EVENTS Flashcards
In 1597, the Japanese government crucified 26 native
Christians for their faith. Persecution continued until 1643. In 1859 and 1890, the Japanese government
issued agreements that legalized Christianity again.
Persecution of Japanese Christians
Dominican monks taught Chinese Christians neither to venerate their ancestors nor to partake in Confucian rites. Jesuit monks allowed both practices. The pope decided the Dominicans were correct. Severe oppression erupted against Catholics in China.
Chinese Rites Controversy
Theological and political disputes led to the removal of Jesuit priests from Portugal, Spain, and the Americas.
Suppression of the Jesuits
Lucar, the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, embraced Calvinism and gave the king of England one of the earliest known copies of the New Testament, the Alexandrian Codex. Four Orthodox synods denounced Lucar’s Calvinist views.
Cyril Lucar Befriended Protestants
the Russian Orthodox Church Under the Government’s Control
Czar Peter Placed
This religious revival began in the Congregational and Reformed churches of Massachusetts and New Jersey, emphasizing outward signs of conversion.
The Great Awakening
The formation of the Methodist Conference paved the way for the Methodists to become a separate denomination.
Methodist Conference Formed Within the Anglican Church
Restored the Jesuit Order
Pope Pius VII
According to Immanuel Kant’s Critique, human reason can neither prove nor deny any spiritual reality, including the being of God.
Publication of Critique of Pure Reason
Richard Allen, a free Black, formed the AME because some American Methodists refused to ordain African-American bishops.
Formation of African Methodist Episcopal Church
At a conference in Niagara the Evangelical Alliance, an association of conservative Christians, set forth five beliefs that they viewed as fundamental to their faith—the inerrancy of Scripture, and Jesus Christ’s unique deity, virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, and future return.
Five Fundamentals Declared
A Chinese political party reacted violently against foreign interference in China’s national and cultural affairs. Many missionaries were murdered.
Boxer Rebellion
William Seymour, a Black Holiness preacher, founded a mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. There, many people began to speak in “unknown tongues.” The Pentecostal movement is still growing today.
Azusa Street Revival
More than 1,200 delegates gathered for this missions conference. The gathering helped to trigger the modern ecumenical movement.
Edinburgh Conference
Cam Townsend founded this organization to translate the Bible into other languages. By 1980, the Bible was translated into more than 1,600 languages. Translation continues today.
Wycliffe Bible Translators Organized
A shepherd-boy found the earliest known copies of the Jewish Scriptures at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The scrolls verified that modern copies of the Hebrew Bible were nearly identical to ancient copies.
Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
