20th century
\n1905 French law on the separation of Church and State
\n1906 Albert Schweitzer publishes The Quest of the Historical Jesus (English translation 1910)
\n1906 Biblia Hebraica
\n1906-1909 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, CA begins modern Pentecostal movement
\n1907-1912 Nikolai of Japan, Archbishop of Japanese Orthodox Church
\n1909 Scofield Reference Bible
\n1909-1911 The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an international association of Christian mystics, founded at Mount Ecclesia
\n1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference launches modern missions movement and modern ecumenical movement; 5-point statement of the Presbyterian General Assembly, also used by Fundamentalists
\n1910-1915 The Fundamentals, a 12-volume collection of essays by 64 British and American scholars and preachers, a foundation of Fundamentalism
\n1913 Our Lady appear to 3 young people, in Fatima, Portugal. They were Jacinta Marto, Tiago Veloso and Lcia (Sister Lucia)
\n1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
\n1914 Welsh Church Act 1914
\n1914 Iglesia ni Cristo incorporated in the Philippines
\n1915-1917 Armenian Genocide
\n1916 Father Divine founded International Peace Mission movement
\n1916 And did those feet in ancient time
\n1917 Restitution of the Moscow Patriarchy with Tikhon as patriarch
\n1917 True Jesus Church founded in Beijing
\n1918 Execution of Holy Martyrs of Russia, including the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna
\n1919 Karl Barth’s Commentary on Romans is published, critiquing Liberal Christianity and beginning the neo-orthodox movement
\n1921 Oxford Group founded at Oxford
\n1923 Aimee Semple McPherson built Angelus Temple
\n1925 Scopes Trial, caused division among Fundamentalists
\n1925 United Church of Canada formed
\n1926 Father Charles Coughlin’s first radio broadcast
\n1927 Pope Pius XI decrees Comma Johanneum open to dispute
\n1929 Lateran Treaty signed containing three agreements between kingdom of Italy and the papacy.
\n1930 Rastafari movement founded
\n1931 Jehovah’s Witnesses founded see 1884 for more information.
\n1931 Christ the Redeemer (statue) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
\n1933 Catholic Worker Movement founded
\n1934 Herbert W. Armstrong founded Radio Church of God
\n1935 Dr. Frank C. Laubach, known as “The Apostle to the Illiterates.” working in the Philippines, developed a literacy program that continues to teach millions of people to read.
\n1935 Rahlf’s critical edition of the Koine Greek Septuagint
\n1935 Billy Sunday, early U.S. radio evangelist
\n1939 Southern and Northern US branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Methodist Protestant Church reunite to form The Methodist Church. Slavery had divided the church in the 1800s.
\n1940 Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos, world’s largest cross, 152.4 meters high
\n1942 National Association of Evangelicals founded
\n1945 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases begins
\n1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed by the Nazis
\n1945 Ludwig Mller
\n1945 The Nag Hammadi library is discovered.
\n1946-1952 Revised Standard Version, revision of AV “based on consonantal Hebrew text” for OT and best available texts for NT, done in response to changes in English usage
\n1947 Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl F. H. Henry, a landmark of Evangelicalism versus Fundamentalism in US
\n1947 Oral Roberts founded Evangelistic Association
\n1947 Dead Sea scrolls discovered
\n1948 World Council of Churches is founded
\n1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, see also Christian Zionism
\n1949 evangelist Billy Graham preaches his first Los Angeles crusade
\n1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures released
\n1950 Assumption of Mary decreed by Pope Pius XII
\n1950 Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa
\n1951 The Last Temptation a fictional account of the life of Jesus written by Nikos Kazantzakis, wherin Christ’s divinity is juxtaposed with his humanity, is published, and promptly banned in many countries.
\n1951 Campus Crusade for Christ founded at UCLA
\n1952 Novum Testamentum Graece, critical edition of Greek NT, basis of modern translations
\n1952 C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity
\n1954 Unification Church founded
\n1954 U.S. Pledge of Allegiance modified by act of Congress from “one nation, indivisible” to “one nation under God, indivisible”
\n1956 In God We Trust designated U.S. national motto
\n1956 Anchor Bible Series
\n1956 The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
\n1957 United Church of Christ founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical & Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans
\n1957 English translation of Walter Bauer’s Wrterbuch …: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press
\n1958 Sedevacantism
\n1959 Family Radio founded
\n1961 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures released
\n1962-1965 Catholic Second Vatican Council, announced by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced 16 documents which became official Roman Catholic teaching after approval by the Pope, purpose to renew “ourselves and the flocks committed to us”
\n1963 Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
\n1963 campaign by Madalyn Murray O’Hair results in U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting reading of Bible in public schools
\n1965 Reginald H. Fuller’s The Foundations of New Testament Christology
\nRousas John Rushdoony founds Chalcedon Foundation
\n1966 Raymond E. Brown’s Commentary on the Gospel of John
\n1968 United Methodist Church formed with union of Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church, becoming the largest Methodist\/Wesleyan church in the world
\n1970s The Jesus movement takes hold in the U.S. One-way.org
\n1970 Mass of Paul VI replaces Tridentine Mass
\n1970 The Late, Great Planet Earth futurist book by Hal Lindsey
\n1970? Chick Publications
\n1971 New American Standard Bible
\n1971 The Exorcist, a novel of demonic possession and the mysteries of the Catholic faith, is published.
\n1973 Trinity Broadcasting Network founded
\n1974 Jim Bakker founds PTL television ministry
\n1975 Bruce Metzger’s Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament
\n1976 Anneliese Michel, Bavarian woman, underwent exorcism against demon possession
\n1977 New Perspective on Paul
\n1977 Focus on the Family founded by James Dobson
\n1978 New International Version of the Bible is first published (revised in 1984), using a variety of Greek texts, Masoretic Hebrew texts, and current English style
\n1978-2005 Pope John Paul II, reaffirmed moral traditions (The Splendor of Truth)
\n1979 Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell
\n1979 Jesus (1979 film), most watched movie of all time according to New York Times
\n1979-1982? New King James Version, complete revision of 1611 AV, updates archaisms while retaining style
\n1985 Jesus Seminar founded
\n1985 E. P. Sanders’ Jesus and Judaism
\n1988 Christian Coalition
\n1988 The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, is released by Universal Pictures, and promptly attacked as heretical by organized Christian and Catholic groups.
\n1989 New Revised Standard Version
\n1991 John P. Meier’s series A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, v. 1
\n1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church
\n1994 “Evangelicals & Catholics Together” [12]
\n1994 Porvoo Communion
\n1994 Answers In Genesis founded by Ken Ham
\n1997, Mar 5-10 World Council of Churches: Towards a Common Date for Easter, see also Reform of the date of Easter
\n1998, April 6 PBS Frontline: From Jesus to Christ
\n1999 International House of Prayer in Kansas City begins non-stop 24\/7 continual prayer
\n1999, Oct 31 signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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