A History Of The Churches In Australasia

Author : Ian Breward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191520381
Total Pages : 497 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Churches in Australasia written by Ian Breward and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Christianity opens up new perspectives on Christianization and modernization in this richly complex region. The reception of Christianity into Pacific cultures has produced strongly Christian societies. Based on research in widely scattered archives, this book not only deals with regional interactions but pays careful attention to developments in microstates, and to the variety of indigenous religious movements, which were earlier regarded as deviations from Christian orthodoxy but are now seen as significant adaptations of Christian teaching. In Australia and New Zealand too, European Christian beginnings have been given local emphases, producing Churches with distinctive identities. Lay leadership is emphasized - not only in the Churches but as part of the Christian presence in the realms of politics, business, and culture. The broad liturgical, theological, constitutional, and pastoral developments of the 19th and 20th centuries are mapped, as a context for the striking changes which have taken place since the 1960s. The dynamics of religious change and conflict, the ambiguities of religious authority, and the destructive effects of Christian colonialism on indigenous communities, especially Australian aborigines, are all frankly dealt with. The decline of the institutional impact of the Churches in Australia and New Zealand is explored, as is the growth of partnership between government and Churches in education, social welfare, and overseas aid and development. Interchange in personnel and ideas is strikingly illustrated in the missionary activities of the regional Churches and their cultural impact. The author's involvement in Church and community leadership, ecumenism, and theological education makes this volume in The Oxford History of the Christian Church a valuable addition to the series, describing both continuities with world Christianity and little-known local developments.

Author : Ian Breward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Author : Ian Breward
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743432348
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Australian Churches written by Ian Breward and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is a popular understanding that Australia is a secular society, religion and the churches have played a critical historical role in the shaping of the nation. A History of the Australian Churches is the first general history about the role of churches in Australian society. This is a broad canvas covering all of the Australian states and territories. It offers a balanced and thoughtful historical analysis of how the Christian churches have shaped and been shaped by a number of key issues including church-state relations; the churches and education; responses to the stubborn secularity of Australia; and the search for a distinctive Australian Christianity. This book deals with theological, liturgical and constitutional changes in the major churches and relates them to changes in Australian history. It breaks new ground in comparing denominations - Protestant, Roman Catholic and the Orthodox - as well as setting the development of Aboriginal and Islander Christianity in context.

Author : Michael A. Protopopov
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
ISBN 13 : 1942699468
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Russian Church in Australia written by Michael A. Protopopov and published by Holy Trinity Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages of this book the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia is diligently chronicled within the wider context of the place of ethnic Russians in a dominantly anglophone society: that of what was at first a British colony and later became an independent state. It begins with the first contact of Russian naval ships with the Australian continent in the early nineteenth century and progresses through to the establishment of the first parish of Orthodox believers in Melbourne in the 1890s, the establishment of further churches, and ultimately the creation of a diocese. The catalyst for much of this was the arrival of thousands of Russians fleeing their homeland via Siberia after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. For these newly dispossessed, Australia and New Zealand became havens of safety and the Russian Orthodox Church an echo of the Motherland they had lost. They were later joined by successive waves of fellow Russians after the end of World War II in 1945 and again after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Together these refugees and their descendants created a unified organism that retained a sense of shared heritage and purpose, and in turn provided a home to spiritual seekers who were not of their ethnic lineage.In writing this work the author has drawn on extensive archival sources spread over several continents together with his own life experience, having arrived as a small boy in Australia over six decades ago. First published in 2006 this new edition includes an added chapter recounting the ongoing story from the beginning of the twenty-first century through to the end of 2020, covering the effects on the Church in Australia of major world events as diverse as the reunification of the Russian Church Abroad with the Patriarchate of Moscow in 2007 and the global coronavirus pandemic that arrived in Australia in 2020.

Author : Glen O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351189212
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia written by Glen O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement. The American origins of the Holiness movement have been charted in some depth, but there is currently little detail on how it developed outside of the US. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by giving a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, from their establishment in the years following the Second World War, as well as of The Salvation Army, which has nineteenth-century British origins. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated. Looking at The Church of God (Anderson), The Church of God (Cleveland), The Church of the Nazarene, The Salvation Army, and The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australia, the book argues two main points. Firstly, it shows that rather than being American imperialism at work, these religious expressions were a creative partnership between like-minded evangelical Christians from two modern nations sharing a general cultural similarity and set of religious convictions. Secondly, it demonstrates that it was those churches that showed the most willingness to be theologically flexible, even dialling down some of their Wesleyan distinctiveness, that had the most success. This is the first book to chart the fascinating development of Holiness churches in Australia. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Wesleyans and Methodists, as well as religious history and the sociology of religion more generally.

Author : Patrick O'Farrell
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Church and Community written by Patrick O'Farrell and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed history of the Catholic Church in Australia, first published in 1968 as TThe Catholic Church in Australia: A short history 1788P1967', in 1977 as TThe Catholic Church and Community in Australia: A history', and under the present title as a third revised edition in 1985. This edition includes a 4-page TAfterword from the nineties'. Includes an index, note on sources, and 14-page guide to further reading. The author holds a personal chair in history at the University of NSW. His TVanished Kingdoms: The Irish in Australia and New Zealand' (1990) was shortlisted for the National Book Council's Non-Fiction Award.

Author : Patrick O'Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787831651601
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Church and Community in Australia written by Patrick O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meredith Lake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525274077
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book The Bible in Australia written by Meredith Lake and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, and tattooed. At a time when public discussion of religion is deeply polarised, Meredith Lake reveals the Bible's dynamic influence in Australia and offers an innovative new perspective on Christianity and its changing role in our society. In the hands of writers, artists, wowsers, Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, Indigenous activists, and many more - the Bible has played a defining and contested role in Australia. A must-read for sceptics, the curious, the lapsed, the devout, the believer, and non-believer.

Author : Patrick James O'Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780170051293
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Church and Community in Australia written by Patrick James O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief sections on church policy toward Aborigines 1833-1977; missions, particularly in W.A.

Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1976 pages
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Download or read book Australian National Bibliography: 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: