{"id":384,"date":"2012-11-02T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=384"},"modified":"2012-11-01T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:07:12","slug":"charismatic-schismatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/11\/02\/charismatic-schismatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Schismatic Charismatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-385 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-6-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"[Under Same Management]\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-6-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-6.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">On the way home yesterday, I drove past Heritage Fellowship Church, which was sporting this mildly witty marquee: &#8220;UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT 2000 YEARS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I wonder whether the\u00a0parishioners ever really stop to think about this.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m assuming they don&#8217;t, but that doesn&#8217;t have to stop us from doing so. Since this is a Pentecostal church, it grew out of the\u00a0Pentecostal\u00a0movement, which itself grew out of the\u00a0Southern Methodist Church, which had in turn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Methodist_Episcopal_Church#North_and_South_split\">had split<\/a> from the Methodist Episcopal Church over the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War#Slavery_question_in_territories_acquired_from_Mexico\">slavery question<\/a> in 1844. Methodism grew out of an\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wesleyanism\">evangelistic revival movement<\/a> (originally lead by John Wesley and his brother Charles) which bubbled up from within Anglicanism\u00a0throughout\u00a0the mid 1700&#8217;s. The Anglican Church, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_England#Secession_from_Rome\">split off<\/a> from the Catholic Church when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_VIII_of_England#King.27s_Great_Matter:_1525.E2.80.931534\">King Henry the Eighth<\/a> decided that he really <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_of_Aragon#The_King.27s_great_matter\">deserved a second wife<\/a>. The Roman Catholic Church had in turn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East%E2%80%93West_Schism\">split off<\/a> from the older Eastern churches in 1054.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All that is to say merely this: The pithy idea that the church has been &#8220;under same management&#8221; for two\u00a0millennia\u00a0should probably be taken with a leaf of history and a grain of salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home yesterday, I drove past Heritage Fellowship Church, which was sporting this mildly witty marquee: &#8220;UNDER SAME&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}