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- Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin
- Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen
- Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. By Jeremy Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 320 pp. $29.95 cloth. Throughout his distinguished scholarly career, Jeremy Cohen has explored the perplexing and painful relationship between Jews and Christians in antiquity and...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Portable politics and durable religion: the moral worldviews of American evangelical missionaries
- INTRODUCTION We began this study with the assumption that American international missionaries, having been exposed to a foreign culture, would relativize their own perspective on American culture, religion, and politics. In particular, we were interested in whether American international missionaries from the Pacific Northwest PNW exhibited similar traits to...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Pentecostalism beyond belief: trust and democracy in a Malawian township
- ABSTRACT The concept of belief, when applied in its strong sense, assumes an inner state that sets believers apart from non-believers. This article suggests that a concept of trust is more appropriate for the study of the religious orientation among Pentecostal Christians in Chinsapo, an impoverished township in Malawi's...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South, The
- The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. By Philip Jenkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, x + 252 pp., paper $26.00. As Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Philip Jenkins is renowned especially for his The Next Christendom: The Coming...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- BOOK MARKS
- BOOK MARKS AN IMPORTANT, GROUNDBREAKING AND epoch-making volume gets my vote as presumptuous as it may sound this early in the year for the best Jewish book of the year. In Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion From the Bible to the Big Screen, by Jeremy Cohen (Oxford University...
- Research articles 2007-05-04
- Books of interest
- [The following titles are of ecumenical and/or interfaith interest, but are now too old to be reviewed in a timely manner. Readers will want to be aware of them.] Amaladoss, Michael, Making Harmony: Living in a Pluralist World. Chennai: Institute of Dialogue with Cultures and Religions; Delhi: ISPCK, 2003....
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform
- Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling ... crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches," Greenblatt suggests, is a "key to the whole spectacle" of...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Doctrinal war: religion and ideology in international conflict
- Justifying War Because war is more devastating than any other form of human conflict, it begs for justification, which must be compelling if it is to be generally persuasive. The exercise of armed force seeks legitimacy and legality, and that is no less evident today than in the past....
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Psychology's love-hate relationship with love: critiques, affirmations, and Christian responses
- Christian psychologists' contributions to understanding love of God and neighbor have fallen far short of their potential. A major reason, I argue, is psychologists' love-hate relationship with love. Psychologists raise challenging questions about love or some understandings of love, based on their usually implicit ethical intuitions (e.g., that telling battered...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- The lamentable loss of Alhama in 'Paseabase el Re Moro'
- ABSTRACT This article studies three versions of a medieval Spanish ballad which relates Muslim reaction to the Christians' capture of Alhama. It explores how various motifs of loss, such as the association of death and writing, and beard-plucking, as well as motifs of luxury and prophecy, are employed in...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Awesome God.(Indonesia)(Christian survivors of tsunami)(Brief Article)
- The following story was passed on to us via Father Prakash Tuscano, S.J., of St. Ignatius Church, Mumbai, India. It is told by Bill Hekman, Pastor, Calvary Life Fellowship, Sumatra, Indonesia. Medan -- We serve an awesome God, don't we? We know that 80% ...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- 1562 Ad
- The Cathedral of St. Etienne at Bourges, which Ribault justly styles "un chef d'oeuvre gothique" a Gothic masterpiece, (1) did not escape the Huguenot depredations of 1562. Especially vulnerable to the pikes and pry-bars of the Reformers were the choir screen in front of the main altar, the north and...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Patronage, millennialism and the serpent God Mumbo in south-west Kenya, 1912-34
- From 1914 to 1934 the creed of Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, extended across south-west Kenya. Mumbo condemned Christianity as rotten and vowed to cleanse the land of white people--colonial officials and missionaries--and their lackeys--chiefs and converts. It pledged to provide followers with abundant cattle and grain. Mumbo,...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: "discipline" and reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
- Already famous for his best-selling books on Christian devotion and increasingly infamous for his attempts at a theological synthesis of Calvinist and Arminian perspectives on salvation--which no surprise pleased hardly anyone--Richard Baxter (1615-91) nearly succeeded in redefining English pastoral practice before the Restoration brought his experiment in pastor-led, parish-based reformation...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers: Assurance of Salvation and the Pastoral Origins of Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s
- The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in the early 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more reliable method of obtaining a steady assurance. He decided that only a steady,...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome
- The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome. By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. xvii + 199 pp. $39.95 cloth. In a letter to Paulinus of Nola, Jerome praised Lactantius's Ciceronian eloquence but lamented the North African rhetor's mediocrity as an apologist for...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
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- Orthodoxy; It's a long stretch, but liberaldom is working hard to blame the Christians for the big bombing.(terrorist attacks against World Trade Center and Pentagon)(Brief Article)
- While it's difficult to discover anything humorous about the events of September 11, one aspect of the aftermath is at least ironic, namely the strenuous efforts of our liberal element to blame the Christians for that catastrophe. In the following week, for example, one cantankerous Alberta...
- Research articles 2001-12-03
- Lebanese Christians respect Ramadan without the constraints
- BEIRUT AFP — Lebanese Christians only slightly alter their habits in respect for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in the absence of official constraints in a country once torn apart by civil war. In contrast to Saudi Arabia, no official obligations are imposed on Christians in Lebanon to...
- Research articles 2004-10-20
- 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....
- Research articles 2007-05-12
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