Bible and History

Free courses on the Bible and the history of the church, built on primary sources: the movements' own documents and statements of faith, contemporaneous newspapers, official records and the founders' own words, with footnotes, photographs, infographics and a short quiz in every lesson. Each movement is described first in its own words and then by the record. Progress is kept in this browser only.

1 course · 10 lessons · glossary · see also Liberty and the Republic and Issues and Advocacy Training

Church history

⛪Church History, Part C: American Movements, Calvary Chapel and Vineyard How the movements that shaped American Protestant life formed after the Reformation, told from their own documents and the historical record: Pietism, Wesley and the Methodists, the Holiness movement and Keswick, Topeka and Azusa Street, the Assemblies of God, the Charismatic Renewal and the Third Wave, the new evangelicals, Billy Graham and the Southern Baptist resurgence, and the rise of the non-denominational church. Then a full study of Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard: the Jesus People and Costa Mesa, Chuck Smith and Lonnie Frisbee, Calvary's teaching and structure, its growth, succession and controversies, John Wimber and signs and wonders, the Toronto Blessing and the Vineyard today, and a side-by-side comparison with a reader's checklist for any independent church. 10 lessons ·