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In Christianity, a sermon is an address ...)
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In Christianity, a sermon is an address delivered to an assembly of Christians, typically containing theological or moral lesson. Although often called a homily, the original distinction between a sermon and a homily was that a sermon was delivered by a clergyman, while a homily was read by a layman. In the 20th century the sermons were likely to be longer, more structured, and hold greater theological content. Sermon types include: Biographical, Evangelistic sermons, Expository preaching, Historical sermons, Hortatory sermons, Liturgical sermons, Narrative sermons, Redemptive-Historical Preaching, and Topical sermons.
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The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, with its various denominations, from the life of Jesus Christ in the 1st century to the present. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity spread to all of Europe in the Middle Ages, and since the Renaissance, has expanded throughout the world and become the world's largest religion (with over 2 billion faithful). At first persecuted, but later embraced by the Roman Empire, the East-West Schism, or Great Schism of 1054, separated the Church into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, i.e., Western Catholicism (based on Rome) and Eastern Orthodoxy (based on Constantinople). The rise of Islam resulted in a number of Crusades fought by Christian Armies from Europe, whose aim was to re-capture and hold Jerusalem. In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire, and Christianity was almost completely removed from the territory that now comprises Turkey. The three most important traditions that emerged from the Protestant Reformation (1521-1610) were the Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist, Presbyterian, etc.), and Anglican traditions.
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A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development. The Bible holds that Jesus instructed the apostles to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19–20, Mark 16:15–18), and this verse is interpreted as providing the Great Commission that inspires missionary work. The word "mission" itself comes from its use when Jesuits first went abroad in 1598, as it is derived from the Latin missionem meaning "act of sending". Many other denominations of Christianity, including Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists and Orthodox missionaries have worked throughout the world.
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David Hummell Greer was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.
Background
David Hummell Greer was a native of what is now West Virginia, having been born in Wheeling. His ancestors had emigrated from Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. His father, Jacob Rickard Greer, went from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, where he married Elizabeth Yellott Armstrong, daughter of an Episcopal rector born in England. David was the second of their six children. His father was a wholesale merchant and he was brought up in comfortable circumstances.
Education
At the age of fifteen, having attended the Wheeling schools, he entered Morgantown Academy, and in 1860 became a member of the junior class of Washington College from which he graduated in 1862. For two years he taught in Wheeling, worked in his father’s office, and studied law. He then entered the Episcopal theological school at Gambier, Ohio, and on June 27, 1866, he was ordained deacon.
Career
From 1866 to 1868 Greer was in charge of Christ Church, Clarksburg, West Virginia. Admitted to the priesthood in the chapel of the Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, May 19, the following October he became rector of Trinity Church, Covington, Kentucky, an office which he filled until May 1871.
After a trip to Europe, he began on September 15, 1872, a sixteen-years’ rectorship at Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He rose rapidly to leadership in the diocese and soon became known and esteemed outside its limits. His preaching, deeply religious but eminently practical and fired by his own vital personality, drew large numbers to his church.
The grounds of his faith are set forth in the Bedell Lectures which he delivered at the theological school, Gambier, Ohio, in 1889, published under the title, The Historical Christ, the Moral Power of History (1890).
He was sensitive to the needs of the poor and afflicted, and while in Providence founded the Saint Elizabeth Home for incurables.
Calls to other churches were declined until in 1888 he accepted the rectorship of St. Bartholomew’s, New York, in which city he again had a conspicuous ministry.
In 1892 he was called to succeed Phillips Brooks at Trinity Church, Boston, but he felt that his obligations to St. Bartholomew’s required him to decline. He would probably have been elected Brooks’s successor as bishop, had he not discouraged those who wished to nominate him. A delegate from the Rhode Island diocese to the General Conventions of 1877, 1880, 1883, and 1886, he also represented the New York diocese in 1895, 1898, and 1901.
In 1893 he published a volume of sermons, From Things to God, and in 1895 delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale, which appeared the same year under the title, The Preacher and His Place. In 1898 he published Visions.
After nearly fifteen years at St. Bartholomew’s, he was elected bishop coadjutor of the diocese of New York, and was consecrated, January 26, 1904; becoming diocesan at the death of Bishop Potter in 1908. To the manifold and exhausting duties of this office he gave himself without stint. He carried on the work of constructing the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with zeal, and the liberal policy of its administration was due in no small part to him.
In May 1919 he entered St. Luke’s Hospital to undergo an operation not considered necessarily dangerous, but he was too worn out by his labors to recover, and on May 19, he died.
Achievements
One of his notable achievements was the religious and social work which, supported by his wealthy parishioners, he inaugurated on the East Side through the establishment on East Forty-second Street of St. Bartholomew’s Parish House.
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Although devoted to his calling, he was thoroughly human and without professional selfconsciousness. He rarely wore clerical garb on the street, and was friendly to all sects and classes.
He was broad in his churchmanship but unpartisan, liberal in his views, and alive to the problem created by modern science; nevertheless he clung to the evangelical theology in which he was reared.
Politics
He believed thoroughly in non-resistance, and when the World War broke out he vigorously opposed the entrance of the United States into the conflict, but loyally supported the government when the step was finally taken.
Views
He took a most conservative position on the divorce question, favoring a canon forbidding remarriage even of the “innocent party. ”
Personality
His quick initiative, calmness, judgment, and patience made him an able administrator.
Connections
On June 29, he married Caroline Augusta Keith, daughter of Quincy Adams and Priscilla Keith of Covington.
