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

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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 32European
Christianity in the 19th Century
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ENGLAND
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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
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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 (Scotts) preaching
when I first set out in the way of the Lord Wm
Carey
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Rt. Rev. Katherine Jeffers Schori Presiding
Bishop, Episcopal Church USA
Bishop Gene Robinson
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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
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SCOTLAND
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The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk John
Lorimer
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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
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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?

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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
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C. The Moderates
John Witherspoon 1723-94
Moderate preaching is like a winters 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!
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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
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V. Other Church Bodies
1. Scottish Episcopalians
2. Congregationalists Baptists
Robert Haldane 1764-1842
James Haldane 1768-1851
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1. Roman Catholicism

VII. Renewal and Division
A. Missions
1829 Alexander Duff
B. Robert Murray McCheyne
Missions abroad Holiness at home
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• 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
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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
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Evangelicals in Scotland Today

• Free Church of Scotland
• Wee Frees

2. Church of Scotland
William Still Eric Alexander Rutherford House
What J.I. Packer Would Say to a New Christian
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J.I. Packer