Wednesday, July 22, 2015

For those who don't have the study guide

Epic Study, Session 14
CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR PROTESTANT GROUPS

Group
Date Founded
Founder(s)
Lutheran
1517
Martin Luther
Anabaptists
1521
Nicholas Storch, Thomas Münzer, John Denk, Baithasar Hubmaier, Felix Manz, Conrad .Grebel
Anglican
1534
Henry VIII
Calvinist
1536
John Calvin
Mennonites
1536
Menno Simons
Presbyterian
1560
John Knox
Congregationalist
1582
Robert Brown
Baptist
1605
John Smyth
Dutch Reformed
1628
Michaelis Jones
Methodist
1744
John & Charles. Wesley
Unitarian
1774
Theophilus Lindley     .
Mormonism*
1829
Joseph Smith
Seventh-day Adventism
1860
William Miller, Hiram Edson,
Joseph Bates, Ellen Gould White
Salvation Army
1865
William Booth
Jehovah's Witnesses*
1879
Charles Taze Russell
Christian Scientist
1879
Mary Baker Eddy
Pentecostal
1900
Charles Parham, William Seymour
Fundamentalism
1909
Various


*Theologically, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Christian and therefore not truly Protestant Groups.


Book/Film Recommendations

10 Books that Screwed Up the World and 5 Others that Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D. will help you understand the wrong thinking of many of those mentioned in our last episode of "Great Moments in Church History." This book is available at the Hoover library.

A great book on the life of St. Thomas More is The King's Good Servant but God's First from Ignatius Press. And one of the best films of all time is A Man for All Seasons. Hope you've all seen it.

By the way, we just watched (again) The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison. Excellent film that will help you understand the time of Michelangelo and Julius II.


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Mark