How God Saved Civilization

How God Saved Civilization - Chapter 17

THE EMERGING EVANGELICALS (1918-1970)

KEY PERSONS: Billy Sunday, Phineas Bresee, Charles Fuller, Billy Graham, Bill Bright

How God Saved Civilization - Chapter 17
THE BATTLE LINES REDEFINED, The Emerging Evangelicals

TIME LINE
1882 Death of Dispensationalist John Nelson Darby, England

1895 Phineas F. Bresee left 1st Methodist (L.A.) to form Church of the Nazarene

1900 Magazine founded in 1884 renamed The Christian Century

1908 Merger in Pilot Point, TX. forms national Church of the Nazarene denomination

1909 Scofield Reference Bible published

1910 - 1915 Twelve volume The Fundamentals sent free to 3 million Christian workers

1914 - 1917 World War I

1919 Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene drops "Pentecostal" from name

1920 Presumably first time the term "fundamentalist" was used

1923 J. Gresham Machen wrote Christianity and Liberalism

1929 Professors leave Princeton Seminary to form Westminster Theological Seminary

1929 - 1933 Great depression

1934 Sword of the Lord magazine founded by John R. Rice

1935 Death of Evangelist Billy Sunday, had preached to most persons in history

1936 Orthodox Presbyterian Church formed

1937 Charles Fuller's "Old-Fashioned Gospel Hour" reached national audience

1939 World Council of Churches founded

1943 National Association of Evangelicals founded

1948 First Assembly of the World Council of Churches

1949 Billy Graham's ministry launched due to the famous Los Angeles Crusade

1950 National Council of Churches founded

1951 Bill Bright launched ministry called Campus Crusade for Christ at UCLA

1956 Christianity Today magazine founded by L. Nelson Bell, Billy Graham and others

1963 Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

1968 Martin Luther King gunned down by an assassin in Nashville

1980 Death of independent, fundamentalist Baptist John R. Rice

1986 Martin Luther King's birthday made a national holiday

2000 3.4 billions persons had seen Campus Crusade's "Jesus" film

WEBSITE LINKS:

Bill Bright
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
Biola University
Campus Crusade for Christ
Christian Holiness Partnership
Christianity Today
Church of the Nazarene
Dispensationalism
Henrietta Mears
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
John Nelson Darby
Martin Luther King. Jr
National Council of Churches
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Reinhold Niebuhr
Sword of the Lord
The Christian Century
Westminster Theological Seminary
World Council of Churches ( IS This How God Saved Civilization?)

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