Wesley and Wake

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
William Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Church

Chapter 5 explores Wesley’s relationship with his bishop, William Wake of Lincoln. Wesley’s strong and unbending Toryism meant that his relations with Bishop William Wake of Lincoln, who was a Whig, were difficult. Wesley posed a series of questions to Wake about such issues as excommunication, baptism and moral discipline to be imposed on Dissenters. In each case, Wesley seems to have sought Wake’s counsel with the intention of persuading him that the demands of parish life were such that toleration of Dissent was remarkably problematic. In addition, the issue of Dissenting, or ‘lay’ Baptism was an issue which divided them. Wesley’s interest in a charity school for the parish was also very clear and he clearly wanted Wake to endorse this. By a close and detailed examination of the correspondence between Wesley and Wake it is clear that while they shared an ambition for the Church they saw the ways to achieve it very differently.

‘Seven whole days’: The Obligation of the Clergy of the Church of England to ‘say daily the Morning and Evening Prayer’

2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Russell Dewhurst
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Significant Time ◽  
The Church

All Christians are called to pray. The daily offering of Morning and Evening Prayer is a particular obligation of the clergy of the Church of England, as part of the ‘manner of life of clerks’ laid down in Canon C 26. However, despite the significant time devoted to these prayers by the clergy on a daily basis, there has been little detailed examination of this canonical obligation. This article explores the historical background to the obligation and its effect today.

scholarly journals Reshaping Rural Culture? The Church of England and Hiring Fairs in the East Riding of Yorkshire c. 1850–80

Rural History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY MOSES
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Rural History ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Church

A previous article in Rural History entitled ‘“Rustic and Rude”: Hiring Fairs and their Critics in East Yorkshire c. 1850–75’, examined a critique of hiring fairs and farm service mounted by the Church of England in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the mid-Victorian period. This discussion builds upon that article by offering a more detailed examination of the actual attempts to reform and abolish hiring fairs that emanated from that critique. The article examines three stages of reform and abolition stretching over the mid-Victorian period: a first stage that centred upon imposing a system of hiring based upon written characters; a second stage that focussed upon imposing segregated hiring for male and female servants, and a final abolitionist stage. The campaign's tactics and the various measures deployed against hiring fairs during each stage are detailed and their level of success evaluated and explained. The broader motivations of the campaign and the manner in which they signified deeper Church anxieties about the nature of the rural social order are also discussed in a concluding evaluation of the campaign's impact.

The Archaeological Investigation of Hadstock Church, Essex: An Interim Report

1976 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warwick Rodwell
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Single Period ◽  
The Church

SummaryTotal excavation of the nave, crossing, and transepts of Hadstock church in 1974, together with a detailed examination of parts of the upstanding fabric, revealed that this well-known Anglo-Saxon building is not a single-period structure, as has long been assumed. Three periods of Anglo-Saxon work are now known, the earliest of which probably belongs to the pre-Danish era: it comprised a large, five-cell cruciform church which, it is suggested, may be part of the seventh-century monastery founded by St. Botolph, at Icanho. Rebuilding on a monumental scale took place in the early eleventh century and the possibility is discussed that this was Canute's minster, dedicated in 1020. The church was extensively repaired in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, following the collapse of the central tower. Subsequently the decline in the size and importance of Hadstock as a village saved the church from further extensive alteration.

The significance of the apocryphal Greek Additions to Esther for the church today

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Nancy L deClaissé-Walford
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
World View ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

Over the centuries, the Protestant church has increasingly ignored the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, including the Additions to the book of Esther. This article first outlines the extent of the apocryphal material; it then discusses its origins, purported theology, and its “canonicity” in various religious traditions; it then provides a detailed examination of the content of the Greek Additions to Esther and comments on how the Additions alter or add to an understanding of the book of Esther; finally, it offers some comments on the significance of the Greek Additions to Esther for the Church today. The study concludes that the Greek Additions to Esther are a rich resource for the Christian community, providing insight into the issues confronting the diaspora Jews as they made their way in a Gentile world and essential background information for understanding the early Christian world view, enhancing an understanding of what it means to be faithful in a world that seems not to be, and showing the evolving and ever-changing status of what is considered “scripture” today.

Discursive diversity in the textual articulation of epidemic disease in Early Modern England

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Seargeant
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Epidemic Disease ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Discourses ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This article provides a detailed examination of the way in which the social response to epidemic disease in Early Modern England was constructed through discourse, and of how a matrix of meanings for the 'plague' was promoted to fill the conceptual gap between experience and social understanding. It analyses the variety of textual genres that were used to articulate this response, from the sermon tradition to prose pamphlets and the bills of mortality, and considers the dialogic nature of the interaction between these genres and how this facilitated the spread and generation of metaphoric associations for the disease. The article also considers the way in which this discourse itself is structured, and how it is marked by diversity and heterogeneity; it contends that rather than there being a clear hierarchy of dominant and 'alternative' discourses, it is more an unstable equilibrium of competing explanations. In part, this diversity is a result of plural and competing meanings being ascribed to the disease; in part, it is due to the range of different voices eager to promote their own opinion. This results in multiplicity not just of 'product', but also of 'process', with different genres and institutional centres of power (including the church, the civic authorities, the publishing industry) all claiming authority over the prescription of meaning. In this way the discourse itself becomes disordered, as there is no major controlling influence, and the structure of the discourse can be seen to reflect iconically the very themes that it articulates.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Massa
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Theological Argument ◽  
The Church

This chapter presents a more detailed examination of Thomas Kuhn’s structure than that provided in the Introduction. The chapter explains how and why Kuhn’s book permanently rejected the idea of scientific “progress.” The author notes that although most Catholics experienced the widespread critique of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical as a sudden (if welcome) rejection of the kind of theological argument that the Church had utilized in its moral teaching for several centuries, the cracks in the foundations of that older approach to natural law had appeared considerably before 1968. The emergence of a historicist approach to moral theology in the decades before the promulgation of the encyclical contextualized the rocky reception accorded it within a much larger historical framework. Further, even the guild of moral theologians had come to a much more nuanced understanding of what could be (and what could not be) “unchangeable” in Christian ethics.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE TECHNICAL CONDITION OF LARGE-SPAN COVERINGS OF RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Alexandr P. SHEPELEV ◽  
Rustam R. IBATULLIN ◽  
Andrey N. ALESHIN
Keyword(s):  
Continuous System ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Structure ◽  
Large Span ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

The article examines the features of the calculation of large-span structures for covering religious buildings using the example of covering the middle part and the refectory of the church in honor of the holy unmercenaries Kosma and Domian of Asi, located in the village of Sezzhee, Bogatovsky district, Samara region. At the time of the work, the facility was undergoing a largescale reconstruction. Based on the data of the detailed examination of the technical condition of the building structures of the church roofi ng, calculations were made in a physically nonlinear sett ing, allowing to fully assess the stress-strain state of the monolithic reinforced concrete structure of the cover of the middle part and the refectory, which is a complex single continuous system of thin-walled spatial structures of various along the outline of the median surfaces.

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

Electron Irradiation Effects in Polyoxymethylene Crystals Grown Inside Trioxane Crystals

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 78-79
Author(s):  
J. P. Colson ◽  
D. H. Reneker
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electron Micrograph ◽  
Irradiation Effects ◽  
Threefold Axis ◽  
Typical Sample ◽  
Polymer Crystals ◽  
Chain Axis

Polyoxymethylene (POM) crystals grow inside trioxane crystals which have been irradiated and heated to a temperature slightly below their melting point. Figure 1 shows a low magnification electron micrograph of a group of such POM crystals. Detailed examination at higher magnification showed that three distinct types of POM crystals grew in a typical sample. The three types of POM crystals were distinguished by the direction that the polymer chain axis in each crystal made with respect to the threefold axis of the trioxane crystal. These polyoxymethylene crystals were described previously.At low magnifications the three types of polymer crystals appeared as slender rods. One type had a hexagonal cross section and the other two types had rectangular cross sections, that is, they were ribbonlike.

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