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The Emergence Of Radical Christianity: The Mystical Dunkers, Its Antecedence, Hermetical Founding, Germanic Diaspora, And Its Apogee On The Frontier Of Colonial America, Daniel Jason Geyer

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Dunker Sect, a radical Christian fellowship founded by Alexander Mack and Ernst Christoph Hochmann von Hochenau, grew from the endless conflict and radicalization of Christianity that emerged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in what is now Germany and Switzerland. These men were guided by Christian leaders such as Jakob Spener, August Hermann Franke, and other radicals in Eastern Germany. Both Hochmann and Mack were separatists, in that they wanted nothing to do with what they considered the corrupted Church of the Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed denominations. The term “separatist” however, only describes their removal from the …

Reading The Signs Of The Time: Three Voices In The Confessional Lutheran Church As They Relate To Segregation, Racism, And Apartheid In South Africa From 1900–1978, Christoph Dietrich Weber

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Weber, Christoph, Reading the signs of the time: “Three voices in the confessional Lutheran Church to segregation, racism, and apartheid in South Africa from 1900–1978.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2022. 425 pp.

According to August Vilmar, reading the signs of the times was an essential task of all pastors and theologians. It was a part of their prophetic task to interpret the world and its context with the word of God and to proclaim the voice of the church in law and gospel. The three theologians analyzed in this dissertation: Karl Meister, Hermann Sasse, and Friederich W. Hopf respected Vilmar …

The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, P. Gøtke

The Bridge

I do not propose to write here a complete history of the Danish Church as it was established in America—the full story of the Danish Church in America has yet to arrive at its conclusion. Instead, I offer here a brief overview of the work of the church among the immigrants to the United States, drawing the attention of the readers of this book to particular points.

Captive To The American Woods: Sarah Wakefield And Cultural Mediation, Sophia Betsworth Hunt

Masters Theses

The life and narrative of Sarah Wakefield, an Anglo migrant who spent six weeks as a captive of the Santee Dakotas during the US-Dakota Conflict, show one woman's experience navigating the changing racial dynamics of the nineteenth-century Minnesota frontier. Using recent conceptualizations of “the frontier” as either a middle ground or woods, this thesis reconsiders Wakefield as a prisoner, not of Indians or her own conscience but of her region‟s ossifying racial divisions. Wakefield's initial attempts at intercultural communication, which included feeding starving Dakotas who knocked on her door, were consistent with Anglo notions about womanhood and Indian-white relations. But …

Danish Churches And Congregations In Indianapolis, 1868-1885, Barbara R. George

The Bridge

A look at the population make-up of Indianapolis and Indiana during the time period from the end of the Civil War (approximately 1865) until the 1880s shows that the Danes had little impact in the relatively small Indiana immigration picture. Indiana was less influenced by foreign born than any other northern state. Although ranking ninth in the number of German-born residents in 1880, Indiana ranked thirteenth in the number of foreign born, and was sixth in total population. As a state it was not particularly aggressive in promoting itself as a viable destination for immigrants, and ranked only in front …

Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

A Question Of Plain Dealing: Josiah Cotton, Native Christians, And The Quest For Security In Eighteenth-Century Plymouth County, Douglas L. Winiarski

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In the wake of King Philip's War (1675-76), Wampanoags throughout the "Old Colony" - Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable Counties in southeastern Massachusetts - struggled to pick up the pieces of a culture shattered by violence and warfare, riven with internal dissension, and plagued by economic exploitation and English racism. As several revisionist studies have shown, Indians like Ned turned to Christianity to combat the social and economic challenges confronting their communities during the first half of the eighteenth century, but they did so in complex and at times contradictory ways. The tenant families at Plain Dealing, for example, consigned their …

Where Shall We Live? Class And The Limitations Of Fair Housing Law, Wendell Pritchett

All Faculty Scholarship

This paper examines the effort to secure fair housing laws at the local, state and federal levels in the 1950s, focusing in particular on New York City and state. It will examine the arguments that advocates made regarding the role the law should play in preventing housing discrimination, and the relationship of these views to advocates' understanding of property rights in general. My paper will argue that fair housing advocates had particular conceptions about the importance of housing in American society that both supported and limited their success. By arguing that minorities only sought what others wanted - a single-family …

2002 Report Of Gifts (88 Pages), South Caroliniana Library--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society - Annual Report of Gifts

No abstract provided.

Discipliana Vol-62-Nos-1-4-2002, Newell Williams

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-62-Nos-1-4-2002

Mark G. Toulouse, THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

Craig M Watts, MILLENNIAL AMERICA AND THE VISION OF PEACE IN THE THOUGHT OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

Lester G. McAllister, A DISCIPLES SEMINARY AT BERKELEY

Richard C. Goode, FLOATING AT RANDOM BETWEEN LIBERTY AND OBEDIENCE? BACKGROUNDS TO THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING'S EMOTIONAL EXERCISES

Amy Collier Artman, THE ENCOUNTER OF NORTH AMERICAN STONE· CAMPBELL CHRISTIANS WITH THE PENTECOSTAL! CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT

James Stephen Wolfgang, MILLENNIAL THEMES IN THE RESTORA TION MOVEMENT: CIVIL WAR TO 1900

Carmelo Alvarez, MISSION AS LIBERATING SPIRIT: DISCIPLES AND PENTECOSTALS IN VENEZUELA

First Covenant Church, St. Paul, Mn Members 1874-1905, James E. Erickson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Kirkegaard Families' Years On The Nebraska Prairie, Jean Matteson

The Bridge

Anders Laugesen Nielsen Kirkegaard (1860-1940), son of Lauge Nielsen and Sidsel Marie Kristiansen, was born in Harbo0re, Ringk0bing Parish, Ringk0bing County, Denmark, on October 4, 1860. After attending grade school near his home, he moved to Copenhagen where he became a carpenter's apprentice. At the age of eighteen, having a workable knowledge of God, he felt a calling toward the ministry. He wondered whether he should go to Asia or America. With the help of friends, Kirkegaard chose the latter. Kirkegaard returned to Copenhagen where he had been a carpenter and a soldier, and a student at the Copenhagen School …

Adventist Heritage - Vol. 12, No. 2, Adventist Heritage, Inc.

Adventist Heritage

In this issue:

2 | Editor's Stump

3 | Missionaries, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries - Logging a Passage in Search of Fernando and Ana Stahl

15 | Ferdinand Stahl, Missionary to Peru

27 | Andes to Amazon - The Indians as the Stahl's Knew Them

38 | Luzeiro I

His Name Was Jonas: A Biography Of Jonas Swensson, Emmet E. Eklund

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Abstract:

The life of Jonas Swensson (1828-1873) presents a reversal of the common notion that sons of famous fathers often live in the shadow of their fathers’ fame. For Jonas Swensson was overshadowed by the fame of his illustrious son, Carl Aaron. Both the fame of his son and his own early death, at age forty-five, have tended to obscure the noteworthy accomplishments of Jonas Swensson. Yet Swensson played a significant role in the shaping of the Augustana Lutheran Church in the last half of the 19th century. His contributions to parish and higher education, mission, congregational life, and the …

A History Of The Lutherans In The Orlando Area, 1868-1948, James D. Prahlow

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen

The Bridge

"The mental alertness and spiritual hunger of the Apostle Paul shine through the words of his request to his young friend Timothy. The business of our Danish Lutheran Publishing House is founded on that, and on our Lord 's command to His Church to bring the Gospel to every nation . . . Its business is not to make money, but to do the printing of the Church. Its success or failure is to be measured not by the figures in its "profits" or "losses" columns, but in the volume or extent of its distribution of Christian books and other …

Evangelical Visitor - July 25, 1981 Vol. Xciv. No. 14., Glen A. Pierce

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XCIV. No. 14.

Full Issue

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Danish Settlement In Fresno County, California: An Example Of Acculturation To A Foreign Environment. 1880-1920, Marianne T. Stecher

The Bridge

Danish settlers were first attracted to Fresno County, California, in the late 1870's. By 1920, at the close of the era of Danish immigration, 1,839 Danes, 1 % of the entire Danish population of the United States, lived in Fresno County. The idea of Mediterranean crops thriving on twenty acres of fertile soil was tempting to aspiring farmers. The possibility of confining farm work to such a small land area seemed more preferable than one-hundred and sixty acres of spreading wheat fields in the midwestern prairie. A prospering fruit farm or a vineyard in sunny California was a dream of …

Evangelical Visitor - August 25, 1979 Vol. Xcii. No. 16., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XCII. No. 16.

Evangelical Visitor - March 25, 1975 Vol. Lxxxviii. No. 6., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXVIII. No. 6.

Evangelical Visitor - November 25, 1972 Vol. Lxxxv. No. 22., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXV. No. 22.

1972 Handbook Of Missions, Brethren In Christ Church

Handbook of Missions

Fellowship in the gospel. 1972 yearbook. Brethren in Christ Missions.

Independent Republic Quarterly, 1971, Vol. 5, No. 4, Horry County Historical Society

The Independent Republic Quarterly

A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.

Evangelical Visitor - November 17, 1969 Vol. Lxxxii. No. 23., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXII. No. 23.

Evangelical Visitor - December 16, 1968 Vol. Lxxxi. No. 26., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXI. No. 26.

Evangelical Visitor - May 08, 1967 Vol. Lxxx. No. 10., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXX. No. 10.

The Ursinus Weekly, November 10, 1966, Lawrence Romane, Timothy C. Coyne, Gayle Byerly, Herbert C. Smith, Allen Faaet, Mort Kersey, Linda Richtmyre, Lewis Bostic, David Campbell, Frederick Light, Barry Dickey

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Delta Pi's queen reigns at annual Homecoming • U.C. students aid delinquents • Founder's Day emphasizes church relationship: Three honorary degrees conferred • U.C. poetry reading • CBS reporter to speak at Forum • Behind the scenes innovations • Faculty team at War College • Local businesses educate employees • Editorial: Salvation; The moon is down • On cinnamon and seething • Letters to the editor: If you can't win fairly, cheat? • Book review • New faculty building announced; Program gains momentum • Freeland's ghost laments disrespect for traditions • Lyndon Johnson in Collegeville? Recent visit proves possibility: Receives …

Evangelical Visitor - July 18, 1966 Vol. Lxxix. No. 15., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXIX. No. 15.

Evangelical Visitor - September 13, 1965 Vol. Lxxviii. No. 19., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXVIII. No. 19.