Couriers of the Gospel

Couriers of the Gospel

Author: Carrie Euler

Publisher: Theologischer Verlag Zürich

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 3290173933

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In a speech before Zurich's city council in 1553, Heinrich Bullinger declared that "the crown of England has entirely the teaching and faith that we also have." These words suggest a more direct and abiding relationship between the English and Zurich Reformations than has been recognized by previous historians. This book deepens our understanding of Swiss and English Protestantism, while simultaneously shedding light on the interactive practices of early modern cultural and intellectual communities and the history of the book. Three aspects of Zurich theology and practice attracted English evangelicals to Zurich's tradition of Reformed Protestantism: rejection of the material aspects of Catholic piety, a strong anti-Anabaptist tradition, and stress on the unity of the religious and secular spheres under the authority of the civil magistrate. Dr Euler illustrates how English reformers adopted these ideas and applied them in England, allowing reformers like Bullinger to point to England as a potential ally and model of success for the Zurich tradition. Carrie Euler received her Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. She has published several articles on the Zurich and English Reformations in various volumes and journals, including the Sixteenth Century Journal. She is currently Assistant Professor of History at Central Michigan University.


Billboard

Billboard

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Published: 1966-02-05

Total Pages: 60

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.


Leaving Christianity

Leaving Christianity

Author: Stuart Macdonald

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0773551948

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Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, they illustrate how the exodus that began with disaffected baby boomers and their parents has become so widespread that religiously unaffiliated Canadians are now the new majority. While the old mainstream Protestant churches have been the hardest hit, the Roman Catholic Church has also experienced a significant decline in numbers, especially in Quebec. Canada’s civil society has historically depended on church members for support, and a massive drift away from churches has profound implications for its future. Leaving Christianity documents the true extent of the decline, the timing of it, and the reasons for this major cultural shift.


Billboard

Billboard

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Published: 1964-11-07

Total Pages: 48

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.


Building the Church of England

Building the Church of England

Author: Stephen Tong

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-06-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9004547851

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Were mid-Tudor evangelicals roaring lions or meek lambs? Did they struggle with a minority complex, or were they comfortable with their position of political ascendancy under Edward VI? How did their theological blueprint of the ‘True Church’ fit their temporal realities? By relocating the Book of Common Prayer at the centre of the English Reformation, Stephen Tong gives new significance to two underacknowledged drivers of reform: ecclesiology and liturgy. Edwardian reformers caused a sensation in England by engaging with these questions, which spilled over into Ireland, and continued to cast a shadow over subsequent generations of the English Protestants.


Women during the English Reformations

Women during the English Reformations

Author: K. Kramer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1137465670

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Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities.


Nameless Heroes of the Bible

Nameless Heroes of the Bible

Author: Carl Wells

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1468558927

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Nobody knows their names . . . Except God--and perhaps several million (billion?) of their closest friends in heaven. The Bible gives us true stories about a large handful of fascinating, but nameless, people. You and I are like them. We too will be nameless to history. And we too have an opportunity to act in ways that have a profound effect for good on the way history unfolds on the earth. They are Nameless Heroes of the Bible. What do they have to teach us?


The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty Laundry

The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty Laundry

Author: Leslie Dawes

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1621475174

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The Good, The Bad, and The Dirty Laundry challenges our walk with the Lord by taking an everyday task, laundry, and applying to biblical teachings which then move us to a deeper more meaningful Christian life. Through daily bible passages in Esther, good and bad character traits are discovered and discussed with the prayer that the lessons will then be applied to our lives to help others see Jesus in and through us. She's a warrior, my friend, Leslie, living life moment by moment and in God's power. She invites God into every facet of her life, from loving her husband, raising and encouraging her children to celebrating and pouring into family and friends. Her strategic prayer life and her close relationship with Jesus Christ continues to be her strength as she listens to God for answers in all circumstances, both good and bad. Leslie embraces the motto "for such a time as this" leveraging her divine placement and appointment in her corner of the world, all to the glory of God. My soul-level friend teaches from a heart of integrity and she longs to shepherd God's people, walking with them in the word to a place of transformation, redemption and victory. She loves large, lives big and laughs often. She has certainly been a sister in Christ who has made my life worth the journey. She's real, a sojourner who walks the talk. Leslie is a beautiful person, a lovely soul, my dear friend and lover of the Lord. Cheryle Jaggers Coordinator of Women's Ministry, First Baptist, Hendersonville, TN"


Close Harmony

Close Harmony

Author: James R. Goff Jr.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1469616882

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Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions. Marked by smooth, tight harmonies and a lyrical focus on the message of Christian salvation, southern gospel--particularly the white gospel quartet tradition--had its roots in nineteenth-century shape-note singing. The spread of white gospel music is intricately connected to the people who based their livelihoods on it, and Close Harmony is filled with the stories of artists and groups such as Frank Stamps, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Blackwood Brothers, the Rangers, the Swanee River Boys, the Statesmen, and the Oak Ridge Boys. The book also explores changing relations between black and white artists and shows how, following the civil rights movement, white gospel was influenced by black gospel, bluegrass, rock, metal, and, later, rap. With Christian music sales topping the $600 million mark at the close of the twentieth century, Close Harmony explores the history of an important and influential segment of the thriving gospel industry.


Billboard

Billboard

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Published: 1965-12-04

Total Pages: 68

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.