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Characteristics of a 'common good building' Church of England Church
Ecclesial FuturesThis paper investigates the question, What does a ‘common good building’ church, that partners with others to serve homeless people, look like? This investigation will assist church leaders in focusing resources and training on an outworking of the ...
Ian Terry
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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THE CAMBRIDGE SERMON OF 1946: A REFLECTION ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH CHRISTIANITY [PDF]
Ziglôbitha: The transition from the Victorian to the Edwardian era marked a profound transformation in the United Kingdom’s social, political, and religious life.
Jean De Dieu MAMPOUYA
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Church, King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant (Pan Books, 2015)
Royal Studies Journal, 2016 Review of Stephen Church, King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant (London: Pan Books, 2015).
Stephen Donnachie
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Towards the Acceptance of Diversity
Ecclesial Futures, 2020 During the past fifteen years, the self-understanding of the Church of England, a traditional state church with its parish structure has changed. The mother church of the Anglican World Communion claims since 2004 to be a mixed economy church; one that ...
Sabrina Müller
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Plague as a means of religious controversy
Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2020 Translation of a treatise by George Whitehead, a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), criticizing the position of the Church of England during the Great Plague of London, 1665-1666.
Z. Yu. Metlitskaya
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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