≡
  • Home
  • Revival Histories
  • Revival Heroes
  • Revival Resources
  • Restoration
  • Media
    • Audio
    • Video
  • Shop
  • Contact

Evangelical Revivals

  • Revival Timelines
  • General
  • Pre-1700
  • 1725 on
  • 1792 on
  • 1830 on
  • 1857 0n
  • 1880 on
  • 1900 on
  • 20th Century
  • 21st Century

Pentecostal Revivals

  • General Introduction
  • American
  • South American
  • British
  • European

Neo-Pentecostal Revivals

  • General Introduction
  • Healing Revival 1947-1958
  • Latter Rain Revival
  • Charismatic Movement
  • Third Wave Revival
  • New Apostolic Reformation

33-1500

Peter Waldo

Peter Waldo
and others

16th Century

Martin Luther

Martin Luther
and others

17th Century

George Fox

George Fox
and others

18th Century

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards
and others

19th Century

Charles Finney

Charles Finney
and others

20th Century

Evan Roberts

Evan Roberts
and others

21st Century

Daniel Kolenda

Daniel Kolenda
and others

For Speakers

  • Revival Anecdotes
  • Revival Definitions
  • Revival Quotes
  • Revival Preaching

For Researchers

  • Revival Sermons
  • Study Papers
  • Newsletter Articles

For Revival Seekers

  • Personal Revival
  • Local Church Revival
  • Prayer for Revival
  • Revival Tips from History

The Restoration of the Church

  • Introduction to Restoration
  • The Biblical Basis for Restoration
  • The Need for Restoration
  • Restoration before the Reformation
  • The Reformation
  • Restoration from Reformation to end 19th Century
  • Restoration in 20th Century to today
  • Restoration the only basis for Unity

Restoration before the Reformation

Articles

≡

Introduction

  • The case for restoration
  • W. J. Pethybridge - The Lost Secret
  • The Best is Yet to Come - Arthur Wallis
  • Bryn Jones - Is Revival sufficient?

The Need for Restoration

  • The Decline of New Testament Christianity

Restoration: The Biblical Basis

  • The Biblical basis for Restoration
  • All Bible texts on 'Restoration'

Restoration to 1500

  • Restoration to 1500 - Introduction
  • Montanus and Montanism

The Reformation

  • The Reformation - Introduction

Reformation to 20th Century

  • Reformation to 20th Century

20th Century to Today

  • 20th Century to today - Introduction
  • Frank Bartleman: The Deeper Significance of Pentecost
  • Joseph Smale sermon on church restoration
  • Lost and Restored by Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Christian Unity

Coming Soon!

Peter Waldo

It has become customary amongst Protestant churches to date the beginning of a more Biblical Christianity from the Reformation in the 16th century, when Martin Luther published his Ninety-five Theses on October 31st, 1517.

Though the Reformation was undoubtedly an outstanding milestone in the history of the church, there were notable restorationists, men and movements, before the 16th century and far more afterwards,in both numbers and effectiveness. The Reformation was a predominantly a challenge to the Catholic Church and in particular to papal authority. It arose from what were perceived to be errors, abuses, and discrepancies within the Catholic Church. The Reformation triggered the start of Protestantism which created a new way of following Jesus Christ which was free from many unbiblical doctrines and man-made rules and traditions.

This section concentrates on the personalities and histories of pre-reformation believers who resisted contemporary trends of the perversion of doctrines and practices in the churches of their day. They represent thousands of true saints who were faithful to God’s word and resistant to the ungodly impositions that were gradually introduced over the centuries after the original apostles had departed from life on the earth. The majority of them were ostracised, persecuted and martyred.

This is a provisional list of restoration leaders from 100 A.D. to 1500. A.D. We will add more as time allows:

Montanus 135-170

Novatian/Novatianists c.250

Paulicans 650-872

Donatists 4th – 6th Century

Priscillian 340-385

Nestorius 386-450

Nestorians to 6th Century

Bogomils c. 850

Arnold of Brescia c. 1090 – June 1155

Cathars, Cathari 12th – 14th Centuries

Peter of Bruys 12th C

Henry of Cluny 12th C

Peter Waldo and the Waldenses 12-13 th C

Albigenses 13 th C

Francis of Assisi 13 th C

Wycliffe 14 th C

Lollards 14 th C

Jerome of Prague 15 th C

John Huss 15 th C

Savonarola 15 th C

Doubtless, there were many thousands more who were connected to these men and movements, but they remain nameless, recorded in heaven alone, as history remembers their leaders only. History is very sparse regarding these men and movements, as most of their own writings were destroyed and extant records were written by their persecutors. These commonly contained fabricated accusations, conceived to silence those who did not toe the party line – or, in these cases, did not agree with the extra-biblical teachings or corrupt practices of a backsliding church.

Needless to say, many of them would be heralded as orthodox if they were re-examined today, as many of them have throughout history, sometimes centuries after their execution.

When we prepare these biographies and histories they will appear in the left column of this page, in the dropdown menu called 'Restoration to 1500'

Revival Library