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Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and
historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures
of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich
civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from
c. 1350 to c. 1650. In these essays, the contributors seek to
understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by
focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great
extent, on urban records. The contributions are concerned with
understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well
as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and
records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside
of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations
of people at different status levels were for the use of the law,
what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different
groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By
examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be
recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing
itself then became part of a culture of law. Cultures of Law in
Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650
combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics
in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level
undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and
academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and
linguistic history.
Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and
historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures
of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich
civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from
c. 1350 to c. 1650. In these essays, the contributors seek to
understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by
focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great
extent, on urban records. The contributions are concerned with
understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well
as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and
records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside
of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations
of people at different status levels were for the use of the law,
what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different
groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By
examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be
recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing
itself then became part of a culture of law. Cultures of Law in
Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650
combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics
in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level
undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and
academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and
linguistic history.
This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the
impact of the post-war ?Baby Boom? generation on Christianity
around the world. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the
contributors examine ten advanced countries, including England,
France, Germany, Australia, and the United States, and explore the
ways baby boomers have helped reshape and redefine ?establishment
religions? ? that is, the dominant, primarily Christian
institutions. Their conclusions are broad and far-reaching,
shedding light on the fate of religion in other countries now
modernizing and those countries moving through the modern to the
postmodern. Sociologists, historians, and scholars of religion will
profit from the insights put forth here on religion in a postmodern
context.
How can a doctrine about reconciliation with God create so much
controversy among God's people? Theologian Brad Vaughn believes
Christians can gain clarity and unity on the doctrine of the
atonement through a renewed attention to the biblical evidence.
While theological theories are necessary and useful, they can
obscure reality as much as clarify it. And we're often ignorant of
the role that cultural and historical context plays in shaping
these views. Instead of beginning by comparing atonement theories,
he argues, we need to delve deep into the Bible, where we find a
handful of motifs that combine to form a richer, more robust
theology of atonement. The Cross in Context presents a perspective
on the atonement that seeks to reconcile theological camps and
enable Christians to interpret the Bible more faithfully. It draws
from the entire biblical canon and considers the New Testament in
light of its Old Testament background, focusing on the internal
logic of Israel's sacrificial system. Applying his intercultural
ministry experience and expertise on honor and shame, Vaughn also
considers how to effectively contextualize the multifaceted message
of salvation in diverse cultural contexts. Combining missiology,
theology, and biblical studies, The Cross in Context provides a
refreshing and nuanced look at the atonement and what it means for
the life and witness of the church.
This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the
impact of the post-war "Baby Boom" generation on Christianity
around the world. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the
contributors examine ten advanced countries, including England,
France, Germany, Australia, and the United States, and explore the
ways baby boomers have helped reshape and redefine "establishment
religions" - that is, the dominant, primarily Christian
institutions. Their conclusions are broad and far-reaching,
shedding light on the fate of religion in other countries now
modernizing and those countries moving through the modern to the
postmodern. Sociologists, historians, and scholars of religion will
profit from the insights put forth here on religion in a postmodern
context.
This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the
practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the
Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts
in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a
means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured
in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past
have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately
influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is
'feudalism', whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R.
Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic.
The volume's contributors offer a series of case studies of other
concepts - 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic',
'networks' and 'politics' - that have been influential,
particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later
Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between
historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for
fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.
Christianity Today's 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit -
Biblical Studies Biblical Foundations Award Finalist What does it
mean to "read Romans with Eastern eyes"? Combining research from
Asian scholars with his many years of experience living and working
in East Asia, Jackson directs our attention to Paul's letter to the
Romans. He argues that some traditional East Asian cultural values
are closer to those of the first-century biblical world than common
Western cultural values. In addition, he adds his voice to the
scholarship engaging the values of honor and shame in particular
and their influence on biblical interpretation. As readers, we
bring our own cultural fluencies and values to the text. Our biases
and backgrounds influence what we observe-and what we overlook.
This book helps us consider ways we sometimes miss valuable
insights because of widespread cultural blind spots. In Reading
Romans with Eastern Eyes, Jackson demonstrates how paying attention
to East Asian culture provides a helpful lens for interpreting
Paul's most complex letter. When read this way, we see how honor
and shame shape so much of Paul's message and mission.
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Description: Congregations today face both old and often new,
unprecedented challenges--spiritual, moral, technological, and
economic--for which there are no easy solutions. Facing such
challenges calls for pastors able to lead with authority in ways at
the same time faithful to the gospel and appropriate to the
congregation's setting and the issues at hand. Yet many pastors are
unsure of their authority, often experiencing conflict as they
attempt to lead. Others have abused their authority and brought
mistrust and suspicion to ordained ministry, making it difficult
for other clergy to lead. In this book, a new and revised edition
of his earlier, highly regarded work on pastoral authority and
leadership, Jackson Carroll brings together theological and
sociological perspectives to provide an interpretation of pastoral
authority as reflective leadership, a style of leadership that
involves vision and discernment, and that is appropriate for the
many roles in which pastors engage--preaching, worship leadership,
teaching, counseling, and shaping the congregation's corporate
life. In this new edition Carroll draws on what he has learned from
many conversations with pastors and lay leaders since the book's
initial publication as well as insights from others. He also
introduces helpful new case material from practicing pastors and
incorporates the perspectives of several recent leadership
theorists and practitioners to deepen and enhance the discussion of
pastoral authority as reflective leadership. Endorsements: ""When a
book is described as a 'classic, ' it means it stands the test of
time. Its message is as important today as when the author first
put pen to paper. Jackson Carroll's As One With Authority is a
classic. This book remains essential reading for every church
leader who wants to understand the unique kind of leadership needed
in congregations. This is one of those rare books that should never
sit neglected on a shelf. It is meant to be read, marked, learned,
and inwardly digested--and shared with a new generation of
pastors."" -Michael Jinkins President Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary ""Based on solid theological and sociological
research, and several decades of astute observation, Jackson
Carroll has updated his classic work on As One With Authority, and
just in time to benefit those clergy who are questioning their
authority. Jackson clarifies the narrative of pastoral authority as
reflective leadership and takes us back to those biblical roots as
old as Paul, Jesus, Isaiah, and Moses. This is a penetrating
exposition of the biblical vision of the way pastoral ministry
should be done, and is the first book every beginning student of
ministry should read. I recommend it most highly."" -Robert E.
Cooley President Emeritus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
""Pastors need the expertise that allows them to read the social
situation and interpret their traditions, but also an ear for the
calling and vision that lends their work 'sacred weight.' Building
on the insight sociology has to offer and his own keen theological
sensibilities, Carroll speaks here 'as one with authority.'""
-Nancy T. Ammerman Professor of Sociology of Religion Boston
University About the Contributor(s): Jackson W. Carroll is the Ruth
W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor Emeritus of Religion and
Society at Duke University Divinity School, where he also was
project director of Pulpit & Pew: Research on Pastoral
Leadership. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has most
recently authored God's Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the
Shaping of Congregations (2006). He has also written extensively on
pastoral ministry and congregations, including Mainline to the
Future: Congregations for the 21st Century (2000).
Pastoral ministry is an occupation in flux. In this comprehensive
study Jackson Carroll considers the many factors -- changing roles
among clergy and laypeople, the opening of ordination to women, an
increasing shortage of clergy, and more -- that are shaping
congregations and ministers today. Building on Paul's image of
Christians as "clay jars," Carroll paints a portrait of "God's
potters" -- pastors whose calling is to form their congregational
jars so that they reveal rather than hide God's treasure.
A veteran clergy watcher, Carroll uses data from what is likely
the most representative survey of Protestant and Catholic clergy
ever undertaken, as well as focus group interviews and
congregational responses, to take a hard look at who is doing
ministry today, what it involves, and how pastors are faring in
leading their congregations. Significantly, his study covers clergy
from a broad range of traditions -- Catholic, mainline Protestant,
conservative Protestant, and historic black churches.
Replete with pertinent tables and figures, "God's Potters"
culminates with specific strategies for strengthening pastoral
leadership and nurturing excellence in ministry.
While others lament the declining attendance of mainline
churches and blame it on an out-of-date tradition, Jackson Carroll
offers a more hopeful perspective, arguing that they key to future
vitality can be found in the same tradition. According to Carroll,
the tension between tradition and change has always been part of
the Protestant heritage, and he argues that now is a time when
being faithful requires adaptation.
This book takes a novel, cultural approach to studying mainline
denominations, focusing on the denominations' religious and moral
vision--the beliefs, values, symbols, stories, and style that make
a denomination distinct. Of special concern are the ways in which
denominations passed on their vision and how they maintained
plausibility under changing circumstances. Contributors include a
variety of authors, historians, sociologists, anthropologists,
educators, and liturgists who examine ways in which denominations
have sought to transmit their culture with varying degrees of
success or failure.
Jackson Carroll focuses on reclaiming a healthy understanding of
authority in the church by reviewing the meaning and foundation of
clergy authority and examining how his authority has been used and
abused. Carroll asks how a sense of clergy authority might be
recovered--one that honors shared ministry among clergy and lay
leaders while it appreciates the distinctive leadership tasks of
each clergyperson. To recover this sense, Carroll proposes a model
of reflective leadership and uses practical examples to illustrate
this method.
Did you know there was a plane crash on the TCU campus? Or that TCU
once had an airport? Were you aware that TCU began integrating
during World War II? Discover these and other interesting tidbits
in Images and Stories of TCU’s First 100 Years, 1873–1973,
which offers a visual and anecdotal history of TCU’s evolution.
Images and Stories examines the university’s evolution as it
moved from location to location, uncovering stories about TCU’s
students and faculty and following the growth and expansion,
changes and challenges, and struggles and successes that led to the
TCU Centennial 1973. Some of the images and stories are well known,
but many will come as a surprise. Enjoy the ride!
This handbook for seminarians and clergy professionals places the
congregation itself, rather than individual scholarly disciplines,
at the center of congregational analysis. Using a comprehensive
systems approach to congregations, this volume enables readers to
analyze the ministries, stories, and processes that are at work in
congregations. It provides techniques for studying the congregation
as well as a framework for understanding the nature of the
congregation.
The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had
a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the
medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of
the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the
fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a
region which is much better understood by historians of
fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses
to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of
England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict,
kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic
region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society
sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law
were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of
'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland
together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in
the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing
understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the
region within a wider comparative framework.
The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had
a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the
medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of
the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the
fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a
region which is much better understood by historians of
fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses
to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of
England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict,
kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic
region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society
sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law
were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of
'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland
together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in
the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing
understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the
region within a wider comparative framework.
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the
U.S. today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which
institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational
process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two
seminaries-one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These
studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first
part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very
different intellectual, religious, and social worlds.
The authors go on to analyze these disparate environments, and
suggest how in each case corporate culture acts as an agent of
educational change. They find two major consequences stemming from
the culture of each school. First, each culture gives expression to
a normative goal that aims at shaping the way students understand
themselves and from issues of ministry practice. Second, each
provides a "cultural tool kit" of knowledge, practices, and skills
that students use to construct strategies of action for the various
problems and issues that will confront them as pastors or in other
forms of ministry. In the concluding chapters, the authors explore
the implications of their findings for theories of institutional
culture and professional socialization and for interpreting the
state of religion in America. They identify some of the practical
dilemmas that theological and other professional schools currently
face, and reflect on how their findings might contribute to their
solution. This accessible, thought-provoking study will not only
illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and
forms, but also provide invaluable insights into important dynamics
of American religious life.
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