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Reassessing Canonical Attitudes Towards African Marriage Practices Based on a Study of the African Synod [PDF]
, 1996 African theologians are virtually unanimous in pointing out that the experience and institution of marriage constitute a special test case for the process of inculturation in the Church in Africa.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
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European synods of women: feminist spirituality in action
Feminismo/s, 2012 The term synod is derived from Greek legal terminology and refers to an assembly of people with the same goal and the same path. The term was used very early to characterize the assembly of Christian women and men in community gathering and councils in ...
María Pilar de Miguel Fernández
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? The Synod on Synodality and the Eucharistic Revival
Religions, 2023 This article considers how two ongoing major ecclesial events—the Synod on Synodality and the Eucharistic Revival—might shed light on each other. While both events have garnered much attention, few have read them together. Nevertheless, the Eucharist and
Lucas Briola
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God seeks and creates community [PDF]
, 2008 Historical series, 17. Sermon prepared for and made available to the congregations of the Synod of Alberta, presented at the festival of The Holy Trinity, 6 Je 2004.
Kristenson, Stephen P.
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.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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RECEPTION OF DOCUMENT “CHRISTIAN TEACHING AND EDUCATION IN THE PARISH OF I (XIV) SYNOD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WARMIA” AMONG TEACHERS OF RELIGION [PDF]
Studia Warmińskie, 2017 The fifth anniversary of the completion of the work of the Synod and the appearance of Synod's documents is a good occasion for a profound reflection on the knowledge of indications and for reminding of its most important objectives.
Bielinowicz Adam
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(Confessional) Lutheran perspectives on the unity of the church
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 From personal experience, this article shares to what degree the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria was and continues to be a gateway to the future, challenging among others the divisions that characterise the Church of Christ worldwide ...
Dieter H. Reinstorf
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The Implementation of Peter the Great’s Church Policy in the Eastern Outskirts of the Russian Empire
Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2022 The church reform of Peter the Great was meant to exercise strict control over the church revenues and expenditures, as well as to heavily regulate parish life.
Irina L. Dameshek, Alexandr P. Sannikov
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, 2006 Historical series, 9. Sermon delivered at the bieenial assembly of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Brock Univ, St Catharines, Ontario, 2004.
Pryse, Michael J.
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