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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Christian history"”.
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The African Christian History of American Songs of Slavery
<p>Christianity is an African traditional religion that played a vital role in the formation of American songs of slavery, also known as spirituals. These songs were created by the enslaved Africans in America to express their longing for freedom and preserve African Christian tradition. Within the …
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Perspectives of Pro-revivalism: The Christian History and the Great Awakening
<p><em>The Christian History</em> was a pro-revivalist magazine printed in Boston from 1743-1745 during what is known as the Great Awakening. It contained accounts of revivalism written by pro-revivalist ministers from throughout the American colonies, England and Scotland. These ministers believed …
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the discipline histories of Finno-Ugric studies, linguistics and the larger field of intellectual history. …
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Supervision of the spiritual mentor: A narrative model
… spiritual direction, is one of the ministries of Christian soul care, and it is one of the spiritual disciplines available to Christians in their pursuit of holiness. Supervision of the spiritual mentor is a tool for the spiritual mentor's growth as they co-journey with others. The field of …
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An epic journey from creation to destruction
… of Narnia where supposals closely resemble the Christian history of this world. The events unlayered chronologically form an archetypal epic journey from stasis to chaos, the quest from creation to apocalypse, and represent the journey of everyman, for the journey we have taken in fiction is the …
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The Word was made flesh: The male body in sports evangelism
… - plays an integral part in the mission of Christian athletes by using the body as a medium for conveying religious messages about masculinity to young men. I focus upon sports evangelism as both entertainment spectacle and as a performance of masculinity, the commercialization of evangelism …
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Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World
The rise in production and distribution of Christian Hagiography in the Early Byzantine Empire points towards a unique moment in Christian History. The role of the saint was moved from the margins to a central and dynamic position within the church hierarchy and broader religious landscape. Meeting …
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Writings for acquisition : Hellenizing Alexandria, Egypt
… on Alexandria published in 1922, Alexandria a History and a Guide, considered until now 'the Classical Guide for Alexandria;' or ironically 'the guide for Classical Alexandria?' In fact, Forster's version of history recounted a Classical heritage all the while effectively attenuating the …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
… early narratives of the Swedish conversion to Christianity, and how they used them to write and rewrite their Christian history despite — and frequently, in response to — their pagan past. This is taken as a starting point for a broader discussion of history-writing in medieval Sweden (in Latin …
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"And the Great Dragon was Thrown Down:" A Historical Examination of the Protestant Stewardship Theological Principle
… nor has it been a constant fundamental of Christianity. It is a uniquely American experience, driven by the relationship between the American Protestant community’s relationship with the land and expansion, its religious culture, and its changing political situation over several centuries.
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Apostolic Succession in the Writings of Yves Congar and Oscar Cullmann
… components of the church's apostolicity. As history shows, however, there have been different views on the nature and function of apostolic succession. Moreover, its legitimacy and normativeness have been challenged, particularly since the sixteenth century onwards. In our century, fairly …
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Structure and Mission Effectiveness: a Study Focused on Seventh-day Adventist Mission to Unreached People Groups Between 1980 and 2010
… church structure and mission effectiveness in Christian history.</p> <p>The impact of structure on mission effectivenessis evaluated in the present work by looking for patterns in history in which the structure has been either a facilitator or a hindrance for establishing churches among those …
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Moral Implications of Darwinian Evolution for Human Reference Based in Christian Ethics: a Critical Analysis and Response to the "Moral Individualism" of James Rachels
… has catastrophic implications for traditional Christian ethics.</p> <p><em>The purpose.</em> The purpose of this dissertation is to explore and evaluate the question of whether or not protology affects ethics. In particular, I propose to distill the implications of evolutionary views of origins …
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2 Peter 2:4-16: The Redaction of the Biblical and Intertestamental References Dependent on Jude 5-11 and Their Overall Significance for the Document
… Jude, the prominence of the figure of Peter in Christian history seems to have influenced certain scholars to propose the contrary.</p><p>The arguments for the dependence of 2 Peter upon Jude will be addressed immediately in this dissertation since the focus of this study is on the way the …
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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… of polemical literature by mid-fourth-century Christian authors as a means of promoting themselves as authoritative and orthodox figures during a period of doctrinal uncertainty. It focuses on the writings of four bishops (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Lucifer of Cagliari and …
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Incarnational Reality as an approach to missional theological education and training
… presented by different denominations, Christian communities and cultures. During my missionary service of over 35 years, I have been involved in training mission workers among the poor and marginalised wherever I have been located. I have endeavoured to impart Incarnational Reality …
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… and Native American preachers who worked as Christian missionaries in the early modern British Atlantic world. While scholars have generally accepted the convention that most missionaries were white Europeans who knew little about the native peoples they were trying to convert, there were …
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The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E.
… regarded among scholars a watershed moment in history, most historians refuse to acknowledge this era as a revolutionary period. This paper focuses on one aspect of change that occurred during this period, religion. Using a carefully constructed definition of revolution, this re-examination of …
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John Clark Ridpath--United States Popular Historian: A Social and Intellectual Biography and an Examination of A Genre of Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317427.pdf: 19404984 bytes, checksum: 0e5a0583799be690781bc28d734a54a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… thinking has a long-standing and largely untold history, dating back to turn-of-the-century America and Europe. Entitled Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971, my Ph.D. thesis tracks the extraordinary amount of intellectual activity devoted to producing a scientific account of poetry, tracing the use …