17th century
\nSee also: Age of Reason
\n1600 Giordano Bruno, Dominican priest, burned at the stake
\n1604 Fausto Paolo Sozzini Socinianism
\n1606 Carlo Maderno redesigns St Peter’s Basilica into a Latin cross
\n1607 Jamestown, Virginia founded
\n1609 Baptist Church founded by John Smyth, due to objections to infant baptism and demands for church-state separation
\n1609-1610 Douay-Rheims Bible, 1st Catholic English translation, OT published in two volumes, based on an unofficial Louvain text corrected by Sistine Vulgate, NT is Rheims text of 1582
\n1611-1800 King James Version (Authorised Version) is released, based primarily on Wycliffe’s work & Bishop’s Bible of 1572, translators are accused of being “damnable corrupters of God’s word”, original included Apocrypha
\n1614 Fama Fraternitatis, Rosicrucian manifesto
\n1618-1648 Thirty Years’ War
\n1620 Plymouth Colony founded
\n1621 Robert Bellarmine
\n1622-1642 Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
\n1630 City upon a Hill, sermon by John Winthrop
\n1636 Founding of what was later known as Harvard University as a training school for ministers – the first of thousands of institutions of Christian higher education founded in the USA
\n1636-1638 Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres, founder of Jansenism
\n1637-1638 Shimabara Rebellion
\n1638 Anne Hutchinson banished as a heretic from Massachusetts
\n1641 John Cotton, advocate of theonomy, helps to establish the social constitution of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
\n1643 Acta Sanctorum
\n1644 Long Parliament directed that only Hebrew canon be read in the Church of England (effectively removed the Apocrypha)
\n1646 Westminster Standards produced by the Assembly, one of the first and undoubtedly the most important and lasting religious document drafted after the reconvention of the Parliament, also decreed Biblical canon
\n1648 George Fox founds the Quaker movement
\n1650 James Ussher, calculates date of creation as October 23, 4004 B.C.
\n1653-56 Raskol of the Russian Orthodox Church
\n1660-1685 King Charles II of England, restoration of monarchy, continuing through James II, reversed decision of Long Parliament of 1644, reinstating the Apocrypha, reversal not heeded by non-conformists
\n1672 Greek Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, decreed Biblical canon
\n1675 Philipp Jakob Spener publishes Pia Desideria, which becomes a manifesto for Pietism
\n1678 John Bunyan publishes Pilgrim’s Progress
\n1682 Avvakum, leader of the Old Believers, burned at the stake in the Far North of Russia
\n1684 Roger Williams (theologian), advocate of Separation of church and state, founder of Providence, Rhode Island
\n1685 Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France
\n1685 Orthodoxy introduced to Beijing by Russian Orthodox Church
\n1692 Salem witch trials in Colonial America
\n1692-1721 Chinese Rites controversy
\n1693 Jacob Amman founder of Amish <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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