18th century
\nSee also: Age of Enlightenment
\n1701 Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands splits with Roman Catholicism
\n1721 Peter the Great substituted Moscow Patriarchate with the Holy Synod
\n1728 The Vicar of Bray (song)
\n1730-1749 First Great Awakening in U.S.
\n1735 Welsh Methodist revival
\n1738 Methodist movement, led by John Wesley and his hymn-writing brother Charles, begins
\n1741 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, famous Fire and brimstone sermon
\n1754 An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, by Isaac Newton, published
\n1767-1815 Suppression of the Jesuits
\n1768 New Smyrna, Florida, Greek Orthodox colony founded
\n1768 Reimarus dies without publishing his radical critic work distinguishing Historical Jesus versus Christ of Faith
\n1769 Mission San Diego de Alcala, first California mission
\n1772 Emanuel Swedenborg, founded Swedenborgianism
\n1774 Ann Lee leader of American Shakers
\n1774 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing starts publishing Reimarus works on historical Jesus as Anonymous Fragments, starting Liberal Theology Era (in Christology)
\n1776-1788 Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, critical of Christianity
\n1776 Mission Delores, San Francisco
\n1779 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, “Jesus never coerced anyone to follow him, and the imposition of a religion by government officials is impious”
\n1780 Robert Raikes begins Sunday schools to reach poor and uneducated children in England
\n1784 American Methodists form Methodist Episcopal Church at so-called “Christmas Conference”, led by bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
\n1789-1815 John Carroll, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, first Roman Catholic US bishop
\n1789-1801 Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution
\n1791 First Amendment to the United States Constitution
\n1793 Herman of Alaska brings Orthodoxy to Alaska
\n1795 The Age of Reason written by Thomas Paine, advocated Deism
\n1796 Treaty with Tripoli (1796), article 11: “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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