European history: Reformation

Die spirituellen identitätsbewahrenden und identitätsstiftenden Dimensionen von Gottesdienst und Kirchenraum sind zentrale Themen des Glaubenslebens.

Gillian Rose (1947-1995) was a highly original, enigmatic and pugnacious thinker, whose work draws together Continental philosophy, sociology, modern / post-modern Jewish and Christian reflection on ethics.

Von den drei großen Konfessionen entwickelte nur das Luthertum verbindliche Bekenntnisse, die die Lehre normativ formulierten.

Die Studie zeigt, wie die europäische Kirchenkultur aus der Reformationszeit mit territorial und flächendeckend organisierten Staatskirchen in Amerika um eine andere Kirchenkultur auf der Basis der Religionsfreiheit ergänzt wurde.

Biblical proclamation is central to Christian worship.

Women have always constituted at least half of the church's membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership.

Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War.

Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders.

Language for God draws readers into the necessity of language and images for God that are expansive and inclusive of all genders.

Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism.

Explore how the Revised Common Lectionary enriches worshipHow does this contemporary lectionary nourish Christian faith and life?

Potsdam war in der SED-Diktatur Sitz von Verwaltungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Standort von Militär und Staatssicherheit, aber auch von Einrichtungen der Evangelischen Kirche.

This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

Dieses Buch nimmt das 500.

Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England.

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Kerygmatic Hermeneutics takes a reader at once into a concrete apprehension of God in his scriptural truth through flowing in the Spirit.

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

Das evangelische Pfarrhaus genießt in der Öffentlichkeit großes Ansehen.

Der vielschichtige Protagonist der katholischen ReformDie neue Biographie zum 500.

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Karl Barth (1886–1968) war der wohl fleißigste und bekannteste Theologe des 20.

This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants.

Anhand der Rekonstruktion des homiletischen Ansatzes von Gerhard Aho in seinem Kontext entsteht ein Bild der nordamerikanischen Predigtlehre mit ihrer eigenständigen Ausprägung im 20.

Melanchthon and Calvin were late medieval people, stemming from a world of order and unity, and at the same time they fully lived in the early modern world, in which everything was changing.

60 Jahre sind in der Geschichte der Kirche eine kurze Zeit.

Scott Bruzek has served the church faithfully for over three decades.

In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

With honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God's kingdom.

Leading historical and liturgical scholars reflect on the history and impact of Book of Common Prayer, the most important liturgical text in English.

Philip Turner's contributions as a leader and thinker in Christian missions and social ethics are here engaged by an array of friends and colleagues.

Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luthers writings related to pastoral work.

In recent years the rapid growth of Christian charismatic movements throughout sub-Saharan Africa has drastically reconfigured the region's religious landscape.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.

Baptists originated as a protest movement within the church but have developed over time into a distinct sect, one committed to preserving its place in the hierarchy of denominations.

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'?

Der Theologe Helmuth Schreiner (1893-1962) wurde 1931 als Vorsteher des Johannesstifts in Berlin auf den Lehrstuhl für Praktische Theologie in Rostock berufen.

In recent years the rapid growth of Christian charismatic movements throughout sub-Saharan Africa has drastically reconfigured the region's religious landscape.

A little over one hundred years ago the Holy Spirit breathed a fresh awakening into little communities in Topeka, Kansas (1901) and then on Azusa Street in California (1906).

Die Kombination aus biographischer Studie und der vom Landauer Reformator Johann Bader ausgehenden Analyse des reformatorischen Netzwerks am Oberrhein zeigt die Entwicklung evangelischer Theologie in der Frühen Neuzeit.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South.

Die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland hat Substanz.