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The subject of the study is a Byzantine lead seal belonging to Ioannes, the archbishop of the city, which was found in Parion in 2009. The study deals with Parion’s Christian era, the function of the seal and its iconographic features, respectively ...
Kasım OYARÇİN
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Charles F. Mackenzie, Popery, Guns, and Colonial Conflict
Abstract Charles F. Mackenzie was an Anglican archdeacon in the 19th century in the newly formed Diocese of Natal. He was consecrated a missionary bishop for Central Africa in Cape Town in 1861, which was a significant development for the Anglican Church at the time.
Peter C. Houston
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This article explores how and why Gregory of Tours encoded the fear of God into the architecture of Tours cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin. Using Gregory’s writings, in combination with the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus and the inscriptions that adorned the interior walls of the basilica, this paper argues that Gregory followed the church ...
Catherine‐Rose Hailstone
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This article is a study of the Edinburgh‐based anti‐Catholic organisation, the Scottish Reformation Society, in the immediate aftermath of the 1850 restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, commonly known at the time as the papal aggression. The papal aggression sent shockwaves throughout England and was viewed by Protestants as
Ryan Mallon
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Five years after its promulgation, the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia is continuing to shape the church by reforming its pastoral ministry in particular, its work in marriage and family life.
James F. Keenan
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Abstract Although the Church of England (CofE) agreed to admit women to its most senior ordained offices as bishops in 2014, they are still not afforded the same opportunities for professional progression as men. This article identifies and explores factors that contribute to such inequality.
A. D. J. Fry
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Bottom‐up Nation‐building: National Censuses and Local Administration in Nineteenth‐Century Spain
Abstract It is customary to consider population censuses (and statistics in general) as exclusive to the modern State, appearing in the second half of the eighteenth century but being developed and spreading in the West during the nineteenth century. Indeed, censuses help to strengthen and legitimize such states.
Pere Salas‐Vives +1 more
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Chalcedon on the Road to Justice and Peace
Abstract In the context of the bilateral dialogue between the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, the question of Christology – and with that the joint reception of the conciliar tradition of the early church – played an important role, given the “families” of churches that both traditions belong to: “Western ...
Peter‐Ben Smit, Adrian Suter
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Writing Scottish Parliamentary History, c.1500–1707
Abstract In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholarship on the Scottish parliament was heavily informed by a narrative of ‘failure’, directed at explaining why its members voted it out of existence in 1707. Part of the problem was the tendency to see any deviation from the practices of the Westminster parliament as weakness.
Amy Blakeway, Laura A.M. Stewart
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Why not join the Roman Catholic Church?
The title of this contribution is purposefully ambivalent. It can be read as a rhetorical question: when there are so many good reasons to join the church of Rome, why should Protestants refrain from taking this step?
Cornelis van der Kooi
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