Leaving Providence Behind

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Porterfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Stress ◽  
Church History ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Christian History

The first issue of the journal Church History appeared in 1932—seventy-nine years ago—the year William Warren Sweet was president of the American Society of Church History. It was a time of considerable pain and social stress in many parts of the world. Perhaps in response to this turmoil, the inaugural issue conveyed a deep-seated optimism about the future. A bracing faith in the providential course of history characterized the three essays in that first issue and the authors conveyed that faith with erudition, narrative flair, and sweeping knowledge of Christian history. Few authors today exert such broad command of events in the larger history of Christianity, or display such facility with a wide range of primary documents, and few write with such ebullience. Such may be the price of leaving behind a world where providence is clearly in sight.

The Idea of the Church in Christian History

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Pauck
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Church History ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Christian History

It is customary to describe and interpret the history of Christianity as church history. To be sure, most church historians do not emphasize the special importance of the “church” in the Christian life they study and analyse; indeed, they deal with the idea of the church, with ecclesiological doctrines and with ecclesiastical practices as if they represented special phases of the Christian life. But, nevertheless, the fact that all aspects of Christian history are subsumed under the name and title of the “church” indicates that the character of Christianity is held to be inseparable from that of the “church”; the very custom of regarding Christian history as church history indicates that the Christian mind is marked by a special kind of self-consciousness induced by the awareness that the Christian faith is not fully actualized unless it is expressed in the special social context suggested by the term “church.”

scholarly journals Sociology of ecumenism: non-theological factors of emergence and development of ecumenical relations

2008 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Oleh S. Kyselov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
World Community ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Christian History

Characteristic features of Christianity of the twentieth century were the consolidation of his denominations around social problems and holding inter-Christian theological and missionary conferences. These components of Christian history of the last century are connected with ecumenism. Ecumenism, in turn, influenced the initiation of a dialogue between Christianity and other religions, most notably Judaism and Islam. Thus, a comprehensive study of ecumenism will not only enable us to better understand contemporary Christianity and try to predict further ways of its development, but also on the basis of it to understand the inter-religious dialogue, which largely depends on the future of the world community.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Martha L. Finch
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Church History ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Look Back ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Over Time

It has been more than one hundred years since the American Society of Church History (ASCH) began publishing its Papers in 1889, followed in 1932 by the journal Church History. To commemorate these one hundred–plus years of publication, the History of Christianity Section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) invited four current and past editors of Church History and, for an “outsider's” perspective, one historian who has not served as editor to participate in a panel discussion at the AAR's 2009 annual meeting in Montreal. We asked the panelists to look back on changes to Church History over time and how those changes have both mirrored and stimulated changes in the broader field of history of Christianity. We also wanted them to reflect on where they see scholarship in the field headed in the next five years or so.

scholarly journals Defence of Candidate Theses Performed at the Department of Church History of the Moscow Theological Academy

2020 ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
Павел Евгеньевич Липовецкий
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Историк тем любезен человечеству, что спасает от безызвестности имена и события, сохраняет прошлое для будущего. Но особая «каста» среди историков – архивисты, люди, посвятившие всю свою жизнь работе в архивах. Склоняясь над грудами документов, историк-архивист выбирает из них самое ценное, чтобы сообщить о нём миру. Иногда такие сообщения способны перевернуть мир, иногда могут наделать шуму в научном мире, а иногда – дополнить уже известный нам портрет человека новыми чертами или неожиданными поступками. Протоиерей Виктор Лисюнин, успешно защитивший диссертацию 14 ноября 2019 г., относится к числу указанных тружеников-архивистов. На протяжении нескольких лет он упорно отыскивал и бережно собирал документальные свидетельства о служении святителя Луки (Войно-Ясенецкого) в Тамбовской епархии. Результатом стало кандидатское исследование, повествующее о разных аспектах церковной жизни под управлением святителя в конце 40-х гг. прошлого века на Тамбовской земле. The historian is so kind to humanity that he saves names and events from obscurity, preserving the past for the future. But a special "caste" among historians are archivists, people who have devoted their entire lives to work in archives. Bending over piles of documents, the historian-archivist selects the most precious of them in order to communicate them to the world. Sometimes such reports can turn the world upside down, sometimes they can make a splash in the academic world, and sometimes they can add new features or unexpected actions to the portrait of a person we already know. Archpriest Victor Lisiunin, who successfully defended his dissertation on 14 November 2019, is among these hard-working archivists. For several years he has persistently sought out and carefully collected documentary evidence about the ministry of St Luke (Vojno-Jasenetsky) in the Tambov diocese. The result was a doctoral research, telling about various aspects of church life under the saint's rule in the late 40s of the last century in the Tambov land.

Divine Imperium and the Ecclesiastical Imaginary: Church History, Transnationalism, and the Rationality of Empire

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1003-1008
Author(s):  
Sylvester A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
City State ◽  
The Church

Laurie Maffly-Kipp's address to the American Society of Church History proffers the challenge of engaging seriously with the “church” in church history. She notes that scholarship on Christianity has increasingly focused on broader cultural themes in lieu of a more strict concern with churches as institutions in their own right. Maffly-Kipp's challenge reminded me of a particular context in the history of Christianity: the eighteenth-century city-state of Ogua (or, more familiarly, Cape Coast), in present-day Ghana. In the 1750s, the family of a local youth sent their child, Philip Quaque, to study abroad in London under the auspices of the Anglican Church. The young Quaque spent the next eleven years of this life cultivating expertise in Anglican liturgy, Christian theology, and British mores. Before returning home in his early twenties, he was ordained to the Anglican priesthood—the first African to have done so.

Healing in the History of Christianity Presidential Address, January 2002 American Society of Church History

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Amanda Porterfield
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Church History ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Church

In 1866, after a fall on the ice left her in despair of ever being able to walk again, Mary Baker Patterson (later Mary Baker Eddy) picked up her Bible and began reading stories of the healings performed by Jesus. As she lay in bed, picturing Jesus commanding the lame to rise and demons to be gone, her own sense of the power of Divine Love became so strong that she stood up and walked, knowing that she was completely healed. Free from the weakness, pain, and fear that had plagued her life for decades, Eddy became a forceful and successful leader, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist who devoted the rest of her life to teaching others to know the healing power of Divine Love.

On Teaching the History of Christianity: Traditions and Presuppositions

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
E. Brooks Holifield
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Church History ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Moral Capacity

In his presidential address to the American Society of Church History in 1920, Robert Hastings Nichols observed that he had discovered, in his reading of previous addresses, “no mention of the reading of a paper dealing with what is the occupation of almost half of our members, the teaching of Church History,” or, as he preferred to call it, the teaching of “Christianity in History.” He decided, therefore, to talk about pedagogy. He devoted most of his address to answering the question why history should be taught in the theological seminary, arguing that it trained students to weigh evidence, calculate motives, trace causes, and estimate the power of social movements. It nurtured a certain kind of intellectual and moral capacity.

Christianity in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Different Parts

This book charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity. The book traces how Christianity evolved from a religion defined by the culture and politics of Europe to the expanding polycentric and multicultural faith it is today—one whose growing popular support is strongest in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, and other parts of Asia. The book sheds critical light on themes of central importance for understanding the global contours of modern Christianity, illustrating each one with contrasting case studies, usually taken from different parts of the world. Unlike other books on world Christianity, this one is not a regional survey or chronological narrative, nor does it focus on theology or ecclesiastical institutions. The book provides a history of Christianity as a popular faith experienced and lived by its adherents, telling a compelling and multifaceted story of Christendom's fortunes in Europe, North America, and across the rest of the globe. It demonstrates how Christianity has had less to fear from the onslaughts of secularism than from the readiness of Christians themselves to accommodate their faith to ideologies that privilege racial identity or radical individualism.

Venous Thromboembolism: Genetics and Thrombophilias

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-283
Author(s):  
Manila Gaddh ◽  
Rachel P. Rosovsky
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Family History ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Inherited Thrombophilia ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Hereditary Thrombophilia ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

AbstractVenous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Up to one half of patients who present with VTE will have an underlying thrombophilic defect. This knowledge has led to a widespread practice of testing for such defects in patients who develop VTE. However, identifying a hereditary thrombophilia by itself does not necessarily change outcomes or dictate therapy. Furthermore, family history of VTE by itself can increase an asymptomatic person's VTE risk several-fold, independent of detecting a known inherited thrombophilia. In this article, we will describe the current validated hereditary thrombophilias including their history, prevalence, and association with VTE. With a focus on evaluating both risks and benefits of testing, we will also explore the controversies of why, who, and when to test as well as discuss contemporary societal guidelines. Lastly, we will share how these tests have been integrated into clinical practice and how to best utilize them in the future.

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