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Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Contemporaries and historians have found it difficult to interpret the ambiguous relationship between National Socialism and Christianity. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches tended to agree with National Socialists in their authoritarianism, their attacks on socialism and communism, and their campaign against the Versailles Treaty; but the doctrinal position of the Churches could not be reconciled with the principle of racism, a foreign policy of unlimited aggressive warfare, or a domestic agenda involving the complete subservience of Church to State. Important sections of the Nazi Party sought the complete extirpation of Christianity and its substitution by a purely racial religion, ...

The Origins of the Baptist Movement Among the Hungarians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

The Origins of the Baptist Movement Among the Hungarians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-09
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study of the origins of the Baptist movement among the Hungarians examines the two attempts to establish a sustained Baptist mission in the Kingdom of Hungary during the nineteenth century: the first unsuccessful attempt begun in 1846 and the second attempt begun in 1873, which resulted in a sustained Baptist presence in Hungary.

The High Church Revival in the Church of England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

The High Church Revival in the Church of England

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The High Church Revival in the Church of England, new insights are opened up into one of the most significant movements of devotional and liturgical revival in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending closely to the social history of the movement, as well as to its continental connections and its theological complexity, this research re-evaluates its historiographical legacy in the light of recent research and controversy. Traditional interpretations of High Churchmanship have presented it either as a heroic rediscovery of the real essence of Anglicanism, or as an eccentric distortion of it. This volume asserts instead its theological creativity and its popular roots as a permanent enrichment of the Anglican tradition, whilst also analysing and describing the nature and limits of its growth.

Victorians and the Case for Charity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Victorians and the Case for Charity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: McFarland

This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.

Choose Not These Vices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Choose Not These Vices

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader to avoid such dangers to the soul. This book examines outstanding novels of life from the Thirty Years' War to the Vormärz, mostly written with this real or apparent moral aim, and evaluates them as documents of social history. The author finds that concepts of truth and plausibility are different in the early modern period. Initial and closing chapters deal with French novels, showing how approaches to society differ across national cultures.

The Double-edged Sword
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Double-edged Sword

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This study traces how Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of Anthroposophy and the Waldorf schools, and the sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) confronted the societal transformations in fin-de-siècle Germany as their primary identity marker - Bildung or self-formation - began to break down. The book documents the German bourgeoisie's failure to modernise as an «imagined community», shedding new light on the larger question about the interrelationship of science, religion and culture by situating Weber's and Steiner's work into the broader context of the sociocultural and sociopolitical transformations during which it was created. Moreover, by exploring the influences across disciplines in a historical context the book provides insight into the cultural implications of new social science and religion at the beginning of the twentieth century.

First FRCR Anatomy Examination Revision
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

First FRCR Anatomy Examination Revision

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-01
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Following the new format of the First FRCR Anatomy Examination and based on the syllabus of the Royal College of Radiology, this unique revision tool is more complete and detailed than any other guide on the market. The comprehensive, structured approach promotes a working understanding of anatomy by guiding the reader through over 200 practice ima

From the Margins to the Centre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

From the Margins to the Centre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Papers presented at a conference held Mar. 2004, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Grounded in Grace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Grounded in Grace

On 9 January 2013 Dr. Ian M. Randall celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday. For this occasion, some friends and colleagues presented him with a Festschrift which reflects his achievements as a church historian with a particular interest in the Evangelical movement and spirituality. It also mirrors his involvement with theological training in central and eastern Europe. Over the last twenty years Dr. Randall has also established himself as a leading historian of the Baptist churches in Europe. The contributions to Grounded in Grace interact with his areas of interest: Baptists, the Anabaptist movement, Evangelicalism and spirituality. This book makes a valuable contribution to thinking in all these areas. Scholars, pastors, other church leaders and students will profit hugely from it. It contains a short biography and a bibliography of Ian’s publications.

Performing the Local and the Global
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Performing the Local and the Global

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book explores the interplay between global and local influences in theatre festivals in the German-speaking border region around Lake Constance. Whilst opening up a fascinating yet under-researched theatre region to academic study, it also provides much-needed empirical grounding for often vague theories of place, globalisation and culture. Do we really live in a 'shrinking world' dominated by a homogenising global culture industry, or are we experiencing the revival of 'local particularism'? To what extent is an apparently place-dependent cultural form such as theatre affected by the processes of cultural globalisation? Through detailed analysis of theatrical case studies from Lake Con...