All Religious Events
English Monarchy reestablished(A.D. 1660) The English Republic falls and the monarchy and the Church of England are restored to their prerevolutionary positions. more
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Halfway Covenant(A.D. 1662) Puritan Congregationalist churches in 1662 modified their policy of only allowing baptized individuals who could adequately demonstrate th... more
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Pietist movement(A.D. 1675) Lutheran pastor Philipp Jakob Spener inaugurates the Pietist movement in Germany when he publishes his book Pia Desideria (“Pious Desire... more
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Pueblo Revolt(A.D. 1680) An uprising of the native Pueblo people against the Spanish colonists, in part motivated by promises of blessings and protection by the pe... more
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Declaration of Four Articles(A.D. 1682) The clergy of the Catholic Church in France convened to address the power of the Pope. The clergy recognized several important limitations... more
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Edict of Nantes revoked(A.D. 1685) Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, ending toleration for Protestant Huguenots in France. more
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Quietism condemned(A.D. 1687) The Roman Catholic Church condemns Quietism that sprung out of the teachings of John the Cross and Theresa of Avila. more
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Act of Toleration(A.D. 1689) The Act of Toleration in England legalizes Protestant churches that dissent from the established Church of England. more
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Madame Guyon’s teachings condemned(A.D. 1695) The French Catholic church condemns Madame Guyon's teachings due to its Quietist tendencies. more
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Deism begins
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Semi-Quietist condemned(A.D. 1699) Roman Catholic Church condemns Fénelon’s semi-Quietist teaching of pure love. more
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Monrovian movement(A.D. 1722) Count von Zinzendorf invites Protestants fleeing persecution in Moravia to settle on his land in Herrnhut, Germany. He later becomes their... more
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Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards (A.D. 1703-1758) Puritan minister, Calvinist theologian, the first American theorist of revival, and leader of the Great Awakeni... more ushers in revivals
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John Wesley(A.D. 1703–1791) Anglican priest, revival preacher and organizer, and together with his brother Charles, a founding figure of Methodism, whose theol... more begins
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First Great Awakening(A.D. 1740) The influential revival movement known as the First Great Awakening begins to spread throughout New England and endures in various forms f... more
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Voltaire publishes Philosophical Dictionary(A.D. 1764) Voltaire’s collection of deist satirical essays which are very critical of Christianity. more
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Thomas Paine The Age of Reason(A.D. 1794) Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Age of Reason, which becomes the most influential work of American deism. more
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Liberal TheologyIs a major theological movement beginning in German universities in the early 19th century that is critical of orthodox dogmas and turned to experienc... more
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Cane Ridge Revival(A.D. 1801) A large camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky was perhaps the largest camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening, drawing between 10,000 ... more
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University of Berlin(A.D. 1811) Schleiermacher becomes the first professor of theology at the new University of Berlin which becomes one of the most influential universit... more
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Second Great Awakening(A.D. 1824) Charles Finney replaces some of Jonathan Edwards’s Revivalist theology with “new measures” based on Wesleyan’s increased emphasis ... more
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Dispensationalist theologyA theological movement popular among conservative, evangelical Christians in the 19th and 20th centuries that divides history into a series of time pe... more
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Oxford Movement(A.D. 1833) A movement begins within the Anglican Church originating from Oxford and which advocated for the inclusion of older Christian traditions o... more
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Spanish Inquisition Ends(A.D. 1834) The Spanish Inquisition is definitively ended after a decline in local support over an approximate 50 year period. more
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Holiness tradition(A.D. 1836) Methodist teacher Phoebe Palmer inaugurating the Holiness by holding Tuesday Night Meetings in her home in New York City. more
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Landmark MovementIs a radical movement among a minority of Southern Baptists beginning in the 1850s that stressed its complete separation from all other Christian sect... more
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Immaculate ConceptionA Roman Catholic tradition that that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. This doctrine was formally accepted by Pope Pius IX in A.D. 1... more
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Syllabus of Errors(A.D. 1864) Pope Pius IX publishes the Syllabus of Errors, which denounce many modern beliefs such as freedom of religion. more
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National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness(A.D. 1870) The First Vatican Council officially adopts the doctrine of papal infallibility as well as the doctrine that God can be known through natu... more
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Aeterni Patris(A.D. 1879) Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Aeterni Patris promotes “the restoration of Christian philosophy according to the mind of Saint Thomas Aqui... more
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neo-scholasticismA late 19th and 20th century movement in the Roman Catholic Church that was based on the philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas that was regarded a... more
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Quest of the Historical Jesus(A.D. 1906) Albert Schweitzer publishes The Quest of the Historical Jesus, and claims that the historical Jesus was simple an eschatological prophet b... more
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Azusa Street Revival(A.D. 1906) The Azusa Street Revival begins in Los Angeles and lasts for several years. This movement gives birth to Pentecostalism. more
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Fundamentals(A.D. 1910–1915) Publication of The Fundamentals, a series of books from which the Fundamentalist movement took its name. more
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Scofield Reference Bible(A.D. 1917) Publication of the second edition of the Scofield Reference Bible, which becomes the most important text for the Dispensationalist movemen... more
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Fundamentalismgrew out of 19th century American evangelicalism that felt liberal Protestantism was abandoning the fundamentals of the faith. Specifically this term ... more
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Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy(A.D. 1922) Harry Emerson Fosdick’s sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” identifies the main issues on the modernist side in the Fundamentali... more
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Christianity and Liberalism(A.D. 1923) J. Gresham Machen publishes his book, Christianity and Liberalism, which articulates the main points on the Fundamentalist side of the Fun... more
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Scopes “Monkey Trial”The trial in 1925 of John Scopes, a biology teacher in Tennessee, for defying a state law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Skep... more
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Nag HammadiA town in Egypt, situated on the Nile. In A.D. 1945, a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts were discovered, including the Gospel of Thomas... more religious texts
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Munificentissimus Deus(A.D. 1950) The papal bull (The Most Munificent God) declares that the (that her body and soul was taken directly to heaven) is an official doctrine o... more
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Humani Generis(A.D. 1950) The papal encyclical Humani Generis condemns theologies which deny that God could have created human nature and not direct it to a superna... more
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Liberation TheologyRefers to a movement, primarily in Catholicism, that originated in Latin America in the 1960s that understands Christianity from the perspective of th... more
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Vatican II(A.D. 1962–1965) The ecumenical council of Roman Catholic bishops presided over by Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI that was held between 1962–196... more
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Charismatic movementearlier known as “neo Pentecostalism” in the late 20th century and is a widespread growing movement among Catholic and mainline Protestant churche... more
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