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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Tithes."”.
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Tithes and offerings in the South African context: the bible and reality
… held views about the Biblical approach to tithes, offerings and giving to God's work, and then compares them to the findings of extensive research I conducted amongst South African Christians from a variety of denominations, backgrounds and settings. It examines the relevant Old Testament …
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Die relevansie vir die gee van tiende as bybels-teologiese rentmeesterskap
… for different purposes. In the Old Testament tithes were apparently predominantly used for the upkeep of the temple, to support the temple personnel and to provide for the poor. These functions are still relevant, but the precise practice should not be regarded as binding. There is no …
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Patriarchal religion as portrayed in Genesis 12-50 : comparison with Ancient Near Eastern and Later Israelite religions
… practices, such as altars, prayer, pillars, tithes, vows and ritual purity. These aspects are studied in the light of both second millennium ancient Near Eastern and Israelite parallels. This is legitimate since patriarchal religion is portrayed as pre-Mosaic, and since the narrators are …
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The Reimagination of the House of God in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah
… topics (rebuilding and dedication of the temple, tithes, Sabbath and intermarriage) to reimagine the house of God as the realization of the tabernacle and to map out the social order of the postexilic community.
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Reform and Opposition in the 1830s as viewed through the Illustrated Press of Ireland and Britain
… activities and the church reform and anti-tithes movement all contribute to the contextualization of this study. The pictorial images appearing in periodicals during this time have received surprisingly little scholarly attention; this study is the first research project specifically …
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The Church of England in East Yorkshire from 1743 to c1840 : with particular reference to economic matters
… process, from being based substantially on tithes, to one of ownership of the land itself, and the effect of this on the Church of England in the East Riding. It also considers the different types of church living, their numbers and relative values, and the extent to which the values changed …
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Three Ways Social Factors Stratify Individual Choices About Organizations
… on both legitimacy (attendees) and performance (tithes). Nondenominational churches are uniquely successful, even when compared only to conservative churches. I then use over 45,000 individual-level responses from the nationally-representative Religious Landscape/Faith in Flux Survey and …
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A Longitudinal Study of Seventh-day Adventist Adolescents Through Young Adulthood Concerning Retention in or Disaffiliation From the Church
… involvement in church activities, and paying of tithes significantly correlated with youth retention in the church as measured by worship attendance.</p>
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An Historical Study of the Tithe in the Christian Church to 1648
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1948
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The origin and organization of the covenanting movement during the reign of Charles I, 1625-41: with a particular reference to the West of Scotland
… Charles I for setting the whole law of tithes (teinds) on a sound footing, the aspects of the Revocation Scheme which mattered to his Scottish subjects were its specious introduction, its authoritarian implementation, its technical complexities and, above all, its wholescale disregard …
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George Fox's concept of the church
… through testimonies against compulsory tithes and the taking of oaths as unworthy of the New Testament, and for honesty and simplicity and active love as the true Christian witness to holiness; and socially, by emphasizing marriage as a sanctifying ordinance of God, to be guided by the …