Voice Of Nonconformity

Author : Brian R. Talbot
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725298675

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Building on a Common Foundation by Brian R. Talbot Pdf

In the second half of the nineteenth century Scottish Baptists like other Evangelical Protestant denominations were focusing more on things they had in common, such as a commitment to home evangelization and church-planting; providing a common fund to assist small and struggling congregations; the provision of theological education for the training of prospective pastors, together with the need to disseminate information between the churches concerning their progress in the work of the gospel. From the start of this Baptist Union in 1869 the numbers of churches and members grew steadily until 1935. It was a remarkable story of dedicated Christian service. Scottish Baptists came through two world wars, the social revolution of the 1960s, and the materialistic emphases of the 1980s with a significant degree of success in adapting their evangelistic activities to relate to their social context. There is little doubt that from the late 1980s the growing secularization in this country ensured that mission strategies adopted by these Scottish Christians were less successful than in previous decades. However, a revitalization of its work in the early years of the twenty-first century has given renewed grounds for hope for its work and witness in the coming years.

Author : Alan P.F. Sell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608991013

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Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920 by Alan P.F. Sell Pdf

This is a pioneering study of philosophy in the English and Welsh Dissenting academies and Nonconformist theological colleges from the Toleration Act of 1689 to 1920. The author discusses the place of philosophy in the curriculum and the philosophical works published by tutors, professors, and alumni, among them Isaac Watts, Henry Grove, Richard Price, James Martineau, and Robert Mackintosh. It is shown that particular attention was paid to natural theology, moral philosophy, and apologetics, and some of the ideas propounded are of continuing interest. This important book will interest historians of philosophy, of the Church, and of education.

Author : William Urwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Dissent, Religious
ISBN : WISC:89038434437

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Nonconformity in Herts by William Urwick Pdf

Author : Robert Pope
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567655387

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T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity by Robert Pope Pdf

Protestant Nonconformity, the umbrella term for Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and Unitarians, belongs specifically to the religious history of England and Wales. Initially the result of both unwillingness to submit to the State's interference in Christian life and a dissatisfaction with the progress of reform in the English Church, Nonconformity has been primarily motivated by theological concern, ecclesial polity, devotion and the nurture of godliness among the members of the church. Alongside such churchly interests, Nonconformity has also made a profound contribution to debates about the role of the State, to family life and education, culture in general, trade and industry, the development of philanthropy and charity, and the development of pacifism. In this volume, for the first time, Nonconformity and the breadth of its activity come under the expert scrutiny of a host of recognised scholars. The result is a detailed and fascinating account of a movement in church history that, while currently in decline, has made an indelible mark on social, political, economic and religious life of the two nations.

Author : Thomas Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : CHI:31001093

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History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales by Thomas Rees Pdf

Author : Tessa Whitehouse,N. H. Keeble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198808817

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Textual Transformations by Tessa Whitehouse,N. H. Keeble Pdf

Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The result is a richly diverse collection that demonstrates the embeddedness of the book trade in the cultural dynamics of early modernity.

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780708323427

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In the Shadow of the Pulpit by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

Author : Nelson Algren
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609802738

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Nonconformity by Nelson Algren Pdf

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers. "You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery." Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope." In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer's relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy's heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.

Author : Keith A Ives
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718845193

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Voice of Nonconformity by Keith A Ives Pdf

A study of William Robertson Nicoll, a non-conformist individual who had considerable influence in the late 19th Century. Originally a minister, he was considered a great leader and was also a theological conservative, and therefore committed to maintaining the orthodox stance of the Christian Churches, but at the same time, he encouraged many of the new ideas, which he felt would prove a useful and hopeful benefit for the Church. Due to health issues he was later forced to retire his position and focused on work as an editor and journalist, bringing with him the same sense of leadership he had previously been known for. The debate over his legacy continues and is addressed within this study using previously unstudied information on Nicoll's life.

Author : Jennie C. Ikuta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190087845

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Contesting Conformity by Jennie C. Ikuta Pdf

Non-conformity in American public life -- Countering conformity through intellectual freedom in Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Contesting conformity through individuality in Mill's On liberty -- Refusing conformity through creativity in Nietzsche.

Author : William JONES (M.A., Baptist Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020022789

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The Dissenter's Plea for His Non-conformity: Exhibited in a Course of Lectures on the Rise, Origin, Religion and Ruin of Antichrist, Or Mystical Babylon by William JONES (M.A., Baptist Minister.) Pdf

Author : Robin M Mathy,Jack Drescher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000112061

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Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development of Adult Homosexuality by Robin M Mathy,Jack Drescher Pdf

This book presents leading experts on the scientific study of gender, providing their views on what we know today about the relationship between gender nonconformity in childhood and future adult sexual identities or behaviors. This book explores the topic from a wide range of perspectives, including historical, sociological, psychological (social and developmental), and psychiatric viewpoints. Parents, parent educators, therapists, and counselors who work with gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents or adults and/or gender atypical children will find this resource insightful and very useful. It presents highly respected authorities offering their own expertise and perspectives on a subject of much cultural controversy. Chapters explore: historical and cultural examples which suggest that homoerotic relationships during adolescence or early adulthood do not necessarily lead to homosexuality; the difficulty in identifying an example of a pattern of childhood behaviors that is predictive of outcome; a review of empirical retrospective and prospective literature; whether there is a causal link between childhood gender nonconformity and sexual orientation; and the diagnostic category of Gender Identity Disorder in the most recent DSM. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health.

Author : Mark Hopkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597527903

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Nonconformity's Romantic Generation by Mark Hopkins Pdf

This is the first book to attempt a theological portrait of a pivotal generation in the history of the English Free Churches. It does so through a dual strategy: firstly, studying the theological development of key leaders over several decades; and secondly, capturing the state of the Unions -- Congregational and Baptist -- through the freeze frames provided by their biggest denominational controversies in the 1870s and 1880s respectively. Archetypal Victorians whose working lives stretched through most of that long reign, in the 1860s this generation inherited leadership from a predecessor that had eked out the dying momentum of the Evangelical Revival. Bathed in the formidable energy of a newly discovered Romanticism, they wrestled strenuously with the fresh challenges it exposed them to while engaged in lengthy ministries in thriving city churches. They variously tried rejecting and embracing the liberal transformation of their evangelical heritage, or even, in the case of R.W. Dale, somehow achieving their synthesis. Yet in the end neither he nor C.H. Spurgeon, nor anyone else, really found an expression of Christian faith that the next generation could take up and build with, and their successors were to preside over the first obvious stages of a long, deep, and traumatic decline. At a time when this period is again being scrutinized for that elusive 'answer', the author will not claim to have tracked it down there; but the conclusion nonetheless indicates that this study surprisingly helped open up vistas much broader than those of the nineteenth-century debates.

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801445906

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Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life by Mark Francis Pdf

The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) have shaped evolutionary theory, philosophy of science, sociology & politics. This work aims to dispel the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer, throwing light on the broader cultural history of the 19th century.

Author : Mark Batterson
Publisher : Multnomah Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780735291089

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Whisper by Mark Batterson Pdf

The bestselling author of Circle Maker, which helped over 2 million people learn to talk to God, now helps readers learn how to listen to God's voice in every aspect of their lives.