Church History
Know your roots
Apostolic Age (29-99 AD)
c.29/33
Crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus
c.33/37
Stephen becomes first martyr
c.33/37
Paul converted on the road to Damascus
c.45/46
Epistle of James is first New Testament book written
c.46/47
Barnabas and Paul leave on their first missionary journey
c.49/50
Jerusalem Council
Revivalist who moved with the times
"Sin is black, grace abounds, the will is free."—one biographer's summary of Lyman Beecher's Theology
Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
"Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers."
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"[Uncle Tom's Cabin is] perhaps the most influential novel ever published, a verbal earthquake, an ink-and-paper tidal wave." —one of Harriet Beecher Stowe's critics
Murdered archbishop of Canterbury
"For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death."
Mystery writer and apologist
"Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something."
Father and maker of church history
"I feel inadequate to do [church history] justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path."
Salty evangelist
"Nowadays we think we are too smart to believe in the Virgin birth of Jesus and too well educated to believe in the Resurrection. That's why people are going to the devil in multitudes."
Spanish mystic of the soul’s dark night
"Turn not to the easiest, but to the most difficult … not to the more, but to the less; not towards what is high and precious, but to what is low and despised; not towards desiring anything, but to desiring nothing."
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
“Enormous” Essayist, poet, writer
"What can one be but frivolous about serious things? Without frivolity they are simply too tremendous."
Martyrologist
"What storms and tempests it [the church] hath overpast, wondrous it is to behold."
“The Fifth Evangelist”
"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."
Mystic and political activist
"[You are] not to love Me for your own sake, or your neighbor for your own sake, but to love Me for Myself, yourself for Myself, your neighbor for Myself." —from a divine vision to Catherine of Siena
America's greatest theologian
"[I wish] to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child."
Controversial evangelist to China
"Those that adore Heaven instead of the Lord of Heaven are like a man who, desiring to pay the emperor homage, prostrates himself before the imperial palace at Peking and venerates its beauty."
First Christian emperor
"I have experienced this in others and in myself, for I walked not in the way of righteousness. … But the Almighty God, who sits in the court of heaven, granted what I did not deserve."
Faith missionary to China
"China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women … The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time—even life itself must be secondary."
Father of American revivalism
"I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and cannot plead yours."
Fabled Victorian writer
"With his divine alchemy, he [God] turns not only water into wine, but common things into radiant mysteries, yea, every meal into a Eucharist, and the jaws of death into an outgoing gate."
Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
"Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers."
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