Revival
The Azusa street revival had a humble start in this sort of building.
What is someone's house? Until later moving into an abandoned church when the house's porch broke off from too many people.
This "ism" is skeptical of the miracles of the new testament, Jesus virgin birth, and his bodily resurrection from the dead.
What is Theological modernism?
A "day" is always exactly this long in the bible of an inerrantist.
What is 24 hours?
True or false? Corporate worship was central to the black Christian experience in the antebellum south.
True. Group worship services among slaves strengthened the bonds of community, and members took the pains of each other upon themselves in solidarity.
This group of Christian protestants emphasize miraculous healings, prophetic revelation, and noisy boisterous worship.
What is Pentecostalism
What is an earthquake?
A term for this fundamentalist attitude: "Anyone who disagrees with the 5 fundamentals is wrong, and thus we need to part ways."
What is "Separatism"
Biblical inerrantism was a reaction to this school of Christian thought and biblical studies.
What is modernism, or Christian liberalism?
This is the century during which Christian missionaries started widespread evangelism to black slaves in the United States, often by telling slave owners that Christianity would make the enslaved people "better slaves."
What is the 18th century, or the 1800's?
If you wouldn't quiiiiite call yourself a Pentecostal, you're probably this.
What is Charismatic?
This mid-18th century preacher, revivalist, and college president allowed women to pray and was a central figure in the abolition movement
Who is Charles Finney?
In theological modernism, the idea that God is absolutely present at all times and comes from within all people
What is "theological immanence?"
True or false: Generally speaking, Christian fundamentalists believe the Bible doesn't always mean what it appears to mean at face value.
False
True or false: the black and white division of Christianity in America is all better now that we ended the institution of slavery and since the Civil Rights movement.
False. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that 11 o'clock on Sunday is the most segregated hour in America."
1/2 of the Christians in Africa and SE Asia identify with this branch of protestant christianity.
What is Pentecostalism?
Social reform was a big early factor in the revival movement in America, largely related to this belief about the extent of earthly sanctification.
What is entire sanctification, or "Christian perfectionism?"
"The 5 fundamentals" that you may have seen in a pamphlet from the 20's.
What is Biblical Inerrancy, the virgin birth, atoning death of Christ, bodily resurrection, and historical miracles?
Inerrancy means scripture is "without error." Instead, this similar theological term means the Bible is always trustworthy.
What is infallibility or infallible?
Aspects of corporate worship you might expect to see in a black church gathering of slaves in the pre-Civil War southern US.
What are clapping, singing, dancing, and yelling together in call and response, people taking turns sharing their stories of hope, joy, and struggle, and people visibly caring about each other.
This revivalist and son of former slaves led prayer meetings for weeks on end in Los Angeles praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Who is William J. Seymour?
Name at least one modern Pentecostal church denomination.
Answers include: The Assemblies of God, Foursquare Church, Hillsong, Potter's House, Bethel Church, or the Apostolic Church.
This group of biblical scholars and theologians like redaction criticism, form criticism, and source criticism as tools to interpret scripture
Who are "the modernists?"
Fuller Seminary was founded in the 1940's in response to these three trends in Christian fundamentalism and in relation to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy.
What are anti-intellectualism, separatism, and other-worldliness?
True or false: after being evangelized, slave churches in the south were always welcome to gather together openly.
False. There were concerns among slave owners that slaves would use their gatherings to instigate violent slave rebellions, so public gatherings, black church leaders, and reading and writing among slaves were often banned by slave owners.
The coming of "The Millenium"