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May 16, 2008
Church History Q&A
Q&A:
From what I have been taught, the Catholic/Anglican/Orthodox seem to be the way the Christian church ran itself for a very long time. However the Evangelical mode of an Altar Call, or sinners prayer at the seat at the least. And then believers Baptism. When did this method get started?
I know of the Baptist History "Trail of Blood" but I have heard that it was both true, and not true. (From Baptists themselves).
What can you share with me about the subject?
The Church split East and West in 1054. The East-West Schism, or Great Schism, (1054) divided medieval Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which later became the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, respectively.
The Church of England (Anglican) split from Rome in 1534 by decree of King Henry VIII.
In Europe, beginning about 1517 or so, Martin Luther and John Calvin (and a few lesser names) protested the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church and called for reform--their movement became known as the Protestant Reformation. Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, etc., (all Protestants) have their origin in the Protestant Reformation.
In the USA, revivalism or "awakenings" (the first Great Awakening occurred in the 1730's), gave rise to Altar Calls, etc. Believer's Baptism was a "Baptist" doctrine. Baptists (so called because of their conviction that only adult believers were to be baptized and the proper mode of baptism was immersion) were English Seperatists. When the Protestant reformation came to England, some thought the reform effort was unsuccessful and wanted to "seperate" from the Church of England.
The "Trail of Blood" was a pamphlet written by James Carroll and was part of the "Landmark" movement in Baptist history. Carrol claimed (seemingly) every heretic in Church history as a proto-Baptist--Waldensians, Cathari, Donatists, et. al. No modern historian would make such a claim. But many Baptists believed Carrol (who was from Lexington, Kentucky if memory serves).
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"The Church of England (Anglican) split from Rome in 1534 by decree of King Henry VIII."
That's one way of looking at it. I tend to think that they split from each other, albeit one being David and the other Goliath.
Posted by: J-Tron | May 25, 2008 9:46:34 PM
