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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Episcopalian"”.
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
… examines Tory High-Church and Jacobite Episcopalian responses to Newton in early eighteenth century England and Scotland, providing a systematic analysis of the relationship between Newtonian natural philosophy, politics and religion from a Tory High-Church perspective. I argue that …
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HENRY WILLIAM RAVENEL, 1814-1887: SOUTH CAROLINA SCIENTIST IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA
… though a South Carolina slaveholder and a devout Episcopalian, was also one of a small group of leaders in antebellum American botany. He was a familiar correspondent to such other top American botanists as Asa Gray, Edward Tuckerman, William Sullivant, Moses Ashley Curtis and Alvan Wentworth …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… supremacy over the kirk by imposing ‘popish’ Episcopalian reforms. Covenanter leaders challenged the king’s authority over determining the ceremonies and polity of the Reformed church to uphold Scotland’s status as a covenanted nation. To formulate their theories about the king’s civil and …
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Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
… Day, (a Roman Catholic), and Stringfellow (an Episcopalian) about how to describe this social existence, how the church structures and practices contribute to the articulation of nonviolence, and how to speak theologically about the normativity of nonviolence for Christian faith and practice. …
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Challenges posed by the geography of the Scottish Highlands to ecclesiastical endeavour over the centuries
… Scotland. Nevertheless the structure of the Episcopalian Church survived relatively intact and many of its clergy, retained their pulpits in the Highlands. The key to survival, yet again, had been the protective power of the Highland landowner. From the outset, secession and reunion have …
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A study of the origin of Scottish Presbyterianism (1560-1638)
… of the government’s overall preference for an Episcopalian system, the General Assembly’s desire for Presbyterianism met with resistance and on occasions, substantial setbacks until final success was achieved in 1690. This study aims to trace the emergence and development of Presbyterianism in …
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"In My Heart I Had a Feeling of Doing It": A Case Study of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Christianity
<p>While members of the southern Sudanese Dinka tribe converted to Christianity in large numbers in the early 1990s, the Lost Boys, a largely Dinka group of young men who were separated from their families during the Sudanese civil war in the late 1980s, had a distinct conversion experience in …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply "prohibition," has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist "drys" overcame anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment …