🤩🔔CHURCH HISTORY 101‼️THE HIGHLIGHTS OF 20 CENTURIES 😀

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🔖 Beginnings of Modern Theology and Kingdom Builders ✝️

🟡 Two German philosophers cast a long shadow over the church during the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher Both profoundly influenced modern theology. Kant argued that it is impossible for us to have immediate knowledge of God. Part of his philosophy posited that since all of our knowledge is gained by sense experience, it is not possible for us to have immediate knowledge of anything that lies behind sense experience. We can know the world we live in, but when it comes to that which transcends the physical world, as God does, we can have no knowledge at all. On this basis, Kant rejected both the natural theology of the rationalists and the experiential religion of the pietists.

🚩Schleiermacher was a philosopher who served as a minister in the church. He perceived a general despising of Christianity in Europe, as something out of touch with modern sensibilities. Schleiermacher was concerned with salvaging the Christian faith. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers was his response to this perception. Schleiermacher redefined the nature of faith, how one should relate to God, and the person and work of Jesus Christ. He defined religion as the feeling of dependence on God. Jesus, he said, was a model to strive after, and the church was only a community of individuals sharing a common experience. He jettisoned orthodox Christian doctrine for experience.

✨Though different in their approaches, these men were very similar in their conclusions. They agreed that God is, at best, a product of our experience. Experience trumped revealed truth. Both reason and revelation were divorced from faith, and faith itself was reduced to a feeling. As a result, many today no longer believe in an objective knowledge of God.

🐦The work of God went forward, however, in two great revivals, the Second Great Awakening at the beginning of the century in the United States and the Revival of 1859 on both sides of the Atlantic. not to mention lesser revivals in various places. The church awakened once more to her true calling- -to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth. Missionaries went out from many parts of Europe and North America to build God's kingdom in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

🔴One of these kingdom builders was William Carey. He was a cobbler by trade. God gripped his heart and gave him a vision for evangelizing the world. He went to India in 1793 as a cobbler. Within five years, he had learned Sanskrit and translated the whole Bible into Bengali. By the end of his life, he had supervised translations of the Bible into thirty-six languages and helped launch the great missionary movement of the nineteenth century. Another great missionary from this period was Henry Martyn, who translated the New Testament into Hindustani Arabic, and Persian, giving his life for the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Others included Robert Moffat, David Livingstone, John Paton, Andrew Gordon, and Hudson Taylor. These were days of great expansion of the British Empire, and in that context, God sent His servants out to the ends of the earth.

⭐️The revival of the church and her missionary enterprise was encouraged by the pulpit ministry of gifted preachers such as Charles Spurgeon whose sermons have been read perhaps by more people than those of any other preacher in church history. Then, too, the gospel fanned out through America and beyond through the influence of Princeton Seminary, under the aegis of devout scholars such as Archibald Alexander, Samuel Miller, and Charles Hodge, who schooled generations of faithful gospel ministers in Reformed truth.

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🌸All of these men, and multitudes more, brought God's Word and the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. The contempt of "cultured despisers" takes nothing away from the power and truth of God's Word. God demonstrated His wisdom in that. even as people in Europe began despising the gospel He was already preparing to go somewhere else. Surely we should pray that God would use us to continue that work of the gospel proclamation in the world today.

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