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Historical Writings

Today in Christian History

Monday, March 24

1603
Death of Queen Elizabeth I of England who had taken the final steps to make Anglicanism the state religion of England.
1726
Death in Salisbury of Daniel Whitby, a clergyman of the Church of England. He had engaged in many controversies, especially against Calvinists, and had adopted Unitarian opinions. His legacy will be a systematic postmillennialism (the teaching that the church has supplanted Israel and that after a thousand years of righteousness prevail on earth, Christ will finally return). Ironically, his postmillennial views will be most widely embraced by Calvinists.
1774
Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'What a mercy it is to be separated in spirit, conversation, and interest from the world that knows not God.'
1818
American statesman Henry Clay wrote: 'All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty.'
1824
Brazil’s new constitution makes Roman Catholicism the official religion, but permits all other religions.
1842
Lutheran pastor Friedrich Schmid establishes a training center near Ann Arbor, Michigan, to prepare missionaries to the American Indians.
1922
First medical class of missionary-doctor Ida Scudder graduates in Vellore, India. The medical school she founded will become one of Asia's foremost teaching hospitals.
1940
Dr. Samuel Cavert of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America officiated at a Protestant Easter service in New York City. It was the first religious program to be broadcast over television, and was carried by local NBC affiliate TV station W2XBS, in NYC.
1948
Death in exile of Nikolai Berdyaev, a Russian Orthodox political theorist and associate of Jacques Maritain and his circle. "The substance of life can only be religious. It is an entering into the life of God, that is, into true Being."
1980
El Salvador's leading human rights activist, Archbishop Oscar Romero, 62, was assassinated by a sniper while saying mass in a hospital chapel.
1982
Five congregations in the eastern San Francisco Bay area became the first to declare themselves publicly as sanctuary churches, in an effort to help refugees from Central America establish themselves in the U.S. during political and military unrest in their native countries.
 
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