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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 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 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.
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, mainline Protestantism: Binitarianism is a Christian heresy that teaches that there are only two persons in the Godhead: the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is not considered to be a separate person, but rather an aspect of the Son or the Father. [20] Subordinationism
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 .
There was a very large volume of Christian literature published, particularly controversial and millennial but also historical and scholarly. Hagiography became more critical with the Bollandists , and ecclesiastical history became thoroughly developed and debated, with Catholic scholars such as Baronius and Jean Mabillon , and Protestants such ...
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)
The development of doctrine, the position of orthodoxy, and the relationship between the early Church and early heretical groups is a matter of academic debate. Before the 12th century, Christianity gradually suppressed what it saw as heresy, usually through a system of ecclesiastical sanctions, excommunication, and anathema. Later, an ...