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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Pietism"”.
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Educating the Protestant International : the influence of Halle Pietism in eighteenth-century charity education.
… influence of August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism among English-speaking Protestant groups in the eighteenth century. One of the institutional byproducts of Francke's influence was the number of charity schools and orphanages that claimed to be imitating his famous orphan house in Halle. …
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, and Phoebe Palmer. While an emphasis on experiencing God exists in all forms of Christianity, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and the …
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Call school: A history of rural education in the Midwest to 1918
… therein. In particular, the rural traditions of pietism, localism, and pastoralism are examined as major components of agrarian ideology. Each in a significant way suggests that rural people often believed there were limitations to the benefits of common schools.
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The Corncrake in the Aftergrass: poetry practice, cultures and contexts in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… in Northern Ireland, transcend the polemics and pietism of difference in a sustained contribution to ongoing conversations of conviction within and beyond Northern Ireland’s cultures and contexts? My thesis investigates whether contemporary poetry practice can go beyond the polemics and pietism …
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Reading And Writing A Garden, Materials Of A Garden Made In Germantown, Pennsylvania (1683–1719)
… Christian Humanist and polyglot demeanor, German Pietism, early modern natural science, and the multilingual culture of the newly forming Quaker colony. The garden in question was made behind his home at, what is now, 6019 Germantown Avenue, between 1683 and 1719. His garden and garden art are …
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The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh-day Adventist Church from the 1840s to 1889
… in Norway was a direct outgrowth of Norwegian Pietism. Adventism was essentially pietistic in its emphasis on the Bible only as the rule of faith, and its insistence that biblical doctrine must be not only believed, but practiced in the life. The best evidence suggests that the discovery of the …
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Sectarian Value Consciousness of the Japanese Seventh-day Adventists
… ethics of the Advent movement, the pietism of the rivivalistic [sic] tradition, and the rural fundamentalism of the Mid-West. Some factors in the Japanese value system were discussed in relation to the assimilation of the sectarian values, such as the pantheistic emphasis on …
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Factors Associated with Pastoral Preaching on Financially-Related Topics Within the Missionary Church
… its five theological traditions (Anabaptism, pietism, Wesleyan-holiness movement, Keswickian-holiness movement, and evangelicalism) value personal faith commitment including stewardship. This promised to provide insight into the factors that influence pastoral preaching in this important area …
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The Salzburgers' "City On A Hill": The Failure Of A Pietist Vision In Ebenezer, Georgia, 1734-1774
A group of Protestant refugees from Salzburg founded the town of Ebenezer, Georgia, in 1734. The Pietists at the Francke Foundation in Halle sent two pastors, Johann Martin Boltzius and Israel Christian Gronau, to lead the religious immigrants in their new settlement. As other historians have …
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Conversion & Community: Revisiting Modern Protestant Anxieties Over “Pietistic Conversion” in Light of Conversion Narratives From the First Great Awakening
This thesis addresses modern protestant theological concerns with the notion of conversion by examining the operative theologies of conversion implicit in 18th-century anglophone conversion narratives. A number of modern protestant theologians have expressed significant worries over what is …