Results for: "Christian History"

American Christianity, Christian History, Concepts of God, Other Than Christianity

Listen At first glance, it may appear that a discussion concerning the foundation or origin of American government has nothing to do with the philosophy of Darwinian evolution. But, anyone who has study the impact of Darwinism on governments around the world does not so naively dismiss the influence and implications of Darwinism upon America’s historic foundation of government....Read more... Read more...

Christian Calendar, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, Experience, Practice & Life, Methodist churches, Sunday

Listen Daniel Whedon was one of the most distinguished Methodist scholars and churchman of nineteenth-century American Methodism. His interest in the subject of the Lord’s Day should be no surprise to the reader given the fact that the subject occupied an important place in Methodist doctrine and practice, but it also was one of great importance to the spiritual life of America...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Christian Calendar, Christian History, January Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen Lewis Morris (April 8, 1726 – January 22, 1798) was an American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York. He signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York. The brief biographical sketch of his life presented below is taken from the nineteenth-century work, Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Rev....Read more... Read more...

Anglican Churches, Christian Calendar, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, January Articles

Listen January 1531 Henry VII declared head of English Church The Reformation in the English Church was separate from the Lutheran Reformation and the Swiss Reformation, though more similar to these than to the Radical Reformation in Europe. Beginning under Henry VIII, the Reformation in England initially rejected the principles of the Magisterial Lutheran and Swiss Reformers....Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Christian Beliefs, Christian History, January Articles

Listen Leaving the deism of his youth and the immorality it produced, Benjamin Franklin came to realize that the Calvinism of his youth was closer to reality than he had previously imagined.[1] Though never fully returning to this theological tradition in which he was raised, he realized that human government must reflect God’s government of the world, and for this reason,...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Christian Calendar, Christian History, January Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen January 11, 1797 Signer Francis Lightfoot Lee passes away Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734 – January 11, 1797) was a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia. As an active protester of issues such as the Stamp Act, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental...Read more... Read more...