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Growth or decline in the Church of England during the decade of Evangelism: did the Churchmanship of the Bishop matter? [PDF]

, 2009
The Decade of Evangelism occupied the attention of the Church of England throughout the 1990s. The present study employs the statistics routinely published by the Church of England in order to assess two matters: the extent to which these statistics ...
Francis, Leslie J., Roberts, C. (Carol)
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The Paradox of Threat: Vernacular Security Governance Among Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Four European States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do religious minorities proactively manage their safety amid global crises and local hostility? This article examines these dynamics, conceptualized as “vernacular security governance,” among Jewish and Muslim populations in four European states.
Tahir Abbas, May Tamimova, Irene Trebeschi, Paul Wabnitz   +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Evaluation of Ecclesial Innovations as Empowerment

Ecclesial Futures
The article introduces the reader to the scientific evaluation of an ecclesial innovation programme initiated in 2015 by the Evangelical Church in Central Germany called Erprobungsräume (Spaces of trial). By doing this, the text sketches the German socio-
Felix Eiffler
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Fostering Diversity in Congregations: A practical framework for local churches to reflect and improve accessibility

Ecclesial Futures
Diversity, understood as the extent to which the members of a group or organization differ from one another, is fundamental for the Church, but often not given to a great extent in local congregations, at least not in the Evangelical Church in Germany ...
Hanna Kauhaus
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Jersey City, Journal Square, St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church

, 2007
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