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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Presbyterianism"”.
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Presbyterianism and social change in urban China
… on a qualitative study on the new development of Presbyterianism in China, this thesis explores the urban and rational side of Chinese Christianity, so as to open an empirical window on meso-level social change in urban China. From an empirical perspective, although the organizational form of the …
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A study of the origin of Scottish Presbyterianism (1560-1638)
This dissertation seeks to explore the origin of Presbyterianism in Scotland. Hence, every effort has been made to describe the process of the emergence of the Presbyterian government and its development during the period from the 1520s to the point before the Second Reformation of 1638. This study …
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Robert Bruce of Kinnaird and the Resilience of Presbyterianism in Scotland: 1610–1637.
… when driven underground by Episcopal ascendancy, Presbyterianism remained steadfast as both a theological system and a mode of governance. Alternative explanatory factors including economic grievance, absentee monarchy, and pervasive fear of Roman Catholic resurgence are considered, yet the …
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Securing a faithful ministry: Struggles of ethnicity and religious epistemology in colonial American Presbyterianism.
… and religious epistemology in colonial American Presbyterianism.
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Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
… beyond its ostensive target of Elizabethan presbyterianism to what he saw as a more general dissolution of a framework of human self-understanding rooted in Christian metaphysics and sacramental polity. The foundation of Hooker’s revision of the conformist case, I argue, is not a critique of …
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"For Reformation and Uniformity": George Gillespie (1613-1648) and the Scottish Covenanter Revolution
… Puritan theologian and apologist for Scottish Presbyterianism. He was well known for his controversial works attacking the ceremonies of the Church of England, defending Presbyterianism, opposing religious toleration, and combating Erastianism. He is best remembered as one of the Scottish …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… charts the impact of the denominations of Presbyterianism and Pentecostalism in an indigenous village examining how adherents have become oriented by Christianity in different ways as they strive to become good Christians living in modern society. This ethnography focuses on a marginalized …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… charts the impact of the denominations of Presbyterianism and Pentecostalism in an indigenous village examining how adherents have become oriented by Christianity in different ways as they strive to become good Christians living in modern society. This ethnography focuses on a marginalized …
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… the Scots indifferent to religion in general and presbyterianism in particular, and although such attitudes would change in time, they were initially very real. Chapter four is an examination of the royal supremacy, one of the most controversial aspects of the post-Restoration church. In chapter …
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"Space of time or distance of place": Presbyterian diffusion in south-western Scotland and Ulster, 1603-1690
… By providing an examination of the diffusion of Presbyterianism across the Irish Sea, this thesis addresses some of the dearth of work on cultural diffusion during the Plantation by geographers. To accomplish this goal, the thesis asked seven questions. In answering these questions, a dissenting …
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Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
… Protestantism in the form of Duncan's Calvinist Presbyterianism. At the same time, all three artists struggle with the persistent affect of traumatic experience, from domestic violence to sexual assault. These artists' works represent their traumatic experiences as mediated through the bodily, …
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James Magee (1707-1797) and the Belfast print trade, 1771-1781
… expression of the emergent confidence of Belfast Presbyterianism that sought to occupy a more central space in the public sphere.<br/><br/>The thesis breaks new ground in providing the first appraisal of printer Magee - a figure who has been long neglected. It sheds important light on provincial …
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Scotland’s Forgotten Theologian: The Life, Theology, and Legacy of Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74)
… of literature on nineteenth century Scottish Presbyterianism. The last full-length work to exclusively focus on Fairbairn was a 1953 master’s thesis, and no biography or monograph on Fairbairn exists. This thesis will therefore remedy the<br/>lack of scholarship on Fairbairn, by providing a …
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Religion and Scottish Military Experience, c. 1690–1763
… war deepened divisions within Scottish Presbyterianism, particularly between the Moderate and Popular Parties in the Church of Scotland. Chapter Two investigates the shifting relationship between the Kirk and the army, tracing a marked decline in the Kirk’s authority over army chaplaincy …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… puritan ecclesiology, as tending towards presbyterianism, this thesis argues that Elizabethan and early Stuart attempts to legislate a reformed English church discipline were fundamentally Erastian, and seen as the necessary fulfilment of the Tudor Settlements of Religion, and without …
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Presbyterians, Ulster unionism and the establishment of Northern Ireland 1905-47
This thesis examines the influence of Irish Presbyterianism on Ulster Unionism in particular, and on the political life of Ireland and Northern Ireland in general between 1905 and 1947. Its role has been contentious, under-examined and even the nature of the Church has often been misunderstood. …
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