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Literature on confessionalization has opened new vistas for considering early-modern Christianity and its place in Western social-political contexts, but the ecclesiastical cultures of the period need further research and analysis to refine our focus on how Christians lived in their own communities and related to society at large. This volume’s essays assess eight elements of Lutheran life (its foundation in sixteenth-century processing of Luther’s legacy, university teaching, preaching, catechesis, devotional literature, popular piety, church and society, church and secular government) and two geographical areas (Nordic and Baltic lands, the kingdom of Hungary) to orient readers to current scholarly discussion and suggest further avenues for exploration and evaluation. Each offers perspectives on Lutherans’ attempts to practice their faith in the world. Contributors are: Kenneth Appold, Gerhard Bode, Susan Boettcher, Christopher Boyd Brown, Robert Christman, David Daniel, Irene Dingel, Robert von Friedeburg, Mary Jane Haemig, and Eric Lund.
Lutheran Church --- Lutheranism --- Christian sects --- History
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Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir categoryLonglisted for the 2017 Chautauqua Prize presented by the Chautauqua InstitutionAfter a series of childhood misfortunes—her father's death, her mother's ill-advised love affair, her disabled sister wrecking the family GTO—self-avowed church-geek Jo Page decided it was her job to figure out how to stay on God's good side and maybe spare the family any more tragedy. But she was a girl. And a Lutheran. That ruled out the Roman Catholic sisterhood as so quasi-erotically portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in Page's favorite movie, The Nun's Story. Though women were ordained in the larger branch of the Lutheran church, when Page's own pastor handed her a brochure enumerating all the ways in which she, as a female, was to be silent and submissive, she gave up on the church and went off in search of sex and drugs and rock-and-roll like any rejected adolescent Lutheran girl would.Eventually Page found her way back into the church and ultimately into ordained ministry, spending twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches, presiding over life's rituals and preaching compulsory weekly words of hope she wasn't sure she even believed.Comical, provocative, and heartbreaking, Preaching in My Yes Dress tells several stories: of a child's need to cleave to the very God who instills mortal terror; of the shape-shifting that a public "pastoral identity" entails; of the power of ritual and the weight involved in presiding over it; and of the rise of the religious right and the patriarchy endemic to both scripture and faith traditions. Page also raises the question of whether or not faith can heal the wounds the life of faith has itself inflicted.
Lutheran Church --- Women clergy --- Lutheranism --- Christian sects --- Clergy
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"This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to the controversies that surround mission history. It means neither to condemn nor praise, but rather to understand the various responses of Indigenous communities, the intentions of missionaries, the agendas of the mission societies and the many tensions besetting the mission endeavour. It explores a common commitment to the supernatural and the role of intermediaries like local diplomats and evangelists from the Pacific Islands and Philippines, and emphasises the strong role played by non-English speakers in the transcultural Australian mission effort.This book is a companion to the website German Missionaries in Australia – A web-directory of intercultural encounters. The web-directory provides detailed accounts of Australian missions staffed with German speakers. The book reads laterally across the different missions and produces a completely different type of knowledge about missions. The book and its accompanying website are based on a decade of research ranging across mission archives with foreign-language sources that have not previously been accessed for a historiography of Australian missions.‘A remarkable intellectual achievement, compelling reading.’— Dr Niel Gunson‘The range of knowledge on display here is very impressive indeed.’— Professor Peter Monteath"
Aboriginal Australians --- Religion. --- Australia --- Indigenous peoples --- missionaries --- history --- Catholic Church --- Lutheranism --- Pallottines
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Lutheran Church --- Theology --- Église luthérienne --- Théologie --- Lutheran Church. --- Theology. --- Lutheranisme. --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Lutheranism --- Christianity --- Religion --- Christian sects
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For the first time, this double volume makes accessible to researchers two extraordinary collections of religious poetry by the prominent Baroque poet Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681). The critical apparatus and commentary provide detailed documentation of issues of textual criticism, indicate the historical place of each text, document scriptural references, and reveal both the theological and pietistic as well as emblematic orientation of the poems.
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Considered by many to be one of the most influential German Pietists, August Hermann Francke lived during a moment when an emphasis on conversion was beginning to produce small shifts in how the sacraments were defined—a harbinger of later, more dramatic changes to come in evangelical theology. In this book, Peter James Yoder uses Francke and his theology as a case study for the ecclesiological stirrings that led to the rise of evangelicalism and global Protestantism.Engaging extensively with Francke’s manuscript sermons and writings, Yoder approaches Francke’s life and religious thought through his theology of the sacraments. In doing so, Yoder delivers key insights into the structure of Francke's Pietist thought, providing a rich depiction of his conversion-driven theology and how it shaped his views of the sacraments and the church. The first in-depth study of Francke’s theology written for an English-speaking audience, this book supports recent scholarship in English that not only challenges long-held assumptions about Pietism but also argues for the role of Pietism’s influence on the changing religious landscape of the eighteenth century. Through his examination of Francke’s theology of the sacraments, Yoder presents a fresh view into the eighteenth-century ecclesiological developments that caused a rupture with the dogmas of the Reformation.Original and vital, this study recognizes Francke’s importance to the history of Pietism in Germany and beyond. It will become the standard reference on Francke for American audiences and will influence scholarship on Lutheranism, Pietism, early modern German studies, and eighteenth-century history and religion.
Pietism --- Sacraments. --- History --- Francke, August Hermann, --- August Hermann Francke. --- Early Evangelicalism. --- Early Modern Lutheranism. --- Ecclesiology. --- German Pietism. --- Lutheran Pietism. --- Lutheran Theology. --- Pietism. --- Sacramental Theology.
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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. The book is a translation into English of the Russian original authored by Grigoriǐ Verigin, published in 1935. The book’s narrative starts with the consolidation of Doukhobor beliefs inspired by the most famous Doukhobor leader, Pëtr Verigin. It describes the arrival of Doukhobors in Canada, their agricultural and industrial accomplishments in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and the clashes and misunderstandings between Doukhobors and the Canadian government. The narrative closes in 1924, with the scenes of Pëtr Verigin’s death in a yet unresolved railway car bombing, and of his funeral. The author emphasizes the most crucial component of Doukhobor beliefs: their pacifism and unequivocal rejection of wars and military conflicts. The book highlights other aspects of Doukhobor beliefs as well, including global community, brotherhood and equality of all the people on earth, kind treatment of animals, vegetarianism, as well as abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. It also calls for social justice, tolerance, and diversity. .
Dukhobors --- Doukhobors --- Christian sects --- Canada --- Emigration and immigration. --- Religion—History. --- Protestantism. --- Ethnography. --- History of Religion. --- Protestantism and Lutheranism. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation
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This text looks at why witch-trials failed to escalate into ""witch-crazes"" in certain parts of early modern Europe. Using the legal records of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the book explores the social and psychological conflicts behind the making of accusations and confessions of witchcraft.
Witchcraft --- History --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- 291.33 --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- germany --- folklore --- witchcraft --- witches --- Defamation --- Early modern period --- Lutheranism --- Torture --- Wettringen (Münsterland) --- Witch trials in the early modern period --- Witch-hunt --- Würth --- History. --- European history. --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- History & Archaeology
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This volume brings together philosophers, social theorists, and theologians in order to investigate the relation between future(s) of the Revolution and future(s) of the Reformation. It offers reflections on concepts and interpretations of revolution and reformation that are relevant for the analysis of future-oriented political practices and political theologies of the present time.
Revolutions. --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Religion—Philosophy. --- Russia—History. --- Europe, Eastern—History. --- Protestantism. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- Protestantism and Lutheranism. --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation
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This book offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal--where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring and influential union of Lutheranism, music, and culture--is at the center of the story.
Lutheran Church --- Hymns, German --- Reformation --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- German hymns --- Lutheranism --- Christian sects --- Hymns --- History and criticism. --- History --- Jáchymov (Czech Republic) --- Jáchymov (Czechoslovakia) --- S. Jochimsthal (Czech Republic) --- Joachimsthal (Czech Republic) --- Sankt-Joachimsthal (Czech Republic) --- Church history. --- Christian church history --- Music --- Poetry --- German literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Jachymov (Czech Republic)
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