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This book shows how different denominations handle power in different ways, exposes the misuse of power in fundamentalist and new religious movements, and argues that the latter highlight problems of power elsewhere within the Church.

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For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings create

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A history of how the practices of dialogue have actually worked or failed to work at every level of the church over the past forty years. Beginning at the most basic level, that of the parish, this book moves up the ecclesiastical ladder from parish councils, to diocesan synods, to the (Roman) synod of bishops.

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It is often said that the heart of Anglicanism is not about numbers, but it is less frequently articulated what that heart actually is. This book identifies and testifies to that heart. Each chapter herein reflects on and quietly celebrates the particular character of Anglicanism, namely its incarnate ministry of prayerful presence.

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This book provides a comprehensive collective biography of the parish priests in one diocese--their origins, education, and careers: their relationship with their parishioners; and the process by which they were politicized prior to 1789. The author's analysis uses both quantitative and more traditional historical techniques. Originally published

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This book argues that the authors and publishers of evangelical fiction are gatekeepers who create specific images of an evangelical universe.

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From 1570 to 1640, Protestantism became the leading moral and intellectual force in England. During these seven decades of rapid social change, the English Protestants were challenged to make "morally and spiritually comprehensible" a new pattern of civilization. In numerous sermons and tracts such men as Donne, Hall, Hooker, Laud, and Perkins expl

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The Puritans, in their own words, demonstrate the depth and variety of a culture that took root in New England in the 17th century.

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is book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after

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An exploration of a conceptual distinction between Calvin's theology as christocentric in a soteriological sense, and Barth's as christocentric in a principal sense.

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An exploration of a conceptual distinction between Calvin's theology as christocentric in a soteriological sense, and Barth's as christocentric in a principial sense.

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In April 2000, Peter Carnley wrote an article in "The Bulletin", which attracted much discussion in the Anglican church. This exposed once again the bitter ideological divisions in the Anglican Church. This volume presents the Archbishop's views on the future of religions in Australia.

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Assessing the relationship between reform and the papacy in eleventh-century Europe from the perspectives of social and religious change, this book fills a gap in current literature and offers new insights into an important topic in medieval history

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An important and comprehensive work on the crucial issues of reform facing the Catholic Church today.

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This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change. Professor Levine suggests, highlights the dynamic and dialectical interaction between religion and politics in general, and addresses the more universal problem of relating thought to action Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the

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