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- Breakaway traditionalists hail papal move on Latin mass
- GENEVA AFP — Catholic traditionalists who revolted against the dropping of the Latin mass on Saturday hailed Pope Benedict XVI's decision to allow its greater use, but said other difficulties remained with the Vatican. The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, in a press release from its leader Bernard...
- Research articles 2007-07-07
- What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe?
- Forum writer Joel P. Engardio clearly illustrates why Jehovah's Witnesses are often on the receiving end of hostility. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly engage in deception to get people to believe they are not really a cult but just a branch of Christianity ("Opening the door for us all," The Forum, May...
- Research articles 2007-05-15
- The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts, from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance
- The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts, from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance. Richard Viladesau. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. ix + 214 pages. ISBN 0-19-518811-X. In this study, which originated with O.U.P. New York, Prof. Viladesau begins a series...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Americans define faith their way
- The most comprehensive national religion survey to date, written and analyzed by sociologists at Baylor University and conducted by Gallup, finds that Americans don't see themselves the way the media, politicians or even religion experts do. USA TODAY religion writer Cathy Lynn Grossman examines some of the survey's far-reaching --...
- Research articles 2006-09-12
- Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias.(Book Review)
- By Margaret M. Olsen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xii, 189. $59.95. This analysis of an important missionary text from Spanish America complements other recent studies of early Jesuit activity. Margaret Olsen, who teaches colonial Spanish American and Afro-Hispanic...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- David Chidester. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
- David Chidester. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003. 190 pp. $19.95 paperback or $45.00 cloth This is a slightly modified and updated second edition of Chidester's 1988 book with the same title. The modifications are mainly at the beginning, an attempt...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- It's time for the North to rule itself
- In the 30s when Ellen Wilkinson, pictured left, and the brave men of the Jarrow Crusade reached London to bring to the attention of the government of the day the appalling levels of deprivation in the North East, they were told to "go home and work out your own salvation"....
- Research articles 2004-06-28
- Inhumation.(Poem)
- Inhumation two cranes, tips prayer joined advertise salvation in neon epistles papal knuckles bless the city "DEVINE" beneath their cathedral, faded Madonnas poster the many-arms of...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Postmodernist ecumenism.(The Church in a Postliberal Age)(Book Review)
- THE CHURCH IN A POSTLIBERAL AGE. By GEORGE A. LINDBECK. Edited by James J. Buckley. Eerdmans. 300 pp. $27. GEORGE LINDBECK was almost predestined to eminence in the fields of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. After living his first seventeen years in China as the...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
- The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. By Katherine Ludwig Jansen. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 389. $19.95.) It may come as a surprise to many non-medievalists that Mary Magdalen was second only to...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Century marks
- NONVIOLENT WEAPONS: Instead of focusing on destroying weapons of mass destruction WMD, Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, thinks we should focus on using weapons of mass salvation WMS. He has in mind an "arsenal of life-saving vaccines, medicines and health interventions, emergency food aid and farming technologies...
- Research articles 2002-11-20
- MOVIES: ROGER'S MALE BONDING
- BOAT TRIP (15) "HOW did you know I like to be humiliated?" asks one-time 007 Roger Moore as gay stud Lloyd. By appearing in the worst film comedy of the year is the obvious answer. Moore tries to camp it up...
- Research articles 2002-10-06
- nations will worship: Jonathan Edwards and the salvation of the heathen, The
- Jonathan Edwards spent the last seven years of his life as a missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. When he arrived at the church in 1751, Edwards was not in an entirely unreached area of the world. A church had been founded there in the 1730s with support from...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- FTTP--salvation or smoke? Part II.(Viewpoint)
- In the first installment of this series, we looked at the reasons that the RBOCs' FTTP plan might mean salvation for the industry. But is it really salvation? Or is it smoke? The following is a list that makes us more than a little skeptical of the...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Redeeming the past?
- LAWRENCE LANGER explains in Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory that written accounts of life in the Nazi concentration camps often seek to integrate the Holocaust experience into a larger structure of meaning. Holocaust then becomes a testimony to the "indomitable human spirit," an example of growing through suffering, a...
- Research articles 2002-02-13
- Self and Salvation. Being Transformed
- Self and Salvation. Being Transformed. By David F. Ford. Cambridge Studies in Christian Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 298 pp. $64.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. David F. Ford, currently Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, will be known to many as the editor of the textbook The Modern...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- JONATHAN EDWARDS CONFRONTS THE, GODS.(Review) (book review)
- JONATHAN EDWARDS CONFRONTS THE, GODS. By GERALD R. McDERMOTT. Oxford University Press. 245 pp. $45. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is frequently and with considerable right called America's greatest theologian. McDermott of Roanoke College makes an impressive case that Edwards' much writing against Arminianism was...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives. - book reviews
- In 1892, the U.S. Supreme Court, acting as censor morum, declared that America is a Christian people. Sixty years later it modified the claim, calling us a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. The difference between the two statements is profound, for almost anything can count as religious....
- Research articles 1995-07-10
- In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery. - book reviews
- In 1892, the U.S. Supreme Court, acting as censor morum, declared that America is a Christian people. Sixty years later it modified the claim, calling us a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. The difference between the two statements is profound, for almost anything can count as religious....
- Research articles 1995-07-10
- Other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval Waldensianism: a Weberian analysis
- Social and religious life in the Middle Ages is not a popular field of study in sociology. Even sociologists specializing in religion and comparative historical studies generally find it too remote from their personal interests and professional expertise to devote a study to this topic. This, however, has not always...
- Research articles 1995-06-22
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