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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.

I haven't used my Facebook account in a long time but have just started up again. If anyone wants to check it out, click HERE for the link. Happy to add as friends any and all of you who have studied with us.

Mark

For anyone having trouble logging in to view the videos

I'm sure I'm not the only one having trouble remembering how to log in to view the online content at Ascension Press (for those who purchased the study guide).

Here's the link I was given in my confirmation email: https://evangelization.com/login. I then get the login page, so put in my user name and password, and click login.

Then I get a page that looks like this:

Click on "View Study Content" and you'll get a page that looks like this:

Now you can watch any and all of the sessions.

Hope that helps!

Recommended Reading:

Mark recommended the book he's reading right now, The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden. What's odd is that Amazon shows "A New Concise History of the Crusades", but the publication date is earlier than this one.

Mark is really enjoying this. We heard of it from Father Mitch Pacwa who recommended it on his Open Line (EWTN radio) show.

There are many recommended books listed in the study guide. I'll list them briefly here:

Belloc, "The Crusades, the World's Debate"
Karsh, "Islamic Iimperialism, a History"
Pernoud, "The Crusaders, the Struggle for the Holy Land"
Pernoud, "Those Terrible Middle Ages!"
Peters, "Inquisition"
Riley-Smith, "What Were the Crusades?"
Strayer, "The Albigensian Crusades"
Walsh, "Characters of the Inquisition"

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For those who were not present Monday night, we wanted to inform those of you who know Theresa Brown that her nephew died Sunday of an apparent drug overdose. She and her sister Connie were on their way home from a conference at Franciscan University when they got the phone call that David was found dead. So Theresa is now in Virginia helping her sister with funeral arrangements.

Please pray for Theresa, Connie, their family--and especially for the repose of David's soul.

And many thanks to those who prayed for me to get a good night's sleep--I did! Now can you keep it up? I haven't slept as well as I did Monday night.

By the way, if you want to view my prayer request blog, check it out here. And feel free to submit requests--after you read the "about" page.

Mondays from now on

Note that we will be meeting tonight at 6:30 and on Mondays through the end of the study--except for June 30.

Please also note the new tab for the Schedule. Try it out now!

Hey, today is St. Justin Martyr's feast day--we learned about him in one of our first sessions. Read this for an eyewitness testimony of his martyrdom.

And while I've got you, tonight Steve Weidenkopf will continue to talk about the Monophysite heresy and then introduce the Monothelite heresy. If you'd like to hear correct pronunciations, click the audio link that will come up on the following words:

• Monophysite. Monophysitism doesn't have it's own audio file, but you can hear "Monophysitic" below to give you the idea.
• Monothelite. The audio for Monothelitism is below, although I think most scholars would not make the 4th syllable "layh" but simply "li".

Quote of the week/Pentecost novena

The best line of the Epic study this week came from St. Jerome who was grieving the fact that everyone had become their own scripture scholar:

Builders, carpenters, workers in material and wood, websters and fullers, makers of anything cannot become an expert without a teacher; physicians are trained by physicians. The art of scripture is the only art claimed by all. 

St. Jerome, Ad Paulinum, Epist. 5

Mark found the full reference for it at New Advent.org: St. Jerome/Letters/Letter to Paulinus #53:

6. ...Husbandmen, masons, carpenters, workers in wood and metal, wool-dressers and fullers, as well as those artisans who make furniture and cheap utensils, cannot attain the ends they seek without instruction from qualified persons. As Horace says: 

Doctors alone profess the healing art
And none but joiners ever try to join. 

7. The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters. To quote Horace again: 

Taught or untaught we all write poetry.

The chatty old woman, the doting old man, and the wordy sophist, one and all take in hand the Scriptures, rend them in pieces and teach them before they have learned them.

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We would like to invite you all to join in a novena we are saying both as a preparation for Pentecost and also to support Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the much-persecuted Archbishop of San Francisco. To read more, view the novena prayer, and to join Celine's weekly prayer list, please visit the blog here.

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Recommended reading:

Harry Crocker's Triumph
Mike Aquilina's Mass of the Early Christians and Fathers of the Church

            


See you Tuesday at 6:30!

No class this week

Just a reminder that there is no class this week. We will resume next Tuesday, May 14, with Session 4, "Conversions and Counsels, Part 1"--preceded by "The Christian Era and the Barbarian Invasion" from Great Moments in Church History. (Complete schedule is below.)

Mark's recommended reading list:

1. Eusebius, History of the Church. Online versions: CCEL or New Advent; PDF version; Book
2. Rod Bennett, Four Witnesses
3. William Jurgens, Faith of the Early Fathers