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Final - Identification and Dates Flashcards

Memorize for final

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Premillenialism

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Called “chiliasts”

Glorified Christ must return before real peace and justice.

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Postmillennialism

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“latter day glory” movement

Holy Spirit works hrough the church to bring in the millennium

Glorified Christ doesn’t return until after the millennium.

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Amillennialism

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Denies God’s ways will be fully honored in the pesent age/world

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Eschatology

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Corporate dimensions

  1. Recognition of the already/not yet character of God’s Reign in our World.
  2. Alternatives on when and where the fullnes of God’s reign is bestowed - In, at the culmination of, or beyond history
  3. Alternatives on the extent of God’s salvific concern - humanity only or all creation

Personal dimensions

  1. Death/Intermediate State
  2. Resurrection/Afterlife
  3. Judgement
  4. Final Destiny
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Sacrament

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Embodies God’s mighty acts of salvation and empower us on the journey.

means of grace

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Love Feast

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JW adapted from the Moravians

Simple meal of bread and water

Followed by a time of testimony

A means of grace but not a sacrament.

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Means of Grace

Definition

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“outward signs, words, or actions ordained by God… to be the ordinary channels whereby he migh convey to mean preventing, jsutifying, or sanctifying grace.” Sermons 16 p 160

not automatic

Mediators of God’s Pardoning and Empowering Presence

  1. not works to merit God’s favor
  2. reminders of God’s saving work and character
  3. Avenues God has provided for nurturing our responsiveness
  4. “Wait in the means”

Exercises to shape the Holy Tempers

  1. “imitate him you worship” (Sermon 29,§6)
  2. Disicpline “frees”us for obedience (sermon 122)
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Means of Grace

Examples

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“Acts of Piety” and “Acts of Mercy”

3rd General Rule Lists:

Attending upon all the ordinances of God:.. public worship of God, ministyr of the Word, either read or expounded. The Supper of the Lord. Family and private prayer. Searching the Scriptures. Fasting or abstinence.

Special Services: Love Feast & Covenant Service

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Social Holiness

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Joining Social Witness with Works of Mercy

“The gospel of Christ knows of no religion, but social; no holiness but social.” HSP (1739) Preface, §§ - 4-5

Christianity is not a solitary religion.

“A Methodist is one who has ‘the love of God shed abroad in his heart by teh Holy Ghost given to him’…..’does good unto all men’…much more does he labour to do good for their souls….”

basis for anti-slavery stance

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Arminian Magazine

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Launched 1777

Monthly magazine

Initially aimed as a counter to Calvinist magazines

Established role for centralized “teaching office” (JW chief teacher until his death)

Four Parts

  1. Writings defending universal atonement
  2. biographies of holy persons
  3. letters and stories of persons living holy lives
  4. poetry confirming essential doctrines

One of the steps to prepare for transition from JW leadership

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Deed of Declaration

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1784

Coke help write this legal document - deed poll

w/life-estate for JW and CW

Estblished “Legal Hundred” - the 100 preachers (and their successors) who make up the Conference of the People called Methodists.

Enumerated 15 regulations for the conduct of the Conference:

  • annual meeting
  • 40% quorom,
  • President and Secretary as officers
  • 3-yr limit on appointments
  • methods for admission & expulsion of ministers
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Thomas Coke

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Ordained Anglican Priest w/ Doctorate of Civil Law

Became an Assistant in 1777

Increasingly became JW’s right-hand man

Directed the Tract Society- initiated giving away of tracts

Initiated foreign missions,

Oversaw and took initiative on legal issues regarding the Model Deed and Deed of Declaration

Ordained as Superintendent

Sent to America w/Thomas Vasey and Richard Whatcoat

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City Road Chapel

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Foundation laid April 1777

Replace London headquarters

Designed as a worship space

Limted to Methodist Preachers

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Thomas Vasey

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Volunteered at August 1784 Leeds Conference to go w/ Coke to America

Prior to coming to America Ordained a Deacon w/Whatcoat when Coke ordained a Superintendent

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Richard Whatcoat

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Volunteered at August 1784 Leeds Conference to go w/ Coke to America

Prior to coming to America Ordained a Deacon w/Vasey when Coke ordained a Superintendent

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Robert & Elizabeth Strawbridge

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Irish Immigrants to Maryland in 1760s

Organized societies in southern MD and northern VA

Obtained meeting house in Leesburg VA

Lay preacher who began on his own to preach in America

Resisted leadership from Britian

Baptized and offered Lord’s Supper

Dropped from the Conference after 1775

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Barbara Ruckle Heck

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Irish Immigrant from Germany to Ireland then to NY in 1760

Urged her cousin Phillip who had been a local preacher in Ireland to start preaching and class meeting

Moved to Ontario

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Philip Embury

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Irish Immigrant from Germany to Ireland then to NY in 1760

Had been a local preacher in Ireland

Urged by cousin Barbara Heck to start preaching and class meeting

Moved to Ontario

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Captain Thomas Webb

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Converted by Wesley in Bristol

Came to America in 1755 in the British Military

Fought in the French and Indian War

Joined Embury’s society in 1767

Organized remnants of Whitefield’s work in Philadelphia into St. George’s chruch (property purchased from German Reformed in 1769

Becomes “traveling apostle” - returns to Bristol 1783

Gave info to British during Revolution

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Thomas Rankin

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General Assistant sent by JW in 1773

Arrived with George Shadford

Replaced Asbury as assistant

Sought to bring order to America

Established the Annual Conference - convened the 1st Annual Conference in Philadelphia in July 1773.

Meet and liked Otterbein

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William Otterbein

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German Reformed Tradition

Trained at Herborn - heart of German pietism

Came to America to pastor Evangelical Reformed congregation in Lancaster PA

Became pastor of pietist leaning Reformed congregation in Baltimore

Exercised Episcopal like leadership

Stressed repentance, asssurance and holiness; rejected hyper-Calvinism

Meet martin Boehm in 1767 in Lanchaster County, PA - beginning of the United Brethern

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Martin Boehm

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Swiss-German Mennonite

selected as a pastor by lot

bishop of Lancaster, PA congregation

Stressed: Personal assurance by the spirit, increasingly came under censure for revivalist themes, accused of insufficient emphasis on the sacraments

Meet Otterbein in 1767 in Lancaster, PA - the beginnings of the United Brethren.

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Christmas Conference

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1784

Coke came to ordain - Asbury elected biship rather than superintendent

Constituting conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC)

Lovely Lane, Baltimore, MD

Otterbein participates in ordination

Sunday Service and Articles of Religion approved

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James O’Kelly

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Powerful preacher resistant to leadership

leads “republican” (Whigs) element into schism in 1792

1792 organized Republican Methodist Church

1801 Reogranized as the Christian church (now part of UCC)

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Republican Methodist Church

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Founded 1792 by James O’Kelly

Reorganized as the Christian Church in 1801

Now part of the UCC

Emphasis was on freedom and freedom from

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Harry Hosier

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“Black Harry”

Born a slave in NC, freed after the Revolution from farmer in MD

Powerful preacher with incredible recall

“The Barren Fig Tree” on of the first recorded African American sermons

Preached the Eastern seaboard, travelling with bishops because he drew big crowds.

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Richard Allen

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Ex-slave

Ordained by Asbury

Led blacks out of St. George’s MEC in Philadelphia (1787-1792) because of discrimination.

Founded the Afcan Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC)

Followers built “Mother Bethel” church in 1794

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Jarena Lee

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Converted under Richard Allen

Allen resisted her call to preach

Journal is one of the first early witnesses of an African American Woman

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Jacob Albright

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Lutheran who found home w/Methodists (later expelled by Lutherans

licensed as an exhorter in 1796

began German-speaking quarterly conference with class leaders in 1803

First annual conference 1807 (Newly-formed Methodist Conference) - sought to work under Asbury but rejected so his conference elected him Bishop

Adopted the 1809 German translation of Methodist Discipline

1st General Conference 1816

named Evangelical Association (allowing for dual membership)

stressed - restorationsim and plain people

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James Varick

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Led group of blacks out of NY’s John Street MEC in 1796 because of discrimination

founded the African Methodist Episocopal Zion Church (AMEZ)

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Joseph Pilmore

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Missionary sent by JW in 1769 with Richard Boardman

Part of 1st pair of missionaries sent by JW

Left by 1777

Sought to remain in the Church of England

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Jesse Lee

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Class leader in New England who became 1st Historian of MEC

Fulfilled chaplaincy duties after being drafted for the Revolution because he refused to kill anyone.

Almost elected bishop

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Daniel Coker

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Ordained African American from Baltimore

Led Blacks out in Baltimore

Joined with Richard Allen and the AMEC

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William McKendree

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1st American born Methodist Bishop

Worked w/Asbury

Strong in the South

Established president of episcopacy address (unbeknown to Asbury)

Set out an agenda for Methodists which led to conflict w/Asbury

Set a pattern for future conferences

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Fannie Newell

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Felt call to preach

Not allowed to preach

Made contribution by modeling faithful life, memoirs that were later published, and filling in for her husband

spouse - to - itenerant

Maine

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Peter Cartwright

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Good preacher

fit image of rough frontiersman (guns, fights, loud)

conflict with Nathoan Bangs

Resisted the idea of educating preachers

from KY - ran against Lincoln

claimed to have baptized 12,000 in great awakening

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Nathan Bangs

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Historian

Wanted educated preachers

Established the importance of teaching again

began a chapter of nurture

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Sunday Service for the Methodists in North America

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JW’s instructions for worship

straight from the BCP

did not fit the context

adopted 1784 - rarely used

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

AME

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Founded by Richard Allen

Formed from group led out of St. George’s in Philadelphia

1794 - “Mother Bethel” church

1816 - Independent denomination

2.5 milliion members in 6,200 churches in 19 episcopal districts

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African Methodist Episcopal Zion

AMEZ

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Founded by James Varick

1796 - left NY’s St. John’s Street MEC

1800 - built Zion Church

1821 - orancized as denomination

1828 - name adopted

1.2 million in >6,000 churches in 12 districts

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African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Chruch and Connection

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Formed by blacks who left Asbury MEC in Wilmington, DE

1805 - left

1813 - chartered by Peter Spencer “Union Church of Africans

1st independent black church in America

1866 - merged with First Colored Methodist Protestant Church (an offshoot of AMEC in MD)

40 congregations District of Columbia, DE, MD, PA, NJ, NY

~6,500 members

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1791

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Wesley died.

Coke returned to the US

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1784

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Leeds conference in Britian - Deed of Declaration

Ordination of Coke, Whatcoat, Vasey

Christmas Conference that constituted the Methodist Episcopal Church

Asbury elected bishop

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1792

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1st General Conference

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1808

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General Conference became delegated

still all preachers

restrictive rules protecting genral superintendency and trial for individual clergy by peers

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