Workshop 2: Charles Chauncy

In This Section

• Introduction

  And let me tell you, if you have indeed been renewed in the spirit of your minds, it will [show] it self in your lives. — Charles Chauncy...
• Workshop-at-a-Glance

  Activity Minutes Opening 5 Activity 1: Four Human Capacities 20 Activity 2: Introducing Charles Chauncy 25 Activity 3: Testing Chauncy's...
• Spiritual Preparation

  Reflect on the following questions, looking for connections between your theology and Chauncy's. You may wish to write your reflections in...
• Opening

  Materials for Activity Small worship table and cloth Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle A copy of Singing the...
• Activity 1: Four Human Capacities

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Timepiece (minutes) Participant journals Variety of writing and drawing implements...
• Activity 2: Introducing Charles Chauncy

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Newsprint sheet listing the four categories of experience (Activity 1) Story, "...
• Activity 3: Testing Chauncy's Ideas

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Participant journals Variety of writing and drawing implements Preparation for Activity...
• Activity 4: Reflecting on Personal Experience

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Participant journals Variety of writing and drawing implements Timepiece (minutes)...
• Closing

  Materials for Activity Small worship table and cloth Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle A copy of Singing the...
• Leader Reflection and Planning

  After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions...
• Taking It Home

  And let me tell you, if you have indeed been renewed in the spirit of your minds, it will [show] it self in your lives. — Charles Chauncy (...
• Introducing Charles Chauncy

  Charles Chauncy was the leading opponent of the Great Awakening, the Protestant evangelical movement that swept through the British North...
• Handout 1: Chauncy's Four Categories of Experience

  By Charles Chauncy. The Four Categories First: Sensations For traditional Christians like Chauncy, spiritual awakening is prompted by the...
• Handout 2: From A Sermon on the Out-Pouring of the Holy Ghost

  Charles Chauncy preached this sermon May 13, 1742, at the First Church of Boston. Printed by T. Fleet, for D. Henchman and S. Eliot in...
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  Leader Resource 1: Charles Chauncy Portrait
• Leader Resource 2: Chauncy's Theology in the Congregation

  This is a 30-minute activity. Invite participants to explore ways Chauncy's theology might illuminate the place of spirituality in your...
• Leader Resource 3: Engaging as Religious Professionals

  This is a 30-minute activity. You may wish to write reflection questions on newsprint, and post. Invite participants to reflect on the...
• Find Out More

  Edward M. Griffin, Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980). Charles H. Lippy,...