This is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49. By John Carter Wood. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. xii + 304 pp. $120.00 hardcover.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720001109
Abstract: appreciated unless the importance placed on evangelism as an essential part of its mission is also understood” (290). The final substantial chapter recounts how both the political and financial pressures in the atheistic and Cold… read more here.
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How Liberal Protestant Church Historians Helped Turn “Christianity” into a Good White Protestant American Religion in the Twentieth Century
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720001237
Abstract: From the three historians of early Christianity whose lives and careers Elizabeth Clark discusses in The Fathers Refounded—Arthur Cushman McGiffert of Union Theological Seminary in New York, George LaPiana at Harvard Divinity School, and Shirley… read more here.
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Natasha and Anthony O'Hear , Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 333 + xx. £20.00.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930616000156
Abstract: The book represents a complex engagement not only between Christianity and Chinese culture, but how these, in turn, inform Yang’s interest in literary theory. What results is an eclectic journey seen through a set of… read more here.
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‘Brought into Manhood’: Christianity and Male Initiation in South Africa in the Early 20th Century
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DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2017.1295644
Abstract: This article concerns African Christians’ attempts to accommodate traditional practices – in this instance male initiation – within their evolving Christianity. It speaks to an on-going concern around the place of custom in modern Africa… read more here.
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The greening of Christianity? A study of environmental attitudes over time
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DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2017.1416903
Abstract: ABSTRACT In contradistinction to the ideas of Lynn White and others who have long suggested that the Judeo-Christian tradition fosters a ‘dominion over nature’ ethos, a number of scholars have recently argued that there has… read more here.
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The Cross and the Computer: Actor-Network Theory and Christianity
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DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2016.1265223
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between Christianity and new technologies. I contend that the “Christ and Culture” model of H. Richard Niebuhr, while influential for many authors, is inadequate to grasp the real relationship.… read more here.
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International schools’ leadership and Christianity
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DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2018.1558047
Abstract: ABSTRACT The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a secular educational franchise, educating the globally advantaged and potential future leaders. Drawing on Bourdieu, this article involves original interpretivist research, reviewing data surrounding the international IB school and… read more here.
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The Virtue of Joy
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DOI: 10.1163/15691640-12341416
Abstract: In this article, I examine the presence of Spinoza within Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity project. Although the debt Nancy owes to other philosophers such as Derrida and Heidegger has been recognized, less well known… read more here.
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Is syncretism really harmful to Christianity
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DOI: 10.1177/0040571x17698411
Abstract: What culture or society is pure? Which religion has not been influenced by another or other religions? Yet, why is the fusion of some elements of one religion into other religions met with distrust and… read more here.
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Eamon Duffy, Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity
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DOI: 10.1177/0040571x19872109n
Abstract: Aldous Huxley’s presentation of this view in The Perennial Philosophy (1945), finds little to recommend it. Instead, Ward squarely acknowledges the radical divergences in belief and corresponding differences in the character of religious experience in… read more here.
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Christianity and the threat of relativism
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DOI: 10.1177/0040571x221133789
Abstract: Developments in philosophy over the last 50 years have had an increasing effect on conventional opinion. In particular, relativist tendencies link truth not to an independent reality, but to the judgement of individual or society.… read more here.
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