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(Review) A Negotiated Settlement, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

From Sorcery To Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions Of Magic In The Later Middle Ages, Michael D. Bailey

Michael D. Bailey

By the time the fires of the great European witch-hunts burned out in the seventeenth century, untold thousands had been sent to their deaths upon conviction of this terrible crime. Exact figures are understandably difficult to come by, but the best available estimates set the number of the dead near sixty thousand, and this just for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the witch craze reached its peak in western Europe.

Conflict And Sacred Space In Reformation-Era Scotland, Michael Graham

Michael F. Graham

No abstract provided.

Maine, Indian Land Speculation, And The Essex County Witchcraft Outbreak Of 1692, Emerson W. Baker, James Kences

Maine History

Although the well-known Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 took place in Massachusetts, it was clearly related to events in Maine and elsewhere on the New England frontier. In recent years scholars have increasingly pointed to the many participants in the trials who had ties to Maine. These connections go beyond the accused witches and afflicted girls who were war refugees in Massachusetts, to include many residents of the Bay Colony caught up in a wave of speculation in frontier Indian lands during the 1680's. Most of the witchcraft judges and their families owned such land in Maine. Staunch Puritans such …

Defending The Double Monastery: Aldhelm Of Malmesbury's De Virginitate And Seventh-Century England, Thomas Cramer

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The double monasteries of seventh-century England have long been a problematic institution for historical interpretation. The purpose of this project is an attempt to place these institutions in relation to the ecclesiastical controversies of seventh-century England. Archbishop Theodore, who wished to reform the Anglo-Saxon church, challenged the role of the double monasteries. The attack on the double monasteries was instituted along gendered lines by evoking religious traditions that called into question the legitimacy of cooperation between monastic men and women. However, this position was not universally accepted. Aldhelm of Malmesbury’s De Virginitate provides a theological defense for the double monastery …

Utopia Park, Utopian Church: James K. Humphrey And The Emergence Of The Sabbath-Day Adventists, Romauld C. Jones

Dissertations

James K. Humphrey was a Baptist minister who joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church shortly after migrating to the United States from Jamaica at the turn of the twentieth century. A leader of uncommon skill and charisma, Humphrey ministered in Harlem, New York, during the period the area became the Black capital of the United States, leading his congregation to a position of primacy in the Greater New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Yet Humphrey believed that the African American experience in Adventism was one of disenfranchisement, a problem he attempted to ameliorate with the establishment of the Utopia Park Benevolent …

Sufficient Unto Themselves: Life And Economy Among The Shakers In Nineteenth-Century Rural Maine, Mark B. Lapping

Maine History

Community self-sufficiency was an ideal that both defined and informed the Shaker experience in America. During the nineteenth century the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake Colony in New Gloucester, Maine—today the last remaining Shaker Colony in the nation— developed a sophisticated economic system that combined agricultural innovation, a far-reaching market-based trade in seeds, herbs, and medicinals, mill-based and home manufacturers, and “fancy goods” to supply the developing tourist sector. They practiced both selective cloture and a profound degree of market savvy as they confronted the maturing market economy. Mark B. Lapping is Professor of Public Policy at the Muskie School of …

The Romans Commentaries Of William Of St. Thierry And Peter Abelard: A Theological And Methodological Comparison, Steven R. Cartwright

Dissertations

In 1140, William o f St. Thierry, a Cistercian monk and former Benedictine abbot, accused Peter Abelard, the well-known philosopher and theologian, of propagating grave errors concerning Christian doctrine in his theological teachings. William’s accusations resulted in Peter’s condemnation at the Council of Sens in 1140.

This study compares the commentaries on the Episode of St. Paul to the Romans written by William of St. Thierry and Peter Abelard in the mid-1130s, only a few years before William’s accusations. While this conflict has been much studied, no one has previously examined it via these commentaries, which are the only literary …

The Congregation Of The Mission In The United States:, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

The Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians) arrived in America in 1815. This article traces their history as a mission from Rome (1815-35), a province of the Congregation (1835-88), divided into two provinces (1888-1975), and again into five provinces (from 1975). Its ministries developed from preaching and seminary teaching into other fields, such as university education and foreign missions.

Theology, Tradition, And Turbulent Times: Ordination Of Women In The Lutheran Church, 1970, Donna L. Koch

History Theses & Dissertations

Only relatively recently in the United States have women officially been able to preach, administer the sacraments, and minister fully to the spiritual needs of congregations as ordained Protestant clergy. For millions of Lutherans in the United States, 1970 was the beginning of a new era in their church when the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) and the American Lutheran Church (ALC) changed centuries of tradition and prepared the way for women to join the clergy. The third national Lutheran body, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), at both its 1969 and 1971 conventions retained its conservative position, as it …

2001 Morehead First Christian Church Echo Newsletter, First Christian Church Echo (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Newsletter Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Echo Newsletter from 2001.

2001 Morehead First Christian Church Board Of Directors Minutes, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Board of Directors meeting minutes for 2001.

2001 Church Service Programs, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Weekly church service programs of the First Christian Church of Morehead, Kentucky from 2001.

Discipliana Vol-61-Nos-1-4-2001, Newell Williams

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-61-Nos-1-4-2001

Joseph R. Jeter, Jr., SOME WE LOST: A STUDY OF DISAFFECTIONS FROM THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

Leigh Eric Schmidt, "A PRACTICALL REMEMBRANCE": CANE RIDGE IN HISTORICAL MEMORY

Anthony L. Dunnavant, BARTON W. STONE: PORTRAITS ON THE HALF -CENTURY

D. Newell Williams, FROM TRUSTING CONGRESS TO RENOUNCING HUMAN GOVERNMENTS: THE MILLENNIAL ODYSSEY OF BARTON W. STONE

David Edwin Harrell, Jr., THE LEGACY OF BARTON W. STONE'S MILLENNIALISM IN THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST

James B. North, THE LEGACY OF STONE'S MILLENNIALISM IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Winter Issue in Memory of Eva Jean Wrather

D. Duane Cummins, THE THIRD MRS. CAMPBELL …

Menorah Review (No. 52, Spring/Summer, 2001)

Menorah Review

Zionism and Postzionism: Recent Re-Evaluations of Ideology and Historiography -- Mirror Images? -- Righteous Memorial -- Funny, You Don't Look One Hundred -- Morality After the Holocaust -- A Legend for John Keats -- New Directions in Jewish Ethics -- Jewish Rights: What is "Normative"? -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 53, Fall, 2001)

Menorah Review

Uriah Levy and Monticello -- Prejudice and the Military -- The Feminist's Corner -- Derrida Remembers Levinas -- Tu B'Shvat -- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv -- Noteworthy Books -- Understanding the Holocaust

One Side By Himself: The Life And Times Of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894, Ronald O. Barney

All USU Press Publications

"What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and …

Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Indicting Christendom: Roger Williams From The Wilderness, Thomas L. Anderson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Menorah Review (No. 51, Winter, 2001)

Menorah Review

Celebrating Nathan Glazer's American Judaism -- Is "Process Thought Progress? -- Biblical Claims: The Historical Basis -- Defining and Redefining Jewishness -- Engagement in Writing Jewish History -- Noteworthy Books

Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Principle And Expediency: The Ku Klux Klan And Ralph Owen Brewster In 1924, John Syrett

Maine History

During the early 1920s the Ku Klux Klan gained considerable support throughout the United States and in Maine. In 1924 Ralph Owen Brewster, later a senator, secured the Republican nomination for governor with the Klan’s support. The dominant issue in the election was whether the state should continue to fund parochial schools. Brewster urged that this aid be ended, and the Klan enthusiastically endorsed his candidacy. Brewster narrowly won the primary and then easily won the September election. In this article John Syrett explores the relation between Brewster and the Klan. Mr. Syrett is a Professor of History and former …

Sheep And Shepherd: An Ancient Image Of The Church And A Contemporary Challenge, Lawrence Porter

Rev. Lawrence B. Porter, Ph.D

No abstract provided.