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Evangelicals of the World 2000
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Evangelicals of the World 2000
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The global spread of Evangelicalism can be traced to the missionary movements of the 19th century, when European and American evangelicals travelled to Africa and Asia to spread the word. In 1951 evangelicals formed the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF), and more than 110 regional and national organizations are now affiliated... More
Expansion of Christianity in Europe 200-1400 CE
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Expansion of Christianity in Europe 200-1400 CE
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As the Western Roman Empire began to fail Christianity began to spread beyond the borders of the former Empire. Christianity had spread from Roman Britain to Wales and Ireland and here a unique culture developed, which was in turn disseminated by Irish missionaries to Scotland and the continent. After pagan... More
Expansion of Islam 750–1700
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Expansion of Islam 750–1700
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The ‘Big Bang’ of the Umayyad Caliphate carried Islam by conquest from Spain to India in the century after Muhammad’s death. These dominions commanded the major trade routes of Europe, Asia and Africa; Islam’s further expansion owed as much to its long period of cultural and commercial hegemony as to... More
Expansion of Islam in Southeast Asia 1500–1800
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Expansion of Islam in Southeast Asia 1500–1800
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The first Muslim merchants are recorded in Sumatra in the 7th century. The catalyst for wider dissemination came with the establishment of powerful sultanates with trading empires in the 15th and 16th centuries: Malacca, Brunei and Aceh (Sufi missionaries were also influential). The Portuguese captured Malacca in 1511, but Aceh... More
France in 1585
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France in 1585
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Between 1562–98, France fought a total of nine wars of religion, pitting the Catholics against the Protestant Huguenots. The dominant figures on the Catholic side were Catherine de’ Medici, mother of the House of Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III, and the ducal family of Guise. The Protestants were... More
French Revolution and Empire 1798–1815
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French Revolution and Empire 1798–1815
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Catholicism was the official religion of the French state and in 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the church was the largest landowner in the country. The wealth and privileges enjoyed by the Catholic clergy and the aristocracy were prime causes of the resentment that finally erupted amongst... More
Great Awakening Map – The Great Awakening in the 18th Century
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Great Awakening Map – The Great Awakening in the 18th Century
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In the 1700s the English colonies encountered ‘revivalism’, part of a larger evangelical movement in Britain, known as the ‘Great Awakening’. The first revival was in 1734 in Northampton, Massachusetts, when a clergyman, Jonathan Edwards, disillusioned with the established church, rejected congregationalism, wanting his parishioners to be re-awakened and filled... More
Growth of Christianity in the World 2000
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Growth of Christianity in the World 2000
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Christianity is the largest religion in the world, with 2.5 billion adherents, or 31.2% of the total world population in 2015. The explosive growth of Christianity outside the West has made it the fastest growing global religion, and it is predicted that by 2050 there will be 3 billion Christians... More
Growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) 1816–92
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Growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) 1816–92
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The “Four Horsemen” were seminal figures in the foundation and early expansion of the AME, the first independent black denomination in the United States. The first Horseman was Richard Allen (1760–1831); although born a slave, Allen managed to purchase his freedom and became a Methodist preacher, initiating his own independent... More
Holiness in the United States
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Holiness in the United States
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The Holiness movement traces its origins to notions of perfectionism within Methodism, which emerged during the early 19th century. It is focused on the ‘second work of grace’ (or ‘second blessing’), which refers to a personal experience of regeneration, in which the believer is cleansed of original sin. It flourished... More
Hospitalier Priories of England c. 1250
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Hospitalier Priories of England c. 1250
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The Knights Hospitalier emerged in the early 1100s, when a group devoted to the care of sick pilgrims acquired a further military function after the First Crusade’s capture of Jerusalem. This dual proficiency proved popular and the Order spread rapidly, arriving in England in the 1140s. In 1177, they were... More
Hospitallers in Western Europe 1261–91
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Hospitallers in Western Europe 1261–91
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In the last half of the 13th century the Hospitallers, like the Templars, were steadily losing their raison d’etre. The Mamluks were mopping up their strongholds in the Holy Land and the fall of Acre in 1291 would deprive the military orders of their founding mission. In the preceding two... More