A corrective to the much-discussed Victorian `crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a `crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity.
In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life.
Postgraduate student research assistants who have helped with this project and who are fine historians and scholars in their own right include Thomas Breimaier, Lindsey Eckberg, Amber Thomas, and Eric Brandt. The students in the autumn ...
What good is a church if it loses its distinctness?
Again the pentecostal movement is a founding influence, alongside Brethren experience, but there is a greater stress on the ... See also William K. Kay, Apostolic Networks in Britain: New Ways of Being Church (Milton Keynes, 2007).
23 R.D. Eric Gallagher, 'Methodism in Ireland' in A History of the Methodist Church, III: pp. 232–51. ... 40 Jennifer Lloyd, Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers 1807–1907 (Manchester, 2009), pp. 157–62.
Methodist worship, although shaped by central directives, continued to derive its character and vitality from its ... 40 Jennifer Lloyd, Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers 1807–1907 (Manchester, 2009), pp.
Mill is famous for being an unbeliever, yet he was immersed in religion and open to spirituality in ways that many will find startling today.
In this Hansen Lectureship volume, Timothy Larsen considers the legacy of George MacDonald, the Victorian Scottish author and minister who is best known for his pioneering fantasy literature.
In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
Top scholars show how the church has interacted with the Sermon on the Mount throughout its history by exploring key historical interpreters such as Augustine, Dante, Wesley, and more.
What does it mean to be saved? Did God choose who would be his followers, or was it a personal choice? These are just some of the questions Paul addresses in the sixteen challenging chapters of his letter to the Romans.
This collection, focusing on the man's views of Christ, the church and culture, contributes to a recent awakening of interest in Bonhoeffer among evangelicals.
The Interpreting Angel Motif in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature . Minneapolis , MN : Augsburg Fortress , Publishers . Friedrich V. Reiterer , Tobias Niklas , and Karin Schöpflin ( eds ) ( 2007a ) Literature Yearbook 2007.
David W. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Routledge, ... ''Old Dissent'' refers to the non-Anglican Protestant denominations in England and Wales that date from before the ...
Ward, 'Mill's Logic', p. 413. 33. John Stuart Mill to Auguste Comte, 8 December 1843: Oscar A. Haac (translator and editor), The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995, p.
Coupled with Edwards's perspective on justification by faith was his biblically informed view of the will, which has also ... Philip J. Fisk, Jonathan Edwards's Turn from the Classic‐Reformed Tradition of Freedom of the Will (Gottingen: ...
... of morals under the new church orders.1 The place of the Law, especially the moral law of the Decalogue, was a subject of debate in the sixteenth century both between Catholics and Protestants and between the different Reformers.
A lone figure in austere and simple clerical garb slowly ascends the elliptical staircase, clutching the ... 2 The standard life is Robert Ackerman, J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
These essays point the way forward for women and men in ministry in our churches. Contributors include Henri Blocher, Timothy George, James Hamilton, I. Howard Marshall, Cheryl J. Sanders, Sarah Sumner and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen