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Common Prayer
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Joseph S Pagano, Amy E. Richter; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
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Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and
preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced
the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at
the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. With the
interdependence of Church and State forcing a conjunction of
religious and political issues, South's life and work as a preacher
show him reacting to changes in civil and ecclesiastical polity
over the course of his active public life. Gerard Reedy's book, the
first major study of South, makes a strong case for the importance
of his sermons, their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place
in the history of post-Restoration English literature. Discussing
sermons of South which deal with his theory of politics, language,
the sacrament and mystery, Reedy reintroduces us to a lively and
seminal master of prose, politics and theology in the late Stuart
era.
Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a
portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church
and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African
Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of
African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the
momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these
factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in
providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty,
wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the
academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian
religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.
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The Reformation in Germany" provides readers with a strong
narrative overview of the most recent work on this topic. It
addresses the central concerns of Reformation historiography as
well as providing a distinct interpretation of the movement.
The book examines the spread and reception of the evangelical
movement, the historical dynamic created by the fusion of religious
ideas and the social context, the religious imagination of the
common man and utopian visions of reform, and the relationship
between political culture and religious change. The narrative goes
on to consider the long-term legacy of the Reformation movement in
Germany. The book provides readers with a fresh perspective on the
movement, one which seeks to understand its rise and evolution as a
historical process in constant dialogue with the cultural and
political context of the age.
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Los Evangelicos
(Hardcover)
Juan F. Martinez, Lindy Scott
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Anglicanism arguably originated in 1534 when Parliament passed the
Act of Supremacy, which transferred papal power over the Church of
England to the king. Today, approximately 550 dioceses are located
around the world, not only in England, but also everywhere that the
British Empire's area of influence extended. With an estimated
total membership of about 75 million, Anglicanism is one of the
largest and most varied Christian denominations. With such a long
history and widespread flock, it is not easy to keep track of the
variations of a religious community that has not ceased adapting
since its inception. Hundreds of entries on significant persons and
events, concepts and institutions, rituals and liturgy, and
national communities, make this an invaluable reference for
religious historians, theologians, and researchers. Also included
are an introduction, a chronology that traces the church's
evolution over time, and a bibliography.
In the early years of the sixteenth century, the Church experienced
a dramatic shift in its moral perception of the practice of usury.
Leaders of the continental Protestant Reformation (Lutheran,
Calvinist, and Anabaptist) all grappled with the Roman Catholic
Church's moral teaching on the practice of lending money at
interest. Although these three theological streams addressed the
same moral problem, at relatively the same time, they each
responded differently. Reforming the Morality of Usury examines how
the leaders of each major stream in the continental Protestant
Reformation adopted a different approach to reforming moral
teaching on the practice of usury.
The thesis of this study is that Christian Science was a
manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the
Civil War. The age in which the movement flowered was, at once,
sordid and gilded, commercial and optimistic. The stormy way
through which the new religion passed was, in a sense, the road
upon which all new ideas and schemes are tried. Mrs. Eddy's vision
was subjected to reasoned and irrational scrutiny for 40 years. In
truth, Christian Science belonged only tenuously to a modern era.
It reflected the prevailing optimism, progressivism, utopianism,
and feminism of the Gilded Age but did not illuminate the stage
with a unique light of its own.
Though known today largely for dating the creation of the world to
400BC, James Ussher (1581-1656) was an important scholar and
ecclesiastical leader in the seventeenth century. As Professor of
Theology at Trinity College Dublin, and Archbishop of Armagh from
1625, he shaped the newly protestant Church of Ireland. Tracing its
roots back to St. Patrick, he gave it a sense of Irish identity and
provided a theology which was strongly Calvinist and fiercely
anti-Catholic. In exile in England in the 1640s he advised both
king and parliament, trying to heal the ever-widening rift by
devising a compromise over church government. Forced finally to
choose sides by the outbreak of civil was in 1642, Ussher opted for
the royalists, but found it difficult to combine his loyalty to
Charles with his detestation of Catholicism.
A meticulous scholar and an extensive researcher, Ussher had a
breathtaking command of languages and disciplines--"learned to a
miracle" according to one of his friends. He worked on a series of
problems: the early history of bishops, the origins of Christianity
in Ireland and Britain, and the implications of double
predestination, making advances which were to prove of lasting
significance. Tracing the interconnections between this scholarship
and his wider ecclesiastical and political interests, Alan Ford
throws new light on the character and attitudes of a seminal figure
in the history of Irish Protestantism.
This specialist work in historical theology deals with the doctrine
of salvation in the early theology of Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
from the perspective of the concept of faith and with Hookera (TM)s
connections to the early English Reformers (W. Tyndale, J. Frith,
R. Barnes, T. Cranmer, J. Bradford and J. Foxe) in crucial
teachings such as justification, sanctification, glorification,
election, reprobation, the sovereignty of God, and salvation of
Catholics. The study proves that Hookera (TM)s theology is firstly
Protestant (to counter the views which picture it as Catholic) and
secondly Calvinist.
A product of trans-Atlantic revivalism and awakening, Methodism
initially took root in America in the eighteenth century. In the
mid-nineteenth century, Methodism exploded to become the largest
religious body in the United States and the quintessential form of
American religion. This Cambridge Companion offers a general,
comprehensive introduction to various forms of American Methodism,
including the African-American, German Evangelical Pietist,
holiness and Methodist Episcopal traditions. Written from various
disciplinary perspectives, including history, literature, theology
and religious studies, this volume explores the beliefs and
practices around which the lives of American Methodist churches
have revolved, as well as the many ways in which Methodism has both
adapted to and shaped American culture. This volume will be an
invaluable resource to scholars and students alike, including those
who are exploring American Methodism for the first time.
When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s,
many political observers were shocked. But, God's Own Party
demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes
back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and
historians realize. Relying on extensive archival and primary
source research, Daniel K. Williams presents the first
comprehensive history of the Christian Right, uncovering how
evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle
through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation. The
conventional wisdom has been that the Christian Right arose in
response to Roe v. Wade and the liberal government policies of the
1970s. Williams shows that the movement's roots run much deeper,
dating to the 1920s, when fundamentalists launched a campaign to
restore the influence of conservative Protestantism on American
society. He describes how evangelicals linked this program to a
political agenda-resulting in initiatives against evolution and
Catholic political power, as well as the national crusade against
communism. Williams chronicles Billy Graham's alliance with the
Eisenhower White House, Richard Nixon's manipulation of the
evangelical vote, and the political activities of Jerry Falwell,
Pat Robertson, and others, culminating in the presidency of George
W. Bush. Though the Christian Right has frequently been declared
dead, Williams shows, it has come back stronger every time. Today,
no Republican presidential candidate can hope to win the party's
nomination without its support. A fascinating and much-needed
account of a key force in American politics, God's Own Party is the
only full-scale analysis of the electoral shifts, cultural changes,
and political activists at the movement's core-showing how the
Christian Right redefined politics as we know it.
Religion was a vital part of women's experience in Victorian
Britain. This book is the first real study of the social history
and cultural significance of the sisterhoods which sprang up within
Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century, where women
abandoned the domestic sphere to become the prototype of the modern
social worker as well as pushing back the boundaries of what women
could do within the structures of the Anglican church. The
sisterhood movement began with the establishment of the first
convent in 1845 and grew rapidly. By 1900 more than 10,000 women
had joined the only Anglican organization which offered full-time
work for women of all social classes. Even more impressive than the
sisterhood's rapid growth was the degree of fascination that
'protestant nunneries' had for the general public -- the movement
was the focus of a vigorous and heated public debate that lasted
beyond the end of the century. Based upon years of research into
the archives of twenty-eight religious communities, the book offers
a unique breadth of coverage which allows for the formation of a
more comprehensive and accurate picture of the movement than has
been possible previously. Above all, the book shows that these
sisterhoods were not refuges for women who failed to find husbands;
rather, they attracted women who were interested in moulding
careers. So successful were they in recruiting women that by the
1860s they threatened to undermine the hegemony of the ideal of
domestic life as the proper sphere for women.
This book describes Reformed ecclesiology through the lived faith
of the Filipino American Christian diaspora. It proposes a
contextual, constructive ecclesiology by engaging with the
Presbyterian/Reformed theological tradition's understanding of the
ascension of Jesus Christ with the Old Testament book of Habakkuk
as a conversation partner.
Volume 24 concludes John Wesley's Journal and Diaries and
includes a complete index to the seven volumes of the series which
cover Wesley's Journal and Diaries.
"Sound learning about and with John Wesley begins with this
definitive edition of his Works. The exact texts and range of
issues make this an indispensable tool for interested readers,
scholars, and pastors." --Thomas A. Langford
"The historian", Henry James said, "essentially wants more
documents than he can really use". Indeed, the documents provide
context and content, without which meaningful recounting of history
may be impossible. Where documents are lacking, history becomes the
telling of educated guesses and informed theories based on the mute
testimony of whatever artifacts, if any, are available. There is,
however, no lack of documentation for the ongoing
"Fundamentalist-Moderate Controversy" in the Southern Baptist
Convention. In fact, disciplined selection is necessary to keep
this collection within manageable limits. The present selection is
excellent: all sides are represented and the events of the ongoing
SBC "holy war" are replayed by the news releases, sermons and
addresses, motions and resolutions through which those events
originally were played out. The documents have been changed only to
fit these pages. This is not all the story, but it is a good part
of the story of a people called Southern Baptists. It is a story we
all need to know and remember. We cannot undo or redo what has been
done. We can learn from what has happened. What is history for? Not
just for the historian, but for all of us, these primary and key
"documents of the controversy" tell the story. Walter Shurden's
overview and introductions along with his annotated chronology set
the stage, reminding us where we were when. Then the reporters and
preachers, the movers and shakers, the principals and sometimes
even pawns go to "Action!" and tell the story in their own words,
which, after all, is the way it happened.
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