The Church in the Last Three Centuries

This is now the fourth and final episode in our 4 session series on Church History. Dr. Michael Haykin has graciously taken us through the The Patristic Era, The Medieval Period, and last week, The Reformation. This week Dr. Haykin digs into major events that impacted and shaped the church in the last 3 centuries. Learn about The Enlightenment, the Modern Missionary Movement, and the globalization of the church in this week’s show.

 

Who’s Our Guest?

Dr. Michael Haykin (ThD University of Toronto) is professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Haykin also serves as the director of The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. He’s authored and/or edited over twenty-five books, including 8 Women of Faith and Rediscovering the Church Fathers.

Episode Links

Check out The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (where Dr. Michael Haykin teaches).

Also, check out The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies (where Dr. Haykin serves as director).

The two books that Dr. Haykin mentioned that give a good summary of church history are listed beneath.

Read It

*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

Introduction

Well with me today to finish our series on church history is Dr. Michael Haykin. He’s a professor of church history and biblical spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky. Thanks for being with us today!

Great to be with you again.

If you’re new to indoubt and this is the first episode you’re listening to ever, or you’ve listened before and you’ve just happened to start listening to this episode now, I’d encourage you to go back to the first episodes in this series.

The Patristic Era with Dr. Michael Haykin

The Medieval Era with Dr. Michael Haykin

The story that Dr. Michael Haykin has been so incredibly telling us is just that: it’s a true story. But stories obviously need to be heard and understood in full and they morph and they change on top of each other, so we need to get it in its full.

But anyways, he took us through the Patristic Period, then we went into the Medieval Period (the dark ages – Bible illiteracy and things like that), and then last week we looked at The Reformation, another mountain top where people like John Calvin and Martin Luther explained some really important things – it was a Reformation of the gospel.

And now today we reach the globalization of the gospel, so why don’t you explain to us what you mean by that.

The globalization of the gospel is the way in which the gospel moved out of the European confines it had been in really for the best part of a thousand years.