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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 307-325, September 2025.This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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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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Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 527-534, July 2025.ABSTRACT Ernest Gellner suggested that a multi‐factor—indeed, a 15‐factor—model was necessary to explain the Industrial Revolution. Most economic historians prefer a much simpler economistic theory while adding ritual genuflections to the role of ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’.
Michael Mann
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BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2003 Leadership and Calvinism, Arie van Deursen Te Velde's comparative study of five Dutch Prime Ministers attempts to examine how leadership changes with the passage of time.
A.Th. van Deursen
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Law and Order in Exile Communities in Early Modern Norfolk
History, Volume 110, Issue 390, Page 227-243, March 2025.Abstract In November 1565, Queen Elizabeth issued Letters Patent permitting thirty textile masters from the Low Countries to settle in Norwich and practice their trade. By early 1566, two language communities, one Dutch and the other French, had been established, each with its own church.
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
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Fryderyk I wobec Śląska — Śląsk wobec Fryderyka I: między prezentacją oczekiwań a realizowaną polityką | Frederick I, Elector Palatine and Silesia: between expectations and the implemented policy [PDF]
Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2019 In connection with the joining of Protestant Silesian princes and Estates in the Bohemian Estates uprising in the year 1619, historians have long dealt with the journey of King Frederick I of Wittelsbach to Silesia, whose aim was to accept a tribute ...
Gabriela Wąs
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Divine Determinism and the Problem of Hell
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 Divine determinism, though affirmed by many Calvinists, implicates God in the decisions people make that ultimately damn them to the terrible destiny of hell. In this paper, the authors argue that this scenario is a problem for divine determinism.
Stratton Tim, Erasmus Jacobus
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History, Volume 110, Issue 390, Page 261-283, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the experiences of a group of Norfolk puritans who, seeking religious freedom, fled to the Low Countries in the late 1630s, were exposed to congregationalism in the English Reformed Church in Rotterdam, and then returned to their former homes at the start of the English civil wars to oversee the foundation of the ...
Joel Halcomb
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The Dutch Exile Community in King's Lynn: A Forgotten Moment in Anglo‐Dutch Contact
History, Volume 110, Issue 390, Page 194-214, March 2025.Abstract Before, during and after the start of the Dutch Revolt, thousands of people, principally Calvinists, left the Low Countries for England. They established communities in more than twenty towns including the borough of King's Lynn in west Norfolk.
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
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Thomas Hooker, Martin Luther, and the Terror at the Edge of Protestant Faith
, 2015 Unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, early Protestants insisted that individual Christians could be certain that they personally enjoyed God’s favor and would be saved. Their faith in Christ’s redeeming work would give them “assurance of salvation,”
Tipson, Baird L.
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