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Mitre And Sword: Fighting Norman Bishops And Clergy, Timothy R. Martin

Obsculta

This thesis examines Norman bishops and abbots, either as armed combatants, or commanders of military forces in Normandy, and later in England after 1066. Focusing primarily on the roles of bishops, other accounts of martial feats by other Norman clergy are also examined. The use of justified force and later the sanctioned use of violence by secular clergy is explored to better understand the rational perceived by the clergy when acting as ‘soldiers of God. These accounts of Norman bishops participating in combat show a natural progression of a tradition that was discouraged by reformers but embraced by secular rulers.

An Exploration Of The Context And Ecclesiastical Investigations Of The Virgin's Reported Appearance In Knock, Ireland In 1879, Erin Meikle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

On August 21, 1879, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, and the Lamb of God reportedly appeared in Knock, Ireland. Ecclesiastical authorities of the Roman Catholic Church investigated this reported apparition in 1879 and again in 1936. The first chapter of this paper explores the processes by which the Church investigates alleged apparitions and considers different models for conceptualizing the Church. The second chapter unpacks the context of two nineteenth century French apparitions. The third chapter explores the Knock apparition and the immediate historical context surrounding the apparition. The analyses in the first two chapters serve …

1,000 Years Later: What Can We Learn From Saint Peter Damian’S Liber Gomorrhianus?, Robert Craven

Obsculta

No abstract provided.

Into Ministry : The Pastorals, The Early Church, And The Free Methodist Church In The Early Twenty-First Century, Jason Aaron Leininger

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Liberian Clergywomen And The Women Of Liberia Mass Action For Peace : Causal Factors For Clergywomen's Participation Or Nonparticipation And The Impact On Clergywomen's Leadership In The Liberian Church, Katurah York Cooper

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Bible, The Revolution, And The Debate Over Slavery In The American South, Kevin Simon

Masters Theses

Before the slavery debate pushed a divided American nation to the brink of civil war, the argument divided the family of God. By the time cannon fire erupted at Fort Sumter, Christians had already staked out positions based on sophisticated lines of argument they used to justify or condemn chattel slavery. The generation coming of age during the Civil War era witnessed a debate more intense and contentious than their ancestors had seen, but in terms of the arguments employed, it broke very little fresh ground. Contrary to the assumption that antebellum apologists in the South invented the defense of …

A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 1 From 1783 To 1820, William Erastus Arnold

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.

A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 2 From 1820 To 1846, William Erastus Arnold

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.

Of Congregational And Synodical Authority, John Constable

Concordia Theological Monthly

It is the blessing and the bane of the church in the 20th century that it is both the inheritor and the victim of its own organization. Among people who cry for the ''good old days" of simple truths, simple faith, and simple organization there is always the specter of complex reality. Gone are the days, we are told, when a member of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod could quote a father of the first, 16th or 19th century to support a proper thesis. Yet all seem to do it to underpin a modern position. Paul, Luther, and Walther are cited …

The Reforming Role Of Religious Communities In The History Of Western Christianity, Carl Volz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Reformed Christians have traditionally been suspicious of, if not viscerally opposed to, one ancient institution of Christianity - monasticism. Ever since the upheavals of the 16th century most non-Roman Catholics in the West have been content to view the monks as being psychological eccentrics at best, or the spiritual heirs of Pelagius at worst. It is the purpose of this essay to indicate the vital role monasticism played in the continuing reform of Christianity, and to encourage Lutheran Christians, who stand in a similar reforming tradition, to approach the concept of communal religious life with understanding if not with sympathetic …

Luther's Concept Of The Pastoral Ministry, John Cherian

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Why The Reformation Occurred In Germany, Gerhard Ritter

Concordia Theological Monthly

At the end of the Middle Ages, the moral prestige of the old papal church was severely shaken in all the countries of Europe. Open criticism of its moral shortcomings and its organizational defects had been going on for centuries. To the diverse splinter movements of heretical sects (which were never wholly suppressed) had been recently added the great reform movements of the Wyclifites and the Hussites. But even they had brought about no lasting and widespread upheaval. Ultimately the old hierarchy had always prevailed. Why then did the Germans, a people slow to be aroused, fond of order, and …

The Knowledge And Use Of The Bible In The Medieval Age, Martin Bertermann

Bachelor of Divinity

In attempting to show precisely to what extent the new learning pervaded the countries of Europe during the Middle Ages, and, specifically, just in how far the Bible was known among the clergy and laity, one must be careful to strive for the golden mean in interpreting a flood of literature which usually goes to one of two extremes. The first of these divergent opinions is the one mentioned above, that the Bible, as almost wholly unknown by the clergy and laity of the Middle Ages. And this would seem to be substantiated by no less an authority than Luther …

The Church Reform Of Henry Viii A Product Of The Rennissance, Theo. Hoyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Two more points I should like to stress to show how the soil was long prepared for just such a revolt against Rome as the English Reformation brought. As before stated, abuses like the immorality of the clergy and the scandalous indulgence traffic were never so prominent in England as on the Continent. Some one may think of the monasteries; but I shall speak of them later. But there were things that may also be called abuses in the regimen of the Church, which may seem little when we compare them with others, which, however, like a steadily growing toothache, …

The Methodist Preacher: A Man Of Good Cheer, J. Hubert Noland

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

Anecdotes from the life and travels of Methodist ministers

The Legislative Sphere Of The Fourth Lateran Council, H. O. Keinath

Concordia Theological Monthly

"With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer," Luke 22, 15, that was the text of the sermon with which Innocent III opened the sessions of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215. Employing the allegorical method of Scripture interpretation, which was his favorite method, he found no difficulty in applying the "passover'' to the great council now assembled before him. And it was very true that he had desired this council "with desire.'' For, in a measure, this council and its activity was the great climax of his papal policy, a policy which had made …

How Peter Became Pope, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

Clement VI, 1342-52, said, "My predecessors did not know how to be Pope.''

Villari says the Countess of Jurenne was the Pope's mistress. The Pope absolved Queen Johanna of Naples for murdering her husband; the queen sold the vast Avignon to the Pope for a beggarly 80,000 florins.

The Pope's table, horses, pageants, and ladies made his court look like that of a king. Of the twenty-five cardinals created by Clement twelve were relatives, who led the most scandalous Iives. Clement said, "The monks behave like a herd of bulls that rage against the cows of the people."

How Peter Beame Pope, Wm Dallmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

From Victor III to John XXII, 1086-1334

The Scotch Contribution To The South Carolina Conference, William C. Kirkland

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

The article summarizes the contribution of a number of Methodists in South Carolina of Scottish descent, including Coleman Carlisle, Simon Carlisle, William McKendree, William M. Kennedy, Samuel Dunwoody, William Martin, Allen McCorquodale, Hugh A. C. Walker, Archibald McGilvary, Whitefoord Smith, Samuel Laird, William C. Kirkland, Sidi H. Browne, Alexander Coke Smith, William Wallace Duncan, John Carlisle Kilgo, Holland N. McTyeire, James H. Carlisle, and others.

Francis Asbury, L. P. Mcgee

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

A biographical essay on the life and work of the leading bishop in the early American Methodist Church, Francis Asbury, who traveled all over the eastern United States to preside over conferences.

James Jenkins: A Pioneer Knight Of The Saddle Bags, Barnwell Rhett Turnipseed

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

Article about the life and work of the Rev. James Jenkins, a South Carolina native who served as a Methodist minister in the early antebellum era. He served fifteen years as a circuit rider, twenty-five as a local pastor, and fifteen as a retired minister, dying in 1847 at age 83.

The Conference Of 1859, And Else, Samuel A. Weber

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

A summary of the personalities and events surrounding the 1859 session of the South Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, which met in Greenville, SC.