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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 …

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Dannebrog On The Prairie: The Development Of Danishness In The Elk Horn–Kimballton Area Of Iowa, Lise Just

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My father’s family comes from a small Danish farming community in Als parish in Jutland, where it was customary for young people to marry the sons and daughters of neighboring farmers. It was a closed community, largely because of a policy known as adscription (restricting peasants to the estate of their birth) that did not allow able-bodied men to leave the parish. This policy was in place for most of the eighteenth century, but in 1788, adscription was abolished. In the same period, the population in Denmark was increasing rapidly, due to, among other things, better hygiene and lower child …

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 Jesuit Mission Proves We Were Here”: The Case Of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Missions Aiding Twenty-First Century Tribal Recognition, Andrew R. Beaupre

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Records indicate that during the French colonial period, Jesuits established four mission congregations within the territory now known as Vermont. These missions were established to preach to both French colonists and Native converts on Isle La Motte, on the Missisquoi River in Swanton, at Fort Saint-Frédéric on Lake Champlain, and in the area known as the Koas on the Connecticut River. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Abenaki peoples of Vermont have had a long and difficult road to gain state and federal recognition. These descendant communities have invoked the existence of Jesuit missions to the Abenaki as proof …

Christ Church Parochial School, Christ Church Parish, And The Mission To African Americans In The Arkansas Diocese Of The Episcopal Church, Mary Janet Murray

Theses and Dissertations

From 1924 until 1968, the Arkansas Diocese of the Episcopal Church sponsored a private primary and secondary school in Forrest City for African American students. The school was the brainchild of the first African American ordained as a bishop in the American Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Edward T. Demby. It was the consuming passion of the school’s first headmaster, the Rev. James Henry King, who served it from its founding in 1924 until his death in 1955. This thesis considers how Christ Church School and its related parish reflect the various incarnations of African American race relations lived out …

The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, P. Gøtke

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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.

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

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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

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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 …

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

University South Caroliniana Society - Annual Report of Gifts

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

Swedish American Genealogist

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Kirkegaard Families' Years On The Nebraska Prairie, Jean Matteson

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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

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

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"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 …

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

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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 …

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The Vanguard (Vol. 27, No. 7), Sep 1980, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Missouri Synod congregations should seek to sponsor Haitian refugees and expand their ministry with handicapped parishoners.

Those were just two of literally dozens of recommendations and resolutions passed at the third biennial convocation of black Missouri Synod congregations. Delegates and visitors from more than half of the synod's 200 black congregations participated in the four-day meeting in mid-July in Chicago.

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.

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 …

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 6), Aug-Sep 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

In November, 1964, The Lutheran Witness commented on the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There were those who immediately responded to the article, criticizing both Dr. King and the Witness for casting him in a favorable light.

It is to be expected that there will be some who take exception also to a statement made recently by the President of the American Lutheran Church, Dr. Fredrik A. Schiotz: "Many well-intentioned people have been critical of Dr. King, calling him a Communist. The time for indulging in this luxury is over. It is time for all who …

The Independent And Montgomery Transcript, V. 87, Thursday, June 22, 1961, [Number: 4], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent and Montgomery Transcript Newspaper, 1952-1984

[8] p. "Accept and Defend the Truth." Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, editorials, letters, classified and local business advertisements.

Personnel File Of Fr. David A. Holley, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Fr. David A. Holley

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A Century Of Lutheran Elementary Schools In Indiana, William J. Kirchhoff

Graduate Thesis Collection

In order that this major Protestant elementary educational system in Indiana may become better knovm and understood, the memory of' the early Lutheran educators may be preserved, the remnants of their noble achievements may be chronicled, and the records of' the early history of' education in Indiana may be supplemented and corrected, this study has been projected.

Annals Of The Congregation Of The Mission, Vol. 20, No. 1, Part 1

Annals of the Congregation of the Mission: A Collection of Edifying Letters

Pages 1-105

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 14, No. 3, November 1, 1897, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus College Bulletin, 1885-1902

A digitized copy of the November 1, 1897 Ursinus College Bulletin.