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In twenty-two simple yet profound reflections, seasoned minister,
Mark Belletini, explores the many and varied forms of grief. His
honest, poetic essays serve as a prism, revealing the distinct
colours and manifestations of grief in our lives. He addresses the
way we respond to the loss of people in our lives, loss of love,
loss of focus and loss of the familiar - understanding that grief
is as much a part of our lives as our breathing. Belletini uses
specific and personal stories to open up to the universal
experience. NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY is a gift of awareness, showing
how the shades of grief serve our deepest needs.
The letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) illuminate the career
and opinions of one of the most prominent and controversial
clergymen of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His
petitions for liberalism within the Church of England in 1772-3,
his subsequent resignation from the church and his foundation of a
separate Unitarian chapel in London in 1774 all provoked profound
debate in the political as well as the ecclesiastical world. His
chapel became a focal point for the theologically and politically
disaffected and during the 1770s and early 1780s attracted the
interest of many critics of British policy towards the American
colonies. Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price
were among Lindsey's many acquaintances.BR The second and final
volume of this edition covers the period from the regency crisis
and the early stages of the French Revolution to Lindsey's death
nineteen years later, at the height of the Napoleonic War. His
letters from this period reveal in depth Lindsey's central role in
the formation of Unitarianism as a distinctive denomination, his
involvement in movements for religious and political reform, his
close friendship with Joseph Priestley and the tribulations of
dissenters during the 1790s. From his vantage point in London,
Lindsey was a well-informed and well-connected observer of the
responses in Britain to the French Revolution and the war of the
1790s, and he provides a lucid commentary on the political,
literary and theological scene. As with Volume I, the letters are
fully annotated and are accompanied by a full contextual
introduction. G.M. DITCHFIELD is Professor of Eighteenth-Century
History, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed explains central facets of the
Mormon faith and way of life for those wishing to gain a clearer
understanding of this rapidly growing world religion. As The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to grow in the
United States and especially in other countries (with a total
membership of over 15 million, more than 50% of which is outside
the US), and as theologians and church leaders wrestle with whether
Mormonism is in fact a valid expression of modern Christianity,
this distinctive religious tradition has become increasingly an
object of interest and inquiry. This book is the ideal companion to
the study of this perplexing and often misunderstood religion.
Covering historical aspects, this guide takes a careful look at the
whole of Mormonism, its tenets and practices, as well as providing
an insight into a Mormon life.
It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge
rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church
of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian
orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious
identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may
have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate
Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind
of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of
affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks
for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to
more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by
appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search
for unity led him to desire and synthesize the "warmth" of heart
religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the "light" of rationalism
(symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church
of England, being the most chastened of the movement, offered a
fitting place from which this union of warmth and light could
emerge. His religious identity not only included many of the
defining Anglican Evangelical beliefs, such as an emphasis on
original sin and the New Birth, but he also shared common polemical
opponents, appropriated evangelical literary genres, developed a
spirituality centered on the common evangelical emphases of prayer
and introspection, and joined Evangelicals in rejecting baptismal
regeneration. When placed in a chronological context, Coleridge's
form of Christian orthodoxy developed in conversation with Anglican
Evangelicals; moreover, this relationship with Anglican
Evangelicalism likely helped facilitate his return to the Church of
England. Corbin not only demonstrates the similarities between
Coleridge's relationship to a form of evangelicalism with which
most people have little familiarity, but also offers greater
insight into the complexities and tensions of religious identity in
late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain as a whole.
How does one become 'righteous among the Nations'? In the case of
Henri Nick (1868-1954) and Andre Trocme (1901-1971), two French
Protestant pastors who received the title for their acts of
solidarity toward persecuted Jews, it was because they had been
immersed, from an early age, in the discourses and practices of
social Christianity. Focussing on the lives of these two remarkable
figures of twentieth-century Christianity, Revivalism and Social
Christianity is the first study in English on the Social Gospel in
French Protestantism. Chalamet presents a genealogy of the
movement, from its emergence in the last decades of the nineteenth
century to its high point during World War II, in Le
Chambon-sur-Lignon, where Trocme and many local people rescued
hundreds of Jewish refugees. As social Christians who prayed and
worked for the coming of God's kingdom on earth in the midst of a
society ravaged by two world wars, Henri Nick and Andre Trocme
combined a deep revivalist faith with a concern for the concrete
conditions in which people live.
A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed
by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on 4 November 2019. In a
massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were
killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of
the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons whose
forebears broke from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and settled in Mexico when polygamy was outlawed. In The
Colony, the best-selling investigative journalist Sally Denton
picks up where initial reporting on the killings left off, and in
the process tells the violent history of the LeBaron clan and their
homestead, from the first polygamist emigration to Mexico in the
1880s to the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s to the
family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult. Drawing on
sources within Colonia LeBaron itself, Denton creates a mesmerising
work of investigative journalism in the tradition of Under the
Banner of Heaven and Going Clear.
The purpose of this study, first published in 1990, is to
investigate the Americanization of an immigrant church in rural
North America. The study focuses on General Conference Mennonites
who came from Russia and east Europe to settle in central Kansas in
1874. The Americanization of a Rural Immigrant Church will be of
interest to students of American and rural history.
Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have
increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young
people. This book investigates the relationships between
evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly
on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella
Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in
evangelical activities by Christians' discourses, and how the
discourses challenge the divide between the 'secular' and the
'sacred' in the Western culture. Unlike other existing books on the
relationships between music cultures and religion, which
predominantly discuss the cultural implications of such phenomenon,
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture examines the notion of
'spirituality' in contemporary popular electronic dance music.
Lau's emphasis on the sonic qualities of electronic dance music
opens the door for future research about the relationships between
aural properties of electronic dance music and religious
discourses. With three case studies conducted in the cultural hubs
of electronic dance music - Bristol, Ibiza and New York - the
monograph can also be used as a guidebook for ethnographic research
in popular music.
First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive
fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth
ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems, organizational
structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose
encountered. The study is centred around Christian schooling as a
method of socialisation. Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the
development of the Christian School Movement in the latter half of
the twentieth century, it examines the kinds of educational
alternatives evangelicals have structured for their children.
Moving beyond the issue of schooling itself, it analyses the
interactions among schooling, ideology, economic structures and the
nature of work in contemporary American society, and explores how
people relate to one another within the church-family-school
network. It addresses the provocative question of why
evangelicalism, a self-proclaimed conservative, reactionary
movement, held so much appeal for so many Americans at the time of
publication. This work will be of particular interest to those
studying education and religion and education in the U. S. A.
A war hereo and successful young minister in Edinburgh during the
1920s, George MacLeod shocked his many admirers by taking a post in
Govan, a poor and depressed area of Glasgow, and moving inexorably
towards socialism and pacifism during the depression years. It was
during this time that he embarked on the rebuilding of the ancient
abbey on the Isle of Iona, taking with him unemployed craftsmen
from the shipyards of the Clyde and trainee ministers, whom he
persuaded to work as labourers. Out of this was the Iona Community.
Ask the perfect questions and receive answers full of wisdom with
this easy-to-use guide. Learn from your parents the time honored
traditions and habits that have made them who they are today,
including their views on spirituality, what they learned in their
youth, how they feel about parenting, and much more! With over 300
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better.
Many twenty-first-century evangelical charismatics in Britain are
looking for a faith that works. They want to experience the
miraculous in terms of healings and Godsent financial provision.
Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent
charismatic churches led by those who are perceived to have special
insights and to teach principles that will help believers
experience the miraculous. But all is not rosy in this promised
paradise, and when people are not healed or they remain poor they
are often told that it is because they did not have enough faith.
This study discovers the origin of the principles that are taught
by some charismatic leaders. Glyn Ackerley identifies them as the
same ideas that are taught by the positive confession, health,
wealth, and prosperity movement, originating in the United States.
The origins of the ideas are traced back to New Thought metaphysics
and its background philosophies of subjective idealism and
pragmatism. These principles were imported into the UK through
contact between British leaders and those influenced by American
"word of faith" teachers. Glyn Ackerley explains the persuasiveness
of such teachers by examining case studies, suggesting their
"miracles" may well have social and psychological explanations
rather than divine origins.
Published in 1905: This book discusses Evangelism and Christianity.
This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of
Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its
inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today.
The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of
Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and
Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad
patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great
impact of the Evangelical movement on nineteenth-century Britain,
accounts for its resurgence since the Second World War and argues
that developments in the ideas and attitudes of the movement were
shaped most by changes in British culture. The contemporary
interest in the phenomenon of Fundamentalism, especially in the
United States, makes the book especially timely.
Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address
a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible?
Was traditional Christian teaching about God, humanity, sin and
salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith?
Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical
congregation in Northampton, England, and ran a training academy
for Dissenters which prepared men for pastoral ministry. Philip
Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent examines his
theology and philosophy in the context of these and other issues of
his day and explores the leadership that he provided in evangelical
Dissent in the first half of the eighteenth century. Offering a
fresh look at Doddridge's thought, the book provides a criticial
examination of the accepted view that Doddridge was influenced in
his thinking primarily by Richard Baxter and John Locke. Exploring
the influence of other streams of thought, from John Owen and other
Puritan writers to Samuel Clarke and Isaac Watts, as well as
interaction with contemporaries in Dissent, the book shows
Doddridge to be a leader in, and shaper of, an evangelical Dissent
which was essentially Calvinistic in its theology, adapted to the
contours and culture of its times.
The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages
with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior,
preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that
might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking
place in isolation. Evangelicalism introduced new features to the
good death, with its focus on conversion, sanctification and an
intimate relationship with Jesus. Scholarship focused on
mid-nineteenth-century evangelical Nonconformist beliefs about
death and the afterlife is sparse. This book fills the gap,
contributing an understanding not only of death but of the history
of Methodist and evangelical Nonconformist piety, theology, social
background and literary expression in mid-nineteenth-century
England. A good death was as central to Methodism as conversion and
holiness. Analyzing over 1,200 obituaries, Riso reveals that while
the last words of the dying pointed to a timeless experience of
hope in the life to come, the obituaries reflect changing attitudes
towards death and the afterlife among nineteenth-century
evangelical Nonconformist observers who looked increasingly to
earthly existence for the fulfillment of hopes. Exploring tensions
in Nonconformist allegiance to both worldly and spiritual matters,
this book offers an invaluable contribution to death studies,
Methodism, and Evangelical theology.
Brigham Young was one of the most influential-and
controversial-Mormon leaders in American history. An early follower
of the new religion, he led the cross-continental migration of the
Mormon people from Illinois to Utah, where he built a vast
religious empire that was both revolutionary and authoritarian,
radically different from yet informed by the existing culture of
the U.S. With his powerful personality and sometimes paradoxical
convictions, Young left an enduring stamp on both his church and
the region, and his legacy remains active today. In a lively,
concise narrative bolstered by primary documents, and supplemented
by a robust companion website, David Mason tells the dynamic story
of Brigham Young, and in the process, illuminates the history of
the LDS Church, religion in America, and the development of the
American west. This book will be a vital resource for anyone
seeking to understand the complex, uniquely American origins of a
church that now counts over 15 million members worldwide.
In discussions of worship, the term 'participation' covers a lot of
ground. It refers not only to concrete acts in gathered liturgy,
but also to some of the loftiest claims of Christian theology. In
this book, Alan Rathe probes the ways in which North American
evangelicals have in recent years regarded the landscape of
participation. Rathe presents a broad review of evangelical worship
literature through a lens borrowed from medieval theology. This
brings into surprising focus not only evangelical understandings
but also evangelical identities and the historical traditions they
reflect, and offers fresh perspectives on such current theological
concerns as God's triunity, missio Dei, and the practical theology
of participation. Offering a fresh contribution to a young but
important discipline, the liturgically-informed study of
evangelical worship practice, this book reconnects the evangelical
tradition to the 'Great Tradition' and in the process
re-appropriates classic concepts that are full of promise for
contemporary ecumenical dialogue.
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