scholarly journals Anna Reinhard Zwingli – ‘Apostolic Dorcas’, ‘dearest housewife’, ‘angel-wife’, ‘ziel van mijn ziel’ and ‘mater dolorosa of the Reformation’: From woman to valued citizen

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Potgieter
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Pinnacle Point ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Impact

A biography of Anna Zwingli might be compiled by skipping from one pinnacle point in her life to another. However, much of her story is relative to what is known about her husbands John Meier von Knonau and Ulrich Zwingli. But Anna was more than simply the wife of a lesser noble or a famous reformer. Her life story was also intertwined with development of the Reformation in Zurich and the impact it had upon her and her family. The Reformation did not only bring about religious reform but also had an impact on women and their ministerial roles. Anna was indeed a woman of the Reformation but also the wife of a reformer. Together with other women of the Reformation and of Zurich she served its cause from within its gender confines overshadowed by her husband, Ulrich Zwingli. The role of woman/women remains a contentious issue for many in the Christian church.

Economics of Faith

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Chung-Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
City Councils ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Relief System

This book addresses the role of religious reformers in the development of poor relief in the sixteenth century. During the Reformation, religious leaders served as catalysts, organizers, stabilizers, and consolidators of various programs to alleviate poverty. Although once in line with religious piety, voluntary poverty was no longer a spiritual virtue for many religious reformers. Rather, they imagined social welfare reform to be an integral part of religious reform and worked to modify existing common chests or establish new ones. As crises and migration exacerbated poverty and caused begging to be an increasing concern, Catholic humanists and Protestant reformers moved beyond traditional almsgiving to urge coordination and centralization of a poor relief system. For example, Martin Luther promoted the consolidation of former ecclesiastical property in the poor relief plan for Leisnig in 1523, while Juan Luis Vives devised a new social welfare proposal for Bruges in 1526. In negotiations with magistrates and city councils, reformers shaped various local institutions, such as hospitals, orphanages, job creation programs, and scholarships for students, as well as developed new ways of supporting foreigners, strangers, and refugees. Religious leaders contributed to caring for the vulnerable because poverty was a problem too big for any one group to tackle. As religious options multiplied within Christianity, one’s understanding of community would determine the boundaries, albeit contested and sometimes fluid, of responsible poor relief.

THE REFORMATION AND THE COMMUNITY Europe's Reformations, 1450–1650. By James D. Tracy. Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Pp. xvii+387. ISBN 0-8476-8835-6. £15.95. Religious choice in the Dutch Republic: the reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius, 1565–1641. By Judith Pollmann. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. xii+288. ISBN 0-7190-5680-2. £45.00. Radical Reformation studies: essays presented to James M. Stayer. Edited by Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1999. Pp. x+201. ISBN 0-7546-0032-7. £45.00. The Reformation of the dead: death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1450–1700. By Craig Koslofsky. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Pp. xiii+223. ISBN 0-312-22910-0. £42.50.

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
PHILIP BROADHEAD
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
The People ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Four Books ◽  
The Impact

The four books under review examine different aspects of the impact of the Protestant Reformation on communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study of communal responses to religious reform has become a significant aspect of Reformation research in recent years, and it has served to emphasize that religious reform was a process rather than an event, and that it was a collective concern, which involved families, neighbours, and all those in guilds and congregations at all levels of society, both in town and village. Study of the community in history has, however, raised some problems, principally over definition, for communities were not institutions or geographical areas, but a complex web of overlapping social, economic, and cultural groups, within which there was a range of shared and conflicting interests. Despite the value placed by rulers and magistrates upon unity, communal life was a constantly mutating mix of conflict, concession, and change, to which the Reformation added a dynamic and volatile new dimension. Although the authors here use the notion of community, they attach to it a variety of interpretations, and one might wonder whether such a malleable term has value as a tool for historical analysis. In fact, these works show such flexibility to be a strength, for in the Reformation, beliefs were only gradually defined, and levels of support were variable and unpredictable. Interpretations which recognize the changing secular and spiritual worlds inhabited by the people of the period are particularly useful for providing new insights into how religious reform was experienced by the majority of those living at the time.

Guildsmen, religious reform and the search for the common good: the role of the guilds in the early Reformation in Augsburg

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Broadhead
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
Capital Intensive

ABSTRACTThis article examines the forces that shaped the responses of the urban commons to the Reformation in Augsburg. Developing work by Blickle and others, it considers the extent to which traditional communal ideals were reflected in measures to construct a system of ‘sacral corporatism’. An examination of the attitudes of guildsmen towards communal values and institutions shows variation in their views, even on such basic points as the identification and imposition of the ‘common good’. Case studies show how predominantly poor weavers were attracted to the call to enforce communal principles as a means of defending their status and incomes. To this end they welcomed evangelical teaching, for it provided scriptural and ethical endorsements of corporate action. In contrast, members of the butchers' guild, who were involved in a capital intensive occupation, resisted communal restraints on their freedom to trade and make profits. The butchers' opposition to the Reformation rested more on their rejection of ‘sacral corporatism’, as advocated by reformers in Augsburg, than on support for Catholicism. Augsburg shows the significance of communal values in the urban Reformation, but it demonstrates that these were neither static nor uniformly accepted. On the contrary they were themselves the subject of dispute.

Children, the Liturgy, and the Reformation: the Evidence of the Lichfield Cathedral Choristers

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
T. N. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

The great interest generated by the theme of this year’s conference reflects the central importance of children in the history of the Christian Church, yet at the same time their omission from much of historical writing. For all but the recent past this is largely the result of the difficulties with the source material itself, and this is certainly true for historians of the Church during the medieval and Reformation periods. The main concern of the administrative records of the Catholic Church was with adults and, in particular, ordained men. It is to the schools that we must look for the most useful references to children and, more specifically, to the choir schools for evidence of the role of boys in the liturgy.

scholarly journals A Socio-Historical Perspective on Ponzi Schemes and Development in Nigeria: The Role of the Christian Church

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Oluwasegun Peter Aluko ◽  
Ibukun Oluwakemi Olawuni
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
Ponzi Scheme ◽  
The Impact

This paper is a study on Ponzi schemes, development and the Christian church in Nigeria. It traced the emergence of Ponzi schemes in Nigeria. The paper considered the practices of Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM), being one of the strongest Ponzi schemes in Nigeria. It assessed the impact of this Ponzi scheme on development in the country. It also looked into the role played by the Christian Church during the period of the scheme’s existence in the country. The paper, however concluded that, despite the people involved in the scheme being interested in supposedly helping people (including those in the scheme and the less privileged), it is contrary to the ethos of Christianity that touches on labour and its corresponding success. The data collected for the study were analysed using socio-historical approach.

Embedded stories and the life story

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-348
Author(s):  
Inge Stockburger
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Head Lice ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Her Family ◽  
First Case ◽  
East Village ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Mother Figures

This article explores how tellers, more specifically life writers, embed small stories within larger narratives of significant episodes in their lives. I analyze the way in which a life writer, Ayun Halliday, embeds two smaller stories about ordinary experiences from her own childhood into a lengthier narrative about her daughter’s first case of head lice. The data set includes two versions of the lice narrative: one version appears in the writer’s motherhood memoir (The Big Rumpus) published by Seal Press in 2002, and a later version appears in the writer’s self-published perzine (The East Village Inky) in 2004. I analyze how the embedded story-worlds are presented differently in each context by focusing on openings and closings and level of detail in referrals and event clauses. Studying changes in retellings is one way of unpacking the role of embedded stories in the construction of larger ones. Ultimately, I make the point that both embedded stories play a role in Ayun’s larger discursive move in the lice narrative to share the burden of her daughter’s stigma by positioning herself both within a set of mother figures from her family biography and against a broader cultural backdrop of big “D” discourses (Gee, 1999) about good (or bad) parenting.

On the Edge of Reason

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Steven J. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Curricular Innovations ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores engagement at the Scottish universities with new intellectual trends between the Reformation and Enlightenment. The chapter begins by assessing the impact of the reformation on Scottish higher education, and the role of the humanist and reformer Andrew Melville in creating a network of modern godly seminaries out of the three pre-reformation universities and the two new protestant arts colleges established in Edinburgh and in New Aberdeen. It then reviews the limited range of Scottish curricular innovations that emerged in response to broader European developments in ‘proto-empirical’ thinking and research in the early seventeenth century. The chapter concludes that intellectual innovations at Scotland’s universities across this period were disjointed and circular, with teaching ultimately remaining Aristotelian in form and content. However, a broader continuity of aim—the creation of a ‘godly’ commonwealth and the education of ministers to populate it—underpinned all the developments in this period.

scholarly journals The Christian church’s role in the escalating mob justice system in our black townships – An African pastoral view

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elijah Baloyi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
South Africans ◽  
African Black ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
The Impact

Among the crimes in the South African black townships, mob justice has become a growing concern. Some questions that need to be asked are: Is our police force doing enough to protect the ordinary citizens of this country? If the situation continues, will all suspects be killed in the same manner or will there be a solution to change the situation? What is the impact of mob justice on the families of the victims and the witnesses of the brutal acts? How long are we going to live as a traumatised nation as a result of these violent acts? Is there any hope that our nation will ever have the peace it deserves in the context of democracy? This article intends to investigate the impact of the mob justice system and find out what the role of the Christian church should be in the midst of this escalating violence. This study aims to unveil the negative impact of mob justice on the lives of many township South Africans and giving pastoral-biblical suggestions of the church’s role in the elimination of this kind of brutality.

scholarly journals Sacred Space and “True Religion”: The Irish Reformation and the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, Galway

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 14-45
Author(s):  
Steven G. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Pipe Organs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
The Town

This paper looks at the impact of religious reform in Tudor Galway, focusing on how the use of sacred space in the collegiate church of St Nicholas, Galway, was reshaped during the Reformation. The Elizabethan Settlement of Religion was, by European standards, quite conservative, permitting the retention of choral foundations and pipe organs and, in Ireland, even the traditional Latin offices, sung from the chancel. Unofficially, even some images and ornaments survived. Alongside these conservative survivals, the corporate worship of the new prayer book was also enhanced by regular sermons in English, Irish, and Latin by graduate preaching ministers, which were a popular innovation initially attracting large groups of people. Later, however, financial difficulties and the lack of a preaching minister for regular sermons undermined this local compromise: Galway merchants mostly drifted back to Catholic worship, which had remained freely available outside the town.

A comparative analysis of agricultural research and extension reforms in China and India

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Chandra Babu ◽  
Jikun Huang ◽  
P. Venkatesh ◽  
Yumei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
China And India ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – There is growing interest from the global development community in the role of agricultural research and extension (AR & E) systems to achieve development targets. Despite this interest, many smallholders in developing countries continue to lack access to updated agricultural information and reliable services. In an effort to increase the effectiveness, impact, and reach of AR & E programs, many governments have attempted to reform their national systems. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper systematically compares the systems and reforms of AR & E in China and India in order to draw out lessons applicable to developing countries. This paper first reviews the existing literature on AR & E systems and their role in agricultural and economic development. The authors then provide a detailed review and comparative analysis of the reforms and approaches implemented in the AR & E systems of China and India. The authors apply this comparative analysis to draw out lessons that can be applied to inform the reformation of AR & E systems in developing countries. Findings – The authors find that although both countries face similar agricultural development challenges, each took a different approach in the reformation of AR & E to address these challenges. Each country’s approaches had different impacts on the effectiveness of the system. Lessons from the reformation of the AR & E systems in China and India can be used to inform and improve the impact of AR & E in developing countries. Originality/value – The paper examines two systems together using a set of common indicators and factors. The paper’s value comes from its usefulness in informing future AR & E reforms in other developing countries in order to increase the impact of these reforms on development outcomes.

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