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Christian fundamentalism began as a movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to reject influences of secular humanism and source criticism in modern Christianity. In reaction to liberal Protestant groups that denied doctrines considered fundamental to these conservative groups, they sought to establish tenets necessary to maintaining ...
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As a result, mainline Protestant churches gradually shifted towards Christian modernism, abandoning their emphasis on the individual salvation of the soul and laissez-faire individualism, although Christian fundamentalists resisted this tendency and sought to cling to the theological foundations of Christianity to which the denominations have ...
The History of the Catholic Church, From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium James Hitchcock, Ph.D. Ignatius Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-58617-664-8; Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church. Crocker, H.W. Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Image Books Doubleday, 2005.
While identifying significant decline in statistical data of church attendance from the 1950s onwards, Paul Backholer, author of Britain, A Christian Country, found notable exceptions to the decline, which includes the up to two million people who attended Billy Graham's United Kingdom campaigns from 1954 to 1955. With Wembley Stadium filled to ...
In 1950 the Roman Catholic Church widened the gap between itself and Protestantism by defining and enforcing the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary under Pius XII. [ 30 ] The Second Vatican Council (1962–65) aimed to move towards Christian unity of all denominations.
1723 – Robert Millar publishes A History of the Propagation of Christianity and the Overthrow of Paganism advocating prayer as the primary means of converting non-Christians [173] 1724 – Yongzheng Emperor bans missionary activities outside the Beijing area; 1725 – Knud Leem arrives as a missionary to the Sami people of Finnmark (Norwegian ...