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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Anabaptist"”.
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Spirit, discipleship, community : the contemporary significance of Anabaptist hermeneutics
… within this movement and to distinguish Anabaptist hermeneutics from other sixteenth century systems of biblical interpretation; and, on the basis of this survey, to explore ways in which Anabaptist hermeneutics might contribute to contemporary hermeneutical developments. Anabaptist …
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Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders
… dissertation argues that the establishment of an Anabaptist subjectivity was a rhetorical achievement and analyzes how several texts attempted rhetorical interventions to transform the already-given historical situations faced by twentieth-century Mennonites. I substantiate this claim by utilizing …
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An Anabaptist paradigm for conflict transformation : critical reflections on peacemaking in Zimbabwe
This thesis outlines a proposal from an explicitly religious standpoint of the key dimensions of peacebuilding, focusing particularly on mediation and facilitation as a primary task. What is the value of such a study? My initial responses in the paragraphs which follow are made at the broadest …
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The medieval Miles Christi and the Anabaptist knight : chivalric imagination in the Radical Reformation.
… Central Europe, paying particular attention to Anabaptist communities from 1525-1560. I argue that the exploration of the influence of chivalry in Anabaptism acts as a lens by which to see the way that religious imagination spurred creative ways of conceptualizing religious ideas and identities, …
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"Another Way": The Pneumatology of Deleuzean Minoritarian Communal Interpretation in Scripture, the 16th Century Radical Reformation, and Alternative 21st Century Anabaptist Community
… the convergence of Deleuzean philosophy with Anabaptist pneumatology and media communal interpretation theory in three particular locations: 1) selected mentions of the Holy Spirit in the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament; 2) the 16th century Radical Reformation; and 3) "Another Way," a …
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… circulated alongside artworks presenting Anabaptist theological heritage in a positive light. Book illustrations offer the most frequent site for representation, joined by broadsheets, print series, and a few drawings and paintings. While historians and theologians, working from literary …
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Called to mission : Mennonite women missionaries in Central Africa in the second half of the twentieth century
… the theological-historical distinctives of the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition; in the second part, through a case study, we examine how a select number of women missionaries interpreted their call in relation to their heritage, how their sense of call functioned as a support factor or otherwise, …
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Presbyterianism and social change in urban China
… a strong political theology that blends the Anabaptist and the reformed theologies. In addition, the institutional and the missional tension of this movement is also under examination. In the end, this project is an experiment that tests the commensurability between theology and social …
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Narratives of the Leadership Development of Adults Who Served as Summer Camp Staff in the Mennonite Setting : a Multiple Case Study
… as leaders? The conceptual framework included Anabaptist theology, transformative learning theory, servant leadership, and collaboration.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> The primary research design was a qualitative design (Creswell). A case study method (Yin) was utilized in the Mennonite camp …
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Baptist identity in ecumenical context : a critical exposition of the 1987 Statement on Baptist Principles of the Baptist Union of South Africa
… role. Drawing from the rich heritage of Anabaptist and English Baptist history and theology, and reflecting on other evangelical and ecumenical theological writings, the thesis shows the value of 'discipleship' as the motif for Baptists in the contemporary South African setting. The …
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The persistence of penance : evangelical alternatives for the sacrament of penance.
… the formation of Lutheran, Reformed, and Anabaptist alternatives for the functions of the sacrament of penance. It makes use of normative documents that guided the medieval practice of penance, the theological writings of Protestant reformers, and legislation that governed church–state …
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The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences
… the importance of the influence of the Anabaptist tradition. Chapter four shows that only certain of the more privatised English Baptist traditions have been stressed by South African Baptist writers, whilst the important elements of social involvement and radicalism have been ignored or …
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A study of a late thirteenth-century composite Office book (Cape Town, National Library of South Africa,MS Grey 4b5) with reference to selected manuscript sources from the diocese of Münster in Westphalia
… practices in the city of Münster prior to the Anabaptist takeover between 1533 and 1535. This investigation has confirmed a number of facts. Analysis of the text indicates that the breviary section is from the late 14th century as the scribe made use of the fully developed letter forms of …
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Education in Paradise: Learning for Profitable Employment Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
The Old Order Amish sect is an Anabaptist religious group which can trace its origins back to the Protestant Reformation in Zurich. Forced to flee from persecution, some Anabaptists ultimately found a haven in the German Palatinate. Emigrating from the there to America during the eighteenth …
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Do We Pray, or Do We Shoot? An interdisciplinary approach to reconcile polarized stances: Peace and defense church theological and practical responses to the threat of a mass shooting
The goal of this research was to find ways to help churches keep safe from a mass shooter. To do that, I hoped to find common ground among academics, law enforcement, peace churches, and defense churches and then leverage that common ground to find ways the groups could collaborate on church …