The Free Church Unity Movement, 1897

2021 ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
David M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Free Church ◽  
Church Unity

Molanus, Lutheran Irenicist (1633–1722)

1953 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Samuel J. T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Church

At the present time ideas of church reunion are current in many forms. Journals are appearing which are devoted exclusively to the exposition of dogmatic positions in an increasingly irenical light. Not the least important among these publications devoted to the expository method of clearing up possible areas of thought for reunion are Irenikon, produced by the Benedictines at Chevtogne, and Catholica, published at Münster under the auspices of Dr. Robert Grosche. Catholica has once again appeared after eleven years of virtual suspension and Dr. Grosche lauds the theologisches Gespräch “as the recognized way which can bring us nearer to the unity of the Church.” With respect to actual ecumenical meetings the Faith and Order Conference of the World Council of Churches met in Lund, Sweden, in 1952, and there Greek Orthodox, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican and free church representatives, and even Roman Catholic observers, rubbed shoulders and discussed problems of ecclesiology with church unity as the ultimate goal.

Hope’s Movement toward Love in More and Aquinas

Moreana ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (Number 153- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Church Unity

How do we ever arrive at loving an enemy? In the life of Thomas More, we witness such a change of heart. His antagonism toward those who threatened church unity is well known, but, from his prison cell, he confesses to a love for all. More’s understanding of hope helps us to learn something about the nature of this transformation. In a frame of mind that suggests the teachings of Aquinas, he despairs of his own merits and, after entrusting himself to God, he finds reason to hope for the hopeless, both for himself and all others, even his enemies.

Scenes of Ecclesiastical Theatre in the Free Church of Scotland, 1981-2000

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fraser Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Free Church

Scottish Missionaries, ‘Protestant Hinduism’ and the Scottish Sense of Empire in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century India

2007 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Constable
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western India ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

This article examines the Scottish missionary contribution to a Scottish sense of empire in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, the article reviews general historiographical interpretations which have in recent years been developed to explain the Scottish relationship with British imperial development in India. Subsequently the article analyses in detail the religious contributions of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church Missions to a Scottish sense of empire with a focus on their interaction with Hindu socioreligious thought in nineteenth-century western India. Previous missionary historiography has tended to focus substantially on the emergence of Scottish evangelical missionary activity in India in the early nineteenth century and most notably on Alexander Duff (1806–78). Relatively little has been written on Scottish Presbyterian missions in India in the later nineteenth century, and even less on the significance of their missionary thought to a Scottish sense of Indian empire. Through an analysis of Scottish Presbyterian missionary critiques in both vernacular Marathi and English, this article outlines the orientalist engagement of Scottish Presbyterian missionary thought with late nineteenth-century popular Hinduism. In conclusion this article demonstrates how this intellectual engagement contributed to and helped define a Scottish missionary sense of empire in India.

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