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Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Heresy: Early Development of the Concept
After tracing the evolution in meaning of the Greek word hairesis from ‘choice’ to ‘false belief’, this entry examines the criteria according to which a belief was judged to be heretical, either by particular controversialists or by bodies which ...
Mark Edwards
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Status kanoniczny Bractwa Kapłańskiego św. Piusa X
The subject of the article is an analysis of the legal situation of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The active pastoral activities of the Fraternity in various regions of the world, and especially in Polish ...
Wojciech Ciołek
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Ecclesiastical Support to the Master of Avis: An Analysis from the Aclamation Act of 1385 [PDF]
The death of king Fernando of Portugal in October 1383 without male heirs opened a succesion crisis. Despite the studies that have been made concerning the composition of the factions that supported the various pretenders to the throne, in special about ...
Coelho, André Madruga
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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ESCHATOLOGY OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS SCHISM
The article is devoted to the eschatological component of the Russian religious schism of the XVIIth century. The authors prove its significance in terms of the social cataclysms of the "buntashny century" and consider the correlation between the ...
V E Bagdasarian, S I Resnyansky
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This paper analyses and edits two anonymous Latin letters that help to assess the political climate in the aftermath of the Great Schism: a Devil’s letter addressed to Clement VII and a literary polished invective against Urban VI.
Gabriele Bonomelli
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Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
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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The bishop of Brescia, Philastrius, author of the first Latin catalogue of heresies, written between 380 and 388, presented in his treaty an extremely large number of heterodox movements: 28 within Judaism and 128 in early Christianity. This comes as a
Mariusz Szram
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