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This book offers a detailed analysis of one of the key episodes of
twentieth-century ecumenism, focusing on the efforts made to
reconcile the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great
Britain in the years since the First World War. Drawing on newly
available archives as well as on a broad range of historical,
theological, and liturgical expertise, the contributions explore
what was attempted, why success proved elusive, and how the quest
for unity was reconfigured into the twenty-first century. The
volume sets contemporary ecumenical ambitions in historical
context, explains the origins, course, and aftermath of the
Anglican-Methodist 'Conversations' of 1955-72, retrieves their
enduring global legacy, and explores the fraught nature of the
ecumenical quest. It will be of key interest to scholars with an
interest in ecumenism, Methodist studies, and church history.
Published to mark the 25th anniversary of Terry Waite's release
from captivity in November 1991
This book highlights the life and writings of an itinerant preacher
in John Wesley's Methodist Connexion, Thomas Wride (1733-1807).
Detailed studies of such rank and file preachers are rare, as
Methodist history has largely been written by and about its
leadership. However, Wride's ministry shows us that the development
of this worldwide movement was more complicated and uncertain than
many accounts suggest. Wride's attitude was distinctive. He was no
respecter of persons, freely criticising almost everyone he came
across, and in doing so exposing debates and tensions within both
Methodism and wider society. However, being so combative also led
him into conflict with the very movement he sought to promote.
Wride is an authentic, self-educated, and non-elite voice that
illuminates important features of Eighteenth-Century life well
beyond his religious activities. He sheds light on his
contemporaries' attitudes to issues such as the role of women,
attitudes towards and the practice of medicine, and the experience
and interpretation of dreams and supernatural occurrences. This is
a detailed insight into the everyday reality of being an
Eighteenth-Century Methodist minister. As such, this text will be
of interest to academics working in Methodist Studies and Religious
History, as well as Eighteenth-Century History more generally.
This book brings together philosophical and theological
perspectives on agapistic love. The aim of the text is to
illuminate the nature of unlimited love by distinct and integrative
approaches to the intersection of the divine and the human. Various
scientific approaches to human forms of love seem to shed light on
our nature as social beings. But to what extent are the natural
desires for affection, sexual love and friendship augmented,
revised, perfected or replaced by the gift of grace? In other
words, we can ask how is it that agape modifies or shapes the
natural loves? Diverse theological and moral traditions address the
question in quite startling contrast. Thomists follow the dictum
that 'Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it'. Lutherans
draw a sharp contrast between law and Gospel while Wesleyans see
charity as the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit. Some feminist
theorists see the idea of self-giving love as contrary to genuine
self-fulfilment while the neo-Kantians see love as a duty to
others, and some Kierkegaardians see the command to love as an
unusual manifestation of divine command ethics. These diverse
approaches, in light of contemporary research in the natural and
social sciences, can provide fertile ground for the exploration of
the intersection of human and divine love. To date, there is no
text available that brings scholars from various theological and
philosophical backgrounds together to engage in interdisciplinary
dialogue on this important and much neglected aspect of research
into the human and divine loves. This book offers a significant
attempt to remedy the situation.
This book examines the contributions, both intentional and
unintentional, of Nigerian Pentecostal churches and NGOs to
development, studying their development practices broadly in
relation to the intersecting spheres of politics, economics,
health, education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In sub-Saharan
Africa, Pentecostalism is fast becoming the dominant expression of
Christianity, but while the growth and civic engagement of these
churches has been well documented, their role in development has
received less attention. The Nigerian Pentecostal landscape is one
of the most vibrant in Africa. Churches are increasingly assuming
more prominent roles as they seek to address the social and moral
ills of contemporary society, often in fierce competition with
Islam for dominance in Nigerian public space. Some scholars suggest
that the combination of an enchanted worldview, an emphasis on
miracles and prosperity teaching, and a preoccupation with
evangelism discourages effective political engagement and militates
against development. However, Nigerian Pentecostalism and
Development argues that there is an emerging movement within
contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism which is becoming increasingly
active in development practices. This book goes on to explore the
increasingly transnational approach that churches take, often
seeking to build multicultural congregations around the globe, for
instance in Britain and the United States. Nigerian Pentecostalism
and Development: Spirit, Power, and Transformation will be of
considerable interest to scholars and students concerned with the
intersection between religion and development, and to development
practitioners and policy-makers working in the region.
Balthasar Hubmaier remains one of the most significant figures in
the radical reformation of the sixteenth century. A Pledge of Love
is close and thorough examination of Hubmaiers view of the
sacraments within the context of worship. This ground-breaking work
examines the distinctive theology of this important Anabaptist and
his possible influence upon others.
This textbook not only provides a historical overview of Mexican
American religious traditions but also focuses on society today.
Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas.
This is the first book to attempt to focus on this topic. Each
chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview,
case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for
discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for
students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case
studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived
religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply
their learning to the world around them.
Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as
it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by
racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived
together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they
have done so as slave and master, outsider and insider, oppressed
and oppressor. Scott Haldeman traces the development of Protestant
worship among whites and blacks, showing that the following exist
in tension: African American and European American Protestant
liturgical traditions are both interdependent and distinct; and
that multicultural communities must both understand and celebrate
the uniqueness of various member groups while also accepting the
risk and possibility of praying themselves into an integrated body,
one new culture.
George Smith (1833 1919) spent many years in India as an educator
and editor of the Calcutta Review. He was a great supporter of
missionary work and became secretary of the foreign mission
committee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. He also wrote
popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume
Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff (1806 1878) was the first
foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure
in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he
called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's
upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would
then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation
of South Asia. Volume 1 describes Duff's life until 1843, covering
his education in Scotland, his arrival in Calcutta and the founding
of his school, the General Assembly Institution.
George Smith (1833 1919) spent many years in India as an educator
and editor of the Calcutta Review. He was a great supporter of
missionary work and became secretary of the foreign mission
committee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. He also wrote
popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume
Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff (1806 1878) was the first
foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure
in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he
called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's
upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would
then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation
of South Asia. Volume 2 describes Duff's life from 1843 until his
death in 1878, covering his contribution to the 1854 educational
reforms in India and the founding of the University of Calcutta.
Henry Venn (1796 1873) was an Anglican clergyman who, like his
father and grandfather before him, was influential in the
evangelical movement and campaigned for social reform, eradication
of the slave trade, and better education and economic progress in
the British colonies so as to enable them to become responsible for
their own affairs. Venn was Secretary of the Church Missionary
Society from 1841 to 1873, and alongside practical training and
appointment of missionaries and ministers he spent time developing
a theology of mission and principles for its practice. This book,
published in its second edition in 1881, was edited by William
Knight who had access to Venn's private journals and correspondence
(from which he used substantial quotations), and met Venn's niece,
who provided the portrait of her uncle used as the frontispiece of
the book. The appendix contains some of Venn's own accounts of his
early missionary work.
Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past
two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition
of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and
personal relationship, secular laws have evolved as well. Using
unpublished sources and previously inaccessible private
collections, Holmes explores the significant role the Church of
England has played in these changes, as well as the impact this has
had on ecclesiastical policies. This timely study will be relevant
to ongoing debates about the meaning and nature of marriage,
including the theological doctrines and ecclesiastical policies
underlying current debates on same-sex marriage.
Professor Sell explores the lives and ideas of four unjustly
neglected Anglican philosophers: W.G. De Burgh (1866-1943); W.R.
Matthews (1881-1973); O.C. Quick (1885-1944); H.A. Hodges
(1905-1976). This study fills an important gap in the history of
twentieth-century philosophical and theological thought. Sell
argues that these writers covered a wide range of philosophical
topics in an illuminating way, and that a comparison of their
respective standpoints and methods is instructive from the point of
view of the viability or otherwise of Christian philosophizing. He
discusses the challenges these four philosophical Anglicans issued
to certain important trends in the philosophy and theology of their
day, and argues that some of them are of continuing relevance.
Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in
Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the
mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist
militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class
subculture that enabled working men to resist the full
consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth
of working-class radicalism as it developed dialectically in
confrontation with middle-class liberal ideology in the generation
after Waterloo. Intellectual forces were of central importance in
shaping the character of the working-class Left and the
Enlightenment, in particular, as the chief source of ideological
weapons that were turned against the established order. The
Enlightenment also provided the intellectual foundations of the
middle-class ideology that was directed against the incipient
threat of popular radicalism. The book notes that the same
intellectual forces that entered into the first half of the
nineteenth century also shaped the value system that provided the
foundations of mid-Victorian urban culture. These forces also
contributed to the rapprochement between working-class liberalism,
bringing latent affinities to the surface. It is also emphasised,
however, that inherited ideas and traditions exercised their
influence in interaction with the structure of power and status.
This textbook not only provides a historical overview of Mexican
American religious traditions but also focuses on society today.
Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas.
This is the first book to attempt to focus on this topic. Each
chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview,
case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for
discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for
students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case
studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived
religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply
their learning to the world around them.
Pentecostalism is the fasting growing form of Christianity in the
world. As such, it figures prominently in both RS and Theology
research. This book focuses on Pentecostalism in S. Africa and the
surrounding countries, like Zimbabwe. Pentecostalism is a
particularly strong trend in Africa and so it is good to have a
project that covers this area from an academic based there. The
book takes a critical look at some of the more recent Pentecostal
practices in churches in S. Africa and so will offer an insight
into the lived religion of S. African Pentecostals. The book will
have strong cross-market potential with African Studies.
Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to
address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in
the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Northern
Ireland and elsewhere. The questions addressed include: Can truth
set a person, or a society, free? How is political forgiveness
possible? Are political, personal, and spiritual reconciliation
essentially related? Explorations in Reconciliation brings
Catholic, Protestant, Mennonite, Jewish and Islamic perspectives
together within a single volume to present some of the most
relevant theological work today. The Open Access version of this
book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has
been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The support of the Irish
School of Ecumenics Trust in making this OA version possible is
gratefully acknowledged.
In 1976, Jesus took Mary K. Baxter on a spiritual journey for thirty nights to witness the torments of hell, charging her to reveal the terrible reality of God’s judgment and to relate the urgent message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Mary wrote about her journey to hell in her best-selling book A Divine Revelation of Hell, which has sold nearly 1.4 million copies. After those thirty nights, Jesus told Mary, “I will close up your mind, and you will not remember some of the things I have shown and told you. But I will reopen your mind and bring back your understanding in the latter days.” Recently, God brought back to Mary’s remembrance many of those experiences because these revelations are particularly for our day. A Divine Revelation of Satan’s Deceptions contains new images of hell that Mary has not related in her other books, as well as crucial insights into the deceptions Satan uses to destroy people and the tactics he employs to defeat believers. Our choice is between allowing Satan to deceive and rob us—or claiming our spiritual inheritance and conquering the enemy in the power of God.
In A Divine Revelation of Spiritual Warfare, you will learn more about how to receive divine protection and use the spiritual weapons that are rightfully yours so you can take back what Satan has stolen, break free from generational curses, know what spiritual warfare is and is not, conquer entrenched sins and habits, see healings, and release others from spiritual bondage. The enemy seeks to conquer and destroy your spirit, soul, and body, but the devil has far less power than God has made available to us. Learn the enemy's strategies and be equipped to engage in spiritual battles—and win!
Demonstrates the vital role Sunday schools played in forming and
sustaining faith before, during, and after the First World War for
British populations both at home and abroad. Sunday schools were an
important part of the religious landscape of twentieth-century
Britain and they were widely attended by much of the British
population. The Sunday School Movement in Britain argues that the
schools played a vital role in forming and sustaining the faith of
those who lived and served during the First World War. Moreover,
the volume contends that the conflict did not cause the schools to
decline and proposes that decline instead set in much earlier in
the twentieth century. The book also questions the perception that
the schools were ineffective tools of religious socialisation and
examines the continued attempts of the Sunday school movement to
professionalise and improve their efforts. Thus, the involvement of
the movement with the World's Sunday School Association is revealed
to be part of the wider developing international ecumenical
community during the twentieth century. Drawing together
under-utilised material from archives and newspapers in national
and local collections, The Sunday School Movement in Britain
presents a history of the schools demonstrating their lasting
significance in the religious life of the nation and, by extension,
the enduring importance of Christianity in Britain during the first
half of the twentieth century.
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