Examples of Christianity in the following topics:
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- By 1980, evangelical Christians had become an important political and social force in the United States.
- Members of the Christian Right are willing to do the electoral work needed to see their candidate elected.
- Thus, the Christian Coalition was actually planned long before Pat Robertson's run for president.
- Jerry Falwell's founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right.
- Examine the emergence of the Christian Right in the United States
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- Social Gospel held that Christians were called to combat social ills such as injustice and poverty.
- Mary Baker Eddy introduced Christian Science, which gained a national following.
- By the 1840s, a new emphasis on holiness and Christian perfection had begun within American Methodism.
- This was the first American periodical dedicated exclusively to promoting the Wesleyan message of Christian holiness.
- The Social Gospel movement was the Protestant Christian intellectual movement most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
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- Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio.
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. " The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
- Willard became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years.
- Summarize the origins and achievements of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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- Christian Fundamentalists believed modernist Protestants to be in violation
of the Bible's teachings and began a movement that endures today.
- Christian Fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity, or Fundamentalism, arose out of
British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
among Evangelical Christians.
- The founders of
Fundamentalist Christianity reacted against liberal theology and militantly
asserted that the inerrancy, meaning without error or fault, of the Bible was essential
for true Christianity and was being violated by modernists.
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created, at a large conference in Philadelphia in 1919, the World's Christian
Fundamentals Association (WCFA).
- Analyze the origins of Christian Fundamentalism in late 19th- and early 20th-century America
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- Unitarianism and Universalism were early Christian denominations that spread quickly during the 19th century.
- Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement named for its understanding of God as one person (in direct contrast to Trinitarianism, which defines God as three persons coexisting as one in being).
- At first mystical rather than rationalistic in his theology, he took part with the "Catholic Christians," as they called themselves, who aimed at bringing Christianity into harmony with the progressive spirit of the time.
- His essays on The System of Exclusion and Denunciation in Religion (1815) and Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered (1819) made him a defender of Unitarianism.
- Americans from these religious backgrounds gradually created a new denominational tradition of Christian Universalism during the 19th century.
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- It has been described as a reaction against skepticism, deism and rational Christianity, although why those forces became pressing enough at the time to spark revivals is not fully understood.
- Efforts to apply Christian teaching to the resolution of social problems presaged the Social Gospel of the late 19th century.
- Publication and education societies promoted Christian education; most notable among them was the American Bible Society, founded in 1816.
- Antebellum American witnessed a surge in the number of denominations of Christianity.
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- The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
- The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
- Mary Baker Eddy introduced Christian Science in 1879, which gained a national following.
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- It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
- The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
- Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, who became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years, was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
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- As strong supporters of the Christian Church, Europeans also sought to bring Christianity to the East and any newly found lands.
- They also were victims of the arrogance of the Europeans, who viewed themselves as uncontested masters of the New World, sent by God to bring Christianity to the “Indians.”
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- Although the Great Awakening represented the first time African Americans embraced Christianity in large numbers, Anglican missionaries had long sought to convert blacks, again with the printed as well as the spoken word.