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REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Study Topics and Assignments
Week 12 - The West after the Enlightenment
Textbook Readings and Class Notes
- Chapter 12, pages 340-373
InterNet Resources
- InterNet Links for Week 12
- Useful articles can be found by using the Topics as search words in Search Engines such as
MSN,
Dogpile,
AltaVista, or
Yahoo
- You may use the Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions - Who am I ?
All the people below are mentioned in Chapter 12. Identify them, and write a paragraph on each of them, describing their contributions to the development of the Christian Church, or to the historical setting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries if they were not active Christians. - for some of these you may have to consult sources other than the textbook
- I was a soldier from Corsica who became Emperor of France
- I was a Presbyterian minister in Kentucky who started Camp Meetings
- I was born in England, became a Methodist minister, and was sent by John Wesley to America, where I took the title of bishop
- I was a Presbyterian minister in New York. I had "ministers of music" to help with the Services
- I was a Baptist minister who said that Christ would return to earth in 1843 or 1844
- I was a women preacher and writer whom the Seventh Day Adventists regard as a founding authority
- I wrote the Book of Mormon and founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- I was a member of the British Parliament, who spoke out against slavery in 1789.
- I was an English newspaper editor who organized the first Sunday Schools
- I was the founder of the Salvation Army
- I was the founder of the "ragged schools". I was also an English Lord and I introduced bills to improve conditions for workers in mines, factoriew and mills
- I was a Prime Minister of England who helped prostitutes to break with their life-style
- I was an American woman temperance activist who attacked taverns with a hatchet
- I was a Congregationalist mill-owner in northern England who built a community of good housing for my workers
- I was the elder of two brothers who were Quakers and who built a community for the workers at their chocolate factory
- I was raised by Moravians, but was influenced by Immanuel Kant and wrote "On Religion" in 1799.
- I was an American Baptist who worked in the part of New York known as Hell's Kitchen for 11 years before becoming a seminary professor
- I was the Pope who formualted the doctrine of the "Immaculate Conception" of the Virgin Mary in 1845
- I was an Anglican clergyman who was a member of the Tractarian Group (the Oxford Movment) until I joined the Roman Catholic Church. I later was made a Cardinal
- I was a Presbyterian theologian at Princeton who taught that the Bible is the primary refernce point for Christians. I wrote some of the articles for "The Fundamentals"
Remember to cite your sources
Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then send it as an Attachment to, or pasted into, an email message to Dr. Rollinson at rollinsondr@yahoo.com,rollinsondr@hellokitty.com,rollinsondr@mail2world.com.
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Dr. Rollinson
Department of Religion
ENMU
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Last Updated: October 26, 2008
