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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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Laity and participation: a theology of being the church [PDF]
, 2002 The basic assumption of this thesis is that there should be a theology of the laity that is truly positive, ecumenical and catholic. The prime concern, therefore, is less with specific contents and more an exploration of the dimensions such a new ...
Höbel, Thomas
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Heeding the great commission: The significance of Matthew's gospel for Baptismal theology and practice in a post-Christian age. [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis represents a worked example in the application of Scripture to a contemporary theological situation. The Scripture applied is Matthew's Gospel and the theological situation is the ongoing practice of Christian baptism by paedo-baptising ...
Ramsden, Martin Francis
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St Luke’s Anglican Church in Ikwerreland, Nigeria (1904–2014)
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Over the decades, there has been a paradigm shift in interests, approaches and methods in African Christian Historiography. There is a need for a circumscribed study and documentation of people’s engagement and involvements in the Church in Africa.
Jones U. Odili, Elizabeth Lawson-Jack
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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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James Cooper and the Scoto-Catholic Party : tractarian reform in the Church of Scotland, 1882 - 1918 [PDF]
, 2015 In Scotland, no less than in England, the late Victorian era was one of transition. Industrialisation and urbanisation created new social problems, while other forces - most importantly the railway - worked to undermine the national comprehensiveness of ...
Rees, Brian A.
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The story of the Apostles Barnabas and Paul of Antioch
Гуманитарные и юридические исследованияIntroduction. Antioch occupies a significant part of Hellenistic history. Located in the Middle East, it became the cradle of one of the oldest Christian churches Antioch.
S. Lavand
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Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945
Acta Theologica, 2011 The German occupation of Norway during the Second World War caused unprecedented problems for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and other Christian denominations.
F. Hale
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Ecclesiology in the Church of England: an historical and theological examination of the role of ecclesiology in the church of England since the second world war [PDF]
, 2000 From a 'postliberal' perspective I argue that there is no means by which divine truth can incontrovertibly be known or directly understood and communicated. However a communitarian and historicist approach locates the experience and the expression of the
Bagshaw, Paul
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