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Missionary Identities and Identifications: U.S. Presbyterians in Korea, 1884--1934
This dissertation provides an historically contextualized analysis of the encounter between U.S. Presbyterian missionaries and Koreans. I focus my approach in terms of the specificity of, and the variation within, this encounter, in order to determine its impact on missionary identities and …
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Presbyterians, Ulster unionism and the establishment of Northern Ireland 1905-47
… have, consistently, chosen to adhere. Irish Presbyterians hold that the ordained leadership of the Church consists of ministers and ruling elders, holding the same office and divided only by function. This means that its ordained leadership is much less obvious than that of other Irish …
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James Woodrow, Teacher of Natural Science: Presbyterians and Science Education In Nineteenth Century South Carolina
… Presbyterian Review, Woodrow shaped Southern Presbyterians' opinions on scientific and theological topics, including evolution. His alternative educational strategies, including a book exchange and the use of his own trials to instruct, were extensions of his role as educator, and they …
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
Over sixty years, the English presbyterians went from the party of religious intolerance, exemplified by the polemicist Thomas Edwards in the mid-1640s, to a denomination that was among the most doctrinally diverse, known in the early 1700s for exponents of religious toleration such as Edmund …
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Salvation black or white: Presbyterian rationale and Protestant support for the religious instruction of slaves in South Carolina
… examines the rationale used by South Carolina Presbyterians for the religious instruction of slaves and the connection between such education and the salvation of masters as well as slaves. Previous scholarship has largely ignored the issue of salvation in the ante-bellum South for Christians …
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Presbyterianism and social change in urban China
… institutional and coalition building of Chinese Presbyterians fit into the profile of a social movement. This preliminary data collected so far examines the emerging Protestant elites and their role in the precarious civil society of today’s China. On the normative side, these Chinese …
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A Critical Analysis of the Influence of the Separatists on the Ecclesiology of Early Congregationalism
… and a closer proximity to some of the Scots Presbyterians than much of the historiography allows.
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… denominations, the Congregationalists and Presbyterians, in the early nineteenth century to create voluntary societies in order to conduct mission work. Founded in 1826, the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS) was America’s principal domestic missionary society. It sought to spread the …
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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… Great Revival. So why did so many Scots-Irish Presbyterians in south-central Kentucky convert to Shakerism? How did conversion make sense to them? And how was Shaker conversion understood by those who did not convert? Through a close reading of primary sources, this thesis attempts to answer …
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I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea
… Koreans, both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created sex-segregated spaces to conform with Korean cultural expectations for spatial use and, secondly, used them for intimate, one-on-one evangelism, similar to the "inquiry room" styled evangelism of …
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"Advancing the material interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom" : the Erskine Presbyterian Church, Montreal, 1894
… practices of 19 th century Montreal Scots Presbyterians. It is the first study devoted to this church type in Montreal.
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… In chapter four it will be argued that the presbyterians fundamentally misconstrued the nature of the royal supremacy--they exaggerated the king's ecclesiastical claims--but it will be shown that the crown's authority over the kirk was extensive nevertheless. Chapters five and six will …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… 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 provided by bringing …
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Strangers, foreigners, and fellow citizens: Case studies of English missions to the Indians in colonial New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1755
… Colonies, where Puritans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Quakers worked to save native souls. Working from an ""Indian viewpoint,"" some historians of these missions have concluded that these English missionaries were racist, and that they worked in concert with other …
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THE SCOTCH-IRISH OF PROVINCIAL NEW HAMPSHIRE
… New Hampshire.</p><p>When the first "wave" of Presbyterians from Ulster came to New England in 1718, they were confused with native, Catholic Irish. Boston rejected them, and they were sent to frontier areas in Maine and central Massachusetts, where they suffered at the hands of land …
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'There was never man handled as I am' : the legacy and significance of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1558-1660
… episcopacy, and liturgy forced Laudians, Presbyterians, and especially radical puritans, to re-evaluate Cranmer and the role he played in the Edwardian Reformation.
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The Free Church army chaplain 1830-1930.
… field, remarkably for the age, they joined with Presbyterians and Roman Catholics in a single chain of command. By 1918, over 500 Wesleyan and United Board commissioned chaplains were engaged. After the war, as the price of retaining their newly won standing and influence, both the Wesleyans and …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… During King Charles I’s reign, Scottish Presbyterians faced a Protestant king who attempted to secure supremacy over the kirk by imposing ‘popish’ Episcopalian reforms. Covenanter leaders challenged the king’s authority over determining the ceremonies and polity of the Reformed church to …
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The Catholic emancipation movement and the Society of United Irishmen, 1788-1798
… framework of the law. After 1795, Catholics and Presbyterians began to drift apart because of Government and landlord intrigue. The United Irishmen still pressed forward toward a rebellion which they trusted would be aided by republican France and accomplish the freedom of Ireland. The outbreak …
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The relationship between the "Great Awakening" and the transition from psalmody to hymnody in the New England colonies
… by Puritan thought: the Congregationalists, the Presbyterians, and the Baptists.While much has been written separately about the change in eighteenth-century sacred song and the Great Awakening itself, there has been little research that attempts to place the psalmody/hymnody issue within the …
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