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This book traces the influence of Anglican writers on the political
thought of inter-war Britain, and argues that religion continued to
exert a powerful influence on political ideas and allegiances in
the 1920s and 1930s. It counters the prevailing assumption of
historians that inter-war political thought was primarily secular
in content, by showing how Anglicans like Archbishop William Temple
made an active contribution to ideas of community and the welfare
state (a term which Temple himself invented). Liberal Anglican
ideas of citizenship, community and the nation continued to be
central to political thought and debate in the first half of the
20th century. Grimley traces how Temple and his colleagues
developed and changed their ideas on community and the state in
response to events like the First World War, the General Strike and
the Great Depression. For Temple, and political philosophers like
A. D. Lindsay and Ernest Barker, the priority was to find a
rhetoric of community which could unite the nation against class
consciousness, poverty, and the threat of Hitler. Their idea of a
Christian national community was central to the articulation of
ideas of 'Englishness' in inter-war Britain, but this Anglican
contribution has been almost completely overlooked in recent debate
on twentieth-century national identity. Grimley also looks at rival
Anglican political theories put forward by conservatives such as
Bishop Hensley Henson and Ralph Inge, dean of St Paul's. Drawing
extensively on Henson's private diaries, it uncovers the debates
which went on within the Church at the time of the General Strike
and the 1927-8 Prayer Book crisis. The book uncovers an important
and neglected seam of popular political thought, and offers a new
evaluation of the religious, political and cultural identity of
Britain before the Second World War.
The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed
Latin America's religious landscape within the last half century or
so. In a region where Catholicism reigned hegemonic for centuries,
the expansion of Pentecostalism has now resulted in a situation of
religious pluralism and competition, bearing much more resemblance
to the United States than to the Iberian motherlands. Furthermore,
the fierce competition from Pentecostal churches has inspired
significant renewals of Latin American Catholicism, most notably
the growth of a Catholic Charismatic movement. However, another and
more recent source of religious pluralism and diversity in Latin
America is an increasing pluralization and diversification of
Pentecostalism itself and of the ways in which individual
Pentecostals exercise their faith. By carefully exploring this
diversification, the book at hand breaks new ground in the
literature on Latin American Christianity. Particular attention is
focused on new ways of being Pentecostal and on the consequences of
recent transformations of Christianity for individuals, faith
communities and societies. More specifically, the chapters of the
book look into certain transformations of Pentecostalism such as:
theological renewals and new kinds of religious competition between
Pentecostal churches; a growing political and civic engagement of
Pentecostals; an observed de-institutionalization of Pentecostal
religious life and the negotiation individual Pentecostal
identities, composed of multiple intra- and extra-ecclesial points
of identification; and the emergence of new generations of
Pentecostals (children of Pentecostal parents), many of whom have
higher levels of education and higher incomes than the previous
generations within their churches. In addition, Catholic responses
to Pentecostal competition are also addressed in several chapters
of the book.
Scottish Puritanism, 1590-1638, is a portrait of Protestantism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Puritanism produced a community of like-minded ministers and lay people, bound together in a similar experience of conversion and Christian pilgrimage. The book also addresses the relationship between this religion and the political revolution embodied in the National Covenant.
A campaigner for women's rights
This is a remarkable and controversial book by any standards. The
verdict is still out on whether its author Ann Eliza Young
(formerly Webb) presented her case with complete impartiality, but
certainly its contents are sufficiently detailed to reveal shocking
and extraordinary details of her experiences during her time as a
pluralist wife of Brigham Young of the Latter-Day Saints. A child
of Mormon parents, Ann entered into her marriage with Young when he
was 67 years old and she was 24, a divorcee and the mother of two
children. Her writings on her experiences of the Mormon lifestyle
in Utah make gripping reading and her book is filled with accounts
of privation, cruelty and violence. She filed for divorce from
Brigham Young in 1873 and went on to become an outspoken advocate
for the rights of women in 19th century America and an ardent and
campaigning opponent of polygamous marriage. This book is her
account of her life as one of Young's wives and on its original
publication propelled Ann into the public arena and became a best
seller of its day. It still makes compelling reading. Available in
softcover and hardcover for collectors.
A cultural history of fundamentalism's formative decades;
Protestant fundamentalists have always allied themselves with
conservative politics and stood against liberal theology and
evolution From the start, however, their relationship with mass
culture has been complex and ambivalent Selling the Old-Time
Religion tells how the first generation of fundamentalists embraced
the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing
advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the
gospel Selectively, and with more sophistlcation than has been
accorded to them, fundamentalists adapted to the consumer society
and popular culture with the accompanying values of materialism and
immediate gratification. Selling the Old-Time Religion is written
by a fundamentalist who is based at the country's foremost
fundamentalist institution of higher education. It is a candid and
remarkable piece of self-scrutiny that reveals the movement's first
encounters with some of the media methods it now wields with
well-documented virtuosity. Douglas Carl Abrams draws extensively
on sermons, popular journals, and educational archives to reveal
the attitudes and actions of the fundamental leadership and the
laity. Abrams discusses how fundamentalists' outlook toward
contemporary trends and events shifted from aloofiness to
engagement as they moved inward from the margins of American
culture and began to weigh in on the day's issues - from jazz to
""flappers"" - in large numbers. Fundamentalists in the 1920s and
1930s ""were willing to compromise certain traditions that defined
the movement, such as premillennialism, holiness, and defense of
the faith,"" Abrams concludes, ""but their flexibility with forms
of consumption and pleasure strengthened their evangelistic
emphasis, perhaps the movement's core."" Contrary to the myth of
fundamentalism's demise after the Scopes Trial, the movement's uses
of mass culture help explain their success in the decades following
it. In the end fundamentalists imitated mass culture not to be like
the world but to evangelize it.
This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Tubingen
theologian Eberhard Jungel, and is presented to him on the occasion
of his 80th birthday. Jungel is widely held to be one of the most
important Christian theologians of the past half-century. The
essays honour Professor Jungel both by offering critical
interlocutions with his theology and by presenting constructive
proposals on themes in contemporary dogmatics that are prominent in
his writings. The proposed Festschrift introduces a new generation
of theologians to Eberhard Jungel and his theology. The volume also
includes an exhaustive bibliography of Jungel's writings and of
secondary sources that deal extensively with his thought.
This unique book aims to provide the first extended account of the
intellectual history of aesthetic discourse among British and
American evangelicals from the awakening of a modern aesthetic
consciousness in the eighteenth century to the
fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the early twentieth
century. Drawing on an extensive but largely forgotten body of
periodical source materials, it seeks to map the evangelical
aesthetic tradition's intellectual terrain, to highlight its
connections to other philosophical discourses, and to assess some
of its theological implications. In doing so, it challenges the
still prevalent stereotype of evangelicalism as aesthetically
'impoverished' and devoid of serious reflection on the arts,
offering instead a narrative sensitive to the historical
complexities of evangelical approaches to aesthetic theory and
criticism.
John Wesley (1703-1791) is the chief architect and source of
inspiration to the teaching commonly referred to as Christian
perfection. Among his many publications, the book that best
summarizes his teachings on holiness is A Plain Account of
Christian Perfection, as believed and taught by the Reverend Mr.
John Wesley, from the year 1725 to the year 1777. For many years
this timeless classic has been reproduced in various formats. Now,
for the first time, John Wesley's 'A Plain Account of Christian
Perfection' is being offered in a definitive Annotated Edition by
Mark K. Olson. This edition is volume one in a projected three
volume series. The Annotated Edition offers the following: The
entire text has been divided into chapters and verses for detailed
study and cross-referencing. The introduction examines in detail
when and why Wesley wrote A Plain Account. The verse by verse
commentary discusses the history and background behind the text,
offering unsurpassed explanation of Wesley's doctrine of perfect
love. Five end notes address Wesley's early doctrinal development,
the impact of Aldersgate on his perfection doctrine, many
testimonies of attaining perfection, and other relevant material
from early Methodism. Over 150 quotations from Wesley's sermons,
writings, and letters offer unlimited clarification to his views on
perfection. The insights of many Wesley scholars are included:
Albert Outler, Randy Maddox, Kenneth Collins, William Greathouse,
Thomas Oden, Harold Lindstrom, Stephen Gunter, H. Ray Dunning,
Theodore Runyon, plus many others. A timeline details every event
in Wesley's lifetime corresponding to A Plain Account. Several
exhaustive indexes are included: scripture, annotation, subject,
author, Wesley quotations, and two synonym indexes from Wesley's
Journal and A Plain Account. The Essential Reading Section further
empowers the study of Wesley's theology of perfection. Included
are: o Twenty key sermons, along with their dates and locations in
Wesley's Works (both the Jackson and Bicentennial editions). o
Wesley's most important writings on perfection, listing their date
and location in his Works. o 250 letters relevant to his theology
of perfection. The index includes their date and location in
Wesley's Works, with a brief description of their contents. Two
additional volumes are planned in the series. John Wesley's
Theology of Perfection will offer specialized studies for those
wanting to dig deeper into Wesley's theology of perfection. The
third volume, John Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfection, will
present in systematic format every facet of Wesley's views on
perfection. The projected release for both volumes is 2006 and
2007. Together, these three volumes will present one of the most
thorough and exhaustive studies ever done on Wesley's most beloved,
yet, most controversial doctrine.
This work challenges the common consensus that Luther, with his
commitment to St. Paul's articulation of justification by faith,
leaves no room for the Letter of St. James. Against this one-sided
reading of Luther, focused only his criticism of the letter, this
book argues that Luther had fruitful interpretations of the epistle
that shaped the subsequent exegetical tradition. Scholarship's
singular concentration on Luther's criticism of James as "an
epistle of straw" has caused many to overlook Luther's sermons on
James, the many places where James comes to full expression in
Luther's writings, and the influence that Luther's biblical
interpretation had on later interpretations of James. Based
primarily on neglected Lutheran sermons in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, this work examines the pastoral hermeneutic
of Luther and his theological heirs as they heard the voice of
James and communicated that voice to and for the sake of the
church. Scholars, pastors, and educated laity alike are invited to
discover how Luther's theology was shaped by the Epistle of James
and how Luther's students and theological heirs aimed to preach
this disputed letter fruitfully to their hearers.
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