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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Confession of faith"”.
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Hercules Collins: Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist
This dissertation argues that the writings of Hercules Collins demonstrate that he viewed himself as faithfully operating within both the historic Nicene-Christianity shown in the early creeds and the Protestant orthodoxy codified by the Westminster Assembly in the Westminster Confession of Faith. …
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Anthony Burgess and the Westminster Doctrine of Assurance
This work is an examination of the a 17th century theologian and pastor Anthony Burgess (d. 1664), and specifically his contribution to the doctrine of the assurance of faith codified for many in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Burgess’ contribution to an understanding of assurance is found in …
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The political relevance of the spiritual church : a theological critique and alternative to the Presbyterian doctrine of the "spirituality of the church."
… argues that the Presbyterian doctrine of the “spirituality of the church” puts forward theologically incoherent distinctions to discern what “political” topics the church can address. By identifying these forms of theological incoherence, I complement of the historical work done on the …
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Italians doing local theology: a multisite empirical inquiry in Piedmont towns with special reference to Antonio Gramsci
… and how Christians apprehend their Christian confession of faith, metabolising the Gospel where they live is a thorny issue in the discipline of Mission Studies, which has primarily addressed it under the rubric of contextualization. The discourse on Doing Local Theology (DLT) started in the …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
Although Christianity is a ’religion of the book’, visual art has played a crucial role in the history of theological communication, and the premise of this thesis is that historical images are a potentially rich, but underused, theological resource for modern Christians. Art historical analyses …
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The dissolution of the monasteries: an economic study
The dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales is too often viewed simply as a component of the English Reformation and little more. Its place in the Reformation is obvious, but its importance extends far beyond that fact. Unlike the other elements of the Reformation which transformed the …
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Thomas Boston and the doctrine of God’s will
The focus of this thesis is the Reformed doctrine of the will of God and its pastoral application in the theology of Thomas Boston (1676-1732). The objective of this thesis is to establish Boston’s doctrine of the will of God and how he applies that doctrine pastorally. We shall argue that one …
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Confessionalism and Cooperation in the Baptist Movement, 1609–1925
… the two? For more than four hundred years of the Baptist movement across two continents, confession and cooperation have known necessary and effectual concomitance. However, cooperation was not explicitly stated as a full-orbed Baptist doctrine in a confession of faith until the Southern …
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Van Calvyn na Zwingli : die vraagstuk van die kindernagmaal in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Afrikaans)
… Here Jesus in die nagmaal is, aanvaar in hul geloofsbelydenisse, waarmee hulle die nagmaalsopvatting van Zwingli uitdruklik verwerp het. Die Nederduitse Gereformoorde Kerke het homself in geen deel van die debat of besluite oor die teenwoordige mens-wees van die Here Jesus in die nagmaal …