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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Berks County with its diamond-shaped area of 864 square miles located in southeastern Pennsylvania is rich in history and scenic resources. Its mild climate, fertile soil, and the Schuylkill River attracted European settlers in the beginning of the ...
Berit Jany
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 The “Pure Church Movement” is introduced as a plain Anabaptist revival that unfolded in American, Canadian, and Latin American Swiss Mennonite, Russian Mennonite, and Amish churches over the course of the 20th century. It was an intentional return to the
Peter Hoover
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Flesh, Freundschaft, and Fellowship: Towards a Holistic Model of the Amish Kinship System
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Kinship as a social anthropological category, with its three fundamentals – affinity, descent, and siblingship – denotes an orderly system of social relationships past, present, and future, through which a social system is composed and reproduced.
Vlatka Škender
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Toward the Renewal of Christian Initiation in the Parish [PDF]
, 1981 (Excerpt) The brochure for this year\u27s Institute contained the arresting sentence: To discuss the question of Christian initiation is, finally, to inquire after the very nature of the church: the issue is of vast ecclesiological significance.
Brand, Eugene L
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 The number of religious minorities from Central and Eastern Europe prone to migration to the English-speaking world increased considerably during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among them were the Evangelical Baptists, or Neutäufer, founded by a
Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Strangers and Pilgrims is first and foremost a photo documentation of colony life of Low German-speaking Mennonites in Latin America with accompanying commentary.
Kerry Fast
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THE EXPANSION OF POST-SECULAR INFLUENCE BY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS SUCH AS CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS
Journal of Analytic Divinity, 2018 This research work discusses the various ideas on, and various roles of Christian belief that affect communities, national and international policies. To do this, initially the origins and characteristics of phenomena such as; secularism, post-secular era, de-secularization have been briefly examined with the help of various scholars’ perspectives ...
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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