“Who do you think you are?” Welcome to St Pauls Summer School 2013

St Pauls Summer School Session 4 A Century of Challenge

The Victorian Period

(a) The Oxford Movement

(b) Revival breaks out!

1906

Evan Roberts 1904

Ruanda 1929

Hebrides 1949

Anthony Ashley Cooper 7 th Earl of Shaftesbury “The poor man’s earl!” (c) Social Reform and Mission

Elizabeth Fry

Tom Barnardo

William Booth

Robert Raikes

(d) Global Missionary Expansion

“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”

(e) Biblical Literacy and Preaching Keswick Convention

Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so!”

Four nineteenth century challenges 1. Emergence of the cults 2. Doctrinal shifts in Catholicism 3. Science and Darwin 4. Rationalism

1. The Emergence of the Cults

2. Doctrinal Shifts in the RC Church

3. Science and Darwin

4. Rationalism

Twentieth Century The collapse of the progress myth and the rise of post modernism

The Status of Science God is dead! Man is autonomous

To be continued...!

Discussion Questions (a)Mission and Social Reform- Matt is well known as the Great Commission- to do what? How did the early church augment or develop its mission in the New Testament? eg Acts and : Eph 6.5-9; 1 Tim How radical was all this stuff? (b) Faith and Reason- Look at Hebrews esp v1,2,6 What guidance do these verses give us about understanding our place in the universe? (c) Talk about your understanding of science and faith and listen to one another!