The document summarizes key events and movements that impacted the church up until the Enlightenment period: 1) The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism. 2) The Puritans sought to purify the Church of unbiblical traditions under Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. 3) Presbyterians debated how men should exercise authority in the Church according to Scripture. 4) The Enlightenment advanced fields of study and emphasized the individual over community, challenging the Church's authority by promoting reason and physical explanations over spiritual ones.

1. Class 3:
Where We’ve Been
Where We’ve Been

3. Anabaptist
Had a problem with infant
baptism

4. Puritans
1. Mary Tudor “Bloody Mary”
forces a return to Rome
2. Elizabeth searches for a
compromise
3. Christians call to purify the
Church of un-biblical
traditions

5. Presbyterians
How do men exercise
Scripturally-ordained authority
in the Church?

6. The Enlightenment
•Advances in nearly every
field
•Individual over Community
•Belief in the inevitability of
progress

7. How the Enlightenment
Challenged the Church
Challenged the Church
•Reason was accepted as separate from Scripture
•It had its own eschatology (end times)
•It changed how people viewed evil
•Physical explanations began to override the
spiritual
•Religious authority and dominance decreased

8. Amid all the chaos and
disagreements, how do you
maintain unity in the
Church?

9. Sir Francis
Bacon
founder of the scientific method!
Used heavily by Scottish Common
Sense Realists!