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The American Revolution inflicted deeper wounds on the Church of England in America than on any other denomination because the King of England was the head of the church. The Book of Common Prayer offered prayers for the monarch, beseeching God "to be his defender and keeper, giving him victory over all his enemies", who in 1776 were American ...
The African American Review notes the important role Christian revivalism in the black church played in the Civil Rights Movement. [76] Martin Luther King Jr. , an ordained Baptist minister, was a leader of the American civil rights movement and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , a Christian Civil Rights organization.
The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. At issue were foundational disputes about the role of Christianity ; the authority of the Bible ; and the death , resurrection , and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ . [ 1 ]
The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of Puritan minister John Cotton .
Christianity-related mass media and entertainment controversies (2 C, 42 P) Conspiracy theories involving Christians (4 C, 1 P) Criticism of Christianity (11 C, 40 P)
This is for controversies up until the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. Subcategories. ... Circumcision controversy in early Christianity; Clementine literature;
Early Christians gathered in small private homes, [2] known as house churches, but a city's whole Christian community would also be called a "church"—the Greek noun ἐκκλησία (ekklesia) literally means "assembly", "gathering", or "congregation" [3] [4] but is translated as "church" in most English translations of the New Testament.
González Justo L. and Ondina E. González, Christianity in Latin America: A History (2008) Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity 1920–2000 (2001) Hope, Nicholas. German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700–1918 (1999) Lannon, Frances. Privilege, Persecution and Prophecy: The Catholic Church in Spain 1875–1975 (1987)