Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations.
Up until the early 19th century, Reformed churches ministered to German immigrants with a broadly Calvinist theology and plain liturgy. However, revivals , inspired by Anglo-Saxon Protestant churches during the Great Awakenings of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influenced the development of the Reformed churches, especially in frontier ...
A spirit of amnesty made possible the church's survival after the war. The divisiveness was also healed when the church sent members on an extensive foreign missions program in the early 19th century. In 1792, the classis adopted a formal constitution; and in 1794 the denomination held its first general synod. Following the American Civil War ...
The Reformed Presbyterian Church has held to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms since the 17th century. Instead of adopting revised versions of the Confession, as most other Westminsterian Presbyterian churches in North America have done, the RPCNA instead holds to the original Westminster Confession, but states a few objections ...
Anti-Catholic animus in the United States reached a peak in the 19th century when the Protestant population became alarmed by the influx of Catholic immigrants. Fearing the end of time , some American Protestants who believed they were God's chosen people , went so far as to claim that the Catholic Church was the Whore of Babylon in the Book of ...
She was very active both politically and socially in Oberlin, and helped found multiple organizations including the Oberlin Female Moral Reform Society, the Oberlin Maternal Association, and the Ohio Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. [8] She also arranged for three former prostitutes to study at Oberlin as part of her anti-prostitution activism. [9]
The House Oversight and Reform Committee will hear testimony Wednesday morning from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) about the Hawkeye State’s efforts to promote government efficiency. Reynolds ...
[6]: 6 Campbell's conceptions were postmillennial, as he anticipated that the progress of the church and society would lead to an age of peace and righteousness before the return of Christ. [ 6 ] : 6 This optimistic approach meant that, in addition to his commitment to primitivism, he had a progressive strand in his thinking.