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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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The blind man of John 9 as a paradigmatic figure of the disciple in the Fourth Gospel

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
This article seeks to compare Christian discipleship with Mosaic discipleship. The Pharisees, needing to survive, rejected the Christological revelation the Son of Man brought in order to make God known on earth. The study of discipleship in John 9 leads
B. Vincent Muderhwa
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Five loaves and two fishes : an empirical study in psychological type and biblical hermeneutics among Anglican preachers [PDF]

, 2010
The sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking (SIFT) method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching has its roots in three fields: a theology of individual differences situated within the doctrine of creation, an application of Jungian ...
Francis, Leslie J.
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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The performativity of ‘defining’ asides in the Fourth Gospel: A speech act perspective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The article investigates the performative nature of asides that aim to define or specify something in the Fourth Gospel. Despite scholars exploring the prevalence and significance of asides in this Gospel, there has been limited attention given to ...
Risimati S. Hobyane
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John 17:6-19: exegesis case study [PDF]

, 1981
John 13-21. The article explores the place of the unity motif in Jn 17:6-19. After a brief survey of the scholarly consensus regarding the levels of composition and the cultural and religious milieu of the Fourth Gospel, the study analyses the structure
Buck, Erwin
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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The Fourth Gospel as a textual field of meaning [PDF]

, 2014
The Fourth Gospel is a textual field of meaning and it reinforces pressure on readers to differentiate appearance from intended meaning. No single interpretation can claim to have said the last word on the meaning of the Fourth Gospel’s use of ...
Micallef, Martin
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

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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Resurrection Preaching in the Gospel of John

Religions
The Gospel of John, without having its own liturgical year, is typically assumed to have a supplemental homiletical role in the Revised Common Lectionary, and yet the Fourth Gospel is the designated Gospel reading for the festival Sundays of Christmas ...
Karoline Lewis
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