Journal of the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church
Author: Methodist Church (U.S.). Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 286
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Author: Methodist Church (U.S.). Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Methodist Church (U.S.). Central Jurisdictional Conference
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Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Methodist Church (U.S.). Southeastern Jurisdiction
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter C. Murray
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0826262473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975, Peter C. Murray contributes to the history of American Christianity and the Civil Rights movement by examining a national institution the Methodist Church (after 1968 the United Methodist Church) and how it dealt with the racial conflict centered in the South. Murray begins his study by tracing American Methodism from its beginnings to the secession of many African Americans from the church and the establishment of separate northern and southern denominations in the nineteenth century. He then details the reconciliation and compromise of many of these segments in 1939 that led to the unification of the church. This compromise created the racially segregated church that Methodists struggled to eliminate over the next thirty years. During the Civil Rights movement, American churches confronted issues of racism that they had previously ignored. No church experienced this confrontation more sharply than the Methodist Church. When Methodists reunited their northern and southern halves in 1939, their new church constitution created a segregated church structure that posed significant issues for Methodists during the Civil Rights movement. Of the six jurisdictional conferences that made up the Methodist Church, only one was not based on a geographic region: the Central Jurisdiction, a separate conference for "all Negro annual conferences." This Jim Crow arrangement humiliated African American Methodists and embarrassed their liberal white allies within the church. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision awakened many white Methodists from their complacent belief that the church could conform to the norms of the South without consequences among its national membership. Murray places the struggle of the Methodist Church within the broader context of the history of race relations in the United States. He shows how the effort to destroy the barriers in the church were mirrored in the work being done by society to end segregation. Immensely readable and free of jargon, Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930 1975, will be of interest to a broad audience, including those interested in the Civil Rights movement and American church history.
Author: Methodist Church (U.S.). South Central Jurisdiction
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 1226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Lowell Miller
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Methodist Church (U.S.). Uniting Conference
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Miroslav Volf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-12
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0300190557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well. In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that can be about more than bread alone.
Author: Nolan Bailey Harmon
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 296
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