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Recent Church History — A Survey
The Church in the Early Middle Ages. G.R. Evans. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]19.50. xxiv + 202 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-150-2. The Church in the Modern Age. Jeremy Morris.I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]19.50. xxxi + 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-317-9. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume 2: Constantine to c. 600. Augustine Casiday and...
Tags: Christianity, Church, essay, MARKETING, survey, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2008-06-22
International baptist perspectives on human rights
What importance have the Baptist World Alliance BWA and Baptist World Congresses assigned to human rights since the Alliance's first meeting in 1905? (1) And what have Baptists on a global scale said about human rights through the BWA and its Congresses? This article will identify basic trends and...
Tags: Christianity, church, commission, declaration, liberty, Liberty, SALES, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-22
Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.(Book review)
By Lamin Sanneh. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xxii, 384. 60 [pounds sterling]/ $99; paperback 11.99 [pounds sterling] / $19.95. John Carman's review of Lamin Sanneh's Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity introduces both this volume and the significant series of...
Tags: Christianity, church, Leadership, Yale University
Research articles 2008-01-01
Religions and international poverty alleviation: the pluses and minuses.(Essay)
Increasingly within the international development community and among religious organizations, it is argued that religious agencies offer something unique to development programs, especially to those designed to alleviate poverty. Generally, this comparative advantage is seen as forms of social capital. In fact, virtually all the world's...
Tags: African, agency, Christianity, Covenant, food, Government, Hindu, Jesus, MARKETING, policymaker, poverty, Poverty, Richard, SOFTWARE, strategy, women, World Bank
Research articles 2007-09-22
Australia becoming more Asian: census
SYDNEY AFP — Australians are becoming more Asian and less Christian according to the results of the latest Census released Wednesday. The population, predicted to hit 21 million by the end of the week, is also older and richer than it was on average a decade ago. While...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Asia, Christianity, India
Research articles 2007-06-27
Conservative Christians set evangelism summit
CAPE TOWN, South Africa AP -- Conservative Christians are planning a world evangelism summit modeled on the 1974 Lausanne Congress that at the time was considered the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held. The Third International Congress on World Evangelization is scheduled for Oct. 16-25 in Cape Town....
Tags: Christianity, church, leader, Leadership, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-05-12
History of Christianity.
African Christianity: An African Story. Edited by Ogbu Kalu. (Department of Church History, University of Pretoria, 631 pp.) Kalu and an accomplished team of collaborators bring off in this book what has never been accomplished before--a thorough, carefully researched, interpretively rich history of Christianity in Africa written by Africans. The...
Tags: African, Christianity, Geneva, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2006-10-17
Encyclopedia of Christianity
Encyclopedia of Christianity. Edited by John Bowden. Oxford University Press, 1,408pp., $125.00. TEN YEARS in the making, the new Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by John Bowden, is a major scholarly achievement. This single volume contains 33 gateway entries to pivotal subjects; 300 major articles by distinguished authorities; 166 strategically...
Tags: Christianity, church, hunt, University of Oxford
Research articles 2006-10-03
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Evangelicals and Catholics Together)
* From its beginnings in 1992, Evangelicals and Catholics Together ECT has been very deliberately an unofficial project composed of a continuing working group of participants who speak from and to their several ecclesial communities. There is an acknowledged difference between Catholic and evangelical participation, in...
Tags: America, American Civil Liberties Union, Benedict, Caesar, Christianity, church, Dr., Evil, New York Times Co., Phillips, president, Richard, survey, women
Research articles 2006-10-01
The Nobel Peace Lecture for 2005.(International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei)(Speech)
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Honourable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The International Atomic Energy Agency and I are humbled, proud, delighted and above all strengthened in our resolve by this most worthy of honours. My...
Tags: Christianity, Globalization, International Atomic Energy Agency, SECURITY, Strategy
Research articles 2006-06-22
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
* The Christmas wars have come and gone. Until next December--or, more accurately, the start-up of the shopping season in late October. The wars received more attention than usual this time, with numerous localities dubbing Christmas trees as "holiday" trees or "winter" trees, which elicited widespread...
Tags: America, Arab, Benefits, Christianity, Church, church, Cohen, embryo, England, Government, New York Times Co., Poland, survey
Research articles 2006-02-01
Hilda Neatby's 1950s and My 1950s
Hilda Neatby (1904-76), long-time professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, came into her own during the 1950s. A member of the Massey Commission, which reported in 1951, and author of So Little for the Mind (1953), a critique of progressive education, she acquired a high profile based on...
Tags: Canada, Christianity, democracy, essay, Government, Leadership, Robert, Toronto, University of Toronto, Vancouver
Research articles 2006-01-01
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
* Bishop Hugh Latimer was preaching in Westminster Abbey before King Henry VIII. In the pulpit Latimer soliloquized, "Latimer! Latimer! Latimer! Be careful what you say. The King of England is here." Then he continued, "Latimer! Latimer! Latimer! Be careful what you say. The King of...
Tags: Air Force, Allen, America, American Civil Liberties Union, American Medical Association, Bible, Christianity, church, Richard, Roman, Rome, survey, unity
Research articles 2005-11-01
Message from 25th Theology Congress on 'Christianity and Violence'
BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGIANS Madrid, Sept. 11, 2005 1. Peace is one of the most precious and sought after possessions of humanity, but, at the same time, it is one of the most fragile and threatened. Following the traces of the human history, we would look for a...
Tags: Christianity, terrorism, U.S. Congress, violence
Research articles 2005-10-23
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
* It was axiomatic for the early Fathers of the Church that "Scripture interprets Scripture." It was further understood that Christ is the Logos who speaks and is spoken of in all the words logoi of Scripture. This was a theme addressed by our Robert Louis ...
Tags: Air Force, alien, Allen, America, American Civil Liberties Union, Books, Christianity, church, Church, Israel, Leadership, Marriage, Robert, survey, U.S., Yale University
Research articles 2005-10-01
The legacy of John Duncan.(Biography)
John Duncan was born in 1796 in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, to parents who were members of the Associate Presbytery, or Secession Church. When John was nine years old, he entered Aberdeen Grammar School, where from the outset he showed great interest in languages and metaphysics, the ...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Alexander, Christianity, church, Church, Edinburgh, Hungary, London, Pest, Robert, Scotland
Research articles 2005-07-01
The failure of liberal morality
WHAT IS LIBERAL MORALITY Morality means principles defining right and wrong conduct. Liberal morality is a form of modern morality. During the Axial Period there occurred a profound change in the nature of morality. In traditional or "folk-religious" ethics, to use Gustav Mensching's (1973:84) term, values "are related to...
Tags: alliance, Bush, Christianity, Church, church, Council, Democratic Party, Emerson, G., ideology, Johnson, leader, libertarian, mythology, poverty, president, U.S.
Research articles 2005-06-22
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?
Fundamentalist Christian Crusade At Air Force Academy Sparks Official Military InvestigationWhen Albuquerque attorney and businessman Mikey Weinstein stopped in to see his son Curtis at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in late July of 2004, he could tell something was wrong. Normally upbeat and exuberant, the 20-year-old...
Tags: Academy, Air Force, Christianity, E-mail, Harassment, MARKETING
Research articles 2005-06-01
Mill versus liberty: a review of Linda C. Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity
Introduction SINCE MAURICE COWLING'S CLASSIC BUT SADLY NEGLECTED STUDY 40 years ago, only Joseph Hamburger (1976, 1991, 1995, 1999) has identified the "anti-Christian theme" in the Essay on Liberty or has considered the significance for our understanding of Mill's thought as a whole of his "profound commitment to the...
Tags: Cambridge, Christianity, essay, FINANCE, Liberty, liberty, London, M., Stuart, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2005-04-01
While we're at it.(The public square: a continuing survey of religion, culture, and public life)
* Asked to summarize his conservative philosophy, former editor Jim Nuechterlein would respond, "Change is bad." In fact, his philosophy is considerably more interesting than that, but you have to begin somewhere. As it happens, there are a number of changes in our shop and I...
Tags: America, Christianity, church, Church, editor, leader, Leadership, NCR Corp., New York Times Co., survey, Time Magazine, U.S., unity
Research articles 2005-04-01
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