1. What are the Theological and Religious movements in America? Who are the Seventh-day Adventists, Mormonism, African American Christianity, The Holiness movement, Pentecostalism? Identify their leaders, their unique viewpoints, why are these groups essential in American history—a 455-word essay.

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Church History 3RD Examination Essays
1. What are the Theological and Religious movements in America? Who are the Seventh-day Adventists, Mormonism, African American Christianity, The Holiness movement, Pentecostalism? Identify their leaders, their unique viewpoints, why are these groups essential in American history—a 455-word essay.
2. Fundamentalism what is it, why is it important, what its origin, its rise, its falls, and its effects? 455-word essay.
3. Liberalism, what is it? Liberalism, what is the theological liberal orientation in America. Modernism, what is it about, and its emergence? Talk about the subjective with Immanuel and Friedrich Schleiermacher. 455-word essay.
UNIT 3 – CHRISTIANITY IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURIES
Week 11: Monday, March 29, 2021
Session 1: America’s Second Great Awakening
Session 2: Made in America: Homegrown Version of “Christianity”
This Week’s Reading:
 Shelley, Church History, chapters 36-38
Week 12: Monday, April 5, 2021
Session 1: European Liberalism & Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century
Session 2: African American Christianity in North America
This Week’s Reading:
 Shelley, Church History, chapters 39-41
Week 13: Monday, April 12, 2021
Session 1: In Search of the Higher Christian Life: The Holiness & Pentecostal Movements
Session 2: The Roots and Fruits of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
This Week’s Reading:
 Shelley, Church History, chapters 42-45
 McGrath, Historical Theology, Part 4 (pgs. 182-268)
Week 14: Monday, April 19, 2021
Session 1: Christianity in the Twentieth Century
Session 2: Flex Session
This Week’s Reading:
 Shelley, Church History, chapters 46-48, Epilogue
UNIT 3 EXAM: Take the Unit 3 Exam in Canvas between Tuesday, April 20 (8a.m.) and Saturday, April 24, 2021 (11:59 p.m.).
COURSE TEXTS
Required
• Shelley, Bruce L. Church History in Plain Language, 4th ed. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013. ISBN: 1401676316
• McGrath, Alister. Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought, second edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2012. ISBN: 0470672862
• Luther, Martin. On Christian Liberty. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. ISBN: 0800636074
• Edwards, Jonathan. Jonathan Edwards on Revival. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, reprint 1995. ISBN: 0851514316
• Hatch, Nathan. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0300050607.
• Various Texts posted on Canvas
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A general survey of the history of Christianity from AD 1500 to the present.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
In this course, the student will:
• Come to understand the basic outline of the history of Protestantism from the sixteenth century to the present, including its origins, fundamental ideas, and diverse forms.
• Be able to identify, appraise, and critique the various forms of Christianity in the last four centuries and be further informed in one’s own Baptist identity.