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Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
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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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

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 Relevance of Reformed Scholasticism for Contemporary Systematic Theology

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2016
This article examines how Reformed scholasticism can be relevant for systematic theology today. ‘Reformed Scholasticism’ denotes the academic practice in which the doctrines of the Reformation are expounded, explained, and defended.
te Velde Dolf
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Ignoring God Triune? The Doctrine of the Trinity in Dutch Theology [PDF]

International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2009
AbstractThis article presents an overview of Dutch trinitarian theology in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries. It will become clear how and why leading Dutch theologians either ignored the doctrine, or used it for their own purposes, or uttered critical reservations regarding its sense and significance.
Stephan van Erp, Gijsbert Van Den Brink
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Menolong Praremaja Kristen Bersikap Benar Ketika Menghadapi Nabi dan Ajaran Palsu

Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan, 2008
Alkitab dengan jelas dan tegas mengingatkan adanya dan betapa berbahayanya nabi palsu. Ironisnya, tema tentang nabi palsu ini jarang dikotbahkan atau diajarkan pada jemaat.
Magdalena Pranata Santoso
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