1. Church History Braving the WorldNew the Word & Table through two millennium

2. A Timeline of Church History Medieval Church AncientChurch 6001500 ReformationChurch 2000 ModernChurch ca. 33

3. The Diet of Worms Unless by Scripture or Clear Reason…

4. The Solae of the Reformation Christian Historians Record Five Solae: Sola Scriptura Sola Fide Sola Fide Sola Gratia Sola Gratia Solus Christus Solus Christus Soli Deo Gloria Soli Deo Gloria

5. The Legacy of The Reformation Results of the Reformation:  The Bible is Made Available to the “Laity.”  Pockets of Christianity Spring Up All Over  Rise of the Secular State  New Ideas Spread Rapidly

6. UnfetteredMinds Rene Decartes (1596-1650) “I think, therefore I am.” Cartesian Doubt – “never to accept anything as truth which I do not clearly know to be such.”

7. UnfetteredMinds Voltaire Voltaire (1694-1778) “I believe in God; not the God of the mystics and the theologians, but the God of nature, the great geometrician, the architect of the universe, the prime mover, unalterable, transcendent, everlasting.”

8. UnfetteredMinds Voltaire Rousseau (1712-1778) “Our most sublime notions of the Deity come to us through reason alone. Gaze upon nature, give heed to the inner voice.” Rejected the uniqueness of Christ and Christianity.

9. UnfetteredMinds John Locke (1632-1704) -Revelation is a legitimate source of knowledge, yet it is subject to the scrutiny of reason. -Natural Rights of Man/Social Contract. -Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions

10. UnfetteredMinds David Hume (1711-1776) “It is contrary to experience that a miracle should be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false.”

11. Enlightened, but… Unfettered Minds The Basic Ideas Rejected: The Indissolubility of Human Guilt. The Radical Enslavement of Man to Sin. “Things aren’t so bad with mankind.”

12. Beyond the Enlightenment Responding to Reason:  Pietism – Practical Christianity vs. Intellectual  Revivalism – Missions & Evangelism Explode  Immanuel Kant – Writes against the use of strict reason, but grounds religion in human faculty…duty.

13. The New World is Braved Beginnings of the American Experience:  Pilgrimage of the Separatists Puritans, “a city set upon a hill.”  Maryland – quasi-Catholic Colony.  Carolinas– Anglicanism.  Georgia – anything goes.  Rhode Island – the Baptists.

14. Revival & Revivalism Jonathan Edwards (1632-1704) “I was preaching the Word & praying...” …and so were others, who were trained, mobilized, and willing to proclaim.

15. Church History Braving the New World the Word & Table through two millennium