... of bioethics is outlined, and the basis for cooperation between Christians and non-Christians described, even as the former maintain their distinct communities and values. Christendom Evangelical mediating institutions Methodist middle axioms...

...James R. Thobaben Christian Bioethics 1380-3603/97/0303-0222$12.00 1997, Vol. 3, No.3, pp. 222-248 © Swets & Zeitlinger A United Methodist Approach to End-of-Life Decisions: Intentional Ambiguity or Ambiguous Intentions James R...

... Nonconformists prayer extempore prayer meetings Roman Catholics ism ships emigrant Baptists Bible cards playing Cooper James emigrant English England Methodists Sabbath Sabbatarianism sailors Scots Scotland sermons singing songs Stokes Thomas emigrant Wood William emigrant Christ Jesus...

...The chapter revisits the relation between field and forest preaching, noting the former to be a signature of the evangelistic outreach of George Whitefield and of British Methodism. By contrast, by the time the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in an 1784 conference and was gifted by John...

... research on debates about homosexuality within the United Methodist Church. The chapter explores the intersection of politics with the self, which sociological theories of the self have generally ignored. dialogue institutional religion Israeli Palestinian conflict anti semitism Buber Martin Durkheim...

... Assembly Methodists Presbyterian Church Rice David Arminianism Federalism Roman Catholicism Democratic Christianity Jacksonian Democracy Andrew Jackson Princeton Seminary Calvinism sovereignty Timothy Dwight Andover Seminary Kentucky David Rice Baptist Methodist Disciples of Christ...

...Francis Asbury imposed a rigorous discipline and strict episcopacy on early American Methodists, and he envisioned a universal faith that would overwhelm the sectarian spirit that he saw prevalent in Baptist and Presbyterian churches. Following the precedents of Methodist founder John Wesley...

... organised, reactions may be discerned in opposition to the teaching of the Primitive Methodist biblical scholar Arthur Samuel Peake. The fundamentalists’ key failure was to garner the support of a broader circle of conservative evangelicals, suspicious of Modernism but also reluctant to engage in heresy...

... Fuller Andrew Society in Scotland for Promoting Christian Knowledge SSPCK Church Missionary Society CMS Methodism Presbyterianism Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Dissenting Academies Doddridge Philip Edwards Jonathan Sutcliff John Unitarianism Watts Isaac Zinzendorf Nicholas count...

...William Cooke, a prominent Methodist New Connexion minister, was a systematic theologian. Nevertheless, his theological method was centred on the authority and evidence of Scripture. Catherine Booth was the mother of the Salvation Army. Although this was a departure from traditional Methodist...

... explores the practices of an interracial church (United Methodist) that includes people with disabilities. The analysis focuses on those activities that create opportunities for people to experience those who are ‘different’ as equal in ways that diminish both obliviousness to the other and fear...

...This chapter opens with a detailed bibliographic study and publication history of the Recorder and a discussion of the broader history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church print culture. The chapter builds from this work to offer the fullest history available...

... in texts for and/or created by three critical groups of subscribers engaged in a reading/writing nexus, African Methodist Episcopal Church ministers, African American soldiers, and single African American women. Within frameworks connecting Black periodicals to diverse definitions of literacy, the chapter...

...Joseph Barker was a Methodist New Connexion minister, but his evolving religious journey led him to split the denomination. He moved to America and became a leading popular freethinker and anti-Bible lecturer. On his return to England, he was the co-editor with Charles Bradlaugh of the atheistic...

...This case study of Methodist politics leading to the Civil War rescues the nation's largest religious movement from the lack of attention that scholars had paid to its large political significance. This chapter shows a shifting set of political allegiances very much constrained by regional...

... the church into a “new era of progress.” Pittman, an African Methodist Episcopal minister of the gospel, was the only witness called in all three proceedings of the trial stage of United States v. Theron Lynd. He testified, not just at the March 1962 preliminary injunction hearing...

...This chapter focuses on three key events: the ongoing fight for shorter hours for women, the conflict between typographical workers and the Methodist Church over shorter hours at a Methodist publishing house, and the construction of the Social Creed of the Churches. Amid shifting sentiments among...

..., and Ward his personal link with Acton. He was the first Methodist head of the college and possibly the first Peterhouse Master with working-class origins. He accomplished his striking rise into the upper reaches of the gentlemanly class entirely by means of academic merit, scholarship money, and success...

... Charles Reagan Baptists Government Jeremiah Methodists Parker Ray L Paul apostle Prayer Davis Sam Farley Chaplain Alan Hill Michael Capital Punishment Families Florida South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Charleston Jim Crow Roof Dylann Violence Haley...

... to the growth of the city and the experience of life within it. In turn, the city provided the financial, social, and organizational resources that allowed evangelical congregations to thrive and expand their reach locally, nationally, and globally. The chapter focuses on the John Street Methodist Episcopal...