A Christian View of History

A Christian View of History

 

 

 

 

* Historie and Heilsgeschickte (God's "Salvation History" in human historical stages)

 

* Horizontal or Cyclic?

 

* George E. Radd's view on history

 

* Bible as a historiography

 

* Faith "movements" and Faith "tradition"

 

"Tradition is the living faith of the death, but traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."

-Yaloslov Pelikan-

 

 

* Ernst Troelch's "Sect-church Typology"

 

* Donald Dayton's Embrougeiment theory

 

* Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8: The framework of the history of Christianity (Noll, 11)

1) All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me: The sovereignty of God

2) Go and make disciples of all nations: Two actions - outward to reach; inward to train

3) I will be with you always to the very end of ages: the presence of Christ in history

4) You will be my witnesses ....to the ends of the earth: to bear witness of the gospel