Als Diakon und Referent in der Kirchenleitung kommt der promovierte Theologe Thomas Hanstein mit vielem bis dahin Ungeahntem in Kontakt und geht deshalb auf Abstand zum Kirchendienst.
In 1893, Said Jureidini, an Arabic-speaking Christian from the Ottoman Empire, experienced an evangelical conversion while attending the Chicago World's Fair.
Das Impulspapier "Reformation und Islam" der Konferenz für Islamfragen der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) hat innerhalb und außerhalb der Kirche Zuspruch und Widerspruch erfahren und zur Diskussion eingeladen.
Barry Harvey provides a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ.
Potsdam war in der SED-Diktatur Sitz von Verwaltungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Standort von Militär und Staatssicherheit, aber auch von Einrichtungen der Evangelischen Kirche.
Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley's key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally.
This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade.
Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wann in der Reichsstadt Speyer die Reformation offiziell eingeführt wurde und der Prozess der evangelischen Konfessionsbildung einsetzte und wie bzw.
This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants.
Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.
The Stoics are known to have been a decisive influence on early Christian moral thought, but the import of this influence for contemporary Christian ethics has been underexplored.
Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work.
What if there was a key that made every prayer more effective--something that would bring all prayers into agreement with the heart of God every single time?
Um das Verhältnis der evangelischen Kirche zum KZ-System zwischen 1933 und 1945 darzustellen, untersucht Rebecca Scherf wesentliche Aspekte, die dieses Verhältnis charakterisieren: die Seelsorgetätigkeit der evangelischen Kirche, die inhaftierten Geistlichen, ihre Hafterfahrungen sowie die Reaktionen auf ihre Verhaftungen.
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's theological epistemology, and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes an extensive range of sources.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today.
The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war.
Dieser erste Band einer großen, auf insgesamt vier Bände angelegten Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in der Markgrafschaft, dann im Großherzogtum und im republikanischen Baden wie dem heutigen Teilstaat Baden-Württembergs widmet sich der Vorgeschichte der erst 1556 erfolgten und somit späten badischen Reformation.
Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution.
This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers.
It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.
Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from Gods word.
A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary.
Samuel Cueva has refined his concept of 'partnership in mission' by advocating the use of reciprocal contextual collaboration in this important contribution to scholarly reflection on contemporary missiology.
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix.
