The Age of Progress: 1789 - 1914

Question 1

1st Camp Meeting

Answer 1

Camp Meeting: protestant Christian religious service. 1st one around 1800.

Question 2

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Answer 2

German reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar. Tried to reconcile criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. Influential in the foundation of hermeneutics. Father of Modern Liberal Theology.

Question 3

William Wilberforce

Answer 3

1759 - 1833. British politician, philanthropist, and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. In 1785 he became an evangelical Christian.

Question 4

J.H. Newman

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1801 - 1890. English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, historian, writer, scholar, and poet. First an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal. Originally an evangelical academic then became drawn to the high church.

Question 5

Karl Marx

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1818 - 1883. German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary.

Question 6

Charles Darwin

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1809 - 1882. English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. Known for his understanding of evolutionary biology.

Question 7

Pope Pius IX

Answer 7

1792 - 1878. Longest verified papal reign. Known for the First Vatican Council and for permanently losing control of the Papal States to Italy. His legacy is the dogma of papal infallibility.

Question 8

Albrecht Ritschl

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1822 - 1889. German Protestant theologian. Lectured on systematic theology. Faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason.

Question 9

Fall of the Papal States

Answer 9

Capture of Rome: 20 September 1870. Final event in the unification of Italy. Marking both the defeat of the Papal States under Pope Pius IX and the unification of the Italian Peninsula under the Kingdom of Italy.

Question 10

Papal Infallibility

Answer 10

The doctrine was defined at the First Vatican Council of 1869 - 1870. The pope when he speaks from the chair of St. Peter is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine.

Question 11

Dwight L. Moody

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1837 - 1899. American Evangelist and publisher. Founded the Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. “Faith makes all things possible, love makes all things easy.” Devoted his life to revivalism.

Question 12

William Booth

Answer 12

1819 - 1912. English Methodist Preacher who founded the Salvation Army with his wife Catherine. The fundamentalist Christian evangelical movement with military like structure and government was founded in 1865. One of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid today.