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A Daily Office Book for all members of the congregation - including
adult confirmation candidates. Arranged a page-a-day for a year, it
provides an opening prayer, Psalm verses, Old and New Testament
readings, and new prayers based on the readings, together with a
31-day cycle of intercessions.
How do Filipino Baptists who sing in English, quote from James
Dobson, and download sermon illustrations from Alabama understand
themselves, and their faith, as "local?" Comparing four
congregations of Southern Baptists in the Philippines, Howell
argues that Christianity "becomes" a local context as aspects of
daily life are brought together with the obviously borrowed
elements of the faith. This book moves away from the split of
"global" and "local" to find out how Southern Baptists are able to
create a "transcendent locality." Told in rich ethnographic detail,
"Christianity in the Local Context" argues that Filipino Baptists
are actively constructing themselves in terms of a global faith
that they have made their own.
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Seer
(Hardcover)
Jim Goll
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R811
Discovery Miles 8 110
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English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism,
politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and
consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world.
However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a
general decline. This book utilises the motif of Christendom to
illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital
and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship
between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally
explored. Each chapter seeks to unpack a particular historical
moment in which the relations of sacred and mundane are on display.
Beginning with the work of Bede, before focusing on the Anglo
Norman settlement of England, the Tudor period, and the
establishment of the church in the American and Australian
colonies, Anglicanism is shown to consistently be a
religio-political tradition. This approach opens up a different set
of categories for the study of contemporary Anglicanism and its
debates about the notion of the church. It also opens up fresh ways
of looking at religious conflict in the modern world and within
Christianity. This is a fresh exploration of a major facet of
Western religious culture. As such, it will be of significant
interest to scholars working in Religious History and Anglican
Studies, as well as theologians with an interest in Western
Ecclesiology.
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Calvin@500
(Hardcover)
Richard R. Topping, John A. Vissers
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R961
Discovery Miles 9 610
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This is the first full biography of James Rendel Harris
(1852-1941), Bible and patristic scholar, manuscript collector,
Quaker theologian, devotional writer, traveller, folklorist, and
relief worker. Drawing on published and unpublished sources
gathered in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, many of
which were previously unknown, Alessandro Falcetta tells the story
of Harris's life and works set against the background of the
cultural and political life of contemporary Britain. Falcetta
traces the development of Harris's career from Cambridge to
Birmingham, the story of his seven journeys to the Middle East, and
of his many campaigns, from religious freedom to conscientious
objection. The book focuses upon Harris's innovative contributions
in the field of textual and literary criticism, his acquisitions of
hundreds of manuscripts from the Middle East, his discoveries of
early Christian works - in particular the Odes of Solomon - his
Quaker beliefs and his studies in the cult of twins. His enormous
output and extensive correspondence reveal an indefatigable genius
in close contact with the most famous scholars of his time, from
Hort to Harnack, Nestle, the 'Sisters of Sinai', and Frazer.
This book is a lively and accessible study of English religious
life during the century of the Reformation. It draws together a
wide range of recent research and makes extensive use of colourful
contemporary evidence. The author explores the involvement of
ordinary people within, alongside and beyond the church, covering
topics such as liturgical practice, church office, relations with
the clergy, festivity, religious fellowships, cheap print,
'magical' religion and dissent. The result is a distinctive
interpretation of the Reformation as it was experienced by English
people, and the strength, resourcefulness and flexibility of their
religion emerges as an important theme.
Will the British retain the monarchy and the English church
establishment into the 21st century? The preservation of the
monarchy and of the establishment of the church of England is a
matter that cuts deep in fact and theory. The monarchy and the
church are symbols of civil liberty, and as such they carry the
freight of British national identity. Yet it is difficult to take
those institutions seriously now because Britons give too little
consideration to serious reforms of any kind for the monarchy or
the church. This book suggests possible reforms.
Brian Beck has had a long and distinguished career in Methodist
studies, having additionally served as President of the UK
Methodist Conference and helped lead the international Oxford
Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. This book is the first
time that Beck's seminal work on Methodism has been gathered
together. It includes eighteen essays from the last twenty-five
years, covering many different aspects of Methodist thought and
practice. This collection is divided into two main sections. Part I
covers Methodism's heritage and its implications, while Part II
discusses wider issues of Methodism's identity. The chapters
themselves examine the work of key figures, such as John Wesley and
J. E. Rattenbury, as well as past and present forms of Methodist
thought and practice. As such, this book is important reading for
any scholar of Methodism as well as students and academics of
religious studies and theology more generally.
This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field
of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism,
and reform to investigate texts written in North America about
girls, for girls, and by girls. Responding both to the intellectual
excitement generated by the rise of girlhood studies, as well as to
the call by recent scholars to recognize the significance of
religion as a meaningful category in the study of
nineteenth-century literature and culture, this collection locates
evangelicalism at the center of its inquiry into girlhood.
Contributors draw on a wide range of texts, including canonical
literature by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, and Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, and overlooked archives such as US Methodist Sunday
School fiction, children's missionary periodicals, and the
Christian Recorder, the flagship newspaper of the African Methodist
Episcopal (AME) Church. These essays investigate representations of
girlhood that engage, codify, and critique normative Protestant
constructions of girlhood. Contributors examine girlhood in the
context of reform, revealing the ways in which Protestantism at
once constrained and enabled female agency. Drawing on a range of
critical perspectives, including African American Studies,
Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Material Culture Studies,
this volume enriches our understanding of nineteenth-century
childhood by focusing on the particularities of girlhood, expanding
it beyond that of the white able-bodied middle-class girl and
attending to the intersectionality of identity and religion.
This book considers three defining movements driven from London and
within the region that describe the experience of the Church of
England in New England between 1686 and 1786. It explores the
radical imperial political and religious change that occurred in
Puritan New England following the late seventeenth-century
introduction of a new charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the
Anglican Church in Boston and the public declaration of several
Yale 'apostates' at the 1722 college commencement exercises. These
events transformed the religious circumstances of New England and
fuelled new attention and interest in London for the national
church in early America. The political leadership, controversial
ideas and forces in London and Boston during the run-up to and in
the course of the War for Independence, was witnessed by and
affected the Church of England in New England. The book appeals to
students and researchers of English History, British Imperial
History, Early American History and Religious History.
The Puritans of seventeenth century England have been blamed for
everything from the English civil war to the rise of capitalism.
But who were the Puritans of Stuart England? Were they apostles of
liberty, who fled from persecution to the New World? Or were they
intolerant fanatics, intent on bringing godliness to Stuart
England? This study provides a clear narrative of the rise and fall
of the Puritans across the troubled seventeenth century. Their
story is placed in context by analytical chapters, which describe
what the Puritans believed and how they organised their religious
and social life. Quoting many contemporary sources, including
diaries, plays and sermons, this is a vivid and comprehensible
account, drawing on the most recent scholarship. Readers will find
this book an indispensable guide, not only to the religious history
of seventeenth century England, but also to its political and
social history.
Hymnody is widely recognised as a central tenet of Methodism's
theological, doctrinal, spiritual, and liturgical identity.
Theologically and doctrinally, the content of the hymns has
traditionally been a primary vehicle for expressing Methodism's
emphasis on salvation for all, social holiness, and personal
commitment, while particular hymns and the communal act of
participating in hymn singing have been key elements in the
spiritual lives of Methodists. An important contribution to the
history of Methodism, British Methodist Hymnody argues that the
significance of hymnody in British Methodism is best understood as
a combination of its official status, spiritual expression, popular
appeal, and practical application. Seeking to consider what, when,
how, and why Methodists sing, British Methodist Hymnody examines
the history, perception, and practice of hymnody from Methodism's
small-scale eighteenth-century origins to its place as a worldwide
denomination today.
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