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History | Church of the Nazarene

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The Glory Barn, Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene, circa 1900
This course will uncover the roots of the Nazarene story from its theological heritage in John Wesley to its missional reach into over 150 countries. Along the way, the American religious experience will be explored from the pre-colonial settlers, the westward movement into Appalachia, the spark of various renewal movements into the 19th century culminating in the social and moral reform of the early 20th century.

​It is here where we will find not only Nazarenes but many Christian denominations and they are woven into a tapestry of a “peculiar people” called to be like Christ.
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“A sanctified life is a delight to Jesus, a joy to the soul, a benediction to the home, a power in the church, a terror to sin, and a continual disappointment to the devil.”
Phineas F. Bresee, Feb 1, 1900

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Pilot Point, Texas 1908

Syllabus

Overview, Textbooks, Assignments, Evaluation, and Schedule of Classes
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Croydon, England (Neil Clifton)

Readings

Selected readings not found in the course textbooks

Lord Acton, "The Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History" University of Cambridge (1895)

Lord Acton-Bishop Creighton Correspondence on Moral Judgments in History, emphasis on Letter I, 1887

Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, John Wesley: Christian Revolutionary, 1970 (Nazarene Archives)

Timothy L Smith, Called Unto Holiness (Wesley Center at NNU)

Paul Bassett, "The Fundamentalist Leavening of the Holiness Movement: 1914-1940" WTJ 1978, pp.65-91
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Stan Ingersol, "Christian Baptism and the Early Nazarenes: Sources That Shaped a Pluralistic Baptism Tradition" WTJ 1992, pp.161-180

J. Matthew Price, We Study Holiness: An educational biography of H. Orton Wiley (1877-1961)
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Grove City Nazarene 2014 (Renkus Heinz)

Resources

Weblinks for historical documents and resources related to this course

Turning Points in Nazarene History (Nazarene Archives)

Nazarene Messenger, November 19, 1908

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Twelve Early Nazarene Leaders by Basil Miller (1941)
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