Nicea to Ephesus Teaching Grid

Second Great Awakening On Teaching on Scripture Grid – May 2023

		Legend for Cells
Sc1. Study or obey God’s Word as an authority	Sc11. Scripture or writers were inspired	W = Wrote explicitly on this teaching
Sc2. O.T. has God’s words; study it Mk12:24-25;Ac 3:22	Sc12. Canon [of scripture/truth/church] Gal 6:11	I = Implied this is true or opposite is false
Sc3. New Testament has God's words. 2 Pet 3:15-16	Sc13. Dual meaning of some prophecies	N = Implied since accepted Nicene Creed
Sc4. Scripture is called the word of God Psalm 33:4,6	Sc14. Unbelievers don’t understand OT/scripture Mk 22:29; 13:24	M = Mixed: some agree, others would not
Sc5. Divine Scripture	Sc15. Veil on many when read Moses/OT 2 Cor 3:14	P = partial ex: Irenaeus: Gnostics wrong to say Savior not killed since impassible
Sc6. Scripture is holy/sacred Isa 20:22; Rom 1:2; Rev3:7	Sc16. Some parts of the Bible are allegorical
Sc7. We are to believe scripture Jn 2:22	Sc17. Lion both good and bad in scripture	- = no reference found (so far)
Sc8. We can understand scripture	Sc18. Don’t twist/corrupt meaning of scripture.2Pet3:16	X = Disagree
Sc9. Mediate on Gods’ words/commands Ps 63:6;119	Sc19. Acknowledge Bible copyist errors -	blank = not researched yet
Sc10. Search the Scriptures	Sc20. Some corrupted [copies of] scripture	Writer totals include W’s & I’s but not P’s

Rows: blue=Bible manuscript, white=Christian writer, khaki=spurious, green=heresy, orange=schism, pink=strange writer, yellow=foreign missions, red=Christians persecuted, purple=Roman Catholics persecuting, brown=Christians persecuting

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

Pages

Date A.D.

Second Great Awakening in North America & England

1790-1840

Presbyterians, Methodists, Campbellites

Adam Clarke Irish Wesleyan commentator

1782-1832

Friedrich Schleiermacher

1790-1834

Rationalist reformed theologian who rejected the virgin birth of Christ

Medical Missionary Society founded in Scotland

1841

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

Revival in Norway.

1842

Revival in the state church. Norwegian Mission Society started.

Turks & Kurds persecute Nestorians (2 times)

1842-1843

40K Nestorians killed, 50K enslaved per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

Fidelia Fiske, missionary with ABCFM in Persia

1843

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

About 4,000 rural circuit riders in the U.S.

1844

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

1844

Originally founded by evangelicals, in the USA it has lost its Christian vision

Persian Nestorian revival In Urmia, NW Iran

1844

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

K. von Tischendorf finds Codex Sinaiticus near Mt. Sinai

1844

First missionaries to Tanganyika

1840’s

Johann Ludwig Krapf, Johannes, Rebman, and Jakob Erhardt

Southern Baptist Convention started

1845

They accepted missionaries who were slave-owners, unlike the Northern Baptists.

Apparition of Mary of La Sallette (near Grenoble, France), a few hundred miles from Lourdes.

1846

Message to rest on the seventh day and respect God’s name or else the potatoes would rot. There was a potato famine in Europe 1846-1847.

Badr Khan massacres 20K Nestorians in Kurdistan. Enslave 50K others

1843 & 1846

Europeans protest. Ottomans respond by defeating the Kurds and exiling Badr Khan.

The Doctrinal Basis of the Evangelical Alliance

1846

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). 1970 2.9M

1847-

Fifth persecution of Christians in Vietnam

1847

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

James Caughey of New York

1841-1848

c.20K in England per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

Pope Pius IX of Rome restores Jewish restrictions

1846-1848

All previous restrictions on Jews enforced in the Vatican

Plymouth Brethren split into Exclusive Brethren and Open Brethren (still called Plymouth Brethren)

1848

Both groups are dispensationalist evangelical Christians.

Confession of the Evangelical Free Church of Geneva

1848

Thailand expels all Christian missionaries

1849

Not violent though. World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

Christadelphians deny the Trinity, and H.S. Satan as beings. 1985 only 90K members

1849-

Persian Nestorian revival in Iran

1949,1950

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.140

Medieval Inquisition in France & Europe

1184-mid 19th cent.

Tortured & executed Anabaptists, Protestants, & a few Catholics

Adoniram & Ann Judson missionaries to Burma

1825-1850

Adiniram knew Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. He translated the Bible into Burmese.

Babis

1844-1850

Azalis & Baha'is, offshoots of Islam

1850 & 1863-

French nurse and nun Bertine Bouquillon

-1950

Predicts the end of time is near and Antichrist will not delay

Estimated 324 million Christians. World pop. 1.203B

1850

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.97. 27% of 1.203 billion world population

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod split from LCMS. They believe the papacy is the antichrist. c.300K members.

1850-

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A very influential book before the Civil War

1852

Calvinist and abolitionist. She said she wrote it, after seeing a vision of a dying black person during a communion service.

18 Apparitions of Mary of Lourdes, France appeared only to a 14-year old girl. About 6 million visit the shrine yearly

1858

There have been many reports of miracles at Lourdes; some have proven to be hoaxes, but 70 are verified.

Soren Kierkegaard – Danish philosopher

1843-1855

Tokugawa Shoguns persecute Christians in Japan

1629-1856

Those who refused to trample pictures of Jesus or Mary tortured & killed. Many thousands killed

First American missionaries allowed in Japan

1858

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

Reorganized LDS splits from LDS

1860-

Followed Joseph Smith’s Smith as Smith prophesied, instead of Brigham Young

Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar

1828-1861

Killed half of the people of Madagascar (2.5 million), especially Christians

Sixteenth persecution of Christians in Vietnam

1861

H. Hermosilla, V.B. Ochoa killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

Lebanese Druze kill 20K Maronites

1847-1862

100K homeless, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

Ellen G. White & 7th Day Adventists 16m 1990

1863-

“Great persecution” of Catholics in Korea

1866

8,000 killed

Revivals in the Netherlands

c.1860

G. van Pinsterer & Abraham Kuyper, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

Revivals in USA in both south (150K) and north

1857-1861

Stopped when the Civil War started. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.141

Abraham de Vries, Mennonite theologian

1801-1862

Universal Catholic Church (=new Apostolic Church)

1863-

48 apostles. 1985 1.7 million. Not work with other churches, per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.142

Tai-ping rebellion by Hung Hsiu-Chuan, “Jesus’ brother”

1843-1864

Rebelled to found the “Great Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom” 35 million killed

China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor

1865-

Also Griffith John, W.A.P. Martin. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister Nathaniel West

1820-9/1864

Missionary, minister, temperance society founder, and anti-slavery activist

St. Ignaty Brianchaninov (Orthodox, icons)

1807-1867

First national Holiness Camp meeting in Vinland, New Jersey

1867

Had shouting, dancing in the Spirit, holy laughter, holy rolling, per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.142

Confession of Free-Will Baptists

1834 & 1868

First Vatican Council. 700 R.C. bishops

1869-1870

Creed of the Free Christian Church in Italy

June 1870

Tientsin, China, many Christians killed

1870

2 French priests, 10 nuns, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.140

Insider Movement to Hindus (founded by Kali Chan Banurji)

1870-

Danish Lutheran N.F. S. Grundvig

1783-1872

Wanted to absorb heroic Norse mythology into Lutheranism.

Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower) (8.3 million)

1872-

Frederick Maurice. Christian Socialism founder

1859-1871

Eastern Orthodox “Great Synods”

1838/1872

Leaders of Greek, Russian, and Arab Orthodox Christians all gathered together

French Declaration of Faith (Reformed)

1872

Salesian Sisters (FMA) in Italy

1872-

by 1983 over 17,269 nuns, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.142

Charles Hodge, Reformed, Traducian theologian

1871-1873

Systematic Theology

David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

1813-1873

Besides evangelizing natives wanted to expose to the world the “horrors” of slavery

Marcus & Narcissa Whitman. Henry & Eliza Spalding

1837-1847-1874

Presbyterian missionaries to the Nez Perce, Spokane, Cayuse, and other Indians. First white women in the northwest.

Charles Finney, Arminian revivalist

1825-1875

Articles of Religion of the Reformed Episcopal Church in America

May 18, 1875

Keswick Convention, annual since 1875

1875-

Evangelical Christians in Great Britain. Founded by an Anglican and a Quaker

Scottish Anglican-Methodist revivalist Robert Aitken

1833-1873

Preached the imminent return of Christ. Allowed to preach in Methodist churches.

Salvation Army founded by William Booth and his wife Catherine Munford

1870-1878-

Liberal Protestant, Episcopalian

19th century

Julius Mueller. Protestant theologian, pre-existence of souls

1839-1878

Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science 1.4m 1990

1875/79-

Ethiopians force Muslims and pagans to be Christians

c.1880

Force 500K Gallas to be baptized per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.144

Christians exterminated in the Sudan

1880’s

“The Mahdi”, Muhammad Ahmad has all Christians in the Sudan killed

John N. Darby. Plymouth Brethren. A founder of modern dispensationalism.

1825-1882

Edward Pusey. Anglo-Catholic in the Oxford Movement

1825-1882

A founder of the Oxford Movement of “high-Anglicanism”. Said Christ’s presence in the Eucharist, pray to and for the dead.

H.P.S. Schreuder Norwegian Lutheran missionary to Zulus

1843-1882

Also acted as an intermediary between the British and Zulus.

Isabella van Wagener (aka Sojourner Truth), a black slave

1843-1883

Christian Ministry across the US for end of slavery and women’s rights

Revivals in Japan

1872,1883

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

1 million Telugu outcasts become Christian in South India

1872,1883

Baptists, Lutherans, and Methodists per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

In Madagascar revolt from French, many Christians killed

1883

Friar J. Berthieu killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

First Protestant church in Korea

1884

Edict of Tu Duc. Vietnamese to kill Roman Catholics

1851-1884

Killed 90K Catholics and 115 priests, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.141

In Uganda 250 Anglicans and Roman Catholics martyred

1885

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII

1885

A.A. Hodge (Traducian Presbyterian)

1847-1886

Presbyterian, missionary to India, important theologian. Said he taught nothing new (i.e. beyond the Bible and those before him)

Catholics, Anglicans, and Muslims killed in Buganda, and 6/3/1886 in Namugongo, Uganda

1885-1887

Homosexual king Mwanga II of Buganda kills 250 Catholic and Anglican Christians, and Muslims, who were against homosexuality. Muslims overthrow him in 1888.

Student Volunteer Movement

1886-1887

Started by D.L. Moody in Northfield, Mass., and spread to Great Britain.

John Henry Newman Anglican priest to Roman Catholic

1845-1890

In Bhutan Nepali & Lepcha missionaries from India killed

1890

Many were poisoned. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

Samuel Crowther (former slave)

1843-1891

Missionary from Sierra Leone to Nigeria. First non-European Anglican bishop

James & Mary Calvert and John & Hannah Hunt

1838-1892

Two Methodist families (one Calvinist and one Arminian) evangelize cannibals in Fiji

Charles Spurgeon. almost 3,600 sermons

49 vols.

1854-1892

Sudan Interior Missions (later SIM International)

1893-

In 1985 654 missionaries in 15 nations per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

Baptist preacher A.J. Gordon

1863-1895

Also a musician, social activist, and college founder. Preached with D.L. Moody.

Nazarene Church formed

1895

Liberals and masons persecute Catholics in Ecuador

1895

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

The Fundamentals of Protestant fundamentalism

1895

Turks kill 300,000 Armenians

1894-1895

Armenians tried to be independent like the Balkans, so Turks killed most of them

Charles Sheldon

1896

Wrote In His Steps, about What Would Jesus Do. Has sold 50 million copies.

Henry Drummond, Free Church of Scotland

1877–1897

Influential evangelist. He advocated theistic evolution

Discovering malaria’s cause greatly helps mission work

1897

per World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.146

Gadadhar Chatterji founds Ramakirshna religion

1850-1897-

Claims to be the unity of all religions. Group organized by Swami Vivekananda.

Presbyterian pastor James H. Brooks

1854-1897

Dispensationalist, Millennialist. Niagara Bible Conference, magazine editor

George F. Muller. Plymouth Brethren. Helped 10,024 orphans, founded 117 schools. Accused of raising the poor above their natural station.

1830/1836-1898

D.L. Moody & Ira Sankey evangelists

1860-1899

Preached in America and Great Britain

Unity Church (Charles Fillmore a founder)

1899-

James Martineau, Unitarian heretic

1840-1900

Did not believe in the Incarnation of Jesus

Gideons International started

1899

by 1987 over 400 million Bibles. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146

Estimated 400M or 558M Christians. World pop. 1620M

1900

Ante-Nicene Fathers vol.4 p.126 or World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.97,642

Boxer rebels in N. China kill many Christians

1900

188 Protestant missionaries, 5 RC bishops, 31 priests. World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.242

Pentecostal Movement, Assemblies of God stared in Topeka, Kansas

1900

Pacific Islanders convert from Christianity to Mormonism

1855-1900

1855 Hawaiian Book of Mormon translation. Hawaiian temple dedicated in 1909

First International Congress of Liberal Religion

1900

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146

D.W. Whittle, hymn writer (wrote words, not music)

1862-1901

friend of D.L. Moody. “to do good a hymn must be founded on God's word and carry the message of God's love.”

American Standard Version (ASV 1901)

1901

Scholars worked with English 1895 RV translators

Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren

1858-1903

Japan Evangelistic Band

1903-

Barclay Fowell Buxton and Paget Wilkes founded at the 1903 Keswick Convention

Hudson and Maria Taylor, missionaries to China

1832-1905

Shintoists kill 5K Christians in Manchuria, China

1905

Persecution of Christians and others, from the USSR to the Khmer Rouge

Pentecostal C.F. Parham preaches British –Israelism

1906

Said when missionaries speak in tongues, then native peoples will understand them. Missionaries report only failure, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.146,147

Evan Roberts brings Welsh revival. 100K Welsh saved

1904-1907

Also Germany, Switz., & England. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, by L.H. Dowling

1907

Claims Jesus studied Hinduism under gurus. Earth is leaving the zodiacal Age of Pisces (Christianity) and entering the Age of Aquarius (New Age)

In Adana, Cilicia, Turkey, Armenians killed

1909

Armenian Evangelical Union Christians massacred at their annual conference. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

William J. Sparrow

123.75

1909

Wrote Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility

C.I. Scofield’s Reference Bible

1909

Baptist missionaries Eric Lund, Braulio Manikan

1900-1904

Planted churches in the Philippines

Presbyterian A.T. Pierson

1869-1911

Advocate for faith missions. Succeeded Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Preached 13,000 sermons. Friends with Scofield, Moody, & Muller

Wallace Wattles , New Thought writer and Socialist

1896-1911

Wrote The Science of Getting Rich. Excommunicated by the Methodists.

Henry Bavinck (Reformed)

1906-1911

Reformed Dogmatics and Our Reasonable Faith

Lottie Moon Baptist missionary to China

-1913

Highly educated. Worked in a small village in Shantung, China. Died of malnourishment (only 50 pounds) after helping villagers after the Yellow River floods

Millionaire missionary William Borden of Yale.

1887-1913

Led Christian group of 1,000 at Yale. Died in Egypt of brain meningitis at 25 years old, studying Arabic to minister to Muslim Chinese with China Inland Mission.

Turks kill many Estorians in Urmia, Iran

1914

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Presbyterian pastor W.G. Moorehead

1862-1914

Missionary, Pastor, and seminary president

Oneness Pentecostalism (denies the Trinity)

1914-

Mary Slessor

-1/13/1915

Protestant missionary to Nigeria. Contracted malaria on her first mission trip, 1876, and had fevers the rest of her life as a missionary. She stopped infanticide of twins.

Ottoman Turks and Kurds kill 600K Armenians after revolt

1915

600K others deported, many of whom also died. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Charles de Foucauld, missionary to Tamanrasset, Algeria

1905-1916

Killed by Muslims during a revolt, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

Ottoman Turks kill 1/5 of Maronites in Lebanon (100K)

1916

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Andrew Murray (S. Africa) 50 books 190 tracts.

Founder of the Africa Evangelical Fellowship

1848-1917

Turks & Kurds kill Nestorians and assassinate leader.

1917

Catholicas mar Benjamin Shimun XIX killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

5 Apparitions of Mary of Fatima, Portugal.

1917

Gave three secret messages, the second being to devote yourself to the immaculate heart of Mary. One alleged miracle was a temporary change in the appearance of the sun. A photograph was taken of the sun at the same time, showing nothing unusual.

Evan Henry Hopkins, Holiness writer

1871-1918

Said cannot be holy by imitating Christ. Rather count ourselves dead to sin and let Christ work through us. [Half wrong, because Christ is our example.]

Baptist Walter Rauschenbusch starts the social gospel

1898-1918

God and USA fight on the same side against Spain. Against US entering WW I

Turks kill 80% of all Syrian Orthodox

1918

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Julius Wellhausen

1872-1918

Popularized the JEPD theory of 4 authors of the Pentateuch

A.B. Simpson a founder of the C&MA

1865-1919

Japanese kill Christians and missionaries in Korea

1919

Suwon church filled with women and kids burned down. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Karl Barth

1919

Le Van Trung founds Cao Daist Missionary Church in Vietnam

1919-

Mixture of Buddhism, Confucian ethics, ancestor worship, and Catholic-type organization. 1975 2.8 million, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.149

Handley Moule, Anglican theologian, Keswick Convention speaker, many publications

1865-1920

Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati. Brahmin, Sanskrit scholar, and charismatic Christian

1883-1920

She campaigned against marriage of little girls, translated the Bible into Marathi, She opened a home for girls.

Turks kill Armenian Christians at Marash and Hadjin

1920

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Church of God Cleveland, Pentecostal Holiness church

1920-

Plotted to kill Hitler, and denied the physical resurrection of Christ

Roman Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons

1868-1921

B.B. Warfield. Calvinist professor and principal of Princeton Seminary

1881-1921

Wrote on inerrancy. “There have been many evolutionists who have been and have remained theists and Christians” Said spiritual gifts passed away.

Belgians persecute lnative churches in Congo

1921

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Communist persecutions

1922-

Persecution of Christians and others, from the USSR to the Khmer Rouge

Lenin kills 8.6K priests, monks & nuns

1921-1924

Kills even more lay Orthodox, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.150

PC USA Auburn Affirmation. 1274 signers

2.5

Jan. 1924

Russell H. Conwell (Baptist) in Philadelphia. Largest church in the USA

1879-1925

You can find diamonds in your backyard if you look, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.143

Scopes Trial (William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow

July 1925

A fine for teaching evolution in public schools

Roland Allen, Anglican missionary to N. China

1895-1927

wrote Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or ours? Start indigenous churches, not missions.

R.A. Torrey, a leading American Dispensationalist

1878-1928

Baptist who believed in baptism of the Holy Spirit

R.A. Torrey and C.M. Alexander team up

1902-1928

Lead 130K to Christ, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.147

ex-Sikh Sundar Singh

1909-1929

Preached to Sikhs and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir. disappeared going to Tibet

Frederick Brotherton Meyer, higher life speaker

1869-1929

Friend of D.L. Moody. Preached in England against drunkenness and prostitution.

Lillias Trotter missionary to Algeria

1887-1928

“Truly if God needed weakness, He had it!”

Mexico tries to exterminate Presbyterians in Tabasco

1930

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.151

C. T. Studd, missionary to China, India, & Africa

1888-1931

Only one life 'twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last.

Cam Townsend. Wycliffe Bible translators

1934-

Thousands of translations. After 2010, some translations, like Turkish and Arabic, take out the word "Father" and "son"

Charles Gore. Anglo-Catholic (Anglican with many Catholic views)

1875-1932

Said Christ on earth, though sinless, emptied himself of all other attributes of Godhead. Founded the Christian Social Union for helping the poor.

Navigators Christian Fellowship

1933-

International Fellowship for college students and military

G.K. Chesterton (Roman Catholic)

1874-1936

Stalin destroy s80% of all Ukrainian Orthodox churches

1928-1936

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.151

Alphonse Mingana Chaldean Catholic theologian

1913-1937

Collected many Mideast manuscripts financed by Cadbury (of chocolate fame)

Shantung Revival throughout all of China

1927-1937

One of the largest Baptist revivals

Wilbur M. Smith. Apologist at Moody Bible Inst.

A Plea for Vigorous Apologetic

1940’s

Many Latvian clergy killed

1934

Archbishop John Pommer or Riga killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Billy Sunday, famous American evangelist

1891-1935

Former pro baseball player, Presbyterian but not a strong Calvinist. Never critical of Roman Catholicism. Conservative Christian influential in passing Prohibition.

William E. Blackstone. Dispensationalist

1866-1935

Influential preacher who advocated returning Israel to the Jews. Wrote the Blackstone Memorial, signed by 413 Christian and Jewish leaders.

USSR underground churches persecuted

1935

I.E. Voronaev killed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Willis and Mary Ann Hoover.

1902-1936

They founded the Pentecostal Methodist Church in Chile

In Russian communist shoot 85,300 clergy

1937

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Russian Orthodox Saint Simon Silouan of Athos

1893-1938

Barely literate

Robert Wilder

1986-1938

Started the Student Volunteer Movement, from a 1-month D.L. Moody Conference

Soviets persecute Orthodox and Catholics in Armenia

1938

Catholicos Khoren I martyred, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

Xinjiang, China, Muslims & Communists persecute

1938

Uighur church of 300 destroyed. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.243

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

1941-

International Fellowship for college students

Aimee Semple McPherson

1908-1944

Most well-known Pentecostal preacher and faith healer in her time.

Jews intermittently expelled or attacked

1009-1939

Jews attacked by mobs, pogroms, or expelled in Europe & North Africa

Rudolf Bultmann "demythologizing the Bible"

1941

Wilson Carlile, British evangelist and musician

1873-1942

Former wealthy businessman. Inspired by Moody, worked in the slums

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran

-1945

Plotted to kill Hitler, and denied the physical resurrection of Christ

Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician, process philosophy. God evolves with the world.

1910-1941

La Violencia in Colombia kills 300K Protestants

1944

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.154

Ernst Loymeyer Conservative German theologian. Wrote 300 works. Friends with Jews, against Nazis and Communism. Soviets executed.

1912-1946

Presbyterian USA Robert Speer

1889-1947

Student Volunteer Movement Recruiter. Opposed Machen, like Karl Barth. Wrote two articles in The Fundamentals

R.H. Bowman & Far Eastern Broadcasting Company

1947-

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.155

World Council of Churches

1948-

Liberal. 1990 had 404 million members. Supported Marxist guerillas in Zimbabwe.

United Bible Societies holds first meeting

1948

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.156

W.E Vine, Plymouth Brethren, Dispensationalist

1905-1949

Wrote Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, Bible studies

Estimated 856 million Christians. 881K martyrs/year

1950

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642,156. 34% of 2.5 billion world pop.

North Korea kills Christians, including 500 pastors

1940-1950

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.157

Charismatic Simon Kimbangu founds EJCSK church

1921-1951

In Zaire. in 2000 had 9M members. per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.150

Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ)

1951-

Started by Bill and Vonette Bright 101K students in 2,300 locations across the USA

Gustavo Guitierrez & Liberation Theology

1950's-1971-

British Salvation Army evangelist Gipsy Smith

1889-1949

In major U.S. cities for 50 years, per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.145

Amy Carmichael Protestant missionary to Tamil Nadu, India for 55 years

1884-1951

Rescued young girls and boys from Hindu temple prostitution and founded an orphanage. Founded a Protestant religious order called Sisters of the Common Life.

Samuel Zwemer. Reform missionary, who called Islam “the Calvinism of the Orient”

1890-1952

Emphasized the precious blood of Christ and the Trinity. While < 12 converts in 40 years, but the churches he founded in the Mideast still live on.

Rev. Moon’s Divine Principle (Unification Church)

508

1954-

L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology

1954-

Lewis Sperry Chafer, dispensationalist

1896-1952

A founder of Dallas Theological Seminary and its first president

Methodist John R. Mott

1986-1955

Worked in the SVM. A founder World Missionary Conference (1910) and the World Council of Churches (1948)

Agnostic then Episcopal priest James Pike

1944-1958

Left the Episcopal church in 1969.

Castro in Cuba kills many Christians

1959

Many die shouting “Long live Christ the king” per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244

Reformed heretic Karl Neibuhr

1915-1960

Preached the Social Gospel. Founded the Fellowship of Socialist Christians. Wrote 20 books and 1,500 articles.

W.E. Sangster, Methodist revivalist

1939-1960

Methodist evangelist, against religious compromise in Methodism.

Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)

1962

Accepts Protestants as "separated brethren"

In N. Nigeria 30K Ibo Christians killed by Muslims

1966

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244

Nestorian schism in the Assyrian Church

1968

Ancient Church of the East split from the Assyrian Church of the East

In Cambodia 10K Protestants and 40K Catholics killed

1970

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.244

In Uganda Idi Amin kills 300K Christians

1971

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy (Norm Geisler and R.C. Sproul two of its authors)

1978

E.J.H. Nash Higher Life

1927-1982

Over 7K boys attended his camps

Bible Knowledge Commentary: New Testament (DTS published) Partial: only up to page 270.

270

1983

C.S. Lewis (Anglican, believed theistic evolution, prayed for the dead)

1898-1963

A.W. Tozer, C&MA pastor and writer

1919-1963

Josh McDowell, evangelist & author of over 150 books

1964-

Ministry started in 1964. Evidence that Demands a Verdict, More than a Carpenter

Paul Tillich Liberal Lutheran “God is love”

1951-1963

Word Mission Society Church of God (=Church of Ahnsahnghong, =Elohists) (2 million)

1964-

Believes in a heavenly Father and heavenly mother. Founded by Ahnsahnghong, who said he was the incarnation of heavenly father. Have to keep O.T. feasts.

Albert Switzer, liberal Christian and medical missionary

1901-1965

Writes about the quest for the historical Jesus

Chuck Smith starts Calvary Chapel, 17,000 churches

1965-

Catholic charismatic renewal begins

1967-

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.163

Children of God / The Family starts in Huntington Beach, CA

1968-

Have sex with potential converts. Aided by Spirit helpers such as Aphrodite, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, and Winston Churchill (from Wikipedia)

Henry Emerson Fosdick (liberal preacher against inerrancy)

1878-1969

Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth

1970

Revived interest in the end times

Insider (C5) Movement to Muslims (Qur'an & Mohammed from God too, rejects the Trinity)

1970's-

Chrislam, syncretistic religion in Nigeria

1970's-

Watchman Nee, Chinese writer. In prison 20 years

1920-1972

Aristotelian Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain

1912-1973

Revived interest in Thomas Aquinas

Church Universal & Triumphant / Elizabeth Claire Prophet (New Age)

1975-

Shroud of Turin purportedly surrounding Christ

1978

Later shown to be a fake done centuries ago

Jim Jones and Jonestown, Guyana kills 925

11/16/1978

Everyone in Jonestown was given red Kool-Aid with cyanide to drink.

William Barclay -skeptical that Jesus was God, not affirm the physical resurrection

1907-1978

Albanian Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India

1950-1979

Founder of the Sisters of Charity in India. Roman Catholic, pro-life, helped the poor. Rather than relieving pain thought that pain glorified God.

Jesus Film produced by Campus Crusade (now Cru)

1979

106 languages, 275M viewers, 33M decisions. World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.171

Human knowledge expanding at 200 million words per hour

1981

World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.173

Apparition of Mary of Medjugorje in Bosnia

1981

Among other things she told people to study the book Poem of the God-Man. This is on the Roman Catholic list of forbidden books because it has heretical doctrine. Catholic church only approved her in 2019 by Pope Francis.

In Peru 50 AOG killed, 800 Quechua Christian leaders killed by Shining Path guerillas

1981

Part per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

Andrew B. Murray and Shepherd’s Chapel

1985-2014–

Modalists, serpent seed doctrine, pre-existence of souls, British Israelism, Christian Identity Movement, deny the rapture, Annihilationism

David and Ruth Adenay, missionaries to China

1934-1994

Protestant CIM missionaries to Henan and east China. Founded center in Singapore

Hebrew Roots Movement

1994-

Charles Hartshorne, process theologian, Ontological argument.

wrote 1923-1995

Paul van Buren Death of God theological

1957-1998

“Christian atheist” and Episcopal priest who studied under Karl Barth.

Buddhist persecution in Myanmar/Burma

2000-

Buddhist government persecutes both Christians and Muslims

Hindus persecute Christians Orissa province India

Aug 2008-

300+ churches burned, 400+ killed after Maoists kill Hindu Swami Laxmananand

Hans Kung, liberal Roman Catholic theologian

1954-2013

70 million Christians martyred

35-July 2014

per David B. Barrett of World Christian Encyclopedia

John Stott, British Anglican evangelical

1966-2011

Alvin Plantinga (Christian philosopher)

1957-

Modal Ontological argument, nature of evil, Molinist. Taught at Calvin College and Notre Dame

David (Paul) Yonggi Cho of South Korea

1958-

830K-member church. Emphasized prayer and cell groups. Controversial because he said the Son controls the 2nd dimension, the Spirit the 4th.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ICCRO)

1972-

72 million members in 1990, per World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.30

an estimated 1.4 billion Christians

1975

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642. 34% of 4.08 billion world population

Gabriel Olasojji World Evangelism (GOWE) in Nigeria

1976-

Crusades in 25 nations by 1988. per World Christian Trends AD 30 –AD 2200 p.169

Liberal theologian John AT Robinson

1946-1983

Wanted to synthesize Paul Tillich and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Universal salvation: Christ remains on the cross as long as one sinner remains in Hell. Studied NT manuscripts and concluded early dates.

Cai Sujuan, The Queen of the Dark Chamber

1920-1984

Suffered persecution, malaria, Japanese camp. Her book translated into 30 languages.

Francis Shaeffer

1922-1984

Wrote How Then Shall We Live? Found the L’Abri Community

Karl Rahner

1929-1984

One of the foremost Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Sexpert advisor at Vatican II. Wrote 4,000 works plus a 10-volumn encyclopedia

Catholic theologian Bernard Lonergan

1936-1984

Aristotelian, Thomist theologian

Apollo Quiboloy, from the Philippines

1985-

In Nigeria Fulani kill Christians

1987

4 dead

In Sudan 1K Dinka Christians burned to death by Muslims

1987

per World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p.245

Adrienne von Speyr and (scribe) Roman Catholic priest Hans Urs von Balthasar

1929-1988

Adrienne was a mystic who dictated to Balthasar. Balthasar was one of the more important 20th century Catholic theologians. He wrote at least 85 books 500 articles, 15 volumes on beauty

J. Vernon Magee (DTS grad)

1949-1988

Through the Bible in 100 languages and 160 countries.

Wang Ming Dao. Imprisoned 1955-1979

1923-1991

Abdicated Christianity but came back. Wrote A Stone Made Smooth

Johan Heyns

1954-1994

Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and synod moderator. Declared the apartheid is a sin. He was assassinated by pro-Apartheid people.

Witness Lee, started the local church

1949-1997

Over 5 billion have seen the Jesus film

-1998

George Hunston Williams, Unitarian heretic

1941-2000

Historian of Socinian Unitarians

Estimated 2 billion Christians

2000

World Christian Trends AD 30 – AD 2200 p.642. 33% of 6.06 billion world population

R.J Rushdoonie, father of Christian home-schooling

1944-2001

Orthodox Presbyterian. Father of Christian Reconstructionism

English Standard Version Bible published by Crossway

2001

Based on the 1971 RSV

W.A. Criswell, Southern Baptist

1928-2002

Long-time pastor and founder of Criswell Bible College

John Walvoord. DTS Dispensationalist, DTS President 1952-1986

1936-2002

Editor of the Bible Knowledge Commentary. Did much to promote Dispensationalism and Premillennialism. Author of 30 books

Canaan Banana, ex-Methodist pastor, 1st president of Zimbabwe. Wrote The Gospel According to the Ghetto.

1962-2003

Liberation theology. “When I see a guerilla I see Jesus.” He served 6 months in jail for homosexuality. Active in the World Council of Churches and the Org. of African Unity.

Stephen Olford (Plymouth Brethren / Baptist)

1945-2004

Sermons broadcast worldwide. Heavily influenced Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, Charles Stanley, and Jim Elliot.

Billy Graham (southern Baptist minister)

1947-2005

Preached live to 210 million in 185 countries. Against racial segregation.

Henry Morris, a founder of ICR

1942-2006

Young earth Creationist and a founder of Institute for Creation Research

Charles Ryrie DTS Dispensationalist

1953-2006

Systematic Theologian

Dominican heretic Edward Scillebeeckx

1943-2009

Denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ

Joel Beeke and Mark Jones (Reformed)

-2012

Book Puritan Theology

William Hamilton

1952-2012

Prominent in the “Christian atheism” movement

Dave Hunt

1973-2013

Good materials on end times and Roman Catholicism. Taught Calvinism is a heresy.

Still Waters Revival Books. Puritan hard drive

Think believing free will exists is a heresy. Arminian worship is blasphemy

Douglas Kelley (Reformed)

2008, 2014

Systematic Theology

Jim and Elizabeth Elliot to the Huaorani (Aucas)

1950-56/2015

Jim and 4 others martyred in Ecuador. Elizabeth continued the work.

In Nigeria Fulani herdsmen kill Christians

May 2017-Oct 2017

709 Christians, 16 Muslims killed. 130 Christians injured. (5/11/2019) https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/april/nigeria-fulani-attack-catholic-church-benue-boko-haram.html

In Nigeria Fulani herdsmen kill Christians

Nov 2017-May 2018-

After law banning open grazing was passed, 580 Christians killed, 87K fled homes

Thomas J.J. Altizer

1956-2018

Prominent in the “Christian atheism” movement

R.C. Sproul (Presbyterian apologist)

1969-2017

Books on defending the Bible, and Calvinism

Norm Geisler (Plymouth Brethren apologist)

1964-2019

Key author of Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas.

Paul Knitter, former Catholic priest, now Universalist

b.1939-

Wrote “Without Buddha I could not be a Christian”. Criticized by Cardinal Ratzinger.

William Lane Craig. Expanded Cosmological argument. Molinist

1977-

John Piper, American Reformed Baptist

1946-

A prominent reformed author and theologian. DesiringGod.org

Beth Moore, Bible teacher

1978-

Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren. The Purpose Driven Life and … Church

1979-

Gives 90% of income to the church and lives off 10%. Controversy because he agreed to do Obama’s Inauguration Ceremony

Alister McGrath

1982-

Northern Irish Anglican priest. A Christian evolutionist who debates against atheism.

William Dembski

1988-

Wrote Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Conservative Protestant: Alistair Begg, Don Carson, Sinclair Ferguson, Gary Habermas, June Hunt, Greg Laurie, John Warwick Montgomery, David Jeremiah, J.I. Packer, Lee Strobel, Chuck Swindoll, Bible Churches, Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Charismatic, Free Evangelical, Calvary Chapel, C&MA, Antioch Community Church. (600 million)

c.1517-

Modern Eastern Orthodox (200 million)

1672-

Modern Roman Catholic (1.29 billion)

1962-

Messianic Jews. Int’l Assoc. of Messianic Congregations & Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations

1960's-

COVID-19 greatly affects how churches services held

3/2020-

In California at one point, churches could not open, but casinos and bars could.

Global United Methodist Church splits from the UMC.

3/3/2022

Split over LGBTQ clergy and members and same-sex marriage.

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

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