Deities, Devils, and Dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour and the Family of Love

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID WOOTTON
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
The Family

This lecture presents the text of the speech about Elizabeth I Queen of England delivered by the author at the 2008 Raleigh Lecture on History held at the British Academy. It explores the religious movement called the Family of Love and discusses Sir Walter Raleigh's knowledge about the discourse on Dover Harbour, which was later spuriously attributed to him. The lecture provides an excerpt and interpretation of Queen Elizabeth's poem titled On Monsieur's Departure.

scholarly journals Calling and preparation for missionary service in the life of believers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Sergiusz Anoszko
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
The Church

Serving on a mission is almost an indispensable part of the image of the adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, quasi-Christian new religious movement. The next text attempts to analyse and take a closer look at the theme of calling and preparing for the ministry of being a missionary as an attribute of this Church that was founded by Joseph Smith. Starting from an upbringing in the family and social expectations of the Church’s members through education in the Missionary Training Center, we can follow the vocation path and the creative process of the future Mormon missionary who preach the Gospel in various corners of the world. Missionary ministry is important in the life of each Mormon believer, even those who didn’t serve as a missionary, because it leaves a lasting imprint and affects the minds of the members of this new religious group for the rest of their lives.

The Maire Family of County Durham

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 332-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. C. Forster
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth I ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City

In the reign of Elizabeth I we find Christopher Maire of the family of Maire or Meire in Cheshire married to a Moresby of Cumberland and living in the city of Durham. In 1572 he bought the manor of Hutton in the parish of Monkhesledon of William Wyvell of Patrick Brompton in Yorkshire; some years later he made the further purchase, from Robert Aske, of Hardwick-by-the-Sea, in the same parish.

scholarly journals Francis Thomas Bacon, 21 December 1904 - 24 May 1992

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Heat Engines ◽  
Queen Elizabeth I ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Atlantis

Francis Thomas Bacon, known to all his friends as Tom, was a gentleman scientist with impeccable antecedents. He was a direct descendant of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Sir Nicholas’s son by his second marriage was Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of James the First, the author of Bacon’s Esay, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis , etc., who became Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. He persuaded his contemporaries that a scientific society should be founded in England; this led to the formation of the Royal Society itself. It is also quite possible that Tom was a descendant of the family of Roger Bacon of Oxford (1214-1294) who also was a pioneer of science. Tom Bacon was born at Ramsden Hall, Billericay. His father, Thomas Walter Bacon (1863-1950) was an electrical engineer who, during the later years of the last century, had worked for the Eastern Telegraph Company, both in their workshops in London and in their cable ships. He encouraged his sons to aim for careers in science and engineering. Tom was educated first at St Peters Court Preparatory School in Broadstairs Kent; he had hoped for a career in the Royal Navy but was turned down for Osborne at the age of 12 owing to failing the eyesight test. He then went on to Eton from 1918 to 1922, gaining the School Physics Prize in 1922. From Eton Tom went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, taking the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1925. It was while he was at Cambridge that Bacon realized the significance of the Carnot limitation on the thermal efficiency of heat engines and this was to influence almost the whole of the rest of his life.

scholarly journals John Macnaghten Whittaker, 7 March 1905 - 29 January 1984

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 653-666
Keyword(s):  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
The Family ◽  
Father And Son

John Macnaghten Whittaker came from an old and distinguished family. The name derives from High Whitacre, a farm near Padiham in Lancashire, where they lived from 1236 until the reign of Elizabeth I. The family later became very numerous and contained an M.P. and several knights. One of these was John’s father, Edmund Taylor, a distinguished analyst and astronomer, who was elected F.R.S. in 1905, and so father and son were Fellows together from 1949, when John was elected, until 1956 when Edmund died ( see Biogr. Mem. Fell. R. Soc . 2, 299-325 (1956)). During that period they were the only such pair of father and son. Jack’s mother, Mary Boyd, was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Boyd, a presbyterian minister and grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Boyd, a publisher who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh and was the moving spirit in the founding of the Royal Infirmary as well as four schools including Watson’s.

Rebooting The Family

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178
Author(s):  
Sanja Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
The Bible ◽  
High Tension ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mainstream Society

The Family International (TFI) is a religious movement that emerged in the late 1960s. It was founded by David Berg (1919?1994), who later came to be perceived by adherents as the End-Time Prophet. The movement is based on Christian theology but has never had more than 10 000 followers. It has, however, made itself internationally famous through a radical interpretation of the Bible and critique of mainstream society. The Family has received media attention partly due to its liberal views on sexuality. The group is well-known within the research field of sociology of religion and new religious movements, and has been extensively studied as a “high-tension” group that has limited and regulated contact with mainstream society. Although there are some excellent in-depth case studies on the Family, the group is constantly changing due to its theology being based on continuous prophecy. This means that the group’s doctrines and praxis have changed considerably over the course of its 40-year history. This article examines the latest change in The Family International, called the Reboot, which was implemented in September 2010, in order to get a clearer picture of what constitutes this shift. This article also aims to show how changes in social boundaries due to the implementation of the Reboot are perceived by some members of The Family International.

John Evelyn, F. R. S

1960 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The Family ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
John Evelyn

John Evelyn was born on 31 October 1620 at Wotton near Dorking in Surrey, the second son of a wealthy gentleman. The family, which could trace its ancestry back to the late fifteenth century, had risen to wealth in the time of Elizabeth I, when Evelyn’s grandfather introduced into this country, and engaged in, the manufacture of gunpowder. Evelyn’s father was a man of some culture (he sent his three sons to Oxford). In 1633-4 he was Sheriff of the combined counties of Surrey and Sussex, a dignified but expensive office. His whole household was orderly, liberal, and reasonably devout. The young Evelyn was brought up by his mother’s people at Lewes in Sussex. He remained at school there until he was seventeen, when he went to Balliol College, Oxford; at about the same time he was admitted to the Middle Temple, but for its social training rather than for study of law, He stayed at Oxford, though with considerable interruptions, for three years. As he later acknowledged, his school was unable to give him a proper grounding; Oxford did not make good the defect. Evelyn was inquisitive and observant, but had little powers of clear and precise thought and of synthesis. He had however two acquisitions unusual in this country in his time. Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, the great art-collector and patron, had been helped by Evelyn’s father to buy an estate at Albury near Wotton. He received the young Evelyn kindly and fostered in him a strong interest in the visual arts; and if Evelyn’s love of landscape is to be regarded as something spontaneous, it was probably in Arundel’s household that he learnt to express it. No specific origin for his scientific interests is known. Evelyn’s father died in 1640. When the Civil War came in 1642 Evelyn was in a difficult position: the estate at Wotton, now belonging to his brother, was in territory held by Parliament; if Evelyn joined the king, as he apparently wished to do, the estate might have been forfeited.

scholarly journals On the History of Early Musical Groups: Instrumental Consorts in England at the Turn of the 16th—17th Centuries

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 494-503
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Reference Points ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Renaissance England ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Culture ◽  
Stable Combination

Appealing to the stated topic is relevant because of the desire to concretize the knowledge of little-known in Russian musicology instrumental consorts (musical groups), as well as to expand the existing understanding of the court culture of Renaissance England and its musical and sound appearance. The main center of English consorts development was the Royal court of the Tudors — Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I. Their heyday was at the peak of the “Golden Age” of English culture. Based on the results of scienti­fic research by Western scientists and visual and verbal sources available for study, the article outlines the milestones in the history of the main types of instrumental consort in England — the whole consort, consisting of instruments of the same family, and the broken consort, today often identified with the mixed consort, which connects heterogeneous instruments. The article notes that the early history of the recorder consort in England was closely connected with creative activities of the family of Venetian musicians Bassano. Extremely popular in musical circles of England, the consort of viol was originally formed thanks to Flemish and, somewhat later, Italian musicians. As for the mixed consort, which united performers of the viols da gamba and da braccio, lute, bandore, cistre and recorder, it started to be called “English” because of the stable combination of certain musical instruments. Analysis of consort music anthologies of the 16th—17th centuries made it possible to identify individual genre and musical-style reference points in musical groups’ repertoire, in which musicians improved the principles of instrumental polyphony and the stile concertante, topical in the Modern Period.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the Family

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
New Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Psychedelic Drugs ◽  
The Media

The New Religious Movement called “The Family” was founded by Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921–2019) in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. Hamilton-Byrne taught that she was Jesus Christ and proclaimed her first follower, Dr. Raynor Johnson, to be John the Baptist. The Family combined Christian, Hindu, and New Age ideas with the use of psychedelic drugs, and an eschatological focus on the emergence of a new society after the destruction of the present era. The Family first came to media prominence in 1987 as a result of police investigations, and more recent memoirs and documentaries have also generated media interest around Hamilton-Byrne and her movement. This article discusses The Family and the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne, exploring the role of the media in consolidating her powerful image and in revealing deeply held concerns about “folk devils,” “brainwashing cults,” and maternal and spiritual deviancy in twenty-first century Australia.

Disillusionment and Mourning in the FFWPU

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyungsoo Lee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
World Peace ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Collective

This paper will apply Peter Homans’s argument on mourning to the new religious movement phenomena of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU). Homans’s theory focused on the progressive and creative aspects of mourning and extended the discussion from the personal to the social, collective level of mourning. Sifting through the history of the FFWPU, I will show how the emergence, formation, and transformation of this new religious movement (NRM) arose as a creative response to absence, ranging from personal death to the loss of religious values and symbols.

World Services in The Family International: The Administrative Organization of a Mature Religious Movement

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Shepherd ◽  
Gary Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Administrative Roles ◽  
Administrative Organization ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Family ◽  
Organizational Operation

Based on staff interviews obtained at World Services---the headquarters organization of The Family International---this study offers a case study description and analysis of the administration of a mature religious movement. A conceptual framework for analysis is provided by literature on the convergence of social movement research and organizational theory. Particular attention is given to the religious framing mechanisms of prayer and prophecy that World Services officials and staff members systematically use to administer every organizational operation at every level of the organization. The unusual extent to which women and young people play active administrative roles in The Family International is also described and discussed.

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