Barton Stone, along with others in the Kentucky Synod of the Presbyterian Church, were censured for their disbelief in the Trinity, predestination and election – as well as other doctrines. What became known as the Stone-Campbell movement began on September 12, 1803 when the Springfield Presbytery is formed. The Stone-Campbell movement would eventually become the founding of the Church of …
As Charlemagne the Great, the first-ever Holy Roman Emperor, prepared for his death, he named his only surviving son Louis to be co-emperor with him on September 11, 813. Louis became known as Louis the Pious because he sought to bring the empire closer to God by cleansing the public courts of pagan images and also did public penance before …
A few days back we noted the founding of Harvard College in 1636 by Puritans in Massachusetts to serve as a ministerial school. In 1701 a group of Congregationalists felt Harvard was straying too far away from teaching Calvinism and started The Collegiate School at New Haven, Connecticut. On September 10, 1718 the Congregationalists changed the name of their divinity …
For about 70 years starting in the late 1300’s, there were three men who all claimed to be the Pope at the same time. Known as the Avignon Captivity (because the Papal See was moved from Rome to Avignon, France) the full story has way too much history to be a snippet. The prevailing Pope was Gregory XII who issued …
Massachusetts Puritans understood the need to train ministers for the Gospel in their new colony and on September 8, 1636 founded a school named for a prominent English minister who came to America to lead the school: Harvard College. The founders took as their guiding verse John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they know Thee to be the …
Robert Morrison, a British Presbyterian, becomes the first Protestant missionary to go to China when he landed in Macao on September 7, 1807. Morrison would later be the first to translate and have published the entire New Testament into Chinese – much to the chagrin of the Chinese government and Morrison’s sponsor, the East India Company. Roman Catholics had been …
The first official act of the Continental Congress when it met on September 6, 1774 was to open the session in prayer. But it almost didn’t happen because some delegates, led by soon-to-be Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, felt there were too many religions in America and it wouldn’t be appropriate. Jay was outvoted and the delegates called an …
In spite of all the talk about freedom of religion in America, the early Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts was anything but tolerant. Only the approved and established Puritan church was allowed but a contingent of settlers (mostly Baptists) were moving toward Rhode Island. One of those who espoused Baptist beliefs in Plymouth was Reverend Obadiah Holmes who was found guilty …
Once upon a time there was a New Sweden in North America and its capital was on Tinicum Island in the middle of the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Before the Dutch would drive the Swedes away, the first Lutheran church in America was established on Tinicum Island on September 4, 1664.
Did John Calvin ever have something good to say about a pope? There was at least one, Pope Gregory the Great, who was consecrated on September 3, 570. He was a prolific writer and reconstructed much of the way worship took place at the time. He is most appreciated for the “Gregorian Mission” to convert the Anglo-Saxons of England so …
