[Part 25 of an ongoing series]
Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Christianity in America was/is fundamentally different than the forms that preceded it in Europe–it is characteristically democratic; Reversal of what happened in 325 at the Council of Nicaea (merger between the Roman Empire/Constantine and the Church); The state and the church don’t get untangled until you get to the United States of America; This will ultimately get us to the Pentecostal movement; What happened later in the Pentecostal movement was specifically suited for the political and social climate in America
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[Part 2 of an ongoing series]
Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Gnosticism; 4th Century; Council of Nicaea; The identity/deity of Jesus Christ; The Roman emperor Constantine is the one who called the Council of Nicaea together; Constantine embraced Christianity for political purposes only; Council of Constantinople; Council of Ephesus; Second Council of Ephesus; Council of Chalcedon; Christ is two natures (human and divine) but in one person
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Rodney Shaw
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Pentecostalism,
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