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A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text search; Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity: 1920–1985 (1986) 720pp a major ...
Christian culture depended on organisational structure in the form of churches and priests to provide baptisms, instruction and places of worship. [173] Because of this, the ability for Christianity to be adopted by Scandinavians in England in parts with seeming absence or serious weakening of Church institutions has been questioned. [184]
New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America (2012) McLeod, Hugh, ed. European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 (1995) Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen. The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500–2000 (2003) 400pp
1800 - New York Missionary Society formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service [72] 1800 - Friedrich Schleiermacher publishes his first book, beginning Liberal Christianity movement; 1800 - James Dixon and two other Irish convicts the first Catholic priests in Australia.
In the seventh century the pagan Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity (Old English: Crīstendōm) mainly by missionaries sent from Rome.Irish missionaries from Iona, who were proponents of Celtic Christianity, were influential in the conversion of Northumbria, but after the Synod of Whitby in 664, the Anglo-Saxon church gave its allegiance to the Pope.
Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish , French , and British brought Roman Catholicism to the colonies of New Spain , New France and Maryland respectively, while Northern European peoples introduced Protestantism to Massachusetts Bay Colony , New ...
Christianity was introduced with the first European settlers beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Colonists from Northern Europe introduced Protestantism in its Anglican and Reformed forms to Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Netherland, Virginia Colony, and Carolina Colony.
In 1800, Anglo-Saxons (I use the term somewhat broadly to include all English-speaking peoples) had increased to about 20,500,000, and now, in 1890, they number more than 120,000,000. [ 34 ] In 1893, Strong envisioned a future "new era" of triumphant Anglo-Saxonism: