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CHURCH HISTORY II CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 1 Lesson 1 Reformation to Modern Era Reformation to Modern Era “A systematic written account comprising a chronological record of events and ‘ usually including a philosophical explanation of the cause and origin of such events” Webster’s 3 rd edition What about Church History? PHILIP SCHAFF the Holy Spirit’s instrument for conveying God’s works, hrough His people in the past, to His people in the present.” “A study of the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon the earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.”
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“A systematic written account comprising a chronological record of events and ‘usually including a philosophical explanation of the cause and origin of such events” Webster’s 3rd edition
What about Church History?
PHILIP SCHAFF
“Church history is the Holy Spirit’s instrument for conveying God’s works,Performed in and through His people in the past, to His people in the present.” EDWARD PANOSIAN
“A study of the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon the earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.”
Why Do We Study Church History?
I. To Know the Past
A. The presence of the past
B. The power of the past
C. The purpose of the past
II. To Expand the Present
“While I am a great advocate of looking to the past, I would warn everybodyagainst living in the past. The only justification for looking to the past is thatwe might learn great lessons from it and apply them”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
III. To Shape the Future
“Those who fail to remember the past are condemned to repeat it”George Santayana
“Those who fail to remember the past are condemned not to repeat it” David B. Calhoun
“Both by our action and inaction, we are making history” Juan Gonzalez
Apostolic Church
Apostolic Fathers
Church Councils
Church History
Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD
Golden Age of Church Fathers
Ancient Church History Medieval Church History Modern Church History
The Pre-Reformers
The First Medieval Pope
The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
The Crusades
The Papacy in Decline
The Context of the ReformationThe Context of the ReformationI. Political Context Saxony in Germany
Frederick the Wise(1463-1525)
Holy Roman Empire
Charles V
SPAIN
ISABELLA OfCASTILE
FERNINAND OFARAGON
FRANCE
FRANCIS I
ENGLAND
Henry VII Henry VIII
ITALY
Leo X (1513-1521)“The Renaissance Six”
These six popes ‘possessed no sense of spiritual mission, provided no meaningful religious guidance, performed no moral service for the Christian world”
Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly
II. Social Context
Growth of towns and cities
New money economy
III. Intellectual Context
Growth of universities
Printing
IV. World Context
Discoveries of the Western powers-Portugal and Spain
Decline of Christianity in Asia Hills of eastern SyriaMalabar coast of India
Rise of Ottoman Turks“Beset by an advancing Islam in the East, having lost the larger proportion of its wide-flung communities in Asia, and suffering from corruption and indifference in the church which represented it in the West, in 1500 Christianity did not seem to face a promising future”
Latourette, The History of the Expansion of Christianity 2; pg 341
V. Religious Context
No assurance of salvation
Emphasis on money, relics and indulgences
VI. Luther’s 95 Theses
“The strength and purity of the evangelism of the Theses is manifested in nothing more decisively than in their clear proclamation of the dependence of the soul for salvation on the mere grace of God alone” B.B. Warfield
HUMANIST
NOT secular, atheistic
WERE students of languages, history, literature
TWO MAJOR CONCERNS
1. Reform of the church
2. Recovery of the Bible
The Important Humanists
1. Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522)
German Hebrew scholar
Pfefferkorn & the Dominicans
Letters of Distinguished Men
Letters of Obscure Men
2. Jacques Lefevre D’Etables (1450-1536)
French bible scholar
Commentaries on Psalms (1509) and Pauline Epistles (1512)
Translated Vulgate into French (1530)
3. John Colet (1466-1519)
English churchman, Dean of St. Paul’s, London
“Without Greek, we are nothing.”
Lectures on Romans at Oxford
Historical-grammatical exegesis
4. Erasmus ( 1466-1536) The Prince of the Humanists
Critical edition of the Greek NT (1516)
“The light that was then turned upon the Word of God has been shining steadily upon it ever since. From the moment when Judea and Greece rose from the grave, in the persons of Reuchlin and Erasmus, with the Hebrew and Greek Testaments in their hands, the treasures that they brought back to the world have been continuously under the scrutiny of men”
Selected Shorter Writings of Warfield, 2:3
Wrote satire rather than serious tombs
“We must rejoice in the gifts of Erasmus, which were of a truth great and significant enough, and ought to acknowledge God in them. But if we believe we have advanced farther, let us consider that this too was only granted to us of God” John A. Lasco
“the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8)
