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More than at any time in the past, Roman Catholics &
evangelicals are working together.They are standing shoulder to
shoulder against social evils. They are joining across
denominational boundaries in renewal movements. And many
evangelicals are finding the history, tradition, and grandeur of
the Roman Catholic Church appealing. This newfound rapport has
caused many evangelical leaders and laypeople to question the
age-old disagreements that have divided Protestants and Catholics:
Aren't we all saying the same thing in different language?The Roman
Catholic Controversy is an absorbing look at current views of
tradition and Scripture, the Papacy, the Mass, Purgatory,
indulgences, and Marian doctrine. James White affirms that
evangelicals and Catholics share common ground on some points. Yet
there are crucial differences that remain regarding the Christian
life--and the heart of the Gospel itself--that cannot be ignored.
We are the people is a popular Loyalist slogan in Northern Ireland
- a statement of loyalty, identity and devotion to and from
Ireland's Protestants. This collection examines the meaning behind
this legend, providing a critique of the issues which affect this
heterogeneous community.
Historians have debated how the clergy's support for political
resistance during the American Revolution should be understood,
often looking to influence outside of the clergy's tradition. This
book argues, however, that the position of the patriot clergy was
in continuity with a long-standing tradition of Protestant
resistance. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Justifying
Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political
Resistance, 1750-1776 answers the question of why so many American
clergyman found it morally and ethically right to support
resistance to British political authority by exploring the
theological background and rich Protestant history available to the
American clergy as they considered political resistance and
wrestled with the best course of action for them and their
congregations. Gary L. Steward argues that, rather than deviating
from their inherited modes of thought, the clergy who supported
resistance did so in ways that were consistent with their own
theological tradition.
Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'.
Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or
uncomplicated. The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the
emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of
Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history
of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history,
Christianity in Ireland has lurched from crisis to crisis.
Surviving the hostility of earlier religious cultures and the
depredations of Vikings, evolving in the face of Gregorian
reformation in the 11th and 12th centuries and more radical
protestant renewal from the 16th century, Christianity has shaped
in foundational ways how the Irish have understood themselves and
their place in the world. And the Irish have shaped Christianity,
too. Their churches have staffed some of the religion's most
important institutions and developed some of its most popular
ideas. But the Irish church, like the island, is divided. After
1922, a border marked out two jurisdictions with competing
religious politics. The southern state turned to the Catholic
church to shape its social mores, until it emerged from an
experience of sudden-onset secularization to become one of the most
progressive nations in Europe. The northern state moved more slowly
beyond the protestant culture of its principal institutions, but in
a similar direction of travel. In 2021, fifteen hundred years on
from the birth of Saint Columba, Christian Ireland appears to be
vanishing. But its critics need not relax any more than believers
ought to despair. After the failure of several varieties of
religious nationalism, what looks like irredeemable failure might
actually be a second chance. In the ruins of the church, new
Columbas and Patricks shape the rise of another Christian Ireland.
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