Need Advice on a Case Study Topic!!

[jjraby]

Hello everyone,

I have to do a case study of a particular event or happen in Church History post reformation. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on an interesting event. I have a few in mind but was looking for some different opinions.

so, What is an even in church history that would be interesting and thought provoking?

 

[VictorBravo]

Maybe a study on the differences between churches started by Charles Finney and those started by Asahel Nettleton, especially regarding how many church members remained professing Christians after a decade or so.

 

[Osage Bluestem]

The Great Awakening!!!!

Started by our own Jonathan Edwards and his sermon Sinners in the hands of an angry God.

 

[jambo]

1. The influence of the Pilgrim Fathers on American life
2. William Carey and the birth of the modern missionary movement
3. The Great Awakening has already been mentioned so I will second David's proposal. On a similar theme, and still based on Edwards works something along the lines of the marks and fruit of true revival contrasted with 20th century "revivals"
4. Spurgeon and the downgrade controversy or on a similar theme J Gresham Machen and the events surrounding the formation of Westminster seminary

 

[timmopussycat]

The Calvinistic Methodists in Wales 1735-1790 (the Welsh counterpart to the Great Awakening) featuring what one later observer called the finest preaching since the Apostle Paul (Archbishop Ryle on Daniel Rowland) or the 1858-60 revival in Wales which demonstrates exactly how unimportant formal theological training can be when the Holy Spirit is at work (the principal evangelist David Morgan was soundly Calvinist but not formally trained).
The former events turned at least 10,000 people to Christ in 50 years (about 10% of the national population; the latter event did the same in the space of 2 years. The vast majority of the converts in both cases proved to be lasting in both cases.
Sources
Eifon Evans, Daniel Rowland and the Great Evanglical Awakening in Wales, Banner of Truth
Revival Comes to Wales, Evangelical Library of Wales
Reason for suggestion:
Both these movements occurred in what we would think of as less than ideal church settings. Learning how God moves in such settings is useful today for discerning the wheat from the chaff in groups other than our own.

 

[Rich Koster]

The Calvinistic Methodists in Wales 1735-1790 featuring what one later observer called the finest preaching since the Apostle Paul (Archbishop Ryle on Daniel Rowland) or the 1859 revival in Wales which demonstrates exactly how unimportant formal theological training can be when the Holy Spirit is at work (the principal evangelist David Morgan was soundly Calvinist but not formally trained).

Oh, that is so precious !!!

 

[Bookmeister]

Jeremy,
Your case study should involve a controversy or at least an issue with more than one side. Ask Dr. Hurley in MFT. He wrote a church history dictionary for Zondervan years ago and gave me a great idea last semester.