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Political Agendas In The Letters Of Hildegard Of Bingen, Anna Sweeney
Political Agendas In The Letters Of Hildegard Of Bingen, Anna Sweeney
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Hildegard of Bingen is mentioned only briefly in historical accounts of musicology, religious philosophy, and biographical studies of various monarchs from the twelfth century; however, she played a crucial role in maintaining the Catholic Church's influence as a political institution. In her correspondences, Bingen used enormous amounts of prophetic language to refer to many current events that were happening throughout Western Europe. In her letters to churchmen, bishops, popes and kings, she counseled against rampant heresies and political behavior contradicting the will of the Church. The sickly tenth daughter of a German aristocratic family, Hildegard was born 44 years after …
Re-Emerging Pietism: The Emerging Church As Postmodern Pietism, Tysen Dauer
Re-Emerging Pietism: The Emerging Church As Postmodern Pietism, Tysen Dauer
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Germany in the seventeenth century was ripe for religious reform: the Thirty Years War had created doubts about the correctness of contemporary religious institutions, theologians of most denominations were engaged in abstract, scholastic theological controversy, and inter-denominational conflict was increasingly off-putting. It was into this climate which Pietism emerged as an alternative way of doing religion. Its central tenants were: (1) a more extensive use of Scripture, (2) a reinvigorated spiritual priesthood, (3) an emphasis on orthopraxy, (4) irenic conduct in religious controversies, (5) the establishment of seminaries as centers of personal spiritual cultivation, and (6) sermons emphasizing faith and …
Love Your Enemy? Reflections At The Centenary Of World War I, Denis Kaiser
Love Your Enemy? Reflections At The Centenary Of World War I, Denis Kaiser
Faculty Publications
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Love Your Enemy? Reflections At The Centenary Of World War I, Denis Kaiser
Love Your Enemy? Reflections At The Centenary Of World War I, Denis Kaiser
Denis Kaiser
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[Book Review Of] Freikirchen Und Juden Im „Dritten Reich“: Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, Antisemitische Vorurteile Und Verdrängte Schuld, Edited By Daniel Heinz, Denis Kaiser
Faculty Publications
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[Book Review Of] Freikirchen Und Juden Im „Dritten Reich“: Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, Antisemitische Vorurteile Und Verdrängte Schuld, Edited By Daniel Heinz, Denis Kaiser
Denis Kaiser
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