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This volume describes many of the greatest and most engaging Canons
in the history of the Church of England. With a wealth of amusing
detail and anecdote, as well as a skilful marshalling of the
essential facts, he brings the Canons alive, and considers their
significance in the social and ecclesiastical history of their
times. Tracing the course of the dramatic change in the fortunes of
the English cathedrals and in turn the lives of the most
interesting and significant Canons who were in office, Trevor
Beeson provides readers with an interesting and undemanding
introduction to two centuries of Church history with these
portraits of quite remarkable men. Including characters from St
Paul's Cathedral, Westminster, Canterbury, York, Ely, Chester,
Bristol, Manchester, Winchester and Oxford there are stories to
delight readers from around the UK. About the Author Trevor Beeson
was Canon of Westminster Abbey before becoming Dean of Winchester
where he raised GBP7 million to restore the cathedral fabric and
open a visitor centre. His previous books have all been bestsellers
on the SCM list and have been serialised in the national press.
By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the
Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas
offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual
roots of Black humanist thought.
A compelling short biography of the 'Lord's horseman cantering
towards eternity') John Wesley. Using the as yet unpublished Oxford
diaries, the author, himself a Fellow of Wesley's Oxford College,
reveals Wesley's extraordinarily complex and paradoxical
personality. Originally published by Thomas Nelson in 1964.
Michael Ramsey was perhaps the most respected articulator of
Anglicanism for the twentieth century. Central to Ramsey's approach
to theology was the gospel of Jesus' life, death, burial, and
resurrection. For Ramsey this gospel revealed the very nature and
glory of God. Furthermore, Ramsey believed that it influenced
Christian theology at every level, from theological reflection to
institutional structures. It creates a picture of a church that
seeks to continue the ministry of Christ in healing a broken world,
believing that the glory of Christ transforms the very nature of
suffering so that it also becomes an avenue of redemption. In the
last 50 years, the Anglican Communion has seen profound changes to
its global polity alongside of shifts in practice and ethical
beliefs in many of its provinces. These changes have been used on
all sides of the debate as wedges to further disassociate the
factions with one another. Ramsey's doctrine of the church, shaped
by the Gospel of Christ, offers a different lens through which
these changes may be viewed and critiqued. Most importantly, it
suggests that the glory of God in Christ still safeguards the
church.
In this classic, Augustine of Hippo describes how to interpret and
teach the Scriptures. Although written 1600 years ago, it considers
the role literal and allegorical interpreation of scripture, and is
particularly relevant today. A valuable, and readable resource for
preachers and teachers.
English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious
leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the
creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest
Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the
foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish
today. John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury
and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of
the Methodist movement in America. Asbury emerges here as not
merely an influential religious leader, but a fascinating
character, who lived an extraordinary life. His cultural
sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize. His life
of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was his
generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with
ordinary people, and he met with thousands of them as he
crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty
thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death
in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized
face-to-face than any other American of his day, including Thomas
Jefferson and George Washington.
Lutheran churches in the United States have included multiple
ethnic cultures since the colonial era and continue to wrestle with
increasing internal variety as one component of their identity. By
combining the concerns of social history with an awareness for
theological themes, this volume explores the history of this family
of Lutheran churches and traces the development from the colonial
era through the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America in 1988. An introduction details the origins of Lutheranism
in the European Reformation and the practices significant to the
group's life in the United States. Organized chronologically,
subsequent chapters follow the churches' maturation as they form
institutions, provide themselves with leaders, and expand their
membership and geographic range. Attention is given throughout to
the contributions of the laity and women within the context of the
Lutherans' continued individual and corporate effort to be both
authentically Lutheran and genuinely American. Offering a rich
portrayal of the Lutherans' lives and their churches, the social
historical approach of this study brings the Lutheran people to the
foreground. The dynamic relationship between pietist, orthodox, and
critical expressions of the tradition has remained among Lutherans
even though they have divided themselves by several factors
including ethnicity and confessional stance. Of interest to
scholars and researchers of Lutheran history and religion in
America, this engaging, multifaceted work balances narrative
history with brief biographical essays. A chronological listing of
important dates in the development of the Lutheran church is
especially helpful.
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The Politics of the Spirit is a masterful study of the political
effects of evangelical Protestantism in Central America. Timothy
Steigenga's thoughtfully crafted work questions whether the spread
of Protestantism in Latin America has reinforced authoritarian
elements in political culture or deepened nascent democracy.
Steigenga provides a thorough review of the literature on religion
and politics in Latin America, putting many of the hypotheses
generated in this literature to the test through an analysis of
comparative survey data and qualitative interviews. Steigenga
investigates the impact religious affiliation has on political
activity and belief, and the influence of cross-denominational
religious beliefs and practices on Latin American life. His
comparative work explores how different political systems-the
established democracy of Costa Rica and the transitional system of
Guatemala-impact the politics of religion. This enlightening
interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars seeking to
understand the relationships between religious and political change
in Latin America.
Here is the dramatic story of Martin Niemoeller's evolution from
brilliant U$boat commander and strong German nationalist in World
War I to a churchman who spent 8 years in concentration camps as
Hitler's personal prisoner.
While congregational studies have expanded our understanding of
American religion, little is known about the local practices of a
single denomination at its smallest jurisdiction. This book
explores how national denominational commitments are affecting the
practices of local United Church of Christ congregations inside a
single association in the Shenandoah Valley. Nationally, the UCC
defines itself as a united and uniting church in its ecumenical
work; as multiracial and multicultural in its diversity; as
accessible to all in welcoming those with disabilities; as open and
affirming for its LGBT members; and as a just peace church in its
support of social justice. So, how fully have local congregations
embraced these commitments? Might congregations be more attached to
their older identities, particularly in areas where the church's
predecessors were strongly rooted? Or are the national church's
commitments being lived out at the grassroots level? The book
measures congregational life in one of the UCC's oldest and
smallest associations. Books on congregational studies either focus
on a case study of a particular congregation, or large-scale
surveys of U.S. congregations that explore aggregate data to
explain their work. This book looks instead at a group of local
congregations inside a small judicatory (the Shenandoah
Association) of the United Church of Christ to explain religious
life at the grassroots level.
Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics,
disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through
conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes
of communication. Within this world is a "Religion of Fear," a
critical impulse that dramatizes cultural and political conflicts
and issues in frightening ways that serve to contrast "orthodox"
behaviors and beliefs with those linked to darkness, fear, and
demonology. Jason Bivins offers close examinations of several
popular evangelical cultural creations including the Left Behind
novels, church-sponsored Halloween "Hell Houses," sensational comic
books, especially those disseminated by Jack Chick, and anti-rock
and -rap rhetoric and censorship. Bivins depicts these fascinating
and often troubling phenomena in vivid (sometimes lurid) detail and
shows how they seek to shape evangelical cultural identity.
As the "Religion of Fear" has developed since the 1960s, Bivins
sees its message moving from a place of relative marginality to one
of prominence. What does it say about American public life that
such ideas of fearful religion and violent politics have become
normalized? Addressing this question, Bivins establishes links and
resonances between the cultural politics of evangelical pop, the
activism of the New Christian Right, and the political exhaustion
facing American democracy.
Religion of Fear is a significant contribution to our
understanding of the new shapes of political religion in the United
States, of American evangelicalism, of the relation of religion and
the media, and the link between religious pop culture and politics.
The history of the Lollard movement is intimately concerned with
their writings and literacy. The connection between the writings of
Wyclif himself and Lollars popularisers in Latin and English has
never been clear, especially in the crucial years between Wyclif's
death in 1382 and archbishop Arundel's visitation of Oxford in
1411. Anne Hudson's work in this fields is the most important
contribution to the subject. As editor of English Wycliffite
Sermons and Selections From Wycliffite Writings,her work is based
on a uniquely close study of the manuscript sources. Lollards and
Their Books brings together the articles that she has published
since 1971; together they make indisepensable reading for anyone
interested in the history or the literature of the period.Anne
Hudson shows that the debate on translating the Bible was not
closed by the condemnation of Wyclif himself, but continued until
Arundel's Constitutions; she examines the material for the life and
work of John Purvey, for long held to be one of Wyclif's principal
successors, and demonstrates the significance of the Opus Aruduum,
written within the six years of Wyclif's death, as evidence for the
progress of Lollardy in Oxford at that time. As well as discussing
the dissemination of Lollard thought and the production of Lollard
books, Anne Hudson discusses how far the Lollard heresy was
connected with the use of English in theological topics, the
examination of Lollards by the authorities, the links between
Hussites in Bohemia and Wcyliffites in England as shown by
manuscripts, and the printing of Lollard texts in the early years
of the Reformation.
Based on interview material with a wide range of Protestant clergy
in Northern Ireland, this text examines how Protestant identity
impacts on the possibility of peace and stability and argues for
greater involvement by the Protestant churches in the transition
from conflict to a 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland.
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