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American Protestants and TV in the 1950s - Responses to a New Medium (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Martin E. Marty American Protestants and TV in the 1950s - Responses to a New Medium (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Martin E. Marty; M Rosenthal
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While television today is taken for granted, Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Protestant leaders--both mainstream and evangelical--began to think carefully about what television meant for their communities and its potential impact on their work. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users in an engaging book suitable for general readers and students alike.

Deadly Virtue - Fort Caroline and the Early Protestant Roots of American Whiteness (Hardcover): Heather Martel Deadly Virtue - Fort Caroline and the Early Protestant Roots of American Whiteness (Hardcover)
Heather Martel
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Deadly Virtue, Heather Martel argues that the French Protestant attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s significantly shaped the developing concept of race in sixteenth-century America. Telling the story of the short-lived French settlement of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, Martel reveals how race, gender, sexuality, and Christian morality intersected to form the foundations of modern understandings of whiteness. Equipped with Calvinist theology and humoral science, an ancient theory that the human body is subject to physical change based on one's emotions and environment, French settlers believed their Christian love could transform the cultural, spiritual, and political allegiances of Native Americans. But their conversion efforts failed when the colony was wiped out by the Spanish. Martel explains that the French took this misfortune as a sign of God's displeasure with their collaborative ideals, and from this historical moment she traces the growth of separatist colonial strategies. Through the logic of Calvinist predestination, Martel argues, colonists came to believe that white, Christian bodies were beautiful, virtuous, entitled to wealth, and chosen by God. The history of Fort Caroline offers a key to understanding the resonances between religious morality and white supremacy in America today.

The Anthropology of Protestantism - Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen (Hardcover): Joseph Webster The Anthropology of Protestantism - Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen (Hardcover)
Joseph Webster
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrowing in from the broader context of the north Atlantic, through northern Europe, to Britain, northeast Scotland, and finally the fishing village of Gamrie, this anthropology of Protestantism examines millennialist faith and economic crisis. Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates (occurring within the ostensibly secular context of contemporary Scotland) also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies. By chronicling how these individuals experience life as "enchanted," this book explores the global processes of religious conversion, economic crisis, and political struggle.

Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (Hardcover, New): Robert Benedetto, Betty K. Walker Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (Hardcover, New)
Robert Benedetto, Betty K. Walker
R2,558 Discovery Miles 25 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This guide serves as a valuable introduction to the documentary heritage and tradition of the third largest group of protestants in the southern United States. A companion to Harold Prince's A Presbyterian Bibliography (1983), it locates and describes the unpublished papers of PCUS ministers. It also documents the larger southern tradition by including selected materials from the antebellum period and from other Presbyterian denominations. The result is a listing of resources for the study of the PCUS as well as southern Presbyterianism. It aims to promote and encourage research in Presbyterian history; to make files, diaries, sermons, minutes, letters more intelligible; and finally, to emphasize the continuing relevance of these materials in contemporary church life. Robert Benedetto's forty-eight-page introduction includes a survey of nine subject areas: theology, education, church and society, international missions, national missions, women, racial ethnic ministries, ecumenical relations, and worship and music. Each area highlights major research and provides a concise orientation to the life and mission of the denomination. Each survey is followed by a brief listing of manuscript materials. The Guide itself includes manuscript collections from the Department of History (Montreat) and other repositories. This thorough volume concludes with a bibliography of PCUS reference works and a complete name and subject index.

On the Great Reunion Ingathering Journey - A Study for the Journey (Hardcover): Susan E. Craig On the Great Reunion Ingathering Journey - A Study for the Journey (Hardcover)
Susan E. Craig
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lot Smith - Mormon Pioneer and American Frontiersman (Hardcover): Carmen R Smith, Talana S Hooper Lot Smith - Mormon Pioneer and American Frontiersman (Hardcover)
Carmen R Smith, Talana S Hooper
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Secular Spectacle - Performing Religion in a Southern Town (Hardcover, New): Chad E. Seales The Secular Spectacle - Performing Religion in a Southern Town (Hardcover, New)
Chad E. Seales
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E. Seales argues that southern whites cultivated their own regional brand of American secularism and employed it, alongside public religious performances, to claim and regulate public spaces. Over the course of the twentieth century, they wielded secularism to segregate racialized bodies, to challenge local changes resulting from civil rights legislation, and to respond to the arrival of Latino migrants. Combining ethnographic and archival sources, Seales studies the themes of industrialization, nationalism, civility, privatization, and migration through the local history of Siler City; its neighborhood patterns, Fourth of July parades, Confederate soldiers, minstrel shows, mock weddings, banking practices, police shootings, Good Friday processions, public protests, and downtown mural displays. Offering a spatial approach to the study of performative religion, The Secular Spectacle presents a generative narrative of secularism from the perspective of evangelical Protestants in the American South.

The London Friends' Meetings: With Introduction, Illustrations and Index (Hardcover, Facsimile reprint of 1869 ed):... The London Friends' Meetings: With Introduction, Illustrations and Index (Hardcover, Facsimile reprint of 1869 ed)
William Beck, T. Frederick Ball; Edited by Simon Dixon, Peter Daniels
R1,343 Discovery Miles 13 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Specialist historians have long known the usefulness of this 1869 book, now more easily available for anyone interested in the history of London, its buildings, and its religious and social world, in an enhanced edition. William Beck was a Quaker architect, and Frederick Ball grew up in the rambling old Devonshire House building, centre of British Quakerism at the time. Their survey of London Quaker history was part of a mid-19th century awakening of Friends to the significance of their own past. This facsimile reprint contains a new introduction, by Simon Dixon PhD, author of the thesis "Quaker Communities in London 1667-c1714," and Quaker writer and editor Peter Daniels. Where possible, illustrations have been inserted of the buildings described in the book, and there is a comprehensive new index.

The Methodists (Hardcover, New): James Kirby, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe The Methodists (Hardcover, New)
James Kirby, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe
R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although this work takes proper notice of its origins in John Wesley's 18th-century movement in England, it assumes that in America the people called Methodists developed in distinctive fashion. The volume examines this American version, its organization, leadership, and form of training and incorporating new members. The authors treat Methodism as defined by conferences bound together by a commitment to episcopal leadership and animated by various forms of lay piety. Offering a fresh perspective based on sound, modern scholarship, this study will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in church history. American Methodists early organized into conferences that defined Methodist space and time and served as the locus of power. At the same time, they created a strong episcopal form of church government, subject to the body of preachers in conference, but free to lead and direct the organization as a whole. This mission was clear, well understood, and suited to the ethos of a growing America--"to spread scriptural holiness in the land and to create a desire to flee from the wrath to come." By the middle of the 19th century, Methodists in America had grown from an insignificant sect to America's largest Protestant group. Essential to that growth were structures and processes of lay involvement, particularly class meetings and Sunday schools.

Knowing God in the Last Days - Commentary on 2 Peter (Hardcover): Mark H Hoeksema Knowing God in the Last Days - Commentary on 2 Peter (Hardcover)
Mark H Hoeksema
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Holy Mavericks - Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (Hardcover): Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Shayne Lee Holy Mavericks - Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (Hardcover)
Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Shayne Lee
R2,638 Discovery Miles 26 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joel Osteen, Paula White, T. D. Jakes, Rick Warren, and Brian McLaren pastor some the largest churches in the nation, lead vast spiritual networks, write best-selling books, and are among the most influential preachers in American Protestantism today. Spurred by the phenomenal appeal of these religious innovators, sociologist Shayne Lee and historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere investigate how they operate and how their style of religious expression fits into America's cultural landscape. Drawing from the theory of religious economy, the authors offer new perspectives on evangelical leadership and key insights into why some religious movements thrive while others decline.

Holy Mavericks provides a useful overview of contemporary evangelicalism while emphasizing the importance of "supply-side thinking" in understanding shifts in American religion. It reveals how the Christian world hosts a culture of celebrity very similar to the secular realm, particularly in terms of marketing, branding, and publicity. Holy Mavericks reaffirms that religion is always in conversation with the larger society in which it is embedded, and that it is imperative to understand how those religious suppliers who are able to change with the times will outlast those who are not.

Doctinal and Controversial Treatises, Volume 12 (Hardcover): Rany L. Maddox Doctinal and Controversial Treatises, Volume 12 (Hardcover)
Rany L. Maddox
R1,906 R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Save R378 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first of three theological volumes, this volume is devoted tofour of John Wesley's foundational treatises on soteriology. These treatises include, first, Wesley s extract from the Homilies of the Church of England, which he published to convince his fellow Anglican clergy that the evangelical emphasis on believers experiencing a conscious assurance of God s pardoning love was consistent with this standard of Anglican doctrine. Next comes Wesley s extract of Richard Baxter s Aphorisms of Justification, aimed more at those who shared his evangelical emphasis, invoking this honored moderate Puritan to challenge antinomian conceptions of the doctrine of justification by faith. This is followed by Wesley s abridgement of the Shorter Catechism issued by the Westminster Assembly in his Christian Library, where he affirms broad areas of agreement with this standard of Reformed doctrine while quietly removing items with which he disagreed. The fourth item is Wesley s extended response to the Dissenter John Taylor on the doctrine of original sin, which highlights differences within the broad Arminian camp, with Wesley resisting a drift toward naively optimistic views of human nature that he discerned in Taylor. "

Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Jane Platt Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Jane Platt
R2,047 R1,929 Discovery Miles 19 290 Save R118 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.

His Blood Speaks (Paperback): Ginger Ziegler His Blood Speaks (Paperback)
Ginger Ziegler
R472 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R64 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies (Hardcover): Mark D. Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, Martyn Percy The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies (Hardcover)
Mark D. Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, Martyn Percy
R4,704 Discovery Miles 47 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian denomination and claims a membership of some 80 million members in about 164 countries. Given that there are only around two hundred countries in the world, this makes the churches of the Anglican Communion the most geographically widespread denomination after Roman Catholicism. The 44 essays in this volume embrace a wide range of academic disciplines: theological; historical; demography and geography; and different aspects of culture and ethics. They are united in their discussion of what is effectively a new inter-disciplinary subject which we have termed 'Anglican Studies'. At the core of this volume is the phenomenon of 'Anglicanism' as this is expressed in different places and in a variety of ways across the world. This Handbook covers a far broader set of topics from a wider range of perspectives than has been hitherto attempted in Anglican Studies. At the same time, it doesn't impose a particular theological or historical agenda. The contributions are drawn from across the spectrum of theological views and opinions. It shows that the unsettled nature of the polity is part of its own rich history; and many will see this as a somewhat lustrous tradition. In its comprehensive coverage, this volume is a valuable contribution to Anglican Studies and helps formulate a discipline that might perhaps promote dialogue and discussion across the Anglican world.

Jesus & the Restoration of Israel - A Critical Assessment of N.T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God (Paperback): Carey... Jesus & the Restoration of Israel - A Critical Assessment of N.T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God (Paperback)
Carey C. Newman; Edited by Carey C. Newman
R975 R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Save R159 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God is widely heralded as one of the most significant and brilliantly argued works in the current "third quest" of the historical Jesus. In this second volume of his multivolume investigation entitled Christian Origins and the Question of God, Wright uncovers a Jesus that most historians and believers have never met. Rooted and engaged in the soil of Israel's history, its first-century plight and its prophetic hope, Wright's portrait of Jesus has set new terms of discourse and debate. Through Wright's lens, familiar sayings and actions of Jesus have fresh meaning. But in the midst of all that is new, Wright also offers a profile of Jesus that bears striking lines of continuity with the Jesus of Christian belief and worship. This resemblance has captured the attention of confessing Christian biblical scholars and theologians. Wright's work thus far is of such consequence that it seemed timely and strategic to publish a scholarly engagement with his reconstruction of the historical Jesus. Like all works in progress, Wright's proposal is still under construction. But its cornerstone has been laid, the foundation has been formed, the pillars and walls are going up, and even if we cannot yet see how the ceiling, roof and parapets will look, there is quite enough to engage the minds of colleagues, critics and other curious onlookers. For the purposes of this book (and in keeping with IVP's own evangelical identity), editor Carey Newman invited scholars who are committed to Christian belief as it has been classically defined to engage Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God. Newman sets the stage with an introduction, and Craig Blomberg offers a critical and appreciative overview of Jesus and the Victory of God. Various facets of Wright's proposal are then investigated by contributors: Paul Eddy on Jesus as prophet, Messiah and embodiment of Yahweh Klyne Snodgrass on the parables Craig Evans on Israel under continuing exile Darrell Bock on the trial and death of Jesus Dale Allison on apocalyptic language Richard Hays on ethics Alister McGrath on the implications for evangelical theology Stephen Evans on methodological naturalism in historical biblical scholarship Luke Timothy Johnson on Wright's historiography To these essayists Wright extends his "grateful dialogue." He gives this spirited and illuminating reply to his interlocuters: "The high compliment of having a whole book devoted to the discussion of one's work is finely balanced by the probing, intelligent questions and by the occasional thud of a blunt instrument on the back of one's head. . . . Only once did I look up my lawyer's telephone number." After Wright takes his turn, his good friend and frequent partner in debate Marcus Borg offers his "appreciative disagreement." Newman then concludes the dialogue with his own reflections on moving from Wright's reconstruction of the historical Jesus to the church's Christ. A book assessing a scholar's work is usually an end-of-career event. But in this case interested readers can look forward with eager anticipation to Wright's next volume in Christian Origins and the Question of God--this one on the resurrection of Jesus.

The Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism Volume II (Hardcover): Robert D Preus The Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism Volume II (Hardcover)
Robert D Preus
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Analyzes the rise and decline of Lutheran orthodoxy.

The Road to Clarity - Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): E. Keller The Road to Clarity - Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
E. Keller
R1,573 Discovery Miles 15 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument, and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity.

Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement (Paperback): Rowan Strong, Carol Engelhardt Herringer Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement (Paperback)
Rowan Strong, Carol Engelhardt Herringer
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
All Glory to the Only Good God (Hardcover): Herman Hoeksema All Glory to the Only Good God (Hardcover)
Herman Hoeksema; Edited by David J Engelsma
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Protestant Scholasticism - Essays in Reassessment (Paperback): Carl Trueman, R.Scott Clark Protestant Scholasticism - Essays in Reassessment (Paperback)
Carl Trueman, R.Scott Clark
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Traditionally Protestant theology, between Luther's early reforming career and the dawn of the Enlightenment, has been seen in terms of decline and fall into the wastelands of rationalism and scholastic speculation. Editors Trueman and Clark challenge this perception in this transatlantic collection of eighteen essays covering: Luther and Calvin; Early Reformed Orthodoxy; the British Connection; From High Orthodoxy to Enlightenment; and the Rise of Lutheran Orthodoxy.

The Church of England in the First Decade of the 21st Century - Findings from the Church Times Surveys (Hardcover, 1st ed.... The Church of England in the First Decade of the 21st Century - Findings from the Church Times Surveys (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Andrew Village
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes two large surveys of clergy and lay people in the Church of England taken in 2001 and 2013. The period between the two surveys was one of turbulence and change, and the surveys offer a unique insight into how such change affected grassroots opinion on topics such as marriage, women's ordination, sexual orientation, and the leadership of the Church. Andrew Village analyzes each topic to show how opinion varied by sex, age, education, location, ordination, and church tradition. Shifts that occurred in the period between the two surveys are then examined, and the results paint a detailed picture of how beliefs and attitudes vary across the Church and have evolved over time. This work uncovers some unforeseen but important trends that will shape the trajectory of the Church in the years ahead.

Common Experience and the Accommodation of Differences (Hardcover): Bryce McProud Common Experience and the Accommodation of Differences (Hardcover)
Bryce McProud
R795 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Save R126 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wesley and Aldersgate - Interpreting Conversion Narratives (Hardcover): Mark K. Olson Wesley and Aldersgate - Interpreting Conversion Narratives (Hardcover)
Mark K. Olson
R4,369 Discovery Miles 43 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley's key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally. This book brings clarity to the impact this event had on Wesley over the course of his lifetime by closely examining all of Wesley's writings pertaining to Aldersgate and framing them within the wider context of contemporary conversion narratives. The central aim of this study is to establish Wesley's interpretation of his Aldersgate experience as it developed from its initial impressions on the night of 24 May 1738 to its mature articulation in the 1770s. By paying close attention to the language of his diaries, letters, journals, sermons, tracts and other writings, fresh insights into Wesley's own perspective are revealed. When these insights are brought into wider context of other conversion narratives in the Christian milieu in which Wesley worked and wrote, this book demonstrates that this single event contributed in significant ways to the ethos of the Methodist movement, and many other denominations, even up to the present day. This is a unique study of the conversion of one of history's most influential Christian figures, and the impact that such narratives still have on us today. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of Methodism, theology, religious history and religious studies more generally.

Studies in Scottish Church History (Hardcover): Alex Cheung Studies in Scottish Church History (Hardcover)
Alex Cheung
R5,134 Discovery Miles 51 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In these studies, Alec Cheyne explores the history of the churches of Scotland since the Reformation.Professor Cheyne looks especially at the leaders: among them Robert Rollock, Robert Leighton, William Carstares, Thomas Chalmers, John Tulloch, John Caird, Henry Drummond, John Baillie and Donald Baillie. He illuminates just how much change and diversity in thought, worship, government and culture these four hundred years have witnessed in the churches - far greater than has traditionally been supposed. He also describes the importance of the constant interaction between ecclesiastical and academic affairs, and the very wide influence of the churches on Scottish life as a whole.A significant work of Scottish history and reference.

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