My Family : A Christian Family

The American Baptist Movement came from England in the 17th century, after the Baptists were persecuted by the Church of England for being dissenting separatists. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new members were converted and congregations were formed by Baptist preachers who traveled throughout the South, in particular during the eras of the First and Second Great Awakenings.

One of the main reasons that protestantism was born was the anticlericalism movement that was gaining followers. The Catholic Church was selling indulgences, documents that if bought will free the soul of one who bought or a loved one from

A hug from a father, a thank you note from the wife, or a gift from the children; these are all expressions of love that brightens a day. Chapter 13 of The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home, talks about love in the family. The expression of love within the family is key, because it will also affect how we react outside the home.

In 16th century that time was given by God to be the time of reformation, and the Church was equipped for the reformation, with Spiritual, financial and dogmatic issues. There were also groups outside the Roman Church that opposed it. Dozens of Protestant denominations were born of the Reformation, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Church of Christ, and Mormons that influenced the American Protestant Reformation. The Reformation was the greatest spiritual crusade for Christ since the early church. The Reformers were all born, baptized confirmed, and educated in the Roman Catholic Church. We

The Protestant Reformation period took place from the 1500s to the 1600s. This reformation was a change in the Roman Catholic Church. It happened due to some priests' and believers' opinions that contradicted a few of the Catholic Church's ideals and practices. It separated the former Catholic religion into branches; including Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Calvinism, and Anabaptism, each branch having different, although very similar, beliefs. Lutheranism, for example, is very different from Calvinism. These newly created branches changed Church unity forever and they have survived and grown for centuries.

In the sixteen hundreds the Protestants left Europe to escape religious persecution. They did not agree with the Anglican Church so they traveled to New England where they could worship freely. They established some colonies such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland as plantations of religion. However, those where not the first colonies to be settled by the protestants, they first settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony but eventually spread out to many other places because they did not all believe what they were teaching was right.

But in terms of Protestant Reformation, the majority of those that traveled to the Americas were radicals or Puritans. The Puritans were dogged by the Anglican Church. They were tired of landowners controling the Churches. They did not want to submit to High Church (i.e. the Bells and Whistles)which reminded them too much of Catholicism. Being a bit cyclical the Reformation started because of Henry VIII had been a Catholic.

What began as the leveling of hierarchies altered into several revivals of different religions. “Starting in the rural west in the beginning of the 1830's, cities became active centers of American Protestantism. ”(Foner) Protestantism became the leading church and conversions were quick.

In the 1800s, religious activity in America was starting to decline, but once the Second Great Awakening began religion became increasingly important. During the early 1800’s America was becoming more industrial and focusing on expanding its land so there was not much time to think about religion.

The foremost denominations within America before the country’s independence were Congregationalists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Methodist and Baptists. These are referred to as the orthodox denominations. Roman Catholics were in a small community in Maryland as well has Catholic Indian missions. However, the Congregationalists, Anglicans, Quakers and Presbyterians were the raining sects in America. During the Revolution, including the Confederation years, church attendance dramatically dropped. The Enlightenment consisted of multiple philosophers that were able to convince Americans that thinking on one’s own was enough for truth and reason. The philosophers stated how the Bible was a book of contradictions; with its wisdom, in addition to mythology and irrational nonsense. After the revolution, the Anglican Church took another hit with decline in membership. Most of their ministers had been Loyalist to Great Britain during the American

England had preached over to the American Colonists during the first half of the 18th Century. Unlike the huge, popular Puritan spirituality of the early 1700s, the revivalism prompted in by the Awakening

First, after the reign of Bloody Mary, the members of the Anglican Church returned to England. Some of these people had a new idea called "Anabaptism", or the idea that you should baptize people when they are able to make the choice for themselves. This was viewed as heresy, so the Baptists fled to America. The Americans agreed with the English for once. The Baptists were pushed from the northeast to the mid-east, then from the mid-east to the southeast. They weren't accepted in the southeast, so they moved west.

The Protestant Reformation called the Protestant Revolt and known too many as The Reformation. This movement was the European Christian reform movement this was the beginning of Protestantism the branch of

My parents have been avid Christians since a few years before I was born. Both had been Catholic as children, and both stopped going for different reasons. After my

The next group was the Evangelicals. Evangelicals were a group that was predominantly popular in England. Evangelicals are by far the most traditional, but not in way