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the year that usually marks the end of the Christian Roman Empire in the West

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476

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non greek or latin speakers

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Barbarians

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for the most part barbarians were tribes from the north, originally in or near

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Scandinavia

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settled in the Rhone valley

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Burgundians

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franks gradually spread across northern _____

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Gaul

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Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded

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Britain

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today, we can see that the germanic invasions were not as ____________ as men once thought

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cataclysmic

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why during the period from approximately 400 A.D. to 800 A.D. would the victor adopt the _____ of the vanquished?

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religion

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at least two _____ factors facilitated the acceptance of Christianity by the barbarians

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cultural

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one of the factors that facilitated the acceptance of Christian by the barbarians is the __________ of the barbarian groups

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tribal composition

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when the chiefs or key elders embraced Christianity __________________ within that tribe soon followed

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mass conversions

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so it was that when a germanic tribe did become christian it did so in

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mass

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people brought their ________________ with them into the church

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superstitions and behavior

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another cultural factor that facilitated the acceptance of Christianity by the barbarians is the ____________ of those cultures that occurred up on impact with the graeco-roman civilization

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disintegration

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corruption of the church began with

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Constantine

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after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Roman Church relied upon what to support temporal rulers

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military

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Christian religion became a __________ which kings and popes used to subjugate the masses

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political weapon

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the 700's saw the fierce raiding parties of the _________ pillaging and plundering much of Western Europe

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vikings

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the first aspect of the pattern for evangelization of the viking people was that in almost all viking lands, "conversion was accomplished as a ________________ by a kind of mass movement"

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community affair

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the second feature of the pattern in which the vikings were won to Jesus Christ was that in almost all areas " the eventual triumph of Christianity through..."

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royal initiative

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the third feature of efforts to evangelize the vikings was that instruction, baptism, and discipleship training were carried on largely by missionaries from where

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England

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had a missionary zeal

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Irish Church

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founded monasteries

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Irish Church

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kept the lamp of learning alive

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Irish Church

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twofold influence of Christianity

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Celtic and Roman

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Irish missionary; makes Britain the first foreign mission church from the Irish

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Columba

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reluctant missionary; reached Gaul and came back, but later does go back

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Augustine

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christian queen who wanted to convert her husband; king was impressed by Augustine and allowed him to establish a monastery at Canterbury

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Birtha

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was largely responsible for the creation of the medieval papacy

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Gregory the Great

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Gregory the Great transformed bishopric of Rome into a ______ that endured throughout the Middle Ages

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Papal System

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established the Roman Catholic theology

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Gregory the Great

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promoted asceticism and possessed great missionary zeal

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Gregory the Great

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medieval catholic missions closely tied to _________________________ exploits

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political and military

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followed principle of accommodation and christianizing pagan traditions

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roman catholic missions

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roman church already had trained and dedicated ________ for service

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members

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roman catholic missionary monks had two desirable qualities for missionary work stemming from vows of obedience and celibacy

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servility and mobility

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ascetic lifestyle prepared them for _________ of the mission field

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deprivations

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papacy could deploy monks anywhere with a

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command

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tip of the spear; shock troops; pioneers; devoted, loyalty to the pope

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Jesuits

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became the virtually uncontested faith in most of the West and spread elsewhere

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Roman Catholicism

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creation of Christendom in Europe with

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Charlemagne

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greatly expanded to include Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Russia from 800 to 1073

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Christendom

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during this time period, the Roman Church expanded through the overseas empires of Portugal and Spain

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Age of Exploration

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twofold influence of Christianity in Britain

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Celtic and Roman

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established churches in Ireland and Iona

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Columba

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Roman monk; brought Romanism to Southern England

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Augustine

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the greatest of all missionaries of the Dark Ages

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Boniface

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accused of emphasizing church more than Christ, Sacrament more than Scripture

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Boniface

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what country was Boniface an apostle to

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Germany

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Boniface focused on what social group of people

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upper class

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established monastic mission outpost

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Boniface

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created missionary nuns

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Boniface

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devised the Slavic alphabet and translated the Gospels and liturgy

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Cyril

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Cyril began the use of what in worship

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vernacular

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precursor to translators of the modern mission era

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Cyril

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believed muslims should be converted not by force of arms but by love and prayers, and the pouring out of tears and blood

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Raymond Lull

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Raymond Lull used this three pronged approach:

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apologetical, educational, and evangelistic

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became the New World's most vocal advocate for the Indians; great humanitarian missionary

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Bartholomew de las Casas

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charter member of the Jesuit order established during the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church

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Francis Xavier

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ordered to Inida as a missionary with less than a 24 hour notice

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Francis Xavier

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Xavier was known as _______ that others would follow establishing more substantial ministries

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Catholic Trailblazer

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an Italian Jesuit who received a secular education that aided his endeavors

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Matthew Ricci

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Once while Ricci was in China, he shaved his head and dressed like a

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Confucian scholar

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Ricci later changed appearance to that of a _______ as he attempted to win the intelligentsia

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buddhist monk

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fastest growing religion in the world; second only to christianity in numbers

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Islam

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founded Islam in Saudi Arabia

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Mohammed

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Mohammed had a vision of the angel

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Gabriel

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stopped Islam from entering at the Battle of Tours

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Charles Martel

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later in the 15th century the Ottoman Turks conquered the

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Byzantine Empire

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the roman church sponsored seven of these

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crusades

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chief motive was religious ---freeing the Holy Land

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crusades

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effects from the crusades

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failed miserably

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most resistant of all non-christian religions

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Muslims

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T or F: Islam is younger than Christianity

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true

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denies the deity and the death of Christ

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Islam

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won more converts in foreign lands between 1500-1700 than it lost to Protestantism in Europe

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RC Church

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theology of the reformers

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Protestantism

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protestant churches were focused on

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survival

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protestants lacked opportunities for missions due to limited access to the

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oceans and seas

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protestants lacked __________ similar to the RC monastic orders

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missionary force

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early attempts at protestant missions were __________ and minimal participation

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short-lived

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modern missions were the direct outcome of

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pietist movement

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was a revolt against the cold, dead formalism and orthodoxy of Protestant Europe

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pietism

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"father of Pietism"

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Philip Spener

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genuine conversion leads to personal piety. piety lead to evangelize and vision; religion is of the heart, not head

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Pietism

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religion is of the ______, not head

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heart

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the first protestant mission

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Danish-Halle Mission

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the king of Denmark who asked for Halle to provide missionaries to his colony at Tranquebar, India

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King Ferdinand IV

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go as missionaries to King Ferdinand IV's colony of Tranquebar, India

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Ziegenbalg and Plutschau

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influenced a young von Zinzendorf

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Plutschau

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united brethren centered here and it became the source of a missionary movement that would reach around the world

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Hernhut

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Leader of the United Brethren

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Nicolas Ludwig Zinzendorf

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from ____________, mission works were started in Virgin Islands, Greenland, North America, South America, Labrador

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Hernhut

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later, the united brethren (moravian missions) established missionary ________ to spread the gospel

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societies

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arose out of the Great Awakening in Britain

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British missionary movement

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preachers of the Great Awakening in England

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John Wesley and George Whitefield

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preachers of the Great Awakening in America

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Jonathan Edwards and Whitefield

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laid the foundation for the Methodist Church and the groundwork for modern missions under William Carey

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John Wesley

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society for the propagation of the gospel in New England; evangelize the indians

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Elliot

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society for promoting christian knowledge (SPCK); strengthen christians through literature

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Brea

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society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts (SPG)

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evangelize indians and english settlers

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became the center for evangelism and foreign missions at the beginning of the 18th century

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University of Halle

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this movement was an outgrowth of pietism

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Moravian

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led the Moravian Advance

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Count Nicholas Zinzendorf

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paved the way for the great era of modern missions

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Moravian Movement

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were consumed by their passion to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth

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Moravians

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proportion of Moravian missionaries to laypeople

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1:60

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Moravian missionaries were expected to be

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self-supporting

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moravian missions founded on the message of the

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love of Christ

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born into wealth and nobility; reared by pietist grandmother and aunt

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Count Nicholas Zinzendorf

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Zinzendorf attended what university?

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Halle

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society founded by Zinzendorf; no man lives for himself

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Order of the Grain of Mustard Seed

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painting that inspired Zinzendorf

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Ecce Homo (Behold, the Man)

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allowed a group of bohemian refugees to form a christian community called

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Hernhut

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became the leader of the Hernhuts in 1727

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Zinzendorf

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a revival broke out among the hernhuts in August 1727, leading to a passion for

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missions

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On August 27, 1727, 24 men and 24 women covenanted to spend an hour each day in scheduled prayer, praying in sequence around the clock

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100 year prayer meeting

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undoubtedly this prayer chain helped birth

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Protestant missions

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first missionaries from the 100 year prayer meeting

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Dober and Nitschmann

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date in which the first missionaries, Dober and Nitschmann, were commissioned during an unforgettable service during which one hundred hymns were sung

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August 18, 1732

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the 100 year prayer meeting began the "_________" of Moravian Missions 1732-1742

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Golden Decade

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the moravian fervor spared the conversions of whom?

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John and Charles Wesley

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