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In Defence of the Faith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

In Defence of the Faith

Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.

The Oxford Movement and the People of God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Oxford Movement and the People of God

Seeing the Church in danger from the government in 1833, the clergyman John Henry Newman wanted to 'look to the people' for help. The people of God were vital to the Tractarian (or Oxford) Movement which Newman, John Keble, and Edward Pusey led, and which hundreds of thousands of Anglican laypeople followed during the nineteenth century. The faithful were central to the movement's theological vision. Spiritually disciplined, the faithful would ensure that the Church's work in the world was ongoing. Properly educated, in schools for the middle classes and for the poor, at home and across the British Empire, the faithful would preserve the Church's teaching. Yet to opponents in the nineteenth ...

Come Out from among Them, and Be Ye Separate, Saith the Lord
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Come Out from among Them, and Be Ye Separate, Saith the Lord

Believers’ Churches have their origin in the Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century. Over the past 450 years the movement has included the Brethren, Mennonites, Hutterites, various types of Baptists, and the Restoration Movement. While never a unified denominational structure, the Believers’ Churches together have been characterized by a strong personal faith in Christ, a call to discipleship and Christian activism, a high view of the authority of Scripture, and profession of faith in believers’ baptism. The Believers’ Churches have represented their beliefs in various ecumenical settings, missionary gatherings, and theological conversations. In the late 1950s, representatives ...

The Guardianship of Best Interests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

The Guardianship of Best Interests

A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia

Into Deep Waters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Into Deep Waters

How two generations of preachers and parishioners created and sustained a religious tradition.

Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing

Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture and welcomed at lay revivals in more populous areas. An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life.

Vanguard of the New Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Vanguard of the New Age

The story of the small "new age" religious group that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi.

Contesting the Moral High Ground
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Contesting the Moral High Ground

How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

In My Heart's Best Wishes for You
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

In My Heart's Best Wishes for You

The life and times of a celebrated Roman Catholic priest, archbishop, and author.

Anglican Ritualism in Colonial South Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Anglican Ritualism in Colonial South Africa

This book explores the phenomenon sometimes referred to as “ritualism” in the Anglican tradition. The use of gestures, vestments, lighted candles, incense and other rituals associated with Anglicanism’s Roman Catholic past has formed a part of worship patterns since the denomination’s birth in the sixteenth century. However, due to the suspicion with which the majority of English people viewed Roman Catholicism, such practices never entered the mainstream. In the middle of the nineteenth century, a new wave of ritual practice swept through Anglicanism, not only in England, but across the world. While this wave was held in great suspicion by most churchgoers at first, by the turn of t...