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Calvinism in North America [PDF]
, 2009 "[...] In North America, the influence of Calvinism was key for building the United States and for the worldwide influence of Calvinism. [...]", in: Calvin Global.
Bratt, James D.
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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, 2009 How has Calvinism been at work in the island state of Taiwan over the last four centuries? Does the extension of “international Calvinism” to a remote corner of Asia yield new forms of expression? This article aims to describe and analyze four paradigms
Cheng Yang-En
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 94-114, January 2026.Abstract The article explores Christianity's role in society through public theology, particularly in relation to the public calling of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). It advocates for reflecting on the dichotomy of church/world through the lens of divine mediation, challenging traditional dualisms and emphasizing a ‘soft difference ...
Rachèl Blokhuis‐Koopman
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Визуальная теология, 2019 The main issue of the Dutch 17 th century painting as visual material is the correlation between the pictorial content and the verbal interpretation of plots and motives.
Larisa Nikiforova / Лариса Викторовна Никифорова
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Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 56-74, January 2026.Abstract The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so
Günter Thomas
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‘The Devil Made Me Do It’ Electus per Deus and Quasi‐Occult Crime in South Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This study interrogates the phenomenon of ‘occult crime’ in South Africa, focusing on the perspectives of crime such as Electus per Deus, the murder of Kirsty Theologo, Hansie Cronjé, and the context behind the assumed connection between criminal culpability, mens daemonica, and the occult.
Tristán Kapp
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The Relevance of Neo-Calvinism for Church and Theology
, 2021 Neo-Calvinism is increasingly popular in the United States, but far less so in the Netherlands where it originated. Written from the context of the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) founded by Abraham Kuyper, this article presents six elements of Neo ...
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The Rise of Calvinist Christianity in Urbanising China
Religions, 2019 Over the past decade, Reformed Christianity, broadly based on the theology of Calvinism, has spread widely in China, especially by appealing to Chinese ‘intellectuals’ who constitute most of the house church leaders in urban areas.
Jie Kang
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