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This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the
Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the
twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another,
and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass,
and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of
those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the
garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep
gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on
the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the
milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose
stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the
manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am
acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the
language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence
without changing cars. There was a village a mile away, and a horse
doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. It seemed a bad
outlook; mine was distinctly a surgery case. Then it was remembered
that a lady from Boston was summering in that village, and she was
a Christian Science doctor and could cure anything. So she was sent
for. It was night by this time, and she could not conveniently
come, but sent word that it was no matter, there was no hurry, she
would give me "absent treatment" now, and come in the morning;
meantime she begged me to make myself tranquil and comfor-table and
remember that there was nothing the matter with me. I thought there
must be some mistake.
"Both evangelicalism and feminism are controversial movements that
provoke complex loyalties and ambivalence within the church and the
world at large. In spite of a considerable degree of shared
history, they are quite often defined against each other. Most of
the rhetoric from and about the movements assumes that there are
few connections and little overlap, and that individuals might
locate themselves within one or the other, but not within both. Yet
some evangelical women in the academy find themselves living on the
boundary between feminism and evangelicalism, or on the boundaries
between the multiple forms of both feminism and
evangelicalism."--from the first chapter What happens when
evangelicalism meets feminism? In their own biblical and
theological training, Nicola Creegan and Christine Pohl have each
lived at the intersection of these two movements They now both
teach in Christian institutions of higher education where others
follow along a similar pathway. They have a story to tell about
their experience along with those of ninety other women they
surveyed who have lived on the boundary between evangelicalism and
feminism. They explore what it was like for evangelical women who
pursued doctorates in biblical and theological studies. What were
their experiences as they taught and wrote, were mentored and
became mentors? What are the theological issues they faced, and how
did they respond? How have they negotiated professional, family and
church commitments? This well-informed, multidimensional and
sensitive narrative of women's experience will be illuminating for
anyone involved in the academic theological world.
Night time signifies many things. Apart from the rest and
refreshment that sleep brings, the night is a time for gazing at
the stars, dreaming and loving. For some it means keeping vigil as
they tend the very young, or the sick. For others, it means working
so that others may rest peacefully. For most people, there are
occasions when the night brings no relief: when we are worried or
afraid, trouble never looms larger than in the early sleepless
hours. Yet such times can lead to a richer experience of
intercession, meditation and contemplation. These experiences of
the night are universal and have inspired poetry, prayers,
lullabies, songs and stories down the ages. This wide-ranging
collection is the perfect bedside companion and will help soothe us
to sleep, dispel night time fears and attune us to the gifts and
opportunities that each new day brings.
Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the issue of
authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when
attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or
ethics? The debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical,
Liberal and Catholic Anglicans around the world. This proposed book
focuses on the understanding of authority in Anglican theology. It
looks at the way that Anglican theologians, in the past and today,
have developed their theories of authority in relation to burning
issues. Avis critiques them in a continuous dialogue or running
commentary and set them in an ecumenical context, comparing
Anglican positions with Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and
Protestant ones. In each area - Bible, tradition, reason,
experience -he sets out a new understanding of authority in a
constructive and persuasive way, moving to a series of overall
conclusions and recommendations. The sharp critiques of various
positions will help to make it the subject of discussion and
debate.
The Chautauqua Institution was started in 1874 by the Normal
Department of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a two-week program
to instruct Sunday school teachers of all Protestant denominations.
The program proved to be a popular combination of worship,
education, and recreation and each year brought thousands of
visitors to the beautiful shores of Chautauqua Lake. As Chautauqua
became a model of for lifelong learning and the good use of leisure
time, hundreds of similar sites were built across the continent.
The Chautauqua program included lectures, classes, symphony
concerts, opera, theater, art, and recreations such as golf,
tennis, swimming, and sailing. In time, the movement embraced all
denominations and faiths. Today Chautauqua offers a vacation filled
with many opportunities in a setting that could be from a century
ago.
This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished
activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of
her 95th birthday. Known as the "matriarch" of the twentieth
century peace research movement, she made significant contributions
in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and
sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace
movement and the Society of Friends. She taught at the University
of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College
from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace
studies programs at both institutions. She was a co-founder of the
International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on
Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace
and women's issues-related committees and working groups of the
American Sociological Association and International Sociological
Association.
This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean
Protestant Right's gendered politics. Specifically, the volume
explores the Protestant Right's responses and reactions to the
presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea's
post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines
three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men's manhood and
fatherhood restoration movement), the anti-LGBT movement, and
Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism. Although these three phenomena may
look unrelated, Kim asserts that they represent the Protestant
Right's distinct yet interrelated ways of engaging the contested
hegemonic masculinity in Korean society. The contestation over
hegemonic masculinity is a common thread that runs through and
connects these three phenomena. The ways in which the Protestant
Right has engaged the contested hegemonic masculinity have been in
relation to "others," such as women, sexual minorities, gender
nonconforming people, and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.
Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first
published in 1843, the best, not the most perfect, book I have
done'. He added, I mean there is more to develop in it'. Indeed,
the book is a precursor of all his major later works, including
especially the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine and
the Grammar of Assent. Dealing with the relationship of faith and
reason, the fifteen sermons represent Newman's resolution of the
conflict between heart and head that so troubled believers,
non-believers, and agnostics of the nineteenth century, Their
controversial nature also makes them one of the primary documents
of the Oxford Movement. This new edition provides an introduction
to the sermons, a definitive text with textual variants, extensive
annotation, and appendices containing previously unpublished
material.
This baptismal study guide will prepare children ages 8-10 for a
wonderful walk with Jesus. it offers lessons with activities that
parents and children can enjoy together as a bonding experience.
The activities include not only fill-in-the-blank but also word
games, Bible crosswords, and even a maze.
Over a decade of qualitative research, Assata Zerai has observed
both incremental moves toward inclusiveness and strategies employed
to accomplish long-term changes while conducting case studies of
five multicultural Protestant churches in sites across the United
States. With an interpretive approach, she explores these centers
of worship and theorizes the conditions under which progressive
social change occurs in some U.S. Protestant congregations.
Understanding the daily practices of change and entrenchment in
Protestant congregations and the intentional work to replace
dominating structures with liberating ones may provide keys to
creating multicultural, antiracist, feminist, and sexually
inclusive volitional communities more broadly. Intersectionality in
Intentional Communities argues that making a significant advance
toward inclusion requires change in the underlying social
structures of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, class, and other
marginalizing influences. In order to isolate this phenomenon,
Zerai conducted fieldwork and archival research among an African
American and four multiracial U.S. churches. Different from a
university or other public institution in which members are legally
required to support diversity and related values, Zerai believes
that volitional communities may provide a best-case scenario for
how, motivated by higher ideals, members may find ways to create
inclusive communities. Zerai's research has a broad empirical base,
encompassing five sites: a largely African American urban
megachurch in the Midwest; a large Midwestern
multiracial/multicultural church; a large urban
multiracial/multicultural church in the eastern United States; a
small, suburban Midwestern multiracial church; and an inclusive
Midwestern college town church. In this book, Zerai further
explores important connections between U.S. Protestant Christian
congregations and political activism.
This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the
settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth
century. It examines the influence of Scottish Presbyterian
dissenting churches and their political values. It re-evaluates
five notorious Scottish reformers and unpacks the Presbyterian
foundation to their political ideas: Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), a
poet in Cape Town; Thomas McCulloch (1776-1843), an educator in
Pictou; John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a church minister in Sydney;
William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), a rebel in Toronto; and Samuel
McDonald Martin (1805?-1848), a journalist in Auckland. The book
weaves the five migrants' stories together for the first time and
demonstrates how the campaigns they led came to be intertwined. The
book will appeal to historians of Scotland, Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the British Empire and the
Scottish diaspora.
The unique character of Rudolf Bultmann's thought has been missed
by many traditional studies that cast him in exegetical or
hermeneutic frameworks. His methods of source criticism and his
concept of 'demythologizing'have led some to reject his thought in
toto, otherstolabel him as a subjectivist. Tim Labron steps out of
such traditional studies by reading Bultmann as a unique scholar
and leading to the keys that unlockthe distinct character of
Bultmann's thought, namely, John 1,14 and the principle of
justification by faith.Bultmann uses them in aparallel function -
to burn the traditional subject-object hierarchies and self-made
foundationsto the ground. Labron shows the implications this hadfor
theology, religious studies and philosophy.
In histories of American Presbyterianism, the southern branch of
the New School Church has received little attention despite its
importance to church history as a whole. This new study provides a
complete account of the southern church, tracing the events and
controversies that led to schism, the founding of the United Synod,
and eventual reunification with the Old School, South. The author
begins by reviewing the causes of the original and Old School-New
School schism of 1837-1838 and the circumstances that gradually
deepened the separation between the northern and southern wings of
the New School. The emergence of United Synod of the South and its
activities in the antebellum period and during the Civil War are
considered next. The author concludes with a discussion of the
final union with the Southern Presbyterian Church in 1864 and
assesses the reasons why the southern New School/United Synod
failed to grow and reach the potential of other Presbyterian
churches of that day.
What is Unitarian Universalism and how does it fit into the
religious landscape of America? How does Unitarian Universalism
differ from other churches? What do Unitarian Universalists stand
for and how have they contributed to the betterment of the human
condition? These are just some of the concerns that occupied the
fertile mind of Stephen H. Fritchman (1902-81), one of America's
best known Unitarian ministers. For the Sake of Clarity
commemorates the life and work of this leading figure in American
liberal religion. For more than thirty years, Rev. Fritchman served
as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, where he
was actively involved in public debate on many vital social issues.
To honor his life and career, the Fritchman Publication Committee
has compiled over forty-five of his most important sermons,
addresses, and radio talks covering a wide range of topics: the
church and politics, freedom of the press and freedom of speech,
violence, the rights of women and minorities, international
relations, marriage, old age, and much more. The concluding section
offers Rev. Fritchman's biographical sketches of such notables as
Eugene V. Debs, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson,
Albert Schweitzer, and George Bernard Shaw. Also included is a
complete bibliography of Rev. Fritchman's addresses. Reverend
Stephen H. Fritchman was minister of the First Unitarian Church of
Los Angeles from 1948 to 1969, after which he served as emeritus
minister until his death in 1981. He was an active member of the
American Civil Liberties Union, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee
Committee, and former editor of the Christian Register. In 1967 the
Starr King School for the Ministryawarded Rev. Fritchman the degree
of L.H.D., citing him as "a minister who walked to the sound of a
different drum, enthralling many, appalling more; who has cut
across barriers of race and class to be heard by all; who has
developed and maintained a strong united church ... who has
fulfilled ideals of priest, teacher, historian, and devotional
writer as well as prophet". The Annual Assembly of the Unitarian
Universalist Association awarded Rev. Fritchman the
Holmes-Weatherly Award in July 1969, calling him a man whose "deep
and driving passion for economic, social, and political justice ...
has been repeatedly translated into concrete, specific action".
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the
regions of Africa and Melanesia-where the popularity of charismatic
Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of
witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become
an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and
sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is
articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or
witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to
phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or
sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal
demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
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