Holy Nation

Author : Sarah Crabtree
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625576X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Nation written by Sarah Crabtree and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this investigation of Quakers in early America, Sarah Crabtree elaborates on the tensions caused by Quakers conception of themselves as people beholden not to states but to Christ. Quakers were no less than a triple threat to their governments because they claimed loyalties above and beyond the state, resisted the military strategies that were used to bolster the state, and became political activists pushing for reform. In resisting both the compulsion and the exercise of state power, Quakers put forth alternative definitions of nation and citizenand yet, many Quakers often found themselves drawn to political and social reform efforts that required recognizing and engaging with nations and states. Crabtree argues that the resulting conflicts between obligations to church and state illuminate similar contemporary conflicts."

Author : Sarah Crabtree
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625593X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Nation written by Sarah Crabtree and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Early American Quakers transcended the idea of the nation-state during the turbulent Age of Revolution: “Provocative . . . important . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic world, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. She argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a “holy nation,” a transnational community of like-minded believers committed first and foremost to divine law and to one another. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state, worldly governments, and profane laws. As a result, campaigns of persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries. Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of Quakerism that is simultaneously a history of the faith and its adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world. Ultimately, Crabtree says, the conflicts between obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate similar contemporary struggles. “A significant and highly important contribution to the scholarship on the intersection of religion and nationalism during [these] critical decades. . . . carefully researched and elegantly written.” —Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota

Author : John Bolt
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Free Church, a Holy Nation written by John Bolt and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to considering such key issues as poverty, wealth and power, theocracy and pluralism, civil religion, the culture wars and political cooperation between evangelicals and Roman Catholics. Bolt also draws extended comparisons between Kuyper's views and the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord John Acton, Pope Leo XIII, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Jonathan Edwards. A distinctive feature of this study is its focus on the rhetorical, poetic character of Kuyper's public theology and practice as a political leader. Bolt shows how focusing on Kuyper's rhetorical and mythopoetic perspective, rather than on his theological and philosophical ideas, provides contemporary evangelicals with a more credible and effective theology for the public square."--Jacket.

Author : Marcus Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092813
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Holy Wars written by Marcus Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, Ireland has been synonymous with conflict, the painful struggle for its national soul part of the regular fabric of life. And because the Irish have emigrated to all parts of the world--while always remaining Irish--"the troubles" have become part of a common heritage, well beyond their own borders. In most accounts of Irish history, the focus is on the political rivalry between Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious. As Marcus Tanner shows in this vivid, warm, and perceptive book, only by understanding the consequences over five centuries of the failed attempt by the English to make Ireland into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in context. Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest. The book is based on detailed research into the Irish past and a personal encounter with today's Ireland, from Belfast to Cork. Tanner has walked with the Apprentice Boys of Derry and explored the so-called Bandit Country of South Armagh. He has visited churches and religious organizations across the thirty-two counties of Ireland, spoken with priests, pastors, and their congregations, and crossed and re-crossed the lines that for centuries have isolated the faiths of Ireland and their history.

Author : Anthony A. Hoekema
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780853646242
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible and the Future written by Anthony A. Hoekema and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Anthony Hoekema brings to the study of biblical prophecy and eschatology a maturity that is rare among contemporary works on the subject. Free of sensationalism, he evinces a reverence for the Scriptures and a measured scholarship...One of the best studies on eschatology available.' ---Christianity Today

Author : Timothy Baycroft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516287
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is a Nation? written by Timothy Baycroft and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism across a range of European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. It aims to put detailed studies of nationalist politics and thought, which have proliferated over the last ten years or so, into a wider European context. By means of such contextualization, together with new and systematic comparisons, What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914 reassesses the arguments put forward in the principal works on nationalism as a whole, many of which pre-date the proliferation of case studies in the 1990s and which, as a consequence, make only inadequate reference to the national histories of European states. The study reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. What is a Nation? explores the relationship between this and other typologies, relating them to complex processes of industrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism and Christianity all affected - and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics. The volume investigates the significance of such controversies and institutional changes for the history of modern nationalism, as it was defined in diverse European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. By placing particular nineteenth-century nationalist movements and nation-building in a broader comparative context, prominent historians of particular European states give an original and authoritative reassessment, designed to appeal to students and academic readers alike, of one of the most contentious topics of the modern period.

Author : Eric Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469134950
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Nation written by Eric Robinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the holy nation, is a revealing of the 14th chapter of the revelations that gives us the answer to what the purpose of the father is in regards to his people. -Min Jonathan Friedl. Milwaukee, WI Min. Uriyah Baraka knowledge that comes from our Creator is filled full of wisdom. I enjoy reading all his material. I grow in wisdom, knowledge and understanding of the divine. This book is a must read. - Pastor. Ginger Banks, Indianapolis, IN.

Author : Del Washburn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0812840232
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theomatics II written by Del Washburn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theomatics II is actually two books in one. The first half explains the scientific method and demonstrates theomatic patterns throughout the Bible. The second half is devoted entirely to the subject of Bible prophecy and the Apocalypse.

Author : Dr Matthew O Sadiku
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466993790
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 and 2 Peter written by Dr Matthew O Sadiku and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every serious student of the Bible desires to understand the text, discover the biblical principles, and apply the truths to his or her life. This commentary is designed to help students, pastors, and Bible teachers understand 1 and 2 Peter in a simple manner. Working from the popular New International Version (NIV), the author provides helpful commentary on the text verse by verse. This verse-by-verse commentary is different from others in two respects. First, it is brief while some commentaries are unnecessarily wordy and verbose. Second, it is Pentecostal in outlook. This implies that we generally adhere to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and adopt a literalist approach to the interpretation of the Bible. The major aim of this commentary is to expose readers to 1 and 2 Peter. Life is tough and difficult in general. Unfortunately, many Christians have been taught that they should only experience joys of being God's saints. In 1 Peter, Peter writes primarily for the readers of the epistle to stand firm in the true grace of God in the face of persecution and suffering. In 2 Peter, Peter writes to warn Christians about false teachers and to urge them to grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Author : Karen H. Jobes
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026741
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 Peter written by Karen H. Jobes and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantive commentary that helps pastors, students, and teachers understand the meaning of 1 Peter.