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Out of Exodus
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Darryl W. Stephens, Michael I Alleman, Andrea Brown
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In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life,
stretching from the 1830s to the 1910s. It marked the transition
from a pre-modern to a modern way of life. Ellen White's life
(1827-1915) spanned those years and then some, but the last three
months of a single year, 1844, served as the pivot for everything
else. When the Lord failed to return on October 22, as she and
other followers of William Miller had predicted, White did not lose
heart. Fired by a vision she experienced, White played the
principal role in transforming a remnant minority of Millerites
into the sturdy sect that soon came to be known as the Seventh-day
Adventists. She and a small group of fellow believers emphasized a
Saturday Sabbath and an imminent Advent. Today that flourishing
denomination posts twenty million adherents globally and one of the
largest education, hospital, publishing, and missionary outreach
programs in the world. Over the course of her life White generated
50,000 manuscript pages and letters, and produced 40 books that
have enjoyed extremely wide circulation. She ranks as one of the
most gifted and influential religious leaders in American history,
and Ellen Harmon White tells her story in a new and remarkably
informative way. Some of the contributors identify with the
Adventist tradition, some with other Christian denominations, and
some with no religious tradition at all. Taken together their
essays call for White to be seen as a significant figure in
American religious history and for her to be understood her within
the context of her times.
This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the
distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on
the occasion of her 95th birthday. This first anthology documents
the breadth of Elise Boulding's contributions to Peace Research,
Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies, and Sociology of the Family.
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.
Exploring the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children
of Ham, this book explains how the denomination relies on the
rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism to construct an identity.
A. Nevell Owens shows how the Voice of Mission, the missionary
newspaper of the church, played an integral role in the definition
of the denomination as evangelical vis-a-vis the "heathen African."
By looking at the Voice of Mission as a primary source document,
this book further examines the extent to which the African
Methodist Episcopal Church affectively lived out its existence in
two different worlds that were more often than not diametrically
opposed to each other.
This volume is a comprehensive collection of articles on Bunyan as
well as including several broader views of the Nonconformist
tradition.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading writers and
thinkers to provide a critique of a broad range of topics related
to Hillsong Church. Hillsong is one of the most influential,
visible, and (in some circles) controversial religious
organizations/movements of the past thirty years. Although it has
received significant attention from both the academy and the
popular press, the vast majority of the scholarship lacks the scope
and nuance necessary to understand the complexity of the movement,
or its implications for the social, cultural, political, spiritual,
and religious milieus it inhabits. This volume begins to redress
this by filling important gaps in knowledge as well as introducing
different audiences to new perspectives. In doing so, it enriches
our understanding of one of the most influential Christian
organizations of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that
divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn,
challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses
this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious
groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of
their interaction, they affected one another.Previously, historians
have written about these communities as if they lived in isolation.
Yet these groups coexisted in common space, and interacted in
complex ways. This is the first book that brings these separate
stories together and lays the foundation for a new kind of
religious history that foregrounds both cooperation and conflict
across the religious divides. The authors analyze the influences
that shaped religious coexistence and they place the valences of
co-operation and conflict in deep social and cultural contexts. The
result is a significantly altered understanding of the emergence of
modern religious communities as well as new insights into the
origins of the German tragedy, which involved the breakdown of
religious coexistence.
Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), perhaps the most prominent Particular
Baptist of the eighteenth century, has been the subject of much
scholarly interest in recent years. No comparative study, however,
has been done on the two biographies that give us much of our
knowledge of Fuller's life. John Ryland Jr. (1753-1826), Fuller's
closest friend and ministry partner, not only supervised the
publication of Fuller's works, but sought to give a careful
accounting of his friend's piety. But Ryland's volume stood in
contrast with the less-flattering portrait painted by publisher and
pastor, J.W. Morris (1763-1836). This critical edition of Ryland's
1816 biography provides contextual background and comparative
analysis of the two volumes, and shows how Ryland amended his text
for its 1818 republication in light of Morris' work. It also
demonstrates the profound influence of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
on Ryland's biographical approach. While Edwards's influence on
Ryland and Fuller is widely known, this volume shows how Edwards's
biographical work, especially that of David Brainerd, influenced
Ryland's aim to promote "pure and undefiled religion" through
recounting the life of his friend.
Mormon studies is one of the fastest-growing subfields in religious
studies. For this volume, Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow, two
leading scholars of Mormonism, have brought together 45 of the top
scholars in the field to construct a collection of essays that
offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Mormons. The book
begins with a section on Mormon history, perhaps the most
well-developed area of Mormon studies. Chapters in this section
deal with questions ranging from how Mormon history is studied in
the university to the role women have played throughout Mormon
history. Other sections examine revelation and scripture, church
structure and practice, theology, society, and culture. The final
two sections look at Mormonism in a larger context. The authors
examine Mormon expansion across the globe-focusing on Mormonism in
Latin America, the Pacific, Europe, and Asia-in addition to the
interaction between Mormonism and other social systems, such as
law, politics, and other faiths. Bringing together an unprecedented
body of scholarship in the field of Mormon studies, The Oxford
Handbook of Mormonism will be an invaluable resource for those
within the field, as well as for people studying the broader,
ever-changing American religious landscape.
It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by
the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual,
political, and cultural forces of the Reformation. In this book, a
distinguished scholar-whose contributions to the field of religious
studies have won him wide renown-explores this relationship,
examining both the role of the Bible in the Reformation and the
effect of the Reformation on the text of the Bible, Biblical
studies, preaching and exegesis, and European culture in general.
Jaroslav Pelikan begins by discussing the philological foundations
of the "reformation" of the Biblical text, focusing on the revival
of Greek and Hebrew language study and the important contributions
to textual criticism by humanist scholars. He then examines the
changing patterns of interpretation and communication of the
Biblical text, the proliferation of vernacular versions of
scripture and their impact on various national cultures, and the
impact of the Reformation Bible on art, music, and literature of
the period. The book is richly illustrated with examples of early
printed editions of Bibles, commentaries, sermons, vernacular
translations, and other works with Biblical themes, all of which
are identified and discussed. The book serves as the catalog for a
major exhibition of early Bibles and Reformation texts that has
been organized at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University, and will also be shown at the Yale
Center for British Art, the Houghton Library and the Widener
Library at Harvard University, and the Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Columbia University. Copublished with the Bridwell
Library, Southern Methodist University
This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and
spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the
advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The
meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public
buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and
written sources.
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