Documents and Events Flashcards
Halle University
- Pietism
- Goal: glorification of God and good of their neighbor
- Had missions to Lapland
1) Free elementary school
2) Trade school
3) Classical school
4) Royal school for nobility
5) Teacher’s seminary
6) Oriental College of Divinity
7) Orphanage (134 orphans)
8) House for widows
9) Bible society
10) Beggar catechism school
Herrnhut
-Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf founded in 1722
-Moravian
-A community for the exiles from Bohemia and Moravia in Germany
Means “Under the Lord’s Watch”
Characteristics of Herrnhut
1) Prayer
2) Heartfelt religious devotion
3) Belief in Bible as Christian’s guide to life
4) Complete commitment to Christ
5) Ethical purity
6) Charitable activity
7) Importance of experiencing God
“Moravian Pentecost”
- Before the Herrnhut community
- Gathering for a week of prayer and fasting, experiencing Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit moving among the people in response to the increase in unity and spiritual renewal experienced during the summer.
- It was as if they were immersed by the Holy Spirit himself into one love
- Zinzendorf called it the Moravian Pentecost and stated that: “The whole place represented truly a visible tabernacle of God among men, and till the thirteenth of August there was nothing to be seen and heard but joy and gladness; then this uncommon joy subsided, and a calmer sabbatic period succeeded
Moravian mission to St. Thomas
-1731: Denmark
~Met-Inuits converted to Christianity (Lutheran missionary)
~Antony Ulrich (former slave from St. Thomas)
~Requested missionaries
-1732: David Nitschmann and Tobias Leopold left for St. Thomas
~Joined slaves in sugar cane harvesting
~Jailed, illness, persecution, death
-Lived as slaves
~Fredrick Martin
~6 lessons
Aldersgate Street
- John Wesley
- May 24, 1738
- “Felt his heart strangely warmed”
- beginning of Methodism
-“In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where on was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation: And an assurance was given me, that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death”
1st Great Awakening
- happened in America, it was a religious movement characterized by emotional response and personal conviction
- 1730s-1740s (16th cent)
- In the US colonies
- Had connections to Pietism
- Had an anti-enlightenment aspect
- Emphasized simple faith in Christ
Anti-slavery movement (19th c.)
Wanted to end slavery
Azusa Street Revival (20th c.)
beginning of the Pentecostal movement (Pentecostalism)
Pia Desideria (1675)
- Written by Philipp Spener
1) Priesthood of believers
2) Laity = more intense life of devotion and study
3) Clergy/ Theologians = “true Christians” of deep personal faith
4) Preachers = not preach with academic tone to demonstrate knowledge, but encourage believers to be obedient to Word of God
A Theology of Liberation (1971)
- by Gustavo Gutierrez
- a book about justice for the poor
- came out of Roman Catholic Church
