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Apr 2023
Christian Identity: Mainliners, Evangelicals, and the Global South Class Date: April 12, 2023 By the early years of the 21st century, most of the world’s Christians lived outside of North America and Europe. How this happened and the conflicts it creates for mainline Christians are the subject of today’s discussion. By the 1960s, theology as an academic discipline experienced a steady decline in interest and divergent approaches further developed. As noted in earlier studies, mainline Protestant seminaries taught their students the methods of “Higher Criticism”, which is a means of analyzing the......
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April 05, 2023
Part 7: The 1960s and the Decline of the Mainline Denominations
The United States was extremely divided at the time of the American Civil War (1861-1864), however there was one thing that both the north and the south held in common. They were overwhelmingly Protestant. In...
March 29, 2023
Part 6: Protestantism in the Post WWII Era
The social changes that impacted the United States following World War II also impacted the Protestant churches in America. As the population of the United States swelled, so did the demand for new churches in...
March 01, 2023
Part 5 – Missionary Boomerang
Missionary Boomerang: Mainline Reactions to Foreign Cultures Class Date: March 1, 2023 There is no doubt that people in western cultures believed their civilization and way of life to be superior to those of others....
February 15, 2023
Part 4 – A Transformed Vision of American Leadership
As we discussed in previous classes, American culture, politics and economics developed largely under the influence of Protestantism. Protestant churches became the centers of community life as waves of immigrants came to the United States....
February 01, 2023
Part 3 – Jewish Immigration Transforms the Vision of America
Jews had a major impact on American culture and education in the 20th century. Prior to the rise of the Nazis, intellectuals in countries such as the United States and UK urged their German Jewish...
January 25, 2023
Part 2: The Ecumenical and Evangelical Protestant Churches in America
In this class Pastor Dan defines some of the differences between evangelical and ecumenical protestant churches and examines how these differences developed over time. In general, ecumenical seminaries absorbed the intellectual changes that took place...
January 18, 2023
Christianity’s American Fate
American culture, politics, and economics developed largely under the influence of Protestantism. Three factors made America unique in the Christian world. First, Protestantism in America consisted largely of dissenters to the state church in Europe....
November 02, 2022
Conclusion- Christianity, Politics, and Secularism in the West
Class Date: November 2, 2022 While the number of people that attend church remains low in western Europe as a whole, its traditions, values, and way of life comes from its Christian heritage. While European...
October 26, 2022
Part 6 – Interpreting Luke and the Progressive Movement
Today’s topic examines how Luke in particular, and Christianity in general influenced what is commonly referred to as progressivism, which includes abolitionism. We begin with Luke 1:51-53. This is Mary’s song of praise after she...