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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Methodists"”.
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Eucharist and Anthropology: Seeking Convergence on Eucharistic Sacrifice Between Catholics and Methodists
… of productive ecumenical dialogue, Catholics and Methodists seek to discern the points of convergence and divergence between them on this controversial doctrine. In short, where do Catholics and Methodists agree and disagree on eucharistic sacrifice? This dissertation is a work of systematic …
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The incombatibility of the Free Methodist Church and fundamentalist theology: why Free Methodists are not fundamentalists
… has at times been attractive to Free Methodists and why Free Methodists ultimately rejected fundamentalism. Over the course of the thesis, I have used the literary tool known as reception theory to analyze the way in which leaders and governing bodies within the Free Methodist Church …
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THE HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATE IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Religious Ethics, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, and The United Methodist Moral Landscape
… has progressed, two distinct groupings of United Methodists have formed. One group has developed arguments for the preservation of The United Methodist Church's prohibitive stance against sexual relationships between persons of the same gender, while the other advocates a revision of The United …
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Methodism and public life in Zimbabwe : an analysis of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe's impact on politics from 1891-1980
… and theological interpretation of Wesleyan Methodists' political teaching and practice in Zimbabwe from 1891 to 1980. In an attempt to come up with an informed interpretation of the political teaching and activities, the study traced Wesleyan Methodist political praxis John Wesley, the …
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Deialogau Diwylliannol Cymreig a Khasi - Ymchwil Trwy Ymarfer Creadigol
… by the Foreign Mission of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in the region between 1841 and 1969. This research offers an insight into the effects of the mission on society, by using music and literature to build a creative collaboration between Khasi artists and the researcher, a professional …
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The Free Church army chaplain 1830-1930.
… opposed by the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodists persisted in providing an unpaid civilian ministry until, by stages, they secured partial recognition in 1862 and 1881. The respect earned by volunteer Wesleyan civilian chaplains, who accompanied the troops on most colonial and imperial …
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Development of Methodism in Delaware, 1739-1830
… years before 1830. The phenomenal success of the Methodists in the state can be traced to an exceptional leader, inspired native preachers, and waiting congregations. ☐ Francis Asbury was the leader who elected to stand by the infant societies when Wesley’s missionaries and most of the Anglican …
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Social change and religious experience : aspects of rural society in south Lincolnshire with specific reference to Primitive Methodism, 1815-1875
… where they earned their livings.The Primitive Methodists entered south Lincolnshire in 1817. Their preaching was appropriate to the needs of the people in this period. It gave a sense of coherence and significance to the lives of its converts, although in the early stages of their activities …
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
… helps test those two approaches. Although Methodists and Baptists shared evangelical concerns, the Methodists remained within the Church of England. Though Baptists often held political views similar to the Unitarians, they retained their orthodoxy. Thus, the Baptists present an opportunity …
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Making ministers, making Methodism: an anthropological study of an English religious denomination.
… tool of habitus, I depict the core values which Methodists come to embody and outline how these values shape actions and attitudes across the institution. In addition, I argue that, through the ministerial selection and training processes, the Methodist habitus is modified in candidates into a …
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Wesleyan eucharistic sprituality : its nature, sources and future
… and communicated in new forms so as to impact Methodists around the world who are facing the challenges of the 21st century.
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… religion – primarily the Baptists and Methodists – from taking hold. Foreign immigrants would be assimilated. They would embrace American virtues including temperance and Sabbath observance. This would be accomplished through moral suasion or, failing that, by force of law. The AHMS …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… three specific denominations: the Baptists, the Methodists, and the Presbyterians. Its central argument is that Texas denominational colleges and universities reflected and promoted the social and political values of Texas during the Civil War era. Supporting evidence for this argument is …
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The development of the social creed of the Methodist church
… nationalism. Paced by widespread illiteracy, the Methodists developed schools, not only for the care of their own, but for all who would come. The Church became a power in education, maintaining that education is second in importance only to religion. It pioneered in industrial education, and …
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Tradition and memory in Protestant Ontario: Anglican and Methodist clerical discourses during Queen Victoria's Golden (1887) and Diamond (1897) Jubilee celebrations
… and 1897. ln the person of Queen Victoria, the Methodists consecrated the Wesleyan theological heritage through a discourse of substitutionary piety. However, the Methodist narratives of imperial and social progress during the queen's reign began to invoke the nascent language of the social …
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The Doctrine of Christian Perfection for Today: Reading Wesley's Theology Through the Lens of Process Thought
… has been confused and virtually ignored even by Methodists themselves, despite the central importance Wesley himself assigns it. Why, then, has Wesley's doctrine of perfection been so often misunderstood, confused or even ignored from his time until today? The clue to the answer lies in the …
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… American Methodism, as practised by the Wesleyan Methodists in Australia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, also fails to reproduce much of Wesley's spirit and discipline.
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… American Methodism, as practised by the Wesleyan Methodists in Australia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, also fails to reproduce much of Wesley's spirit and discipline.
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… They were followed in 1891 by Anglicans and Methodists and the first European L.M.S. missionaries. Direct L.M.S. influence ceased, however, when the resident missionary at Kwato formed the Kwato Extension Association in 1918. A scrutiny of Kwato, Methodist and Anglican missionary methods …
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… They were followed in 1891 by Anglicans and Methodists and the first European L.M.S. missionaries. Direct L.M.S. influence ceased, however, when the resident missionary at Kwato formed the Kwato Extension Association in 1918. A scrutiny of Kwato, Methodist and Anglican missionary methods …
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