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Book Review: Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 [PDF]
, 2001 A review of Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 by D.
Clooney, Francis X.
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Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2009 The importance of education in the early stages of the church: John Calvin as catechist in his commentary on the Acts of the apostles Part of Calvin’s development as a catechist is his struggle against the Roman Catholic sacrament of confirmation ...
H.H. van Alten
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Organizacja katechezy w diecezji
Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2015 The following article is devoted to the organisation of cathesis in the diocese. Firstly, the diocesan Bishop’s office is presented, who is the first catechist and is the person who organises teaching in his diocese.
Jerzy Adamczyk
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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The didactic nature of Calvin’s De Scandalis
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2009 In this article the author explores the didactic nature and value of Calvin’s “De Scandalis” (1550). The reformer’s clear intention was to provide guidelines for strengthening those believers grappling with all kinds of stumbling blocks on the Christian ...
P.C. Potgieter
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Jews in the Society of Jesus: Claudio Acquaviva and his critics
In die Skriflig, 2023 The Spanish origins of the Society of Jesus entailed a sensitivity about the Jewish ancestry of many of its members. This article examines the decision taken by the Fifth General Congregation of the Society (1593–1594) to exclude persons of Jewish ...
Marianne R. Dircksen, Victor Houliston
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I am a peacemaker:writing as a space for recontextualising children's identity in a Catholic First Communion preparation course [PDF]
, 2015 This article reports on research addressing the role of writing as a space for producing representations of children’s identity as Catholics in a First Communion preparation course. It draws on data from ethnographic participant-observation over one year
Tusting, Karin
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 6 [PDF]
, 2016 A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1.
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