3. Attempted reunion of Gallicans and Anglicans. Louis XV. Defeat of those who appealed to the primitive 105 108 4. National and reforming movements in the Church outside a. Febronianism limits papal claims. b. Reforms of Maria Theresa. c. Joseph II and Leopold II: a State Church. 5. Missionary work of Spain. Serra in California 6. Roman Catholicism in England. Bishop Challoner. The old religion': its moderation. English Roman Catholic bishops deny papal infallibility 113 115 7. The French Revolution. Increasing persecution of the The Concordat. Reorganization of the Church. 8. The authority of St. Augustine replaced by that of Alphonsus b. In moral theology. A French prelate, Mgr. d'Hulst, estimates the result RELIGION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA I. The secession of the Nonjurors. Survey of religion : strength of the Church c. 1700 4. The revival of religion. Could the Methodist organizations have been kept within the Church? Wesley made Extraordinary gifts of Wesley and Whitefield. In Scotland Episcopacy stronger than Presbyterianism a. The Connecticut converts strengthen the Church. LECTURE VI 1. Pietism (continued). The Moravians: Zinzendorf. Missions Influence of English Deism. Toland. Influence of Voltaire and French sceptics. The result is the 'Illumination' (1751). Protestantism 3. Lessing and Reimarus: Pantheism and Deism. Theology of Semler and his contemporaries: victims of their 4. Kant. Rationalism supreme. Mutilation of Church services and hymns. Rousseau's challenge to the Arian 5. Partial opposition to Rationalism on part of leaders of German culture c. 1800. Klopstock, Herder, 6. Romanticism, philosophic and literary, becomes religious. Leads to Romanism in reaction against Rationalism. Vain attempt to strengthen Protestantism by the forcible union of Lutherans and Calvinists in 1817. 7. Ritschl follows Schleiermacher. Their merits and defects 184 1. Retrospect. The separation between the Eastern and the Western Church in 1054. Its effect upon religion . 2. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 left Moscow as the great centre of Orthodoxy; but the Patriarch of Con- stantinople retained his position. Outline of Turkish policy towards the subject Christian 3. The Reformation affects the Eastern Church (Lutherans : Cyril Lucaris and Calvinism). The reaction: Peter 4. Easterns and Anglicans. Eastern teaching as to : 192 d. Saints prayed to and prayed for. 5. After 1700 the Church in the Turkish Empire under diffi- culties caused by 6. The Non-Greek Churches once under the Turks free themselves from Phanariot Greek rule a. Bulgarians. b. Arabs of Antioch. c. Rumanians. d. Serbians. 7. The Russian Church since Peter the Great. Holy Synod. Missions. Revival at the revolution. Persecution under Bolshevism. The Patriarch Tikhon. Certainty of new life LECTURE VIII PAGE 216 221 ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT SINCE 1815 1. The downfall of Napoleon and the growth of Romanticism (continued). A new emphasis on the Church and the Kingdom of God in France, Germany, and England 225 2. The Oxford Movement and its critics: Pattison and Stanley v. Newman and Pusey. The movement essentially religious The Church as home for the lonely 3. The year 1835. Scientific Rationalism, starting from the a. The origin of Christianity. b. The authenticity of the New Testament. Collapse of the Tübingen theory. Evil legacy of that 4. Superstition the reaction against scepticism. The Vatican 229 238 240 5. Reunion of Christendom. Value of the Anglican position for such reunion. Modernism as a between scepticism and superstition'. modus vivendi 249 6. Effective union not possible without fundamental agreement as to the Person of Christ. Historical exegesis proves that the Church has correctly interpreted 252 a. The nature of Christ's claim. b. The fact of the Resurrection. APPENDED NOTES LECTURE I NOTE 1. The Council of Trent on Indulgences 2. The Council of Trent on Episcopacy 3. The hymn attributed to St. Francis Xavier 4. St. Francis Xavier's exposition of the creed 5. The Five Condemned Propositions attributed to NOTE 7. The First Prayer Book of Edward VI and the Canon of the Mass 8. The excommunication of Queen Elizabeth 9. British Calvinism 10. The Pope as Antichrist LECTURE III NOTE II. The Position of the Church of Sweden 12. The languages spoken by the Sephardic Jews in LECTURE IV 264 266 267 14. The Sephardic synagogue in Bevis Marks, London 17. The cultus of the hearts of Jesus and Mary LECTURE V 268 268 19. Political Principles of the Scottish Episcopalians in 272 |