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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.
This book explores the personal backgrounds, historical
methodologies, and academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan
Hatch, and Mark Noll. It addresses the issues raised by the
interaction of personal faith and scholarship, and the subsequent
effect this has upon the evangelical community at large and the
academic mission of institutions that wish to maintain their
Christian distinction. The author shows how these scholars founded
the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, and she
demonstrates the significance of their attempts to open evangelical
historical scholarship to a wider audience. Readers will get to
know the personalities behind these evangelical scholars and will
discover the uniqueness of Marsden, Hatch, and Noll as individuals
as well as leaders. This is the first book to approach faith and
learning from the point of view of these three men. Full of
personal interviews and unpublished materials, The Evangelical
Historians will appeal to students and scholars of American
Studies, religion, culture, and sociology. It will serve as a
useful text for courses in the History of American Christianity,
Christianity and Culture, Historiography, Fundamentalism and
Evangelicalism, and 18th and 19th-Century American Protestantism.
In addition, members of the historical guild interested in religion
in America and the role of Christianity will surely want a copy of
this rare and thoughtful work. Contents: Preface; A Historian's
History; Integrating Faith and Learning; Transgressing Boundaries:
Historical Critique and Evangelical Response; The Opening of the
Evangelical Mind; Conclusion; Index.
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.
In The Lost Soul of American Protestantism, D. G. Hart examines the
historical origins of the idea that faith must be socially useful
in order to be valuable. Through specific episodes in Presbyterian,
Lutheran, and Reformed history, Hart presents a neglected form of
Protestantism confessionalism as an alternative to prevailing
religious theory. He explains that, unlike evangelical and mainline
Protestants who emphasize faith's role in solving social and
personal problems, confessional Protestants locate Christianity's
significance in the creeds, ministry, and rituals of the church.
Although critics have accused confessionalism of encouraging social
apathy, Hart deftly argues that this form of Protestantism has much
to contribute to current discussions on the role of religion in
American public life, since confessionalism refuses to confuse the
well-being of the nation with that of the church. The history of
confessional Protestantism suggests that contrary to the legacy of
revivalism, faith may be most vital and influential when less
directly relevant to everyday problems, whether personal or social.
Clear and engaging, D. G. Hart's groundbreaking study is essential
reading for everyone exploring the intersection of religion and
daily life."
In life he was larger than life. He made an immediate and memorable
impact on those he met and with whom he worked. He was incredibly
industrious in all his teaching, speaking, lecturing, composing,
and above all in his writing. In the time others would take to
think through the possibility of authoring a book, Erik would have
gone to his longsuffering and slightly dyslexic typewriter and
completed the manuscript. Gathering with his family at Westminster
Abbey for his memorial service, the idea of a random collection of
essays or a series of personal anecdotes was discarded by the
editors. To appropriately honor this substantial life, something
more systematic was required. Thus the idea for this volume was
born. Each of the contributors, who has benefited in some way from
his friendship, teaching and writing, has examined an area or a
subject in which Erik Rowley has made his mark. Significantly, it
has taken seventeen authors to cover some of the ground where his
footprints are still fresh and the clarity of his voice still
rings.
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