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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches
The French Revolution was the scene of much intellectual and social
upheaval. Its impact touched a wide range of subjects: the
relationship of the church to the state, social relationships,
science, literature, fashion, philosophy and theology. Although the
French Revolution's momentum was felt across Europe and North
America, it met a particularly interesting response in the
Netherlands, at that time the scene of a burgeoning neo-Calvinist
movement. In that context, the likes of Groen van Prinsterer,
Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck responded to the French
Revolution's ideals and influence in a variety of intellectual and
practical ways.This book approaches that Dutch response from a
range of historical and theological perspectives, and in so doing
explores the relationship between the French Revolution and the
development of neo-Calvinism. Beginning with historical portraits
of Bavinck and Kuyper in relation to the Revolution, the
perspectives offered also include, amongst others, the place of
multilingualism in neo-Calvinism and the Revolution, neo-Calvinist
and Revolutionary approaches to fashion, a dialogue between
Kuyperian theology and Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, and a
contemporary neo-Calvinist critique of French laicite. This book
forms part of a wider Project neo-Calvinism supported by the
Theologische Universiteit Kampen and the VU University Amsterdam.
This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South
African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during
South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which
institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape
government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future
benefit of the colony.
The so-called extra Calvinisticum-the doctrine that the incarnate
Son of God continued to exist beyond the flesh-was not invented by
John Calvin or Reformed theologians. If this is true, as is almost
universally acknowledged today, then why do scholars continue to
fixate almost exclusively on Calvin when they discuss this
doctrine? The answer to the "why" of this scholarly trend, however,
is not as important as correcting the trend. This volume expands
our vision of the historical functions and christological
significance of this doctrine by expounding its uses in Cyril of
Alexandria, Thomas Aquinas, Zacharias Ursinus, and in theologians
from the Reformation to the present. Despite its relative
obscurity, the doctrine that came to be known as the "Calvinist
extra" is a possession of the church catholic and a feature of
Christology that ought to be carefully appropriated in contemporary
reflection on the Incarnation.
Church officer training for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America. Materials also apply
to any reformed denominations using elders, deacons, sessions,
presbyteries, and synods.
The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in
Dante Alighieri's poetic works. In detail it discusses two works,
The Banquet and The Divine Comedy, and offers a view on politics,
faith and the universe of the medieval period. For modern people
that period with its debates, polemics and visions represents
something exceedingly remote, obscure and unknown. While admiring
Dante's poetic artistry, we often fail to recognize the
inspirations that permeated the works of medieval scholars and
poets. Although times are constantly changing, every generation has
to face the same fundamental questions of meaning, purpose and
value of human existence: Dante's cosmological and poetical picture
turns out to be surprisingly universal.
Ashley Cocksworth presents Karl Barth as a theologian who not only
produces a strong and vibrant theology of prayer, but also grounds
theology itself in the practice of prayer. Prayer and theology are
revealed to be integrally related in Barth's understanding of the
dogmatic task. Cocksworth provides careful analysis of a range of
key texts in Barth's thought in which the theme of prayer emerges
with particular interest. He analyzes: Barth's writings on the
Sabbath and uncovers an unexpected theology of contemplative
prayer; the doctrine of creation of the Church Dogmatics and
explores its prioritization of petitionary prayer; and the ethics
of the doctrine of reconciliation in which a 'turn to invocation'
is charted and the final 'resting place' of Barth's theology of
prayer is found. Through the theme of prayer fundamental questions
are asked about the relation of human agency to divine agency as
conceived by Barth, and new insights are offered into his
understandings of the nature and task of theology, pneumatology,
sin, baptism, religion, and sanctification. The result is a rich
engagement with Barth's theology of prayer, an advancements of
scholarship on Karl Barth, and a constructive contribution to the
theology of prayer.
In the European Enlightenments it was often argued that moral
conduct rather than adherence to certain theological doctrines was
the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that
this characteristically "enlightened" emphasis on conduct in
religion was less reliant on arguments from reason alone than is
commonly believed. In fact, the champions of the Scottish
Enlightenment were deeply skeptical of the power of unassisted
natural reason in achieving "enlightened" virtue and piety. They
advocated a practical program of "moral culture," in which revealed
religion was of central importance. Ahnert traces this to
theological controversies going back as far as the Reformation
concerning the key question of early modern theology, the
conditions of salvation. His findings present a new point of
departure for all scholars interested in the intersection of
religion and Enlightenment.
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So you think you're a Protestant? Can you tell me what you are
protesting? This is the question we all must ask ourselves.
Unfortunately, it is the question many seem to be without an answer
for. Take a look into history regarding the Roman Catholic Church
and the Reformed Protestant views of the doctrines of grace. It is
only when we know our past and our present that we can truly
understand the marvelous grace of God and how He has chosen to
display His love for us through a means that we can only partially
grasp this side of Heaven.
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