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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"BX Christian Denominations"”.
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Growth in English Baptist churches: with special reference to the Northamptonshire Particular Baptist Association (1770-1830)
The purpose of this study is to investigate and to substantiate the revival in the life of English Baptist churches that commenced during the last third of the eighteenth century and continued until the early years of the twentieth century. I have taken the strategically important Northamptonshire …
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Special daughters of Rome: Glasgow and its Roman Catholic Sisters, 1847-1913
Abstract available: p. i.
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Church and state in the Free Church of Scotland between 1843 - 1873
Summary: p. xii-xiv.
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Rediscovering the music of the silence - what can Cesar Manrique's spirituality add to the renewal of the reformed spirituality of the United Reformed Church?
Spirituality has become a discipline, which in many ways is now separated from religious activity. It has gathered a momentum of its own, whilst at the same time spirituality within churches, particularly the United Reformed Church, appears to be in decline. The contrast between these activities, …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
This thesis explores the lives of four British Quaker women—Isabella Ford, Isabel Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry—focusing on the way they engaged in peace issues in the early twentieth century. In order to examine the complexity and diversity of their experiences, this thesis investigates the …
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The Rowntree History Series and the growth of liberal Quakerism: 1895-1925
This dissertation explores how some leading Quakers in the period 1895-1925 promoted liberal views within the Religious Society of Friends in Britain and the U.S.A. It focuses on the use of denominational history as a medium through which to transmit these ideas, in particular on the Rowntree …
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The discourse of "Belonging" and Baptist church membership in contemporary Britain: historical, theological and demotic elements of a post-foundational theological proposal
During the late twentieth century Baptist church membership declined whilst church attendance increased. An investigation of these phenomena references Stanley Grenz’s post-foundational theology and Anthony Giddens’s sociological theory of structuration. An historical overview of Baptist church …
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Spirit, desire and the world: Roho churches of western Kenya in the era of globalization
This thesis is a study of the Roho churches of Vihiga District, Western Kenya, from their beginnings in 1927 to the present. After an initial historical overview of this group of African Independent Churches, it examines their creation of a vernacular theology – the founders’ vision. This was …
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The provision, design and effectiveness of websites for local Methodist churches
… of information technology in the context of Christian mission and, in particular, new insights into the deployment of Website technology in the context of local Methodist churches.
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… placing them within the contexts of traditional Christianity, the thesis indicates the other-absent character of Liberal Quakerism, and it shows an old-new Christian task that Quakers take on as a testimony to God and to Christ’s openness towards others. The specific themes are (1): ‘self-denial’ …
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The paradoxical co-existence of submissiveness and subversiveness in the theology of Yu-Ming Jia
… relationship between missionaries and Chinese Christians appearing in missionary enterprise. This study will focus on three areas of Jia’s theology: christology, ecclesiology and soteriology, which will be analysed with Homi Bhabha’s three conceptions: ambivalence, mimicry and hybridity. These …
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Evangelical Christian healing: an ethnographic study of identity in ‘Healing on the streets’ of Birmingham, UK.
… a charismatic evangelical group performing Christian healing as mission. I employ the Ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviewing in order to understand how the group’s activities are shaped by their understanding of space and place, how they seek to manage the boundary …
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The Pentecost fire is burning : models of mission activities in the Church of Pentecost
The use of models to study mission activities enables not only vivid description and systematic analysis but also prescriptions for the future. This thesis examines the mission activities of the Church of Pentecost from 1917 to 2008 using five mission models: local, regional, migrational, reverse …
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The civil war revival and its Pentecostal progeny: a religious movement among the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria
This thesis is a study of a Christian movement among the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria from its origins in the Civil War Revival (1967-73) to the present. It argues that the success of the revival depended upon a balance between supply and demand. Colonial legacies, Western missionary endeavours, …
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A critical study on Christian mission with special reference to the Presbyterian church of Mizoram
… interpretation. Then the colonial power and Christian mission came to Mizoram which brought various changes in Mizo society. While admitting that change was a need of the Mizo society and irreversible process, it has also brought problems which shake the foundation of the Mizo society and …
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From revelation to resource: the natural world in the thought and experience of Quakers in Britain and Ireland, 1647-1830
This thesis explores the place of the natural world in the spiritual and intellectual lives of British and Irish Quakers (Friends) from the earliest evidence in 1647 up to the rise of evangelical Quakerism around 1830. Whilst Quakers agreed that God had made and continued to uphold the creation, …
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“God Found His Moses” A biographical and theological analysis of the life of Joseph Smale (1867-1926)
For over a century Pentecostal historiography has superficially recognised Pastor Joseph Smale as one of many individuals involved in the chain of events leading up to the 1906 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles. However, an in-depth biographical assessment of Smale’s unique contribution has, to …
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Quakerism and approaches to mental affliction: a comparative study of George Fox and William Tuke
This thesis compares the healing ministry of George Fox with the humanitarian reforms of William Tuke. Fox, a radical religious leader, claimed to heal by the power of the Lord working through him. Tuke, a prosperous merchant, managed an innovative asylum. Fox and Tuke lived in different times and …
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The move to independence from Anglican leadership: an examination of the relationship between Alexander Alfred Boddy and the early leaders of the British Pentecostal denominations (1907-1930)
… of formation of the three major Pentecostal denominations, namely, the Apostolic Faith Church, the Assemblies of God and the Elim Church. Although there were not many Anglican participants in British Pentecostalism and most Pentecostals came from Nonconformist backgrounds, Boddy dominated the …
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Disfellowshiped: Pentecostal responses to fundamentalism in the United States, 1906-1943
This thesis examines the relationship between pentecostalism and fundamentalism in the United States from 1906-1943. Of particular interest is the formation of the National Association of Evangelicals, which combined these two movements (along with holiness churches), though their history was …
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