Dictionary Of Christianity

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First Published in 1996. A comprehensive reference guide to saints, popes, martyrs, orders, heresies, schisms and religious movements and practices, the Dictionary of Christianity is an alphabetically-arranged volume of essential facts about Christianity and the Christian church. It includes: accounts of the lives of theologians, philosophers, and reformers whose works influenced the development of Christianity; biblical statistics and information about the chief editions of the Bible; the lives of saints, including their feast days; and details about offices and vestments, rituals and festivals. In recent years there has been an upsurge in ecumenical movements, and increased communication between Eastern and Western Catholics and Protestants. There has also been an increase in the membership of the Eastern Church in Western countries and, with the fall of Communism in Russia, a revival of the Russian Orthodox Church. In responseto this phenomena, the Dictionary of Christianity covers all the main branches of the Christian church. It will be an invaluable reference for all students of religion.

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Genre : Reference
Author : J.C. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-10-23
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134265534


Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable

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Genre : Allusions
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Release : 1881
File : 1082 Pages
ISBN-13 : ZBZH:ZBZ-00099068


Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable A Dictionary Of English Literature By W D Adams With Additions

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Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Release : 1885
File : 1098 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:590115119


Republican Landmarks

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Genre : Naturalization
Author : John Philip Sanderson
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Release : 1856
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:$B23189


The Christian Monitor

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Release : 1876
File : 644 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89077073229


I Am A Pilgrim A Traveler A Stranger

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In this book--part biography, part critical analysis--John Hubers introduces us to a man whose pioneering ministry in the Ottoman Empire has gone largely unnoticed since his memoir was penned in 1828, three years after his death in Beirut, by a seminary colleague. His name was Pliny Fisk, and he belonged to a cadre of New England seminary students whose evangelical Calvinism led them to believe that God was opening up a new chapter in the life of the Church that included an aggressive evangelism outside the borders of Christendom. Fisk and his friend Levi Parsons joined that effort in 1819 when they became the first American missionaries sent to the Ottoman Empire by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Hubers's intent is to show the complexity of Fisk's character while examining the impact his move to the Middle East made on his perceptions of the religious other. As such, this volume joins a growing body of literature aimed at providing critical, historical, and religious context to the often checkered history of relations between American Christians and Western Asian peoples.

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Genre : Religion
Author : John Hubers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2016-09-29
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781498282994


The Century Dictionary The Century Dictionary

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Genre : Atlases
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Release : 1895
File : 912 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112069827563


From A Far Country

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In From a Far Country Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French Protestant diaspora through the lives of three figures: Gabriel Bernon, who led a Huguenot exodus to Massachusetts and moved among the commercial elite; Ezéchiel Carré, a Camisard who influenced Cotton Mather’s theology; and Elie Neau, a Camisard-influenced writer and escaped galley slave who established North America’s first school for blacks. Like other French Protestants, these men were adaptable in their religious views, a quality Randall points out as quintessentially American. In anthropological terms they acted as code shifters who manipulated multiple cultures. While this malleability ensured that French Protestant culture would not survive in externally recognizable terms in the Americas, Randall shows that the culture’s impact was nonetheless considerable.

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Genre : History
Author : Catharine Randall
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release : 2011
File : 188 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780820338200


The Philadelphia Universalist Magazine And Christian Messenger

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Genre : Universalism
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Release : 1823
File : 422 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:AH6HAY


Babel In Russian And Other Literatures And Topographies

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This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples. The author pursues its linking of language, architecture, and society as well as its relevance in art and literature over centuries. To come to terms with a perceived disorder in the realm of language, alternative explanations and projects for remediation abound. The disorder and diversity themselves find expression in art, literature, and philosophical reflection and caused the emergence of a historical linguistics. The ambition of the builders—with its social and organizational premise—reemerges in both political and material form as cities, states, and monumental constructions. Utopian aspirations and linguistic claims permeate both revolutionary notions of universality and the romantic essentialism of the nation state. These in turn provoke dystopian critique in literature and film. As Martin Meisel reveals in this study, the wrestle with language in its recalcitrant instability and imperfect social function enters into dialogue with the celebration of its diversity, elasticity, and creativity.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2019-08-15
File : 169 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781498588386