Between State and Church

The choice of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the United Provinces of the Northern Netherlands as reference points for the Commonwealth of Nobles bears explaining

A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Cath…

A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bỉnh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Bỉnh’s surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Portugal, this book examines how the intersections of global and local Roman Catholic geographies …

Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology : A Rhythm that Con…

Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological and ritual significance of worship for pentecostal spirituality has been sparse, not least in Africa. Combining rich theoretical and theological insight with an in-depth cas…

Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate = A Renaissance Physician in the Second Ref…

This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline controversy of the 1560s and 1570s, Erastus opposed the Calvinist effort to institute a consisto…

The Best Church Hymns

This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this recording are said only, not sung, along with a few explanatory notes for each hymn (some footnotes, not all, here recorded). The texts are preceded by two essays concerning hymns and their standards. Benson (1855-1930) was an American Presbyterian minister who e…

Helen Mulgrave : or, Jesuit executorship : being passages in the life of a se…

As an autobiographer is expected to say something of his birth, parentage, and education, I will begin my narrative with some particulars of mine, in the relation of which I shall endea vor to be brief. My father and mother, who were Irish, were both Roman Catholics by hereditary descent ; their families, for several gene rations, having been born in the Romish church. My father, who inhe…

The history of the origins of Christianity

The first book of our History of the Origins of Christianity brought us down to the death, and burial of Jesus ; and we must now resume the subject at the point where we left it — that is to say, on Saturday, the fourth of April, in the year 33. The work will be for some time yet a sort of continuation of the life of Jesus. Next to the months of joyful raptiu-e, during which the great Founder…

The Church of Scotland, past and present : its history, its relation to the l…

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v. ; 23 cm

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The church in politics--Americans, beware!

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Studies of Christianity, or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers : a serie…

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