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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-25
Format(s) : PDF
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-01-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences ofSamuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy. These clergy felt alienated from the religious and political settlement of 1689 and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences ofSamuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy. These clergy felt alienated from the religious and political settlement of 1689 and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-02-25
Format(s) : PDF
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Inspired by the ideas of the Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, Arminianism was the subject of important theological controversies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and still today remains an important position within Protestant thought.
What became known as...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-11-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Book of Common Prayer is a remarkable book, a sacred book in more than one sense. It is primarily a liturgical text, meant to be used in corporate worship, and at the same time a literary landmark, a cultural icon, and a focus of identity for Anglican Christianity....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-04
Format(s) : PDF
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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-04
Format(s) : ePub
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In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants. Despite many...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-01-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the rise of so-called "nones," though, there has also been a countervailing...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-12-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is the first history of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative, nonconformist evangelical Christian movement whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland in the late 1820s. The teachings of John Nelson Darby, an influential figure among the early Plymouth...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-03-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. Pentecostals believe that everyone can personally receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophecy or the ability...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-03-31
Format(s) : PDF
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