The New Divinity and Williams College, 1793-1836*

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Williams College ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
New Divinity ◽  
Missionary Movement

The story is a familiar one, found in nearly every narrative text of American religious history In the summer of 1806, five Williams College students met in a grove of trees to pray for divine guidance and to discuss their religious faith and calling. While seeking refuge from a summer rainstorm under a haystack, Samuel J. Mills, Jr., and the other four students consecrated their lives to overseas missions. This incident, later publicized as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, became the pivotal event in the launching of American Protestantism's foreign missionary movement. Mills and several comrades carried their vision from Williams to Andover Theological Seminary, where they created a more formal organization that eventually led to the establishment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1810. In the hagiography of missions, Mills is revered as the “father” of American foreign missions and Williams as the birthplace. Subsequently, Mills's “sons”—the alumni of Williams—followed precedent: from 1810 to 1840, Williams provided more missionaries to the ABCFM than any other American College.

The New Divinity and the Origins of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious History ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
New Divinity

The theological influence of the New Divinity in the formation and character of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) is uncontested among scholars of American religious history and missions. Since the mid nineteenth century, both partisans of missions and nearly all scholarly observers have attributed the origins of the modern American Protestant missionary spirit to the writings of Jonathan Edwards and his self-appointed heirs, those Congregational ministers who came to be called New Divinity men. Edwards proposed a theology of cosmic redemption and supplied the exemplary missionary model in Life of Brainerd (1749), his most popular and most frequently reprinted work. Samuel Hopkins then furnished a theological rationale for missions by revising Edwards' aesthetic concept of “disinterested benevolence” into a practical one of self-denial for the greater glory of God's kingdom and the betterment of humankind.

The Effect of Structure on the Memory for Procedural Text

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412094291
Author(s):  
John F. Geiger ◽  
Sarah S. Downen
Keyword(s):  
Past Research ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Moderate Amount ◽  
Single Reading ◽  
Simple Machines ◽  
Procedural Text ◽  
Effect Of Structure ◽  
Better Than

The present study examined how the structure of procedural texts affected recall of those texts. Past research has found that procedural text is comprehended best when readers expend a moderate amount of effort in processing it; the amount of effort may depend on the structure of the procedural text. Sixty-three participants read six procedural texts describing how to construct simple machines. One group of participants read texts that contained a diagram of the object, whereas the other group read texts with no diagram. Two types of texts were presented: Narrative and list-like procedural texts. Results showed that rereading increased recall of the list-like text, but had little effect for the narrative text. The elaboration hypothesis explains the recall differences after a single reading, but it is still unclear why the list-like texts were recalled better than the narrative texts after a second reading.

Post-secularity and (global) politics: a need for radical redefinition

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 963-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRED DALLMAYR
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Language Games ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Interest

AbstractThe past two decades have produced a bulky literature on religion and politics, with many writers being influenced by Habermas's notion of ‘post-secularity’. However, despite the vast amount of literature, there is still little agreement on the meaning of this term. The article explores two main directions in which the expression has been interpreted: one direction where religious faith is in a way ‘secularised’ by being adapted to modern secular discourse; and another where faith triumphs over secularity by expunging its modern corollaries. What surfaces behind this divergence is a version of the immanence/transcendence conundrum which accentuates a presumed contrast of language games in which one linguistic idiom is said to be more readily accessible than the other. In agreement with Charles Taylor, this article challenges the assumption of an ‘epistemic break’ between secular reason and ‘non-rational’ religious discourse. Once this challenge is taken seriously, a new and more radical redefinition of ‘post-secularity’ comes into view: a definition where the prefix ‘post’ signifies neither a secular nor a religious triumphalism, but rather an ethical-political task: the task of liberating public life from its attachment to ‘worldly’ self- interest and the unmitigated pursuit of wealth, power, and military adventures.

Language, ‘Native Agency’, and Missionary Control: Rufus Anderson’s Journey to India, 1854-5

2000 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Andrew Porter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
General Principle ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The West ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
The Church ◽  
Local Leaders

In the early years of the modern missionary movement there were many influences which turned minds towards support for the general principle and practice of reliance on ‘native agency’. Strategies of conversion such as those of the London Missionary Society and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at work in the Pacific, which aimed at kings or other influential local leaders, at least implicitly allotted important roles to the leadership and example of highly-placed converts. Awareness of the scale of the missionary task in densely-populated regions, contrasted with the limits of the western missionary input, pointed to the need for delegation as quickly as possible. The Serampore missionaries, Alexander Duff and Charles Gutzlaff, all travelled early down that road. Financial crisis – manifested either locally as Dr John Philip found in South Africa, or centrally as when the Church Missionary Society decided in the early 1840s to withdraw from the West Indies - prompted inevitable questions about the possibilities for deployment of local agents, who were far cheaper than Europeans.

Female Mission Strategists: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Mission Strategy ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Training Schools ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Training

Although women have been very prominent in foreign missions for more than a century, they have generally played a secondary role in the field of missiology. Most mission boards and seminary faculties have been male-dominated, except for a time in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when women formed their own “female agencies” and training schools. During this period women made significant practical and scholarly contributions to mission strategy. With the demise of the women's missionary movement, however, such opportunities sharply declined. That is now beginning to change. In recent decades women have once again become more involved in the strategy of missions, especially in areas involving women's work, cross-cultural communication, literature, education, lifestyle, urban ministries, and mission specializations.

scholarly journals The Effects of Jigsaw, Student Teams Achievement Divisions (Stad), and Think-Pair-Share (Tps) Techniques in Writing Narrative Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Ika Purnama Sari ◽  
Susiani Susiani
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Private High School

Writing ability at The Second Semester Students in one of Private High School in Pemtangsiantar indicated low enough. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of three cooperative learning techniques, namely, Jigsaw, Students Teams – Achievement Division (STAD) and Think-Pair-Share (TPS). The research design used in this study was quantitative approach with an experimental. The samples were Second Semester Students of STIKOM Tunas Bangsa Pematangsiantar. The data of this research were gained from the score Narrative Text Test that analyzed by using One Way ANNOVA. The research finding showed that (1) Jigsaw Sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.00 < 0.05. STAD Sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.00 < 0.05.  TPS Sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.00 < 0.05, it means Jigsaw, STAD and TPS can affect the students ability in writing. (2) The increasing percentage of Jigsaw Teaching Technique to 75%, Students Teams – Achievement Division (STAD) to 68% and Think-Pair-Share (TPS) to 57%. (3) The result of data Analysis by One Way Annova indicate that Significant values is 0.043 which is < 0.05, and Fvalue is 3.305 > T Table 3.16, it means there is one Teaching Technique more significant there the other technique. Here Jigsaw Teaching Technique more Significant than STAD or TPS. In Jigsaw Teaching Technique, The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.

scholarly journals Prodigious Births and Death in Childbirth in Le Palais des Nobles Dames, (Lyons, 1534)

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Brenda Dunn-Lardeau
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gestation Length ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the treatment of the theme of prodigious births and death in childbirth is of particular interest compared to that of his sixteenth century contemporaries. On the one hand, the author's religious faith enables him to adopt a sympathetic attitude toward certain aspects of pregnancy such as unusual variations in gestation length. On the other hand, the same faith limits Du Pré's critical powers since it prevents him from distinguishing legend from reality. His conception of motherhood is confined to the biological level. Finally, the woodcuts represent midwives still playing a major role in obstetrics in contrast with their growing marginalization by surgeons in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

scholarly journals Handling Spiritual Resources at Work: An Autoethnographic Inquiry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anselmo Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Permanent Change ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Spiritual Resources ◽  
Spirituality In The Workplace

This study draws upon some particular dimensions of spirituality in the workplace such as insight, intuition, wisdom, respect, love, humility, courage, ethics, optimism, the other, and sense of purpose. Through an autoethnographic inquiry it describes my personal spiritual journey at work, that is, my own experiences, reflections, understanding, viewpoints, and memories regarding those constructs as a framework. In hindsight, I explore a certain period of my professional life when I was very young and working for a multinational company, which was under permanent change in order to adapt and survive in the hypercompetitive and turbulent Brazilian market. By drawing on a researcher that is researched approach, I can see the transcendental meaning (nexus) of those episodes in my career. Hence, I further developed resilience, patience, leadership, spirituality, self-reflection and self-introspection capabilities. I could better understand the other perspective, particularly the human sins, vices, emotions, and virtues. I also argue that religious faith and spirituality knowledge dovetails perfectly well in the workplace. Further, this study provides consistent evidence of suitable usage of these resources.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN TRANSLATING NARRATIVE TEXT

Prosodi ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Devie Reztia Anjarani ◽  
Rohmah Indahwati
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
English Department ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Omission Errors

Error may appear when students put the English grammatical incorrectly. Errors is mostly occurred in English as the foreign or second language. The aim of this study is describing kinds of errors are made by the seventh semester students of English department in Madura University on the use of simple past tense in a translated narrative text. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The subject is seventh semester students of English department which consist of 15 students. The instruments used is translating test. The data is analyzed by collecting the data from students, identifying the errors based on its grammatical errors, classifying them into errors classification, and calculated them into percentage. The results showed that the students' errors can be classified into four kinds of errors, which are 25% for omission errors, 5.36% for addition errors, 62.5% for missed formation errors, and 7.14% for missed ordering errors. There are total 56 errors occurred which is dominated by missed ordering errors. The teachers recommended to make a clear understanding related to differentiate grammatical differences between Indonesia and English. Further, students need to practice it more often. The other researchers can provide techniques to increase students’ English grammatical understanding, especially in simple past tense usage.

scholarly journals Transnational alternative policy groups in global civil society: Enablers of post-capitalist alternatives or carriers of NGOization?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K. Carroll ◽  
Jean Philippe Sapinski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Two Bodies

Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have generated visions and strategies pointing to alternatives to capitalist globalization. However, TAPGs are also embedded in networks of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and foundations, and may thus be subject to NGOization. This paper examines two bodies of data relevant to this issue: (1) network data that highlight TAPGs’ links to major sources of funds as well as key IGOs; (2) reflections of TAPG protagonists gleaned from in-depth interviews conducted at these groups. While our network analysis is consistent with the NGOization narrative, and while our participants offered many narratives of their own in line with it, they also provided more nuanced accounts that begin to specify the contingencies mediating between, on the one hand, resort to formal organization and to working with IGOs and foundations, and on the other hand, descent into hegemonic incorporation. In a neoliberal political-economic environment, the future of counter-hegemonic politics hinges partly on our identifying how ‘preventative measures’ can be brought to bear on processes of NGOization.

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