Issue 9 Heritage of Freedom: Dissenters, Reformers, and Pioneers

A brief history of pioneering monastics

Hitler demanded control of the Lutheran and Catholic churches to which almost every German belonged.

The charismatic renewal sprang up from the grassroots in a wide variety of forms.

“There can be nothing to stop a real outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Rwanda now except our own lack of sanctification.”

Introduction to the Heritage of Freedom issue.

The effect of Montanism.

Communalism within Christianity.

Irish pioneers in Christianity.

The rise of the Franciscan and Dominican friars.

Waldensian, Lollard, and Hussite reformers before the great reformation of the 16th century.

Never was there a time when the church needed a Martin Luther as it did then.

Many Anabaptists took the Bible so literally they outraged more conservative reformers but others warped its teaching to revolt against the established order.

The Puritans wanted even more reformation in the established church. Their emphasis helped bring about civil war in Britain.

The roots of the Methodist revival.

John Keble annual assize sermon kicked off the Tractarian movement.

The small Moravians denomination was born out of the fires of persecution but became a world-wide mission movement.

Few men have been as influential in the church as one impoverished cobbler.

A chronology of early British mission organizations.

William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army.

How Pentecostals came to form a third strand of Christianity.

Understanding the emergence of independent African churches.