Floods Upon The Dry Ground by Charles P. Schmitt

Study Questions: Chapter 10

1. What was the revival of the early 1800's called? Who was the outstanding Presbyterian revivalist of the early 1800's? Along what lines, and why so, were his doctrines formulated?
   
   
2. Show the basic errors of Joseph Smith and his movement, which led them only further down the pathway of error and deception. How does this become a warning for us today?
   
   
3. List some of the initial concerns of the early Darbyite "Brethren" in their return to simplicity and restoration. How does their end contradict their beginning?
   
   
4. What current widely held doctrine of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ do we owe to the visionary Irvingites?
   
   
5. Discuss what ultimately happened to the "Church of Christ" restoration movement which, in fact, contradicted its founding principles.
   
   
6. What emphasis and movement sprang from the ministry of Charles G. Finney and those with him?
   
   
7. What caused the fracturing of Methodism and how was this advantageous to the ongoing renewal and restoration of the Church?
   
   
8. In what way was the Civil War a judgment from a holy God? Describe briefly the birth of the Black American Church.
   
   
9. Name some of the great evangelical preachers of the late 1800's.
   
   
10. Of what is Karl Marx' philosophy the great counterfeit? What negative effect sprang from Charles Darwin's conjectures? What accumulated effect did these influences of materialism and skepticism have on Christian faith and doctrine?
    
    
11. What instrument was raised up to combat theological liberalism and modernism? What are its basic tenets?
    
    
12. In the revival of errors and extremes, what nineteenth-century counterparts do we find for the following ancient errors: Montanism, Origen's Universalism, Judaism, Gnosticism, Arianism?
    
    
13. What two significant additions to Roman Catholic dogma come out of the 1800's? Discuss the impact of the latter of these two on believers in the twentieth century.
    
    
14. What, throughout the 1800's, became the instrument of the Holy Spirit to prepare the Church for the twentieth-century Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit and the fuller renewal, revival and restoration of the Body of Christ on the earth?