Open research questions in Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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The article argues that rather than representing a scholarly engagement with contextual historiography, the central plank of the dialectical critique of contextualism—the notion that contextual explication of thought is insufficient because context itself has transcendental conditions—is actually a cultural‐political attack on it launched on behalf of a hostile and incommensurable academic culture.
Firstly, the author describes the aspect related to the general adoption of the structure of religious congregations, which provides unequivocal evidence of the prevalence, also on the female side, of the traditional monastic model, of a vocation to religious life understood essentially as an active life devoted to charity, a synthesis between action and prayer, a commitment in the world through the assistance of others.
The article concludes by indicating how Weghorst’s and Reitzer’s works established the framework for discussions of natural law in the first decades of the eighteenth century, suggesting the need for further research into the significance of natural law for the early enlightenment in Denmark–Norway.
But Unitarian Universalism is not limited to the United States and Canada--Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations can be found today on nearly every continent, and many of them work under the auspices of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU).
Unitarian Universalism: A Research Guide · 2008Although two recent monographs, Peter McCullough's Sermons at court and Lori Anne Ferrell's Government by polemic , demonstrate ways in which this might be corrected, it must still be acknowledged that much work remains to be done.
The chronological scope is limited to the period up to 1609, when the issuance of the Letter of Majesty in 1609 formalized the gentlemen's agreement of 1575 and altered the ecclesiastical structure accordingly.
The ideological movements were able to parasitize on professional relations of educational, psychological, relational or medical care; their success was limited to the functional subsystems whose operations are dependent on face-to-face contact between professional and client, on the personal commitment of the role-inhabitants.
'15 Canelusion A study of the Campbellites indicates some characteristics of nineteenth- century lower-class religion and of the process of sect development which need to be examined in other religious groups. In the 1890s some Campbellites were still undecided whether Christians should vote, but limited evidence suggests that those who were qualified not only exercised the franchise but became active in local political affairs.
And the spirit uality of Faith and Order, he added, should not be limited to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Even among those who feel that the churches should be involved, there is no agreement about the role of Faith and Order with reference to the social apostolate.
If it did, however (and therefore inchoatively symbolized Christ's union with His Church), then to say that the sec ond marriage can also be this symbol even if imperfectly fails to explain why a third and fourth union could not do the same, Is this not to begin to dissolve the very notion of Christ's fidelity to His Church? At least there is a problem here which Vass has not explored adequately.
As previously indicated, a higher proportion of Episcopal than Anglican par- ish ministers had ever been married, but the precise effect on mortality level of ad- justment for marital differentials remains to be determined. The possible influence, if any, of such a transi- tion on the health of Anglican clergymen as a group remains to be shown. For example, al- though the use of tobacco and liquor is permitted for Episcopal and Anglican clergy- men, little is known about differences in kind and extent of such consumption.
There is no consensus in the sixties among those who try to date the Turmerlebnis. First of all, there are no standards for Catholic doctrine in the Late Middle Ages prior to Trent, but only several late medieval theologies. The world of Luther scholar ship has reached no agreement or come to any decisive conclusions as to the date of Luther's so-called Turmerlebnis.
Contradiction succeeded contradiction; no agreement was reached; no concessions were made, for the one represented magis terial authority, the other personal conviction. What was lacking in the colloquies at Augsburg and in the debate at Leipzig was the art of distinction.
com at Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan / Royal Institute of Technology on March 9, 2015 133 students, though this may have been due to lack of data rather than to differences in their situations.
A Study of Catholic Residences and Tutorials in the University of Melbourne from 1951 to 1961 · 1967 · DOIIt is scarcely credible that had the matter been put to Parliament in 1916 more would have been granted than exemption for clergymen. ” Consideration of the theological students was again postponed, to allow further negotia- tions with the bishops and further study of theological terminology.
II There is no standard work on Ockham: he is too controversial a figure and he permits of too many different interpretations to make possible any generally accepted assessment.
The passage cited must mean that she wished to support Leo's plea for a council in Italy at which the causa fidei et christianae religionis could be investigated: 'For here (at Rome) it has been written that the entire (dogmatic) dis- sension was begun with the motive of making it possible to eliminate bishop Flavian'.
THE EXILE AND DEATH OF FLAVIAN OF CONSTANTINOPLE: A PROLOGUE TO THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON · 1955 · DOIOn her way to Constantinople a few months later she wrote from Vienna that ' there is scarcely here a man of opulence or fashion that has not an alchemist in his service', in the vain hope of producing gold by transmutation of other metals,3 so that we are not surprised that Metternich was a student of alchemy and that we read of him being present with his brother at an experiment in transmuting metals attempted somewhere in Austria in 1716.
Many things are naturally left untouched; some MS sources are not accessible to the author, and further investigation of details will no doubt introduce some additions and many corrections.
While it remains uncertain whether the crusaders and missionaries who reached Livonia had ever read works of canon law, the legal compendiums contained texts and principles that were widely circulated separately.
Although Martin Luther figures prominently in the historiography as a critic of supererogation, the particular nature of his critique and its place within his broader moral theology has been underexplored.
The research problem concerns a relatively under-researched aspect of the intersection of 20th century Hungarian church and social history, and is best understood in the context of the Sovietisation of rural life.
Methodological approaches to the ecclesiastical social history of forced collectivization · 2024 · DOIHitherto underexplored correspondence of Boineburg with Boecler permits a reconstruction of the polemic that Boineburg incited and fuelled between Pufendorf and Boecler.
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law · 2022 · DOIFinally, we observe that the issues are additionally complicated by the erroneous notion of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility, which is not understood in the spirit of harmony between the conscience and an Authority.
The article is focused on the development thematic accents as well as argumentation within key texts and is limited to the main texts of magisterial teaching (council documents, papal encyclicals and writings, etc.
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