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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"National Church"”.
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian State and the Alexandrian See: Indigenizing the Episcopacy and Forging National Identity, 1926--1991
It analyzes how the administrative changes in the church and the political changes in the country in the 1990s affected the church, how the secession of Eritrea brought about the division of the historical church into two, the conflict and ethnic politics engulfing church leaders, the flight of …
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Country Clergymen: National and Religious Mediations on the Victorian Clerical Novel
… controversies which beset the Victorian Church of England. Parish life assumed a familiar relationship with clergymen who interpreted the national faith; clerical novelists insistently created men of dimension and fallibility to explore the complicated relationships between the …
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A Glorious and Salutiferous Œconomy...? An ecclesiological enquiry into metropolitical authority and provincial polity in the Anglican Communion.
For at least the past two decades, international Anglicanism has been gripped by a crisis of identity: what is to be the dynamic between autonomy and interdependence? Where is authority to be located? How might the local relate to the international? How are the variously diverse national churches …
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
… theories to explain how United Methodist Church (UMC) congregations (members and pastors) view the work of the local church and how it differs from the recommendations of the denomination's top leadership. I develop case studies of congregations using a triangulated- methodological …
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Dual-executive structures in religious non-profit organizations
… sent to 150 Evangelical Lutheran and Episcopal Church congregations, to increase our knowledge of the extent of use and certain organizational implications of dual-executive structures among a sample of churches. The study had three key findings. First, it found two examples of dual executive …
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A system of aggression: motives, methods and margins of Methodist growth with special reference to the growth of Methodism on Cannock Chase 1776-1893
… the influence of concepts of ministry and church growth formulated by John Wesley upon the ways in which Methodism approached the task of promoting its own growth. The analysis of Wesley's concepts of ministry and church growth reveals an unresolved dilemma between the evangelical task of …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… sociability, and happiness. They drew on the church-state relationship generated during the ‘long Reformation’ in England and Scotland by which the secular civil magistrate governed the national church and regulated its priests, who were to preach the simple morality of the gospel. Hanoverian …
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Making ministers, making Methodism: an anthropological study of an English religious denomination.
… of the minister from the local Methodist church, through the ministerial selection procedures, training and probation and back into the local church. The national arena of the church is also examined. I draw specifically on fieldwork conducted in the Methodist churches of north Bedford, in …
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Scottish influences upon the Reformed churches in north-west England, c. 1689-1829 : a study of the ministry within the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland
… within the ministry of the Congregational churches of the north-west of England in the period 1689-1829, with a number of aims in mind. In focusing on the role of Scottish-born and Scottish-trained ministers within these churches the attempt had been made to get away from the narrow …
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Building Alvar Aalto's Church of the Three Crosses (1955–58)
… analysis of Alvar Aalto’s (1898–1976) Church of the Three Crosses (1955–58) in Imatra, Finland. This thesis shows that the design and construction of the Church of the Three Crosses involved concerns and themes unique to, or especially relevant in, the ecclesiastical context, and that …
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
… Protestant catholicity and union with the Church of England (pursued by means of both comprehension and indulgence, often simultaneously) that paradoxically drove them towards a redefinition of both the national Church and what it meant to reform it. These radical redefinitions broke down …
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Between defiance and compliance: the Lutheran Landesbischöfe of Hanover, Bavaria and Württemberg in the Third Reich
… is known about the polarities of the Protestant ‘Church Struggle’ (Kirchenkampf) in Nazi Germany, comparatively little is understood about the complex and collective dynamic of the Landesbischöfe of the only three ‘intact’ churches to escape incorporation into the Nazi-dominated Reichskirche. …
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The Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli and the Formation of Spanish Identity in Sixteenth Century Rome
… the urban landscape, more permanently with national churches, hospitals, chapels, neighborhoods, and temporarily through public processions and festivals. This dissertation examines the Spanish National Church, San Giacomo and San Ildefonso degli Spagnoli, founded in 1450 to provide a …
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The Pastor as Vital Link : a Study in How Seminary-Educated Pastors Engender Engagement with Scripture in Select Congregations
… ministry,” including congregations, regional and national church bodies, colleges and universities, seminaries, agencies, retreat and conference centers, publishers, and other supporting organizations. As pastors are being formed as children, growing into young adults, being equipped for ministry, …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
… system, its own legal system and its own national church. Scottish Literature continued to flourish during this period making use of English and Scots language, as well as Gaelic, to produce an illustrious and influential literature of world renown. As Roderick Watson has observed, “the …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… upon the capacity of African American Protestant churches in New Orleans to provide spiritual and social ministry to the city's underprivileged. More than three years after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city, fifty per cent of the churches remain as the hurricane left them. …