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• The life of Adam Boreel
• The thought of Adam Boreel.

"In Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity, Francesco Quatrini offers a reassessment of the life and thought of Adam Boreel, a leading member of the Dutch nonconformist Collegiant movement. Usually regarded as a less important member of this religious group, Boreel is described as a forerunner whose ideas influenced later Collegiants. Drawing on both archival and published sources, Francesco Quatrini provides the first modern biography of Boreel as well as a critical analysis of his writings. He corrects misconceptions about Boreel, who appears here as an intriguing figure who drew his views from several different sources. In this way, Francesco Quatrini revealed that Boreel was a major leader in the era's intellectual discourse"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Arminian theology was held by people across a wide swath of geographical and ecclesial positions. This theological movement was in part a reaction to the Reformed doctrine of predestination and was founded on the assertion that God's sovereignty and human free will are compatible. More broadly, it was an attempt to articulate a holistic view of God and salvation that is grounded in Scripture and Christian tradition as well as adequate to the challenges of life. First developed in European, British, and American contexts, the movement engaged with a wide range of intellectual challenges. While standing together in their common rejection of several key planks of Reformed theology, supporters of Arminianism took varying positions on other matters. Some were broadly committed to catholic and creedal theology, while others were more open to theological revision. Some were concerned primarily with practical matters, while others were engaged in system-building as they sought to articulate and defend an over-arching vision of God and the world. The story of Arminian development is complex, yet essential for a proper understanding of the history of Protestant theology. The historical development of Arminian theology, however, is not well known. In After Arminius, Thomas H. McCall and Keith D. Stanglin offer a thorough historical introduction to Arminian theology, providing an account that will be useful to scholars and students of ecclesiastical history and modern Christian thought.
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"In this history of deafness and sign language in the Catholic Church, the author draws on the stories of deaf priests and pastoral workers to trace the development of an active language minority in today's global church"-- Provided by publisher.

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. This brief, accessible account of the Prayer Book, as it is often called, describes the contents of the classical version of the text, with special emphasis on the services for which it has been used most frequently since it was issued in 1662. Charles Hefling also examines the historical and theological context of the Prayer Book's origins, the changes it has undergone, the controversies it has touched off, and its reception in England, Scotland, and America. Readers are introduced to the political as well as the spiritual influence of the Book of Common Prayer, and to its enduring place in English-speaking religion.
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"The book is aimed especially to curious newcomers, especially people who do not want to be told that there are simple Catholic answers to the complicated problems of the modern world. The goal is not only to explain what the Church really says, but also how it got to its current position and who it is arguing with. For each topic, Counsels of Imperfection provides biblical, historical and a broad philosophical background. In the spirit of a doctrine always in development, Counsels of Imperfection points out both strong-points and imperfections in the teaching. The book is divided into 11 chapters. First comes an introduction to ever-changing modernity and the unchanging Christian understanding of human nature and society. Then come two chapters on economics, including a careful delineation of the Catholic response to socialism and capitalism. The next topic is government (Church and State, War, and democracy and related topics). Next two chapters on ecology. The last topic is the family teaching, which presents the social aspects of the Church's sexual teaching as relates to society. A brief concluding chapter looks at the teaching's changing response to the modern world, and at the ambiguous Catholic appreciation of the modern idea of progress"-- Provided by publisher.

• Des églises pour une église
• Aux origines d'une Église réformée unifiée
• De la pluralité aux divisions
• Les Articles organiques de 1802
• Le Réveil
• Le schisme
• La Séparation
• Une redistribution des cartes après 1905
• Le rapprochement théologique
• L'influence des conférences internationales
• L'écho meurtrier de la Grande Guerre
• De nouveaux courants pour de nouveaux clivages
• La fondation de l'Église réformée de France
• Une réunification rapide après des décennies de tensions
• La Déclaration de foi de 1938
• Ceux qui ont dit "non"
• Les débuts de la grande querelle
• L'É.R.F. à l'épreuve de la seconde guerre mondiale
• L'É.R.F. de "la marche à la guerre" à la débâcle
• Une prise de conscience précoce des dangers du nazisme
• Dans la tourmente de la guerre
• "Coupée en deux" par la défaite
• Sous le régime de Vichy : l'esprit de résistance
• Présence et résistance spirituelle
• Devant la question juive : secours et compassion
• Protéger la jeunesse : la crainte de la Hitlerjugend
• Un devoir de vigilance à la Libération
• L'É.R.F. après 1945
• Un nouveau départ
• Une stratégie claire de reconquête
• Enrayer le déclin spirituel et revitaliser l'évangélisation
• Réticences et débats
• Achever l'unité de 1938
• Un engagement aux côtés des femmes
• La création du mouvement Jeunes Femmes : des combats pionniers encouragés
• Autoriser le ministère pastoral féminin ?
• La féminisation des conseils presbytéraux
• Parler au monde, agir dans la société
• Encourager l'engagement personnel
• Se définir par rapport au communisme
• Agir pour la paix
• Sortir de l'héritage missionnaire et colonial
• Une identité bousculée
• Le réveil des débats théologiques : l'É.R.F. face au Conseil OEcuménique des Églises
• L'É.R.F. et les catholiques : le rapprochement manqué
• LES "vingt glorieuses" de L'É.R.F. (1960-1980)
• Une Église en bouillonnement théologique et exégétique
• La sortie du barthisme
• Les théologiens de la mort de Dieu
• Les théologies du monde
• La multiplication des approches exégétiques
• Jusqu'où aller dans, le rapprochement vers l'Église catholique ?
• Face au concile Vatican II
• L'Eucharistie commune dans le sillage de mai 68
• I:É.R.F. et les couples mixtes
• Une catéchèse oecuménique est-elle possible ?
• S'unir avec les autres protestants ?
• Sous l'égide de la Fédération protestante de France ?
• L'esquisse d'une Église Unie luthéro-réformée
• La relance du dialogue luthéro-réformé par les discussions européennes
• Dans les turbulences des années 1960
• La contestation des mouvements de jeunesse
• Penser l'évolution de l'éthique sexuelle et familiale : une position originale
• À gauche toute ?
• L'É.R.F. fait sa mue : comment adapter ses structures ?
• De nouvelles structures pour une meilleure "présence au monde" ?
• Comment adapter le ministère pastoral ?
• Contre les "dérives" de l'É.R.F, l'opposition évangélique s'organise
• La "crise de l'avenir"
• Une santé précaire ?
• Le malaise des pasteurs face à l'exigence de professionalisme
• Le projet avorté d'États généraux du protestantisme

• Liturgie, rites et catéchèse : à la recherche d'une unité interne
• Le serpent de mer de l'évangélisation
• Dans la communion de l'Église universelle
• Les engagements internationaux de l'É.R.F.
• L'É.R.F. et l'Église catholique : je t'aime, moi non plus ?
• L'É.R.F. et ses réseaux européens
• Engagée dans les débats de société
• Mariage ou concubinage ?
• Contre la tentation de l'extrême-droite
• L'amitié judéo-protestante à l'épreuve du conflit proche-oriental
• De l'Église réformée de France à l'Église protestante unie de France. Quel devenir ?
• Rapprochement entre réformés et luthériens dans la France intérieure
• Une Union cache-misère ?
• Des signes de renouveau
• Face aux Églises évangéliques : un souci d'attractivité
• Les questions sociétales : nouveau point de discorde ?
• Formuler sa foi dans le monde contemporain
• Un nouveau départ, mais dans quel sens ?

"L'Église réformée de France (É.R.F.) est l'héritière des églises apparues au XVIe siècle dans le sillage réformateur de Jean Calvin. Son nom est lié à celui de Marc Boegner, qui présida son Conseil national à partir de 1938. Pourtant, cet ouvrage est le premier consacré à l'histoire de l'É.R.F., depuis sa renaissance au XXe siècle sur les cendres de l'Église concordataire jusqu'à l'union, en 2013, entre réformés et luthériens, en passant par la seconde guerre mondiale. Bien qu'ultra-minoritaire dans une France catholique marquée désormais par la progression des évangéliques, l'É.R.F. reste une voix écoutée. Elle incarne une présence particulière au monde, portée par une identité forte, ainsi que le met en lumière ce panorama vivant et documenté."--Page 4 of cover.

"This is a biography of Reverend James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century and lived as a freedman after emancipation. He was a religious and political leader among African Americans and an international spokesperson for the cause of racial equality. The church he founded in Florida continues to worship today"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1. Genre, date and provenance of CT
• 2. Categorizing the Jewish "Other"
• 3. Categorizing the Iranian "Other"
• 4. Identifying the Syriac Christian "Self"
• General conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Names and Subjects.

"In Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran, Sergey Minov examines literary and socio-cultural aspects of the Syriac pseudepigraphic composition known as the Cave of Treasures, which offers a peculiar version of the Christian history of salvation. The book fills a lacuna in the history of Syriac Christian literary creativity by contextualising this unique work within the cultural and religious situation of Sasanian Mesopotamia towards the end of Late Antiquity. The author analyses the Cave's content and message from the perspective of identity theory and memory studies, while discussing its author's emphatically polemical stand vis-à-vis Judaism, the ambivalent way in which he deals with Iranian culture, and the promotion in this work of a distinctively Syriac-oriented vision of the biblical past"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Notes on Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• Metaphrasis Mapping Premodern Rewriting / Stavroula Constantinou
• Early Rewriting : East and West
• Relate and Retell : Eastern Monastic Stories and the Beginnings of Latin Hagiography / Robert Wiśniewski
• The Anomalous Transition of Beneficial Tales / John Wortley
• The Greek Vita Malchi : Translating and Rewriting Jerome / Klazina Staat, Julie Van Pelt, and Koen De Temmerman
• Many Faces, a Single Pair : Rewriting Mary and Zosimas in the Legend of Mary of Egypt / Andria Andreou
• Development of a Praxis and a Concept
• What Is Metaphrasis? The Case of John of Sardis (BHG 215i) / Daria D. Resh
• The Shape of Water : Rewriting Iconoclasm, Islam, and Deleuze in Byzantine Hagiography / Anne Atwis
• Metaphrasis and Versification : The Paradeisos as a Reworking of Apophthegmata Patrum / Kristoffel Demoen
• À la recherche d'Évariste : Remarques sur les notices du Synaxaire de Constantinople / Marina Detoraki and Bernard Flusin
• Psychological Introspection and the Image of Sanctity in the Metaphrastic Menologion / Laura Franco
• Sanctification of Hagiographers in Byzantium : The Canonization of Symeon Metaphrastes / Christian Høgel
• Late Rewriting
• Hagiographical Enkomia as Metaphrasis in the 14th Century : Some Preliminary Observations / Martin Hinterberger
• A Rewriter at Work : Nikephoros Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles / Stavroula Constantinou
• Bibliography
• Index

Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products represents a first and authoritative discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles that treat the topic of hagiographical rewriting from various angles.The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts in Greek and other languages, including Apophthegmata Patrum, Passions, Saints' Lives, Enkomia, Miracle Collections, Synaxaria, and Menologia which date from late antiquity to late Byzantium. The volume offers a series of case studies examining how the same legends evolved through time by the process of rewriting. It is shown that the main driving force behind such rewriting was adaptation to different audiences and contexts. This work argues that rewriting is central to Christian cultures in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Andria Andreou, Anne Alwis, Stavroula Constantinou, Koen de Temmerman, Kristoffel Demoen, Marina Detoraki, Bernard Flusin, Laura Franco, Martin Hinterberger, Christian Hogel, Daria D. Resh, Klazina Staat, Julie van Pelt, Robert Wisniewski, and John Wortley.
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• Part I, Introduction: Life and times
• Theological themes.

• Part II, Sermons: The incarnate God and Mother Mary: sermons 140, 140a, 141, 142, 143, 147, 148, 148a, 150, 151
• Jesus: tempted, teacher and thaumaturge: sermons 1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 28, 54, 68, 121, 123, 124, 137, 167
• Passion, crucifixion and the victory of Easter: sermons 72a, 72b, 74, 117
• Church, creed, and the communion of saints: sermons 57, 108, 120, 121, 132, 133, 134, 154,155.

"Peter Chrysologus is the first book to offer an introduction to the life of Peter Chrysologus and a selection of his most important sermons in translation, as well as his letter to Eutyches. Bishop Peter of Ravenna preached before the imperial family for nearly two decades (c. 430-450) after the imperial capital was moved to Peter's See of Ravenna in 402 by Emperor Honorius. With the Empire's elite directly before him, Peter also had the problems of fifth century Monophysitism behind him. As such, his homilies stress the incarnate Christ's ability to change lives by reuniting mortal humans with their life-giving God. The thorough introduction explores the figure of Peter, beginning with the obscure biographies telling of his early life, to his becoming Metropolitan of Ravenna, situating his elevation in the wider socio-political context of the powerful court of Valentinian III and the 5th century Roman West. It also looks at the significant influence his legacy had on future generations. Translated into a modern idiom, this collection of sermons makes the preaching and pastoral wisdom of this key figure accessible to modern readers. It is an invaluable tool for anyone working on early Christian theology and the early Church, as well as students of late antiquity and the western Empire"-- Provided by publisher.

"In The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception, Terence O'Reilly examines the historical, theological and literary contexts in which the Exercises took shape. The collected essays have as their common theme the early history of the Spiritual Exercises, and the interior life of Ignatius Loyola to which they give expression. The traditional interpretation of the Exercises was shaped by writings composed in the late sixteenth century, reflecting the preoccupations of the Counter-Reformation world in which they were composed. The Exercises, however, belong, in their origins, to an earlier period, before the Council of Trent, and the full recognition of this fact, and of its implications, has confronted modern scholars with fresh questions about the sources, evolution, and reception of the work"-- Provided by publisher.

Most contemporary theologies of Holy Orders consider priesthood mainly in its diocesan context and most contemporary theologies of religious life do not consider how ordained ministry functions when it is internal rather than external to religious life. Understanding the Religious Priesthood provides a history and theology of religious priesthood that contributes to our understanding of this vocation's identity and mission. It uncovers what religious priesthood shares with diocesan priesthood and non-ordained religious life and what makes it different from both those other vocations. Christian Raab begins by tracing the history of religious priesthood from its origins in the early Church to the eve of the Second Vatican Council. He demonstrates that religious priests often faced questions about how to reconcile their two callings, but that they also provided answers in their theologies and spiritualities of priesthood and religious life. Meanwhile, they made key contributions to the Church's life and mission. Raab then investigates the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on priesthood and religious life. Observing that the Council presented priesthood according to a diocesan typology and presented religious life without sacerdotal associations, he argues that the lack of imagery of religious priesthood contributed to a post-conciliar vocational identity crisis among religious priests. He then seeks to remedy this lacuna by appealing to the biblical images for religious priesthood Hans Urs von Balthasar offered in his theology of vocations. Raab argues that Balthasar's imagery is a promising way forward for understanding the identity and mission of religious priesthood. In a final part, Raab provides a substantial theological articulation of religious priesthood which illuminates its liturgical signification, ecclesial mediation and mission, and ministerial identity. Here he draws not only from Balthasar but also from Pope John Paul II, Yves Congar, Jean-Marie Tillard, Brian Daley, and Guy Mansini to construct his profile.

• Introduction : La Suisse romande protestante
• La Suisse n'existe pas !
• La Suisse romande n'existe pas !
• La Suisse romande protestante n'existe pas !
• De quelle Suisse romande protestante est-il question ?
• XVIe siècle : la réforme protestante
• Dans le canton de Berne
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans la Principauté épiscopale de Bâle
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le Comté de Neuchâtel et la Seigneurie de Valangin
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans la République de Genève
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le Pays de Vaud
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le Valais assujetti
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le canton de Fribourg
• XVIIe Siècle : une orthodoxie protestante
• Orthodoxie théologique
• Discipline et indiscipline
• Tolérance et intolérance
• Cultes et lieu de culte
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le Valais assujetti
• XVIIIe siècle : un protestantisme d'ouverture
• Dans la Principauté de Neuchâtel et de Valangin
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans les territoires sous influence bernoise
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans la République de Genève
• XIXe siècle : diversification des églises protestantes
• Nationalisation des Églises réformées
• Naissance des Églises libres ou indépendantes
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le canton de Fribourg
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans le canton du Valais...
• Pendant ce temps-là, d'autres formes de protestantisme s'installent en Suisse romande
• XXe siècle : un protestantisme renouvelé
• Un protestantisme suisse romand
• Un protestantisme intercantonal
• Un protestantisme fédéral
• Un protestantisme international
• Pendant ce temps-là, dans les Églises protestantes de Suisse romande
• XXIe siècle : un protestantisme qui se renouvelle
• Les commémorations
• La formation en théologie
• L'avenir des Églises réformées de Suisse
• Bilan
• Presque 500 ans de protestantisme en suisse romande
• Premier temps : l'établissement
• Deuxième temps : la fixation
• Troisième temps : la libéralisation
• Quatrième temps : la diminution
• Regard Rétrospectif.

"D'où vient la frontière entre Jura sud et Jura nord ? Pourquoi le train Yverdon-Sainte-Croix ne circulait-il pas le dimanche ? Depuis quand le Conseil oecuménique des Églises est-il installé à Genève ? Qu'est-ce qui lie les Dames de Morges à la communauté de Grandchamp ? Pourquoi peut-on faire ses courses à Bulle le lundi du Jeûne ? D'où venait le bois utilise pour construire la chapelle des Mayens de Sion ? Pourquoi Henri Druey, James Fazy et Alexis-Marie Piaget ont-ils nationalisé les Églises réformées ? Cet ouvrage répond à ces questions, à d'autres que vous vous posez, à celles que vous n'osez pas imaginer Il vous mène du premier culte célébré en 1526 par Farel jusqu'au synode de l'Église réformée évangélique de Suisse en 2020. Il vous conduit d'Aigle à Porrentruy, à Saxon, à Morat, aux Ponts-de-Martel, à Corgémont ou à Genève. Il offre une vision panoramique et détaillée de chacun des six siècles de l'histoire protestante dans les sept cantons suisses francophones ou bilingues. Il met en lumière six fortes personnalités - trois hommes et trois femmes -, six beaux gestes, mais aussi six grandes hontes du protestantisme romand."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction--
• 1. Richard Allen and the rise of African Methodism in the Atlantic World, 1760-1831--
• 2. The freedom church, 1831-1861--
• 3. 'Welcomed and ransomed', 1861-1880--
• 4. A denomination in the diaspora, 1880-1916--
• 5. Into the second century--
• 6. Freedom now!--
• 7. Becoming a global church, 1976-2018-- Epilogue.
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In this book, Dennis C. Dickerson examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with major social movements over more than two centuries. Beginning as a religious movement in the late eighteenth century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church developed as a freedom advocate for blacks in the Atlantic World. Governance of a proud black ecclesia often clashed with its commitment to and resources for fighting slavery, segregation, and colonialism, thus limiting the full realization of the church's emancipationist ethos. Dickerson recounts how this black institution nonetheless weathered the inexorable demands produced by the Civil War, two world wars, the civil rights movement, African decolonization, and women's empowerment, resulting in its global prominence in the contemporary world. His book also integrates the history of African Methodism within the broader historical landscape of American and African-American history.
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