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A sweeping history of Christianity in America, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the political triumphs of evangelicalism, showing the powerful, singular role the faith has always played in American public life. “Fast-paced and lucidly written ......
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Basic Books
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2026-03-03
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This book explores how seventeenth-century nonconformist Christian discourse gave animals a voice in public life, challenging dominant anthropocentric narratives. Drawing on historical, theological, and ethical perspectives, Philip J. Sampson traces a subjugated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-09
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Empire of Print offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the American Tract Society (ATS) leveraged print media to spread its message across an expanding nation. One of the era's largest media corporations and a pillar of the benevolent empire, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-31
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The evolution and spread of Protestantism has been shaped largely by its focus on reading and interpreting the Bible. For evangelists in late-nineteenth-century Brazil, the promotion of literacy was key to spreading the gospel throughout the country, a fact that shaped...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-18
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This book explores the church's engagement with worship and theology as a result of the pandemic, especially as it relates to digital worship and the means of grace. Organized around the four-fold pattern of Sunday worship—Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending—this collection...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-24
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'a vital resource'
TLS
'Compelling collection'
Literary Review
The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world.
Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of indulgences in 1517 were part of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
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'a vital resource'
TLS
'Compelling collection'
Literary Review
The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world.
Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of indulgences in 1517 were part of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish and fanatical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-08-12
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Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-27
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Dieses Buch thematisiert Pluralität und Pluralismus in der evangelischen Friedensethik. Denn die Kirche kann nur und muss letztendlich im Rahmen des politischen und weltanschaulich-religiösen Pluralismus agieren. Ob sie dabei selbst als eine einheitliche Stimme...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-07
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In 1973, Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," held his largest ever "crusade." But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in South Korea. Why there?
Race for Revival seeks not only to answer that question, but to retell the story of modern...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-03-18
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After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-25
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Das Bekenntnis zum Weg der Gewaltfreiheit nimmt in der Kundgebung der EKD-Synode 2019 „Kirche auf dem Weg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens“ den ersten Rang unter den Aussagen zum Thema Frieden ein. Aber der kirchliche Diskurs kennt auch eine zweite Option, die unter...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-02-14
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The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu. It presents early-nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism as a phenomenon connected to a specific generation of young Prussians.The book introduces the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-31
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt in das noch relativ junge Konzept des gerechten Friedens ein. Es verhandelt seine drei Grundpfeiler: das Verständnis einer Friedensordnung als Rechtsordnung, die Beschränkung militärischer Gewalt zur Rechtsdurchsetzung sowie den Vorrang...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-23
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Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent leaders, a world...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-11
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Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent leaders, a world...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-11
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The Reformed Conformity that flourished within the Early Stuart English Church was a rich, vibrant, and distinctive theological tradition that has never before been studied in its own right. While scholars have observed how Reformed Conformists clashed with Laudians and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-04
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Recently there has been a revival of interest in the views held by Reformed theologians within the parameters of confessional orthodoxy. For example, the doctrine known as 'hypothetical universalism'--the idea that although Christ died in some sense for every person,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-27
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The extra Calvinisticum, the doctrine that the eternal Son maintains his existence beyond the flesh both during his earthly ministry and perpetually, divided the Lutheran and Reformed traditions during the Reformation. This book explores the emergence and development of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-13
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