Based on ethnographic research among African Pentecostal Christians living in the UK, this book addresses themes of migration and community formation, religious identity and practice, and social and political exclusion.
Der Band geht auf eine Ringvorlesung zurück, die im Sommersemester 2015 am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt stattfand.
In the Christian churches, and in Protestantism in particular, the local gatherings of the faithful -parish and non-territorial free congregations - are of crucial importance.
In these four booklets, theologians from all parts of the world reflect on the main theme and three sub-themes (Liberated by God's Grace: Salvation-Not for Sale; Human Beings-Not for Sale; Creation-Not for Sale) of the Lutheran World Federation's commemoration of the 500thAnniversary of the Reformation.
In this study, Teun van der Leer tells the story of the Believers' Church Tradition, a tradition, mainly rooted in the so-called Radical Reformation, which prefers to be called a movement, or rather a renewal movement.
By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers.
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "e;Mormon question"e; debated central questions of constitutional law.
Combining personal stories and sound scholarship, Paul Alexander, a young scholar with a Pentecostal background, examines the phenomenal worldwide success of Pentecostalism.
Prepared in a style similar to the Survivor's Guide books, The Presbyterian Handbook provides historical and theological information about Presbyterian beliefs alongside fun-filled facts and practical tips on being a churchgoing follower of Jesus Christ.
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Der Theologische Arbeitskreis für Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschung (TARF) gibt seit über 50 Jahren vor allem in Wittenberg der internationalen Luther- und Reformationsforschung einen Ort des Austauschs zwischen den großen Lutherkongressen.
Georg Rörer (1492-1557) war von Martin Luther und seiner Theologie so sehr fasziniert, dass er seit 1522 eine in ihrer Art einmalige Sammlung von Predigt- und Vorlesungsmitschriften sowie Tischreden und Briefen Luthers und seiner Kollegen anlegte.
The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns.
This book does not only deal with the history, but also with the effects of the Reformation over the mentality, education and scientifical research among Hungarians during the last five centuries.
Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus der evangelischen und katholischen Theologie, Judaistik, Islamwissenschaft und Arabistik, Religionswissenschaft, Philosophie und klassischen Philologie.
A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century.
