Acts

Na15. Paul wrote 1 Timothy 1 Tim 1:1

P = partial ex: Irenaeus: Gnostics wrong to say Savior not killed since impassible

Na6. Paul wrote Romans Rom 1:1

Na16. Paul wrote a 2nd letter to Timothy 2 Tim 1:1

Na7. Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 1 Cor 1:1

Na17. Paul wrote Titus Titus 1:1

- = no reference found (so far)

Na8. Paul wrote 2 Corinthians 2 Cor 1:1

Na18. Peter wrote 1 Peter 1 Pet 1:1

X = Disagree

Na9. Paul wrote Galatians Gal 1:1

Na19. John wrote 1 John -

blank = not researched yet

Na10. Paul wrote Ephesians Eph 1:1

Na20. Jude wrote Jude Jude 1

Writer totals include W’s & I’s but not P’s

Rows: blue=Bible manuscript, white=Christian writer, khaki=spurious, green=heresy, orange=schism, pink=strange writer, yellow=foreign missions, red=Christians persecuted, purple=Roman Catholics persecuting, brown=Christians persecuting

 

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

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Second Great Awakening in North America & England

1790-1840

Presbyterians, Methodists, Campbellites

 

Adam Clarke Irish Wesleyan commentator

 

1782-1832

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restoration Movement (Campbellites), Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ came out of these.

1832-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friedrich Schleiermacher

1790-1834

Rationalist reformed theologian who rejected the virgin birth of Christ

 

Medical Missionary Society founded in Scotland

1841

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

Revival in Norway.

1842

Revival in the state church. Norwegian Mission Society started.

 

Turks & Kurds persecute Nestorians (2 times)

1842-1843

40K Nestorians killed, 50K enslaved per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

 

Fidelia Fiske, missionary with ABCFM in Persia

1843

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

About 4,000 rural circuit riders in the U.S. 

1844

 

 

Persian Nestorian revival In Urmia, NW Iran

1844

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

K. von Tischendorf finds Codex Sinaiticus near Mt. Sinai

1844

 

 

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) started by Sir George Williams.

1844-

Originally founded by evangelicals, in the USA it has lost its Christian vision

 

Millerites, founded by lay Baptist pastor William Miller in NE New York. JW’s, Christadelphians, SDA came from them.

1831-10/1844

Said Christ would return between Mar 21, 1843 and Mar. 21, 1844. 50K to 100K followers. Then Oct. 22, 1844 which was later known as The Great Disappointment.

 

First missionaries to Tanganyika (Tanzania today)

1840’s

Johann Ludwig Krapf, Johannes, Rebman, and Jakob Erhardt

 

Elizabeth Fry, British Quaker prison reformer

1811-1845

Campaigned to segregate male and female prisoners to stop rape and exploitation.

 

Southern Baptist Convention started

1845

Split from Northern Baptists over slave-owning missionaries. 2/3 did not own slaves.

 

Thomas Clarkson, British anti-slavery activist

1785-1846

Worked with Wilberforce and others to abolish slavery in Great Britain and the U.S.

 

Daniel Coker, a founder of the African-Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination

1816-1846

Ordained by Asbury. Helped found the AME He started the Bether Charity School for black children to learn too. Later a missionary to coastal west Africa.

 

Apparition of Mary of La Sallette (near Grenoble, France), a few hundred miles from Lourdes.

1846

Message to rest on the seventh day and respect God’s name or else the potatoes would rot. There was a potato famine in Europe 1846-1847.

 

Badr Khan massacres 20K Nestorians in Kurdistan. Enslave 50K others

1843 & 1846

Europeans protest. Ottomans respond by defeating the Kurds and exiling Badr Khan.

 

The Doctrinal Basis of the Evangelical Alliance

 

1846

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). 1970 2.9M

1847-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifth persecution of Christians in Vietnam

1847

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

James Caughey of New York

1841-1848

c.20K in England per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

Pope Pius IX of Rome restores Jewish restrictions

1846-1848

All previous restrictions on Jews enforced in the Vatican

 

Plymouth Brethren split into Exclusive Brethren and Open Brethren (still called Plymouth Brethren) 

1848

Both groups are dispensationalist evangelical Christians.

 

Confession of the Evangelical Free Church of Geneva

 

1848

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thailand expels all Christian missionaries

1849

Not violent though. World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

Christadelphians deny the Trinity, and H.S. Satan as beings. 1985 only 90K members

 

1849-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Persian Nestorian revival in Iran

1949,1950

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

 

Medieval Inquisition in France & Europe

1184-mid 19th cent.

Tortured & executed Anabaptists, Protestants, & a few Catholics

 

Adoniram & Ann Judson missionaries to Burma  

1825-1850

Adiniram knew Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. He translated the Bible into Burmese.

 

Babis

 

1844-1850

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Azalis & Baha'is, offshoots of Islam

 

1850 & 1863-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French nurse and nun Bertine Bouquillon

-1950

Predicts the end of time is near and Antichrist will not delay

 

Estimated 324 million Christians. World pop. 1.203B

1850

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.97.  27% of 1.203 billion world population

 

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod split from LCMS. They believe the papacy is the antichrist. c.300K members.

 

1850-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A very influential book before the Civil War 

1852

Calvinist and abolitionist. She said she wrote it, after seeing a vision of a dying black person during a communion service.

 

Simon Greenleaf, Christian lawyer

1783-10/6/1853

In 1846 wrote The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice

 

Jabez Bunting, Methodist revivalist

1801-1858

Advocated foreign missions and power to Methodist conferences.

 

18 Apparitions of Mary of Lourdes, France appeared only to a 14-year old girl. About 6 million visit the shrine yearly

1858

There have been many reports of miracles at Lourdes; some have proven to be hoaxes, but 70 are verified.

 

Soren Kierkegaard – Danish philosopher

 

1843-1855

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tokugawa Shoguns persecute Christians in Japan

1629-1856

Those who refused to trample pictures of Jesus or Mary tortured & killed. Many thousands killed

 

First American missionaries allowed in Japan

1858

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

 

Reorganized LDS (now Community of Christ) splits from LDS (Mormons)

1860-

Followed Joseph Smith’s Smith as Smith prophesied, instead of Brigham Young

 

Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar

1828-1861

Killed half of the people of Madagascar (2.5 million), especially Christians

 

Sixteenth persecution of Christians in Vietnam

1861

H. Hermosilla, V.B. Ochoa killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

Lebanese Druze kill 20K Maronites

1847-1862

100K homeless, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

 

Ellen G. White & 7th Day Adventists 16m 1990

 

1863-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Great persecution” of Catholics in Korea

1866

8,000 killed

 

Revivals in  the Netherlands

c.1860

G. van Pinsterer & Abraham Kuyper,  per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

 

Revivals in USA in both south (150K) and north

1857-1861

Stopped when the Civil War started. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.141

 

Abraham de Vries, Mennonite theologian

 

1801-1862

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Universal Catholic Church (=new Apostolic Church)

1863-

48 apostles. 1985 1.7 million. Not work with other churches, per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.142

 

Tai-ping rebellion by Hung Hsiu-Chuan,  “Jesus’ brother”

1843-1864

Rebelled to found the “Great Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom” 35 million killed

 

China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor

1865-

Also Griffith John, W.A.P. Martin. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

 

Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister Nathaniel West

1820-9/1864

Missionary, minister, temperance society founder, and anti-slavery activist

 

St. Ignaty Brianchaninov (Orthodox, icons)

 

1807-1867

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First national Holiness Camp meeting in Vinland, New Jersey

1867

Had shouting, dancing in the Spirit, holy laughter, holy rolling, per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.142

 

Confession of Free-Will Baptists

 

1834 & 1868

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Vatican Council. 700 R.C. bishops 

1869-1870

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creed of the Free Christian Church in Italy

 

June 1870

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tientsin, China, many Christians killed

1870

2 French priests, 10 nuns, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

 

Insider Movement to Hindus (founded by Kali Chan Banurji)

 

1870-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danish Lutheran N.F. S. Grundvig

1783-1872

Wanted to absorb heroic Norse mythology into Lutheranism.

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower) (8.3 million)

 

1872-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frederick Maurice. Christian Socialism founder

 

1859-1871

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eastern Orthodox “Great Synods”

1838/1872

Leaders of Greek, Russian, and Arab Orthodox Christians all gathered together

 

French Declaration of Faith (Reformed)

 

1872

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salesian Sisters (FMA) in Italy

1872-

by 1983 over 17,269 nuns, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

 

Charles Hodge, Reformed, Traducian theologian

 

1871-1873

Systematic Theology

 

David Livingstone, missionary to Africa 

1813-1873

Besides evangelizing natives wanted to expose to the world the “horrors” of slavery

 

Phoebe Palmer, a founder of the holiness movement

1837-1874

Methodist speaker and writer of “entire sanctification”

 

Marcus & Narcissa Whitman. Henry & Eliza Spalding 

1837-1847-1874

Presbyterian missionaries to the Nez Perce, Spokane, Cayuse, and other Indians. First white women in the northwest.

 

Samuel P. Tregelles. Quaker, then Plymouth Brethren, then Presbyterian or Anglican.

1828-1875

Evangelical theologian, Hebrew scholar, and songwriter. Post-tribulationalist. Bible translator who used ancient manuscripts and early Christian quotes.

 

Charles Finney, Arminian revivalist

 

1825-1875

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles of Religion of the Reformed Episcopal Church in America

 

May 18, 1875

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keswick Convention, annual since 1875 

1875-

Evangelical Christians in Great Britain. Founded by an Anglican and a Quaker

 

Scottish Anglican-Methodist revivalist Robert Aitken

1833-1873

Preached the imminent return of Christ. Allowed to preach in Methodist churches.

 

Salvation Army founded by William Booth and his wife Catherine Munford

 

1870-1878-

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Liberal Protestant, Episcopalian

 

19th century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julius Mueller. Protestant theologian, pre-existence of souls

 

1839-1878

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science 1.4m 1990

 

1875/79-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethiopians force Muslims and pagans to be Christians

c.1880

Force 500K Gallas to be baptized per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.144

 

Christians exterminated in the Sudan

1880’s

“The Mahdi”, Muhammad Ahmad has all Christians in the Sudan killed

 

John N. Darby. Plymouth Brethren. A founder of modern dispensationalism.

 

1825-1882

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Pusey. Anglo-Catholic in the Oxford Movement 

1825-1882

A founder of the Oxford Movement of “high-Anglicanism”. Said Christ’s presence in the Eucharist, pray to and for the dead.

 

H.P.S. Schreuder Norwegian Lutheran missionary to Zulus

1843-1882

Also acted as an intermediary between the British and Zulus.

 

Isabella van Wagener (aka Sojourner Truth), a black slave

1843-1883

Christian Ministry across the US for end of slavery and women’s rights

 

Revivals in Japan

1872,1883

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

 

1 million Telugu outcasts become Christian in South India

1872,1883

Baptists, Lutherans, and Methodists per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

 

In Madagascar revolt from French, many Christians killed

1883

Friar J. Berthieu killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

First Protestant church in Korea 

1884

 

 

Edict of Tu Duc.  Vietnamese to kill Roman Catholics

1851-1884

Killed 90K Catholics and 115 priests, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.141

 

In Uganda 250 Anglicans and Roman Catholics martyred

1885

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII

 

1885

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A.A. Hodge (Traducian Presbyterian)

1847-1886

Presbyterian, missionary to India, important theologian. Said he taught nothing new (i.e. beyond the Bible and those before him)

 

Catholics, Anglicans, and Muslims killed in Buganda, and 6/3/1886 in Namugongo, Uganda

1885-1887

Homosexual king Mwanga II of Buganda kills 250 Catholic and Anglican Christians, and Muslims, who were against homosexuality. Muslims overthrow him in 1888.

 

Student Volunteer Movement

1886-1887

Started by D.L. Moody in Northfield, Mass., and spread to  Great Britain.

 

Belgian Friar Damien de Veuster of Molokai

1873-1889

Roman Catholic priest worked among lepers and eventually became one himself.

 

John Henry Newman Anglican priest to Roman Catholic

 

1845-1890

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Bhutan Nepali & Lepcha missionaries from India killed

1890

Many were poisoned. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

Samuel Crowther (former slave)

1843-1891

Missionary from Sierra Leone to Nigeria. First non-European Anglican bishop

 

James & Mary Calvert and John & Hannah Hunt

1838-1892

Two Methodist families (one Calvinist and one Arminian) evangelize cannibals in Fiji

 

Charles Spurgeon. almost 3,600 sermons

49 vols.

1854-1892

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Sudan Interior Missions (later SIM International) 

1893-

In 1985 654 missionaries in 15 nations per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

 

Baptist preacher A.J. Gordon

1863-1895

Also a musician, social activist, and college founder. Preached with D.L. Moody.

 

Nazarene Church formed

1895

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liberals and masons persecute Catholics in Ecuador

1895

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

 

The Fundamentals of Protestant fundamentalism

 

1895

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Turks kill 300,000 Armenians

1894-1895

Armenians tried to be independent like the Balkans, so Turks killed most of them

 

C.H. Mackintosh Plymouth Brethren. Pentateuch commentaries, and books for children too.

1843-1896

D.L. Moody thought his books the most valuable after the Bible.

 

Charles Sheldon 

1896

Wrote In His Steps, about What Would Jesus Do. It has sold 50 million copies.

 

Henry Drummond, Free Church of Scotland

1877–1897

Influential evangelist. He advocated theistic evolution

 

Discovering malaria’s cause greatly helps mission work

1897

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.146

 

Gadadhar Chatterji founds Ramakirshna religion 

1850-1897-

Claims to be the unity of all religions. Group organized by Swami Vivekananda.

 

Presbyterian pastor James H. Brooks

1854-1897

Dispensationalist, Millennialist. Niagara Bible Conference, magazine editor

 

George F. Muller. Plymouth Brethren. Helped 10,024 orphans, founded 117 schools. Accused of raising the poor above their natural station.

 

1830/1836-1898

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey, evangelists 

1860-1899

Preached in America and Great Britain

 

Unity Church (Charles Fillmore a founder)

 

1899-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gideons International started

1899-

by 1987 over 400 million Bibles. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146

 

James Martineau, Unitarian heretic

1840-1900

Did not believe in the Incarnation of Jesus

 

Estimated 400M or 558M Christians. World pop. 1620M

1900

Ante-Nicene Fathers vol.4 p.126 or World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.97,642

 

Boxer rebels in N. China kill many Christians

1900

188 Protestant missionaries, 5 RC bishops, 31 priests. World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

 

Pentecostal Movement, Assemblies of God stared in Topeka, Kansas

 

1900

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Pacific Islanders convert from Christianity to Mormonism

1855-1900

1855 Hawaiian Book of Mormon translation. Hawaiian temple dedicated in 1909

 

First International Congress of Liberal Religion

1900

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146

 

D.W. Whittle, hymn writer (wrote words, not music)

1862-1901

friend of D.L. Moody. “to do good a hymn must be founded on God's word and carry the message of God's love.”

 

American Standard Version (ASV 1901)

1901

Scholars worked with English 1895 RV translators

 

Hugh Price Hughes, influential Welsh Methodist orator

1869-1902

Founded the West London Methodist Mission. Methodist Times newspaper.

 

Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren

 

1858-1903

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan Evangelistic Band 

1903-

Barclay Fowell Buxton and Paget Wilkes founded at the 1903 Keswick Convention

 

Hudson and Maria Taylor, missionaries to China

 

1832-1905

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shintoists kill 5K Christians in Manchuria, China

1905

Persecution of Christians and others, from the USSR to the Khmer Rouge

 

Pentecostal C.F. Parham preaches British –Israelism

1906

Said when missionaries speak in tongues, then native peoples will understand them. Missionaries report only failure, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146,147

 

Evan Roberts brings Welsh revival. 100K Welsh saved

1904-1907

Also Germany, Switz., & England. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

 

Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, by L.H. Dowling

1907

Claims Jesus studied Hinduism under gurus. Earth is leaving the zodiacal Age of Pisces (Christianity) and entering the Age of Aquarius (New Age)

 

In Adana, Cilicia, Turkey, Armenians killed

1909

Armenian Evangelical Union Christians massacred at their annual conference. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

William J. Sparrow

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1909

Wrote Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility

 

C.I. Scofield’s Reference Bible

1909

 

 

Baptist missionaries Eric Lund, Braulio Manikan

1900-1904

Planted churches in the Philippines

 

Presbyterian A.T. Pierson

1869-1911

Advocate for faith missions. Succeeded Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Preached 13,000 sermons. Friends with Scofield, Moody, & Muller.

 

Wallace Wattles , New Thought writer and Socialist

1896-1911

Wrote The Science of Getting Rich. Excommunicated by the Methodists.

 

Henry Bavinck (Reformed)

 

1906-1911

Reformed Dogmatics and Our Reasonable Faith

 

Lottie Moon Baptist missionary to China

 

-1913

Highly educated. Worked in a small village in Shantung, China. Died of malnourishment (only 50 pounds) after helping villagers after the Yellow River floods

 

Millionaire missionary William Borden of Yale.

1887-1913

Led Christian group of 1,000 at Yale. Died in Egypt of brain meningitis at 25 years old, studying Arabic to minister to Muslim Chinese with China Inland Mission.

 

Turks kill many Estorians in Urmia, Iran

1914

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Presbyterian pastor W.G. Moorehead

1862-1914

Missionary, Pastor, and seminary president

 

Oneness Pentecostalism (denies the Trinity)

 

1914-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Slessor

 

-1/13/1915

Protestant missionary to Nigeria. Contracted malaria on her first mission trip, 1876, and had fevers the rest of her life as a missionary. She stopped infanticide of twins.

 

William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, CA.

4/1906-1915

It launched Pentecostalism as a world-wide movement. Taught 3 works of grace: salvation, entire sanctification, and baptism of the Holy Spirit.

 

Ottoman Turks and Kurds kill 600K Armenians after revolt

1915

600K others deported, many of whom also died. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Charles de Foucauld, missionary to Tamanrasset, Algeria

1905-1916

Killed by Muslims during a  revolt, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

 

Ottoman Turks kill 1/5 of Maronites in Lebanon (100K)

1916

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Andrew Murray (S. Africa) 50 books 190 tracts.

Founder of the Africa Evangelical Fellowship

 

1848-1917

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turks & Kurds kill Nestorians and assassinate leader.

1917

Catholicas mar Benjamin Shimun XIX killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

5 Apparitions of Mary of Fatima, Portugal.

1917

Gave three secret messages, the second being to devote yourself to the immaculate heart of Mary. One alleged miracle was a temporary change in the appearance of the sun. A photograph was taken of the sun at the same time, showing nothing unusual.

 

Evan Henry Hopkins, Holiness writer

1871-1918

Said cannot be holy by imitating Christ. Rather count ourselves dead to sin and let Christ work through us. [Half wrong, because Christ is our example.]

 

American Baptist preacher Walter Rauschenbusch starts the social gospel

1886-1918

Denied that Jesus died for our sins. Jesus died to substitute love for selfishness in human society. At 17 repented of his personal sins, giving his life to Christ. Incomplete, because only later did he repent of his social sins. A Founder of the social gospel. God and the USA fight on the same side against Spain. Against US entering WW I.

 

Turks kill 80% of all Syrian Orthodox

1918

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Julius Wellhausen

 

1872-1918

Popularized the JEPD theory of 4 authors of the Pentateuch

 

A.B. Simpson a founder of the C&MA

 

1865-1919

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese kill Christians and missionaries in Korea

1919

Suwon church filled with women and kids burned down. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Karl Barth and his lover and perhaps ghost writer Charlotte von Kirschbaum

 

1919

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le Van Trung founds Cao Daist Missionary Church in Vietnam

1919-

Mixture of Buddhism, Confucian ethics, ancestor worship, and Catholic-type organization. 1975 2.8 million, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.149

 

Handley Moule, Anglican theologian, Keswick Convention speaker, many publications

 

1865-1920

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati. Brahmin, Sanskrit scholar, and charismatic Christian 

1883-1920

She campaigned against marriage of little girls, translated the Bible into Marathi, She opened a home for girls.

 

Turks kill Armenian Christians at Marash and Hadjin

1920

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Church of God Cleveland, Pentecostal Holiness church 

1920-

 

 

Roman Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons

 

1868-1921

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.B. Warfield. Calvinist professor and principal of Princeton Seminary 

1881-1921

Wrote on inerrancy. “There have been many evolutionists who have been and have remained theists and Christians” Said spiritual gifts passed away.

 

Belgians persecute lnative churches in Congo

1921

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Communist persecutions

1922-

Persecution of Christians and others, from the USSR to the Khmer Rouge

 

Ernst Troeltsch, Liberal Lutheran homosexual seminary professor.

1891-2/1923

Taught on the ancient, Medieval, and modern historical evolution of religion. Strongly supported Germany in WW1. Influenced Barth.

 

Lenin kills 8.6K priests, monks & nuns

1921-1924

Kills even more lay Orthodox, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.150

 

PC USA Auburn Affirmation. 1274 signers. Bible is not inerrant. Did not have to believe in virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, Jesus’ bodily resurrection or His miracles.

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Russell H. Conwell (Baptist) in Philadelphia. Largest church in the USA

1879-1925

You can find diamonds in your backyard if you look, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

 

Scopes Trial (William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow

July 1925

A fine for teaching evolution in public schools

 

Roland Allen, Anglican missionary to N. China

1895-1927

wrote Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or ours? Start indigenous churches, not missions.

 

R.A. Torrey, a leading American Dispensationalist 

1878-1928

Baptist who believed in baptism of the Holy Spirit

 

Lillias Trotter missionary to Algeria 

1887-1928

“Truly if God needed weakness, He had it!”

 

R.A. Torrey and C.M. Alexander team up

1902-1928

Lead 130K to Christ, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

 

Frederick Brotherton Meyer, higher life speaker

1869-1929

Friend of D.L. Moody. Preached in England against drunkenness and prostitution.

 

ex-Sikh Sadhu Sundar Singh. Preached in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and Tibet. Visited England and America.

1909-1929

from N. India Preached the gospel, but against the syncretism of Christianity and materialistic, colonialist western culture. Preached as a Sadhu, or “holy man”.

 

Mexico tries to exterminate Presbyterians in Tabasco

1930

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.151

 

C. T. Studd, missionary to China, India, & Africa 

1888-1931

Only one life 'twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last.

 

Cam Townsend. Wycliffe Bible translators

 

1934-

Thousands of translations. After 2010, some translations, like Turkish and Arabic, take out the word "Father" and "son"

 

Charles Gore. Anglo-Catholic (Anglican with many Catholic views) 

1875-1932

Said Christ on earth, though sinless, emptied himself of all other attributes of Godhead. Founded the Christian Social Union for helping the poor.

 

The Navigators Christian Fellowship

1933-

International Fellowship for college students and military

 

British Baptist missionaries William and Alice Pettigrew

1890-1933

Inspired by Judson, went to the Tangkhul-Naga headhunters and Manipur, NE India

 

G.K. Chesterton (Roman Catholic)

 

1874-1936

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stalin destroys 80% of all Ukrainian Orthodox churches

1928-1936

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.151

 

Alphonse Mingana Chaldean Catholic theologian

1913-1937

Collected many Mideast manuscripts financed by Cadbury (of chocolate fame)

 

Shantung Revival throughout all of China

1927-1937

One of the largest Baptist revivals

 

Wilbur M. Smith. Apologist at Moody Bible Inst.

A Plea for Vigorous Apologetic

 

1940’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many Latvian clergy killed

1934

Archbishop John Pommer or Riga killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Billy Sunday, famous American evangelist

1891-1935

Former pro baseball player, Presbyterian but not a strong Calvinist. Never critical of Roman Catholicism. Conservative Christian influential in passing Prohibition.

 

William E. Blackstone. Dispensationalist

1866-1935

Influential preacher who advocated returning Israel to the Jews. Wrote the Blackstone Memorial, signed by 413 Christian and Jewish leaders.

 

USSR underground churches persecuted

1935

I.E. Voronaev killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Willis and Mary Ann Hoover. 

1902-1936

They founded the Pentecostal Methodist Church in Chile

 

In Russian communist shoot 85,300 clergy

1937

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Russian Orthodox Saint Simon Silouan of Athos 

1893-1938

Barely literate

 

Robert Wilder. Influential in American foreign missions.

1886-1938

Started the Student Volunteer Movement, from a 1-month D.L. Moody Conference

 

Soviets persecute Orthodox and Catholics in Armenia

1938

Catholicos Khoren I martyred, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

Xinjiang, China, Muslims & Communists persecute

1938

Uighur church of 300 destroyed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

 

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

1941-

International Fellowship for college students

 

Aimee Semple McPherson

1908-1944

Most well-known Pentecostal preacher and faith healer in her time.

 

Jews intermittently expelled or attacked

1009-1939

Jews attacked by mobs, pogroms, or expelled in Europe & North Africa

 

Rudolf Bultmann "demythologizing the Bible" 

1941

 

 

Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician, process philosophy. God evolves with the world.

 

1910-1941

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir William M. Ramsay, prominent archaeologist, especially on Paul and Acts.

1880-1939

Educated at Tubingen to doubt the accuracy of the Bible, but changed his view after doing the archaeology himself.

 

Wilson Carlile, British evangelist and musician

1873-1942

Former wealthy businessman. Inspired by Moody, worked in the slums

 

Mary Reed, missionary to India and Nepal

1885-1943

After she contracted leprosy in 1891, she then ministered to lepers in India until she died at 89 years old.

 

La Violencia in Colombia kills 300K Protestants

1944

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.154

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran, followed the social gospel. Denied the physical resurrection of Christ. 

1930-1945

Saddened by lack of integration in America and persecution of Jews in Germany. In a plot to assassinate Hitler; executed right before Germany surrendered.

 

Ernst Loymeyer Conservative German theologian. Wrote 300 works. Friends with Jews, against Nazis and Communism. Soviets executed him.

 

1912-1946

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presbyterian USA Robert Speer

1889-1947

Student Volunteer Movement Recruiter. Opposed Machen, liked Karl Barth. Wrote two articles in The Fundamentals

 

Dead Sea scrolls discovered in Qumran

1947

95,000 fragments from 250 B.C. to 68 A.D. Every OT book except Esther & Obadiah.

 

R.H. Bowman & Far Eastern Broadcasting Company

1947-

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.155

 

World Council of Churches 

1948-

Liberal. 1990 had 404 million members. Supported Marxist guerillas in Zimbabwe.

 

United Bible Societies holds first meeting

1948

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.156

 

British Salvation Army evangelist Gipsy Smith

1889-1949

In major U.S. cities for 50 years, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

 

W.E Vine, Plymouth Brethren, Dispensationalist 

1905-1949

Wrote Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, Bible studies

 

Estimated 856 million Christians. 881K martyrs/year

1950

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642,156. 34% of 2.5 billion world pop.

 

North Korea kills Christians, including 500 pastors

1940-1950

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.157

 

Charismatic Simon Kimbangu founds EJCSK church

1921-1951

In Zaire. in 2000 had 9M members. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.150

 

Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ)

1951-

Started by Bill and Vonette Bright 101K students in 2,300 locations across the USA

 

Gustavo Guitierrez & Liberation Theology

 

1950's-1971-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World Vision. Founders Bob Pierce, Kyung-Chik Han, and Frank Phillips

1950-

Sponsors children, and provides humanitarian aid. $3.14B budget in 100 countries.

 

Amy Carmichael Protestant missionary to Tamil Nadu, India for 55 years. Donhavur Fellowship. 

1884-1951

Rescued young girls and boys from Hindu temple prostitution and founded an orphanage. Founded a Protestant religious order called Sisters of the Common Life. Crippled after an unhealed broken leg in 1931.

 

Samuel Zwemer. Reform missionary, who called Islam “the Calvinism of the Orient” 

1890-1952

Emphasized the precious blood of Christ and the Trinity. While < 12 converts in 40 years, but the churches he founded in the Mideast still live on.

 

Kenneth A. Kitchen, Biblical and Egyptian chronology.

1952-

Against the JEPD theory. Against David Rohl’s Egyptian chronology. Wrote 250 books and articles.

 

Rev. Moon’s Divine Principle (Unification Church)

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L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology

 

1954-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Sperry Chafer, dispensationalist

1896-1952

A founder of Dallas Theological Seminary and its first president

 

Methodist John R. Mott

1886-1955

Worked in the SVM. A founder World Missionary Conference (1910) and the World Council of Churches (1948)

 

Teilhard de Chardin, heretical Jesuit & paleontologist

1902-1955

Said that all life is a process that will be drawn into God’s being.

 

Agnostic then Episcopal priest James Pike

1944-1958

Left the Episcopal church in 1969.

 

Victor and Florence Houteff left the Seventh-Day Adventists to start the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists

1933-1959

God will kill the wicked Seventh-Day Adventists on April 22, 1959. After that they split, one group becoming the Branch Davidians.

 

Castro in Cuba kills many Christians

1959

Many died shouting, “Long live Christ the king” per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244.

 

Reformed heretic Karl Neibuhr

1915-1960

Preached the Social Gospel. Founded the Fellowship of Socialist Christians. Wrote 20 books and 1,500 articles.

 

W.E. Sangster, Methodist revivalist

1939-1960

Methodist evangelist, against religious compromise in Methodism.

 

H. Richard Niebuhr. “Yale School” Barthian neo-orthodox “post-liberal” influenced by Troeltsch and Tillich

1924-1962

Described liberal theology as “A god without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”

 

Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) 

1962

Accepts Protestants as "separated brethren"

 

Camilo Torres Restrepo. Marxist-Leninist Roman Catholic for Liberation theology.

1954-1966

Killed fighting for the ELN guerillas against the Colombian government. His most famous quote is: “If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.”

 

In N. Nigeria 30K Ibo Christians killed by Muslims

1966

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244

 

British charismatic Jackie Pullinger, founder of the St. Stephen’s Society.

1966-

A dream showed her to go to Hong Kong. Arrived with no support and only $10. The society treats drug addicts, and witnesses to prostitutes and gang members too.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Baptist minister.

1955-4/4/1968

Significant non-violent Civil Rights leader who denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus and had many affairs.

 

C.S. Lewis (Anglican, believed theistic evolution, prayed for the dead)

 

1898-1963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A.W. Tozer, C&MA pastor and writer

 

1919-1963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Tillich Liberal Lutheran “God is love”

 

1951-1963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josh McDowell, evangelist & author of over 150 books

1964-

Ministry started in 1964. Evidence that Demands a Verdict, More than a Carpenter

 

World Mission Society Church of God (=Church of Ahnsahnghong, =Elohists) (2 million) 

1964-

Believes in a heavenly Father and heavenly mother. Founded by Ahnsahnghong, who said he was the incarnation of heavenly father. Have to keep O.T. feasts.

 

Leonardo Boff Liberation Theology. ex-Catholic Priest

1964-

Called the Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) a leader of religious terrorism.

 

Albert Switzer, liberal Christian and medical missionary  

1901-1965

Writes about the quest for the historical Jesus

 

Chuck Smith starts Calvary Chapel, 17,000 churches

1965-

 

 

Catholic charismatic renewal begins

1967-

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.163

 

Nestorian schism in the Assyrian Church

 

1968

Ancient Church of the East split from the Assyrian Church of the East

Moses David and The Family starts in Huntington Beach, CA. (Called Children of God until 1978.)

1968-

Have sex with potential converts. Aided by Spirit helpers such as Aphrodite, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, and Winston Churchill (from Wikipedia)

 

 

Henry Emerson Fosdick, liberal Baptist preacher against inerrancy, fundamentalists, virgin birth

 

1878-1969

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Cambodia 10K Protestants and 40K Catholics killed

1970

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244

 

Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth

1970

Revived interest in the end times

 

Samaritan’s Purse, founded by Bob Pierce

1970-

Now led by Franklin Graham. Christmas shoeboxes, disaster relief, and heart surgeries.

 

In Uganda Idi Amin kills 300K Christians

1971

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

 

Insider (C5) Movement to Muslims (Qur'an & Mohammed from God too, rejects the Trinity)

 

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Chrislam, syncretistic religion in Nigeria

 

1970's-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinhold Neibuhr, Neo-orthodox Barthian “Yale School”

1920-1971

“Post-liberal” who started “Christian realism” and battled liberals over their optimism.

 

William F. Albright, prominent Biblical archaeologist

1916-1972

Worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Said biblical accounts of history were largely accurate.

 

Watchman Nee, Chinese writer. In prison 20 years

 

1920-1972

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Jacques Maritain, Aristotelian Catholic philosopher

1912-1973

Revived interest among Roman Catholics in Thomas Aquinas

 

Helen “Mama Luka” Roseveare, WEC medical missionary to the Belgian Congo

1953-1973

Beaten, raped, and imprisoned by the Congolese rebels for 6 months. Released and remained a missionary.

 

Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case

1973

Legalizes most abortion in the USA

 

Church Universal & Triumphant / Elizabeth Claire Prophet (New Age)

 

1975-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shroud of Turin purportedly surrounding Christ

1978

Later shown to be a fake done centuries ago

 

Jim Jones and Jonestown, Guyana kills 925

- 11/16/1978

Everyone in Jonestown was given red Kool-Aid with cyanide to drink.

 

William Barclay -skeptical that Jesus was God, not affirm the physical resurrection

 

1907-1978

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Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy (Norm Geisler and R.C. Sproul two of its authors)

 

1978

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albanian Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India

1950-1979

Founder of the Sisters of Charity in India. Roman Catholic, pro-life, helped the poor. Rather than relieving pain thought that pain glorified God.

 

Jesus Film produced by Campus Crusade (now Cru)

1979

106 languages, 275M viewers, 33M decisions. World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.171

 

Human knowledge expanding at 200 million words per hour

1981

World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.173

 

Apparition of Mary of Medjugorje in Bosnia

1981

Among other things she told people to study the book Poem of the God-Man. This is on the Roman Catholic list of forbidden books because it has heretical doctrine. Catholic church only approved her in 2019 by Pope Francis.

 

In Peru 50 AOG killed, 800 Quechua Christian leaders killed by Shining Path guerillas

1981

Part per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

 

E.J.H. Nash Higher Life

 

1927-1982

Over 7K boys attended his camps

 

Bible Knowledge Commentary: New Testament (DTS published) Partial: only up to page 270.

270

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Andrew B. Murray and Shepherd’s Chapel

 

1985-2014–

Modalists, serpent seed doctrine, pre-existence of souls, British Israelism, Christian Identity Movement, deny the rapture, Annihilationism

 

David and Ruth Adenay, missionaries to China 

1934-1994

Protestant CIM missionaries to Henan and east China. Founded center in Singapore

 

Hebrew Roots Movement

 

1994-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Hartshorne, process theologian, Ontological argument.

 

wrote 1923-1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul van Buren, Death of God theology 

1957-1998

“Christian atheist” and Episcopal priest who studied under Karl Barth.

 

Buddhist persecution in Myanmar/Burma

2000-

Buddhist government persecutes both Christians and Muslims

 

Hindus persecute Christians Orissa province India

Aug 2008-

300+ churches burned, 400+ killed after Maoists kill Hindu Swami Laxmananand

 

Hans Kung, liberal Roman Catholic theologian

 

1954-2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

70 million Christians martyred

35-July 2014

per David B. Barrett of World Christian Encyclopedia

 

John R.W. Stott, British Anglican evangelical

 

1966-2011

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Alvin Plantinga (Christian philosopher)

 

1957-

Modal Ontological argument, nature of evil, Molinist. Taught at Calvin College and Notre Dame

 

David (Paul) Yonggi Cho of South Korea

 

1958-

830K-member church. Emphasized prayer and cell groups. Controversial because he said the Son controls the 2nd dimension, the Spirit the 4th.

 

Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ICCRO)

1972-

72 million members in 1990, per World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.30

 

Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization. Also in 1989, 2010, 2024

July 1974

2,700 people from 150 countries. Organized by Billy Graham and John R.W. Scott

 

Kathryn Kuhlmann, famous faith healer

1930-1976

Some researchers proved at least some of the healings were not genuine.

 

Estimated 1.4 billion Christians

1975

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642. 34% of 4.08 billion world population

 

Gabriel Olasojji World Evangelism (GOWE) in Nigeria

1976-

Crusades in 25 nations by 1988. per World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.169

 

Martin Lloyd-Jones, Welsh Congregationalist Calvinist. 1,600 sermons.

1924-1981

Christians must withdraw from churches united with those who deny the essentials of salvation. John Stott vehemently opposed this.

 

Seraphim Rose of Platina, Ca. Russian Orthodox priest

1962-1982

anti-ecumenical. All must pass through three toll-houses after death to be judged.

 

Liberal Anglican theologian John A.T. Robinson

1946-1983

Wanted to synthesize Paul Tillich and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Universal salvation: Christ remains on the cross as long as one sinner remains in Hell. Studied NT manuscripts and concluded early dates.

 

Cai Sujuan, Queen of the Dark Chamber

 

1920-1984

Suffered persecution, malaria, Japanese camp. Her book translated into 30 languages.

 

Francis Shaeffer

1922-1984

Wrote How Then Shall We Live? Found the L’Abri Community

 

Karl Rahner

1929-1984

One of the foremost Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Expert advisor at Vatican II. Wrote 4,000 works plus a 10-volumn encyclopedia

 

Liberal Reformed pastor Norman Vincent Peale

1932-1984

Founded Guideposts mag. In 1945. In 1952 wrote The Power of Positive Thinking.

 

Catholic theologian Bernard Lonergan

1936-1984

Aristotelian, Thomist theologian

 

Gordon H. Clark, Monergistic, anthropopathic, Supralapsarian Calvinist. Wrote 40 books.

1929-1985

Incompatible with the PCA. We’re not puppets but controlled by our will. God completely controls our will.

 

Herbert W. Armstrong founds the Worldwide Church of God. Taught the rapture would come in 1986.

1931-1/1986

Taught British-Israelism and followed Mosaic dietary laws. Thought the Trinity was Satanic. After his death there were splits, and one group did accept the Trinity.

 

Apollo Quiboloy, Philippine evangelist

1985-

 

 

In Nigeria Fulani kill Christians

1987

4 dead

 

In Sudan 1K Dinka Christians burned to death by Muslims

1987

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

 

Adrienne von Speyr and (scribe) Roman Catholic priest Hans Urs von Balthasar

1929-1988

Adrienne was a mystic who dictated to Balthasar. An important 20th century Catholic theologian. He wrote at least 85 books 500 articles, 15 volumes on beauty

 

Michael Pomazansky, Russian Orthodox theologian

1936-1988

Wrote Orthodox Dogmatic Theology

 

J. Vernon Magee (DTS grad)

1949-1988

Through the Bible in 100 languages and 160 countries.

 

Walter Martin Regular Baptist pastor, cult apologist

1960-1989

Founded the Christian Research Institute and wrote Kingdom of the Cults.

 

Wang Ming Dao. Imprisoned 1955-1979

1923-1991

Abdicated Christianity but came back. Wrote A Stone Made Smooth

 

Dumitru Stăniloae, influential Romanian Orthodox priest.

1928-1993

Wrote Dogmatic Orthodox Theology anti-Semitic. Wrote a eulogy of Adolf Hitler.

 

David Koresh and the Branch Davidians

1959-Apr. 19, 1993

Spinoff of Seventh-Day Adventists. Koresh claimed to the final prophet. Polygamy, child sexual abuse. 15-day standoff led to death of members in Waco, Texas

 

Johan Heyns, Afrikaner Calvinist theologian

1954-1994

Synod moderator. Declared the apartheid is a sin. He was assassinated by pro-Apartheid people.

 

Harold E. Camping, president of Family Radio

1994

Wrote in his book 1994? that the world would end in 1994. Did not believe in Hell.

 

Witness Lee, started the local church

 

1949-1997

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Heaven’s Gate cult, combined UFO’s and theosophy with Bible eschatology.

1974-3/25/1997

39 suicides in Rancho Santa Fe, California. A UFO was coming for them with the Hale-Bop comet.

 

 

Over 5 billion have seen the Jesus film

-1998

 

 

George Hunston Williams, Unitarian heretic

1941-2000

Historian of Socinian Unitarians

 

Estimated 2 billion Christians

2000

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642. 33% of 6.06 billion world population

 

Bart Ehrman, graduate of Moody, Wheaton, Princeton

2000-

Authored 30 books. Anglican to Evangelical to liberal Christian to Agnostic

 

Charles Templeton, famous Canadian evangelist and TV Show host

1936-1959-2001

With Billy Graham co-found Youth for Christ. Later became an agnostic, then an atheist and later politician.

 

R.J Rushdoonie, father of Christian home-schooling

1944-2001

Orthodox Presbyterian. Father of Christian Reconstructionism

 

John Romanides, Greek Orthodox priest, taught theosis

1956-2001

Against Augustine & western church for replacing mystical revelation with philosophy

 

English Standard Version Bible published by Crossway

2001

Based on the 1971 RSV

 

W.A. Criswell, Southern Baptist

1928-2002

Long-time pastor and founder of Criswell Bible College

 

John Walvoord. DTS Dispensationalist, DTS President 1952-1986

1936-2002

Editor of the Bible Knowledge Commentary. Did much to promote Dispensationalism and Premillennialism. Author of 30 books

 

Canaan Banana, ex-Methodist pastor, 1st president of Zimbabwe. Wrote The Gospel According to the Ghetto.

1962-2003

Liberation theology. “When I see a guerilla I see Jesus.” He served 6 months in jail for homosexuality. Active in the World Council of Churches and the Org. of African Unity.

 

Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Bible Scholar.

1945-2004

Biblical Scholar, against the OT Documentary hypothesis and two Isaiah theories. Princeton grad., served at Park Street Baptist in Boston, then Fuller, then Trinity.

 

Stephen Olford (Plymouth Brethren / Baptist)

1945-2004

Sermons broadcast worldwide. Heavily influenced Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, Charles Stanley, and Jim Elliot.

 

Billy Graham (southern Baptist minister) 

1947-2005

Preached live to 210 million in 185 countries. Against racial segregation.

 

Henry Morris, a founder of ICR

1942-2006

Young earth Creationist and a founder of Institute for Creation Research

 

Charles Ryrie DTS Dispensationalist

1953-2006

Systematic theologian

 

Dominican heretic Edward Scillebeeckx

1943-2009

Denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

Robert A. Schuller and the Crystal Cathedral

-1961-2011

The Crystal Cathedral much later went bankrupt.

 

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind Series

1995-

Since 1995 65 million books sold, movies (2000), and movie remakes (on-going)

 

 

Joel Beeke and Mark Jones (Reformed) 

-2012

Book Puritan Theology

 

William Hamilton

1952-2012

Prominent in the “Christian atheism” movement

 

Dave Hunt

1973-2013

Good materials on end times and Roman Catholicism. Taught Calvinism is a heresy.

 

Still Waters Revival Books. Puritan hard drive

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Think believing free will exists is a heresy. Arminian worship is blasphemy

 

Wolfgang Pannenberg, Lutheran theologian 645 writings, Taught all history is a revelation of Jesus’ resurrection

1958-2014

Influenced by Barth, Hegel, and Löwith. Churches that approve of homosexual practices not true churches.

 

Douglas Kelley (Reformed) 

2008, 2014

Systematic Theology

 

Jim and Elizabeth Elliot to the Huaorani (Aucas) 

1950-56/2015

Jim and 4 others martyred in Ecuador. Elizabeth continued the work.

 

In Nigeria Fulani herdsmen kill Christians

May 2017-Oct 2017

709 Christians, 16 Muslims killed. 130 Christians injured.  (5/11/2019) https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/april/nigeria-fulani-attack-catholic-church-benue-boko-haram.html

 

In Nigeria Fulani herdsmen kill Christians

Nov 2017-May 2018-

After law banning open grazing was passed, 580 Christians killed, 87K fled homes

 

R.C. Sproul (Presbyterian apologist)

1969-2017

Books on defending the Bible, and Calvinism

 

Thomas J.J. Altizer, tried to be an Episcopal priest, but failed a psychiatric test

1956-2018

Part of the Christian atheism movement. He said once possessed by Satan. Wrote Godhead and nothing. Thought God self-extinguished Himself with Jesus Christ.

 

Norm Geisler (Plymouth Brethren apologist)

1964-2019

Key author of Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas.

 

Morris Cerullo, Pentecostal evangelist

1931-2020

Bought Jim Bakker’s assets after bankruptcy. Host of Victory Today.

 

Desmund Tutu. South African Anglican priest, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and later politician.

1966-2021

Non-violently against apartheid, racial segregation. Later for LGBTQ and church same-sex marriage. Liked Liberation theology excluding the violent aspects.

 

Paul Knitter, former Catholic priest, now Universalist

b.1939-

Wrote “Without Buddha I could not be a Christian”. Criticized by Cardinal Ratzinger.

 

William Lane Craig. Expanded Cosmological argument. Molinist

 

1977-

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John Piper, American Reformed Baptist

1946-

A prominent reformed author and theologian. DesiringGod.org

 

Beth Moore, Bible teacher

 

1978-

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Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren. The Purpose Driven Life and … Church 

1979-

Gives 90% of income to the church and lives off 10%. Controversy because he agreed to do Obama’s Inauguration Ceremony

 

Joel Osteen, Prosperity Doctrine Pastor

1982-

Wrote Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential and other books.

 

Alister McGrath

1982-

Northern Irish Anglican priest. A Christian evolutionist who debates against atheism.

 

William Dembski

1988-

Wrote Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

 

Conservative Protestant: Alistair Begg, Don Carson, Sinclair Ferguson, Gary Habermas, June Hunt, Greg Laurie, John Warwick Montgomery, David Jeremiah, J.I. Packer, Lee Strobel, Chuck Swindoll, Bible Churches, Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Charismatic, Free Evangelical, Calvary Chapel, C&MA, Antioch Community Church. (600 million)

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Modern Eastern Orthodox (200 million)

 

1672-

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Modern Roman Catholic (1.29 billion)

 

1962-

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Messianic Jews. Int’l Assoc. of Messianic Congregations & Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations

 

1960's-

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Marianna Slocum and Florence Gerdel

1956-2017/2019

Right after Marianna’s fiancée died of a heart attack, they went to the highland and lowland Tzeltal Indians in Mexico and Páez in Colombia

 

COVID-19 greatly affects how churches services held

3/2020-

In California at one point, churches could not open, but casinos and bars could.

 

Boris Bobrinskoy, French Russian Orthodox theologian

1954-8/2020

A leader of the World Council of Churches.

 

Robert Funk / The Jesus Seminar

1985-2005/2022

Liberal scholars voted on which of Jesus’ saying in the gospels they thought were authentic.

 

Global United Methodist Church splits from the UMC.

‘3/3/2022

Split over LGBTQ clergy and members and same-sex marriage.

 

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