Thursday, June 23, 2005
This Week in Worship History: June 19-25
Happy Birthday to Charles Spurgeon, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Nicene Creed:
From Christian History and Biography:
June 19, 325: Bishop Hosius, a delegate at the Council of Nicea, announces the newly written Nicene Creed.
June 19, 1834: Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of the greatest preachers and orators of the nineteenth century, is born (see issue 29: C. H. Spurgeon).
June 21, 1607: English settlers found the first Anglican (later Episcopalian) parish in America at Jamestown, Virginia.
June 21, 1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, American neo-orthodox theologian and ethicist, is born.
June 22, 1750: Colonial preacher Jonathan Edwards is dismissed from his Massachusetts pastorate for pursuing tests for church membership (see issue 8: Jonathan Edwards and issue 77: Jonathan Edwards).
June 24, 1519: Theodore Beza, one of the great statesmen of the Reformation and John Calvin’s successor at Geneva, is born in Vezelay, France (see issue 12: John Calvin).
June 24, 1813: Henry Ward Beecher, abolitionist and Congregational clergyman, is born in Litchfield, Connecticut (see issue 33: Christianity and the Civil War).
June 25, 1530: Lutherans present their summary of faith, known as Confession of Augsburg, to Emperor Charles V. Philipp Melanchthon did most of the work preparing it, but it was not presented until it received Martin Luther’s approval (see issue 39: Luther’s Later Years).
June 25, 1580: On the fiftieth anniversary of the Confession of Augsburg, Lutherans publish the Book of Concord, which contains all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church, in German.
June 25, 1744: The first Methodist conference convenes in London. Leaders set standards for doctrine, liturgy, and discipline, giving an organizational framework to the “Evangelical Revival” touched off by John Wesley and George Whitfield in 1739 (see issue 2: John Wesley and issue 69: Charles and John Wesley).
June 25, 1865: English missionary J. Hudson Taylor forms the China Inland Mission (see issue 52: Hudson Taylor).
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