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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Lutheranism"”.
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
… Following the schisms of the Civil War years, Lutheranism turned inward. Though divided institutionally, most Lutherans in the postbellum era embraced a form of the faith that comprised four components: theological confessionalism, ecclesiastical separatism, social and political conservatism, …
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
<p>Never in its fifteen-hundred year history had the Roman Catholic Church been so shaken as when, in the sixteenth century, a mere handful of men advanced the Scriptural doctrines that were to result in the rise of Protestantism. The sole authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, …
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Lutheran Alternatim Practices in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries: A Narrative of Liturgical Artistry and Accessibility
… begun to question the romanticized view of early Lutheranism as the great cultivator of congregational song. Joseph Herl argues that the development of congregational singing within the Lutheran church took 150 to 200 years to develop. As a result of this, we see the continuation of …
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The divided roots of Lutheranism in South Africa : a critical overview of the social history of the German-speaking Lutheran missions and the churches originating from their work in South Africa
… aim, the thesis provides a narrative history of Lutheranism in South Africa. The findings of the thesis are that white Lutherans have been the dominant group in the Lutheran churches throughout their history in South Africa. White Lutherans produced the dominant theology of all the Lutheran …
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Addie Graves (1922-2007) and the Creation of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Columbus, Georgia
… this, not out of an identification with Black Lutheranism, but because of her confessional, theologically conservative Lutheran faith.</p>
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Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem: Influences and Analysis for Performance
… prolonged exposure to Norwegian folk song and Lutheranism have influenced his melodic, textual, and formal choices in his Requiem. An understanding of these influences will aid conductors in creating stylistically appropriate performances of Requiem. Bradley Ellingboe was raised in a …
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Protestant Nominalism: An Analysis of Post-Reformation (1555-1662) Protestant Philosophical Theology
… Anglicanism, Martin Chemnitz for Confessional Lutheranism, and Johann Gerhard for Orthodox Lutheranism. In the fifth and final chapter, I conclude from my analysis that the identification of Protestant philosophical theology with Scotism-nominalism is not borne out in these representative …
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The missionary career and spiritual odyssey of Otto Witt
… late nineteenth-century developments in Swedish Lutheranism, and the coming to northern Europe of those religious movements in which he successively became involved. As the copious documentation indicates, it is based to a great extent on little-used materials in the archives of the Church of …
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Heresy and Popular Protestantism in England, 1527-1553
… affinities with continental Anabaptists and Lutheranism. Unfortunately, recent studies have largely ignored the beliefs of ordinary people despite the fact that an examination of available sources reveals much about the nature of this popular Protestant thought as well as the extent of its …
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Representations of Prussian life and history in the Preussische Chronik of Simon Grunau
… of propaganda aimed at arresting the spread of Lutheranism, within Royal Prussia above all.
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… of Protestant Christianity. Pietists within Lutheranism, Reform, and Anglicanism view themselves as the preserved remnant of God’s people within those denominations and the primary objects of God’s covenant, as well as the true church. Opposing the need to remain outsiders, the covenantal …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… Anglicanism (the Church of England) and Lutheranism (Martin Luther, and the Church of Sweden). As my focus is lived liturgy I investigate not just worship manuals and prayerbooks but also architecture, music and choreography. With an eye to modern-day uses, I trace the historical …
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Metaphors for Listening in Johann Sebastian Bach's Germany
Bach studies has traditionally sought to decipher the theological meanings of Bach’s music. The role of the analyst has left performers with little agency: their job, ostensibly, has been to recognise and make audible the theological meanings that Bach’s musical notation encodes. Within this …
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
This thesis presents migrants from the German lands as integral to Dutch imperial ventures of the early modern era, and questions to what extent the European dimension of Dutch colonialism was Dutch in composition and character. German labour underpinned the operation, governance and expansion of …