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Silva, Daniel Ferreira da. "A Influência de Calvino na Educação: um estudo no Colégio XV de novembro Garanhuns/PE." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2010. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4164.
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This work is the result of a documental and field research about the Calvinist educational basis offered by the School XV de Novembro in Garanhuns/ PE. Our research problem was: Which were the principal aspects of the Calvinist Presbyterian Educational Formation which influenced in the formation and history of life or some former students of the school institution? Starting from the ideas of the theologist and reformer João Calvino, who gave strong emphasis to the education as a way of evangelize and adjust the members of his church, that consequently caused a consequence of the Protestant Reformation of the century XVI, in Genève, Switzerland. His teaching were released by several of his adepts, called Calvinist, Who took his protestant philosophy to other countries of Europe and North American United States, where they received the name o Presbiterians. From America, the Presbyterian Church sent its missionaries to Pernambuco in Brazil and here in 1900 they organized a school inside this religious confession in the city of Garanhuns. In the life histories of the former students it was found out that the fundaments of this school organization were centered in two main axes. The religious teaching as form of propagation of protestant faith, and the teaching of secular subjects aiming the preparation of men and women to serve in the society, contributing for a good formation of dign citizen, prepared for the religious, familiar and professional life. The authors who inspired this research were: Calvino (2006), Paulo Freire (1989 E 2000), Weber (2004), Fernandez-Armesto and Wilson (1997), Ferreira (1990, Delors (2006), Vieira (2008) among others.
Este trabalho é resultante de uma pesquisa documental e de campo sobre as bases educacionais calvinistas oferecidas pelo Colégio XV de Novembro de Garanhuns/PE. Nosso problema de pesquisa foi: Quais foram os principais aspectos da formação educacional calvinista-presbiteriana que influenciaram na formação e história de vida de alguns ex-alunos dessa instituição escolar? Partimos das idéias do teólogo e reformador João Calvino, que deu forte ênfase à educação como forma de evangelizar e ajustar os membros da sua igreja, que por sua vez foi decorrente da Reforma Protestante do século XVI, em Genebra, na Suíça. Os seus ensinamentos foram divulgados por vários adeptos seus, chamados de calvinistas, que levaram sua filosofia protestante a outros países da Europa e Estados Unidos da América do Norte, onde receberam o nome de Presbiterianos. Da América, a Igreja Presbiteriana enviou seus missionários para Pernambuco no Brasil e aqui em 1900 eles organizaram um colégio dentro desta confissão religiosa na cidade de Garanhuns. Nas histórias de vida dos ex-alunos descobriu-se que os fundamentos dessa organização escolar foram centrados em dois eixos principais: o ensino religioso como forma de propagação da fé protestante, e o ensino de matérias seculares visando à preparação de homens e mulheres para servirem na sociedade, contribuindo dessa forma para uma boa formação de dignos cidadãos, preparados para a vida religiosa, familiar e profissional. Os autores que inspiraram esta pesquisa foram: Calvino (2006), Paulo Freire (1989 E 2000), Weber (2004), Fernandez-Armesto e Wilson (1997), Ferreira (2000), Delors (2006), entre outros.
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McKay, Don B. "Evidentialism in the Calvinist tradition." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Haverland, John Adrian. "Vocation and kingdom a biblical and Calvinist perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Knoeff, Henrika Grada. "Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) : Calvinist chemist and physician." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621889.
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Salazar, Gregory Adam. "Daniel Featley and Calvinist conformity in early Stuart England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278216.
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This thesis examines the life and works of the English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645) through the lens of various printed and manuscript sources, especially his manuscript notebooks in Oxford. It links his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, and intellectual history. Chapter one analyses the first thirty- five years of Featley’s life, exploring how many of the features that underpin the major themes of Featley’s career—and which reemerged throughout his life—were formed and nurtured during Featley’s early years in Oxford, Paris, and Cornwall. There he emerges as an ambitious young divine in pursuit of preferment; a shrewd minister, who attempted to position himself within the ecclesiastical spectrum; and a budding polemicist, whose polemical exchanges were motivated by a pastoral desire to protect the English Church. Chapter two examines Featley’s role as an ecclesiastical licenser and chaplain to Archbishop George Abbot in the 1610s and 1620s. It offers a reinterpretation of the view that Featley was a benign censor, explores how pastoral sensitivities influenced his censorship, and analyses the parallels between Featley’s licensing and his broader ecclesiastical aims. Moreover, by exploring how our historiographical understandings of licensing and censorship have been clouded by Featley’s attempts to conceal that an increasingly influential anti- Calvinist movement was seizing control of the licensing system and marginalizing Calvinist licensers in the 1620s, this chapter (along with chapter 7) addresses the broader methodological issues of how to weigh and evaluate various vantage points. Chapters three and four analyse the publications resulting from Featley’s debates with prominent Catholic and anti-Calvinist leaders. These chapters examine Featley’s use of patristic tradition in these disputes, the pastoral motivations that underpinned his polemical exchanges, and how Featley strategically issued these polemical publications to counter Catholicism and anti-Calvinism and to promulgate his own alternative version of orthodoxy at several crucial political moments during the 1620s and 1630s. Chapter five focuses on how, in the 1620s and 1630s, the themes of prayer and preaching in his devotional work, Ancilla Pietatis, and collection of seventy sermons, Clavis Mystica, were complementary rather than contradictory. It also builds on several of the major themes of the thesis by examining how pastoral and polemical motivations were at the heart of these works, how Featley continued to be an active opponent—rather than a passive bystander and victim—of Laudianism, and how he positioned himself politically to avoid being reprimanded by an increasingly hostile Laudian regime. Chapter six explores the theme of ‘moderation’ in the events of the 1640s surrounding Featley’s participation at the Westminster Assembly and his debates with separatists. It focuses on how Featley’s pursuit of the middle way was both: a self-protective ‘chameleon- like’ survival instinct—a rudder he used to navigate his way through the shifting political and ecclesiastical terrain of this period—and the very means by which he moderated and manipulated two polarized groups (decidedly convictional Parliamentarians and royalists) in order to reoccupy the middle ground, even while it was eroding away. Finally, chapter seven examines Featley’s ‘afterlife’ by analysing the reception of Featley through the lens of his post-1660 biographers and how these authors, particularly Featley’s nephew, John Featley, depicted him retrospectively in their biographical accounts in the service of their own post-restoration agendas. By analysing how Featley’s own ‘chameleon-like’ tendencies contributed to his later biographers’ distorted perception of him, this final chapter returns to the major methodological issues this thesis seeks to address. In short, by exploring the various roles he played in the early Stuart English Church and seeking to build on and contribute to recent historiographical research, this study sheds light on the links between a minister’s pastoral sensitivities and polemical engagements, and how ministers pursued preferment and ecclesiastically positioned themselves, their opponents, and their biographical subjects through print.
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Campbell, Travis J. "God only wise a Calvinist critique of freewill theism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Baskerville, Stephen. "The political theology of puritan preaching in the English Revolution, c.1640-53." Thesis, University of London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265824.
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Park, Hong-Gyu. "Grace and nature in the theology of John Gill (1697-1771)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU147951.
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John Gill (1697-1771), one of the greatest Baptist theologians, made a tremendous contribution to the establishment, education, and development of the Particular Baptists and Calvinistic Independents in his times. He stood firmly in the Reformed orthodox tradition in an age of theological turmoil. Despite such an enormous contribution, history, however, shows that he has been criticised as both deviating from the Reformed tradition and as a hinderer of the 'possible' growth of the Particular Baptists. He has been always recognised as a High or Hyper-Calvinist in a pejorative way. The crux of this evaluation or criticism is the claim that he put such extreme stress on the sovereign grace of God to the extent that human responsibility is limited or even eliminated, particularly with reference to salvation and evangelical piety. This criticism, however, has a weakness in that Gill has been always interpreted and criticised from an evangelistic perspective. As a result, all other significant doctrinal issues have been overshadowed. In particular, Gill's understanding of theology, Scripture, God, creation, and providence that shaped his concepts of salvation and evangelism, has been almost untouched. In addition, this criticism has distracted people from looking at Gill in the Reformed tradition out of which he emerged. This thesis raises a fundamental question concerning the criticism of Gill as a High or Hyper-Calvinist, in relation to the crucial question of the relationship between the sovereign grace of God and human responsibility. It does not directly deal with Gill's ideas of salvation and evangelism. Instead, it deals with more fundamental issues such as Gill's theological development and tradition, and the understanding of theology, Scripture, God, creation and providence that shaped his ideas of salvation and evangelism. In this process, we seek to prove that Gill maintained the typical Reformed balance between the sovereign grace of God and human responsibility, or between grace and nature, throughout his whole theological system. Finally, it identifies Gill as a Reformed orthodox theologian rather than as a High or Hyper-Calvinist.
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Maag, Karine Yvonne. "Geneva as a centre of Calvinist higher education, 1559-1620." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13598.
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This thesis examines the provision of higher education in a Calvinist setting in 16th century Europe. The change from Catholicism to Protestantism made it imperative to remodel existing centres of higher education, or to create new ones, in order to train the first generations of Protestants for civil and ecclesiastical posts. In particular, ministers were urgently needed for the expanding number of congregations across Europe. By analysing the example of the Genevan Academy, founded in 1559 by Calvin, one can observe the operation of one of these new centres of learning in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Based on magisterial and ministerial records, together with letters discussing students and training, this study, in contrast to institutional history, examines Reformation higher education from the perspective of its participants, namely students, professors, ministers and magistrates. As Geneva acted as a centre of refuge and advice for Protestants across Europe, its role as a pre-eminent centre of Calvinist higher education simply reinforced the city's reputation. Yet the existence of the Academy between 1559 and 1620 was not without tension, particularly between the Genevan ministers and magistrates, each of whom had different expectations regarding the Academy's ultimate purpose. While the ministers saw the Academy as a humanist seminary, the magistrates wanted to expand its scope to include subjects such as law and medicine, bringing the Academy closer to a university model. Indeed, Geneva's Academy was not the only Calvinist centre of higher learning attracting students in the later Reformation period. Zurich's academy, and the universities of Heidelberg and Leiden, though each differed in structure and approach, provided alternative and sometimes competing forms of higher study. Through an examination of these other centres of learning and of their students, one can assess more effectively what role Geneva's institution played in the European Reformed educational world.
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Van, Andel Kelly. "The geography of sinfulness : mapping Calvinist subjectiving between word and image." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1418/.
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This thesis on Calvinist subjectivity within the work of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) explores how the dialectic of word and image, and subsequently the Word, Logos, and word as rhetoric constructs conceptions of selfhood necessarily associated with and bound by the rhetoric of sinfulness. In contrast to studies that synthesize Edwardsian, and, in turn, Calvinist schemas of sin and selfhood within religious doctrine and treatises, this project examines the experiential nature of sinfulness as expressed through language or poetics. Given such examination, this work posits three things. First, in general terms, it contends that, during the Reformation, the displacement of icons led the Word to acquire the positive and negative functions of religious imagery that it meant to displace: to lead persons to God and to lead them away from him. Second, the project finds that the work of Edwards, which emphasizes feeling and personal spiritual experience, signals another shift in the Calvinist dialectic of word and image, and, then heralds the possibility of a type of ecstatic or ‘sweet’ communion with God outside of sin and language itself. Third, and more particularly, this text argues that despite Edwards’ rhetoric of ‘sweetness’, the geography of sinfulness that both pervades and varies within Edwards’ language, creates a Calvinist subjectivity, as it filters through the word/image dialectic, that becomes trapped within Edwardsian rhetoric, and, in turn, encounters difficulty experiencing the salvation to which it portends. In the end, then, this project both challenges and expands the corpus of Edwards’ scholarship in two ways. First, it demonstrates that, although valuable, sole attention to historical and theological exegesis of Edwards’ texts does not adequately account for the paradoxical tensions and meaning of Calvinist selfhood posed by the Puritan’s work and evidenced by the word/image dialectic. Second, and most importantly, the project indicates that, in actuality, apart from what the majority of Edwardsian, particularly Evangelical, scholarship contends, the ‘sweetness’ and spiritual sensations Edwards speaks of selfhood only partially open to the divine and salvific assurance. True, Edwards can still be celebrated as the Father of American Evangelical thought and practice. This project, however, questions if Edwards’ interpreters have ignored the signposts of his language and created an icon(s) of himself, and, subsequently, of a type of Calvinist selfhood that figures the narrative of their own story. In the end, then, this thesis finds itself back at its beginning as it confronts the nature and work of icons and the possibilities and variances of language—as icon and idol itself—that lay in their wake.
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Prinsen, Peter C. "That old Dutch disease, the roots of Dutch Calvinist education in Alberta." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0014/NQ59654.pdf.
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Dixon, Leif. "Predestination and pastoral theology : the communication of Calvinist doctrine, c. 1590-1640." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443713.
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Noyes, James Rupert Arundell. "A comparative account of Calvinist and Wahhabi iconoclasm : extending some Weberian terms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611679.
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Long, J. T. "German Protestant psalm adaptation c. 1517 - 1675 : A study in functional literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378782.
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Nuspl, Tony P. "The origins of policing and its relation to the public interest in early modern France, 1572-1630." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272418.
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Palmer, Scott R. "Sinner, sovereign, and saint Calvinist theology in the prayers of Queen Elizabeth I /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3715.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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VanDam, Kara Hall Eble Connie C. "A study of language identity and shift the Calvinist Dutch of west Michigan /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,742.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Department of Linguistics." Discipline: Linguistics; Department/School: Linguistics.
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Gibson, Scott M. "Adoniram Judson Gordon, D.D. (1836-1895) : pastor, premillennialist, moderate Calvinist, and missionary statesman." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361839.
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Scott, Anne. "Practices of witnessing in Victorian science and religion : the heresy trial of William Robertson Smith and the development of Henry Drummond's evolutionary scientific theology." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369687.
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Chaplin, Jonathan P. "Pluralism, society and the state : the neo-Calvinist political theory of Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284014.
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Low, Remy Yi Sang. "Schooling Faith: Religious discourse, neo-liberal hegemony and the neo-Calvinist ‘parent-controlled’ schooling movement." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9827.
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This thesis brings the questions surrounding the new public visibility of religion to bear specifically on the issue of religious schooling in Australia. In the first half, I offer an extended genealogical account of how education in such schools has come to be officially defined as concerned with the transmission of private beliefs in supernatural objects alongside the delivery of state-mandated training requirements. The antecedents for this definition lie in the nominalist, Protestant and Anglo-liberal inheritance of the present neo-liberal regime. On the basis of this, I consider the effects of such a definition of religious schooling with reference to the case of the Neo-Calvinist ‘Parent-Controlled’ schooling movement in the latter half of this thesis. This religious schooling movement was initiated in the 1950s in explicit opposition to the mainstream education system in Australia, advancing instead an expansive view of religious discourse as affecting all educational practices. The movement remains insistent on its religiously distinctive ‘foundational values’ despite its present integration into the mainstream education system today. I examine how this is negotiated in the discourse of the NCPC schooling movement within the present conjuncture. Through this specific example, I submit that the new visibility of religious schooling in Australia is predicated on two conditions of acceptability defined by the hegemonic discourse of neo-liberalism: firstly, that religious schooling is able to conform to a broad consensus on the purpose of schooling as a means of training worker-citizens; and secondly, religion of the sort articulated by such religious schooling adopts a form marketable to consumers, who are free to choose schools on the basis of their private preferences. This has implications not only for the way religion is conceived in religious schools that are currently operant, but also for those whose religious discourses are less amenable to such articulations.
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Grimes, David. "A biblical and theological comparison of the Calvinist and Arminian positions on perseverance of the saints." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Eilers, Linda. "When Calvinist and Arminian beliefs collide facilitating communication between North American professors and Russian Bible students /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Bignon, Guillaume. "Excusing sinners and blaming God : a Calvinist assessment of determinism, moral responsibility, and divine involvement in evil." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2015. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/20807/.
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The dissertation examines the two most important criticisms offered in the literature, both ancient and contemporary, against theological determinism: that it excludes moral responsibility, and that it improperly involves God in evil. With respect to the former—the ‘incompatibilist’ claim that moral responsibility is incompatible with determinism—the dissertation surveys numerous formulations of the charge: that determinism excludes free choice, that determined humans are analogous to pets or puppets, that determinism involves or is analogous to coercion, manipulation, or mental illness. In each case, defeaters are offered to maintain the coherence of compatibilism. The ‘Consequence Argument’ is then shown, in each of its formulations, to fail to refute compatibilism, as it presupposes an incompatibilist version of the ‘principle of alternate possibilities’. This principle is properly analysed and refuted in detail by two independent arguments. It is found on the one hand to be incompatible with divine praiseworthiness and impeccability, and on the other hand to be untenable for one who rejects Pelagianism and universalism. Given the failure of the principle of alternate possibilities, a positive argument is offered to establish compatibilism. As to the second grand argument—the claim that determinism improperly involves God in evil—a variety of related worries are examined: that determinism makes God the author of sin, or responsible for sin, or a sinner Himself, or the cause of sin, or a culpable manipulator of sin. Each of these worries is shown to be unwarranted, and considerations are offered to maintain divine righteousness in the face of evil and determinism. Lastly, the issues of God ‘willing’ or ‘permitting’ evil are investigated, showing that determinism does not commit one to any untenable position with respect to God’s will and providence. Putting these together, determinism is found to be compatible with both moral responsibility and divine righteousness.
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Boerkoel, Benjamin J. "Uniqueness within the Calvinist tradition William Ames (1576-1633) : primogenitor of the theologia pietatis in English-Dutch Puritanism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Kim, Jae-Duk. "Holiness in the triune God : Calvin's doctrine of sanctification with special reference to eschatological dialectic between its objective and subjective aspects, and with application to Calvinist doctrine of the Korean Presbyterian Church." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247515.
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Shaw, Ian J. "High Calvinists in action : Calvinism and the city, Manchester and London, c. 1810-1860 /." Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39013733f.
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Taylor, David Mark. "Education in the neo-Calvinist Reformed Christian tradition, the meaning of a religious worldview and philosophy for the practice of education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0028/MQ51808.pdf.
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Tolle, Jane E. "Contrasting and Comparing Calvinist and Arminian Baptist Attitudes Toward Hard Work, Poverty, Church Charity, and Governmental Monetary Aid Programs in Central Appalachia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1263482625.
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Miner, M. H., of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. "The human cost of Presbyterian identity : secularisation, stress and psychological outcomes for Presbyterian ministers in N.S.W." THESIS_FARSS_XXX_Miner_M.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/46.
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This study examines sources of clergy stress and ministers' coping strategies. The aim was to investigate Calvinist worldviews and their effects on Presbyterian ministers' choice of coping and stress levels. Specific hypotheses and questions were derived from process-stress theory and applications in the psychology of religion, as well as from secularisation theory. The author designed and conducted three separate, related studies. The first used 54 theological students comprising the pre-ministry stage. The second, focal study was of 65 parish ministers of the Presbyterian Church in NSW. These groups were chosen for an intensive study of the influence of Calvinist beliefs on stress and coping over two stages of ministry. The third surveyed 363 adult church attenders of Presbyterian congregations in NSW for specific analyses of stress-coping processes. Data were obtained through scales, questionnaires and interviews with parish ministers. Presbyterian students scored high on religious commitment but low in their endorsement of Calvinist beliefs. Presbyterian congregations also scored high on religious commitment and moderately high on their endorsement of Presbyterian beliefs. Major findings related to attributions and religious coping. Congregational members attributed life crises and hassles to God's allowing the situation, together with other human causes. Ministers had high religious commitment and agreement with Calvinist beliefs. One third scored at clinical levels of anxiety and burnout. Stress levels were strongly related to using an external locus of coping and less strongly to deficiencies in training and equipment for ministry. These stress levels were not directly related to role conflict or specific situational measures. Overall, findings pointed to inadequacies in process-stress theory for examining occupational stress. Ministry stress was best explained as a consequence of attempts to live out a Calvinist ideal in the absence of institutional and social legitimationDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Plank, Ezra Lincoln. "Creating perfect families: French Reformed Churches and family formation, 1559-1685." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1727.
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Although the eruption of religious dissent in Germany touched off by Martin Luther in 1517 began as a theological disagreement, the ensuring years would reveal that these religious ideas had important social consequences. They set into motion a process of reordering society and forming of confessional identities that had significant implications for the nuclear family. Reflecting John Calvin's assertion that "every individual Family ought to be a Little Church of Christ," Reformed Protestants sought to transform nuclear families into spiritual communities, creating domestic microcosms of the larger church.
This project examines the religious formation of families among the French Reformed (Huguenot) Churches, demonstrating that this was a cultural offensive as much as it was a religious one. Huguenot leaders wanted far more than their congregants to attend church: this programme transformed the roles and responsibilities of family members, shaped the activities and routines of the household, circumscribed and defined the appropriate associations of family members, and reorganized the family schedule. This study illuminates the Huguenots' conception of a "holy household" by analyzing the four primary characteristics of these godly families - ordered, educational, pure, and pious - and describes how they were conceived of and implemented in Reformed communities across early modern France.
In order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the French Reformed family, this dissertation bridges the divide between intellectual history and social history. There was no greater intellectual source for French Protestantism than John Calvin and Geneva: Calvin was one of the primary theologians influencing the development of Protestantism in France, and the Genevan Church served as an advisor and template for many of the Huguenot churches. Accordingly, each chapter examines in depth the theological underpinnings of this effort, analyzing Calvin's sermons, commentaries, Institutes of the Christian Religion, and written correspondence with leaders of the Huguenot churches. This investigation, in turn, provides an understanding of the religious sources for this new emphasis holy family and domestic piety in France, without which it would be impossible to fully appreciate.
To balance these prescriptive sources, I analyze descriptive records to understand how the actual reform of the family was carried out on the local level. In particular, my research relies extensively on church discipline records (consistory registers) from churches throughout France: Albenc (1606-1682), Archiac (1600-1637), Blois (1574-1579), Coutras (1582-1584), Die (1639-1686), Le Mans (1560-1561), Mussidan (1593-1599), Nîmes (1561-1564), Pont-de-Camares (1574-1579), Rochechouart (1596-1635), and Saint-Gervais (1564-1568). These records reveal the complex and messy manner of this reform, which was often marked by contestation and negotiation. Throughout, I compare these records to Genevan discipline records to compare and contrast how Calvin's own church instituted this familial reform in the Genevan context. My project, in sum, reveals the heretofore overlooked religious role and significance of the family and home in Reformed churches of early modern France.
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Lima, Leandro Antonio de. "Uma análise do chamado novo calvinismo, de seu relacionamento com o calvinismo e de seu potencial para o diálogo com a contemporaneidade." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2009. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2537.
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Previous issue date: 2009-10-30Approaches the movement called New Calvinism which was established by the North American media as one of the 10 ideas changing the world. Analyses the birth of the movement and its appearance in important North American media outlets such as Time Magazine and New York Times. Relates the main theological and practical points of the movement as well the authors which are most associated with New Calvinism and the main spheres of influence of the movement. Compares New Calvinism with Traditional Calvinism, emphasizing the continuity and the discrepancies the most recent movement with its predecessor. Establish the real backdrop of the movement as well as its main appeals to the modern day and age. Evaluates the psychological and social aspects of the movement and notes the small influence it has on society and culture and seeks to point out the potential that New Calvinism has to dialogue with the modern age. Supplies theological material for complementation in light of Kuyper's ideas. Concludes that New Calvinism has not yet truly influenced the world in a lasting way, but it surely points a possible way to do so.
Aborda o movimento chamado de Novo Calvinismo que foi estabelecido pela mídia norte-americana como uma das dez idéias que estão mudando o mundo. Analisa o surgimento do movimento e seu destaque concedido por importantes mídias norte-americanas como Time Magazine e New York Times. Relata os principais pontos teológico-práticos do movimento e de seus autores representativos, bem como as principais esferas de atuação do mesmo. Compara o movimento denominado Novo Calvinismo com o Calvinismo tradicional, enfatizando a continuidade e as discrepâncias do mesmo em relação ao seu antecessor. Estabelece o verdadeiro pano de fundo do movimento, bem como seu principal apelo à época atual. Avalia os aspectos psico-sociais do movimento, constata a fraca influência sócio-cultural dele e busca estabelecer os potenciais do Novo Calvinismo para dialogar com a época atual. Fornece subsídios para uma complementação teológica do movimento à luz do Kuyperianismo. Conclui que o Novo Calvinismo ainda não é uma influência real e duradoura para o mundo, mas aponta os caminhos para como poderia ser.
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Atkins, Gareth. "Wilberforce and his milieux : the worlds of Anglican Evangelicalism, c.1780-1830." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252138.
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Evangelical reformism has always been recognized as a massive influence on early nineteenth-century culture. Philanthropic pressure groups dominated public life. But while much attention has recently been devoted to the language and ideas which informed the Evangelical mindset, too many historians have accepted the heroic emphases of nineteenth-century memoirists, and have concentrated on Wilberforce and the crusade against slavery. This thesis contends that the real strength of the movement lay in business, the professions and burgeoning officialdom, and traces the clerical and business networks that connected this metropolitan nexus with provincial Britain. As is shown in chapters on the Church and Universities, patronage and politics, the City of London, the Navy and colonial affairs, this was a dynamic, highly-organized milieu in which patronage, place and influence were used to the full.
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Ajam, Mogamed. "The raison d'etre of the Muslim mission primary school in Cape Town and environs from 1860 to 1980 with special reference to the role of Dr A. Abdurahman in the modernisation of Islam-oriented schools." University of the Western Cape, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8356.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis d~ssertation concerns the modernisation of Islam-oriented schooling in Cape Town and environs whereby Muslim Mission Primary Schools emerge as a socio-cultural compromise between community needs and State school provision policy. It proceeds from the recognition of the cultural diversity that has since the pioneering days characterised the social order of the Mother City. Two religious and cultural traditions have coexisted here in a superordinate and subordinate relationship; one developed a school system for domestication and cultural assimilation, and the other a covert instructional programme for an"alternative religious system and behaviour code. The thrust of the argument is that the Islamic community, developed on the periphery of society that excluded non-Christians, were in the main concerned with cultural transmission, first in the homes of Free Blacks during the Dutch regime, and later in the mosques that arose when religious freedom was obtained. Traditional schools for Islamic culture transmission were conducted by imams and tended to attract in large numbers the children of slaves and other non-white children causing concern among evangelists In 1863, a political understanding between the governments of Britain and Turkey resulted in Abu Bakr Effendi being assigned by the Sultan to conduct a school in Cape Town to effect some uniformity of Islamic instruction. A latent consequence of this Turkish funded school was the production of the first Afrikaans textbook on Islam, a step in the modernisation of cultural transmission. After Effendi's demise the school was discontinued. State education policy ensured that non-white children generally were educated only at State-funded Christian Mission schools. Most Muslim children received only Islamic instruction at the various madressahs (traditional schools) as a result. An increasingly rigid segregation of public schools oriented towards reproducing the superordinate-subordinate culture relationship resulted in a widening gap of literacy which was increasingly important for the economic and political dispensation. Concerned Muslims organised themselves to address the educational deficiency. The South African Moslem Association urged mOre educational opportunity but floundered before accomplishing anything noteworthy. Their importance lay in their making the Muslims more aware of the need to have a secular education in a changing social order. It was self-evident that education had to be seen in the political context: the weaker community was most likely to suffer the greatest lack of schools. Dr A. Abdurahman, foremost political figure of the first forty years of this century, took the first steps in establishing State-aided primary schools for Muslim children. Whatever success he had in this regard was entirely due to his personali ty and political acumen. In contrast to Abdurahman was the philanthropic effort of Hajee Sullaiman Shah Mohamed to build a school with an Islamic ethos. Why he failed is considered against the social historical background of the Cape Muslims and the communities' manifest needs. Politically, Abdurahman was in a better position and better equipped to address the problem. He served as manager of three Muslim primary schools, the development of which form a substantial part of this study. Abdurahman could harness the creative energies and resources of immigrant and indigenous Muslims in creating these schools. But the Cape Malay Association, disenchanted with Abdurahman's perceived partisanship, politically sought to advance Malay communal interests in the political patronage of the Afrikaner political faction in power. In terms of schooling policy they were to be disillusioned.
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Xavier, Wendell Lessa Vilela. "Vozes do trovão: a vez e a voz de Boanerges Ribeiro." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14471.
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Previous issue date: 2007-10-01Boanerges Ribeiro was, without doubt, one of the main thinkers of the Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (IPB). The religious discourse he produced is a canvas in which the character and body painted become strong shades of the constitution of his ethos which, by its turn, limits the interaction of his discourse to a set of social fabric which are valued according to the image construed by the pathos. In face of such interaction, our research problem consists in knowing to which extent the boanergist religious discourse, pierced by a political-eclesiastic view, opens itself to a linguistic-ideologic-discursive relation with Calvinistic Reformed theology, derived from the hermeneutic of the Protestant Reformation of the XVI century and reflected in the confessional documents of the IPB. The choice of the shape of the discourses speeches, sermons and lectures is justified by the fact that they reveal a very large range of terms that produce effects of religious meaning, what lets us conclude that the interdiscursivity is a constructive argumentation maneuver of the discourse, that causes the biblical discourse to be one of the arguing basis to establish a relation of truth between the one that enunciates and the enunciatary. The discourse analysis, the rhetoric and semiotic serve as theoretical foundation in this research and aims to open for one studying the Portuguese idiom and for the analyst of the discourse, fields of several discursive theories, but without letting him miss, obviously, the foundational and particular previous conditions of each of these theories, represented by his or her object of research and by methodological techniques
Boanerges Ribeiro foi, sem dúvida, um dos maiores pensadores da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (IPB). O discurso religioso produzido por ele é um quadro no qual o caráter e a corporalidade pintados se tornam fortes matizes de constituição do seu ethos que, por sua vez, limita a interação discursiva a um conjunto de tecidos sociais que são valorados conforme a imagem construída pelo pathos. Diante dessa interação, nosso problema de pesquisa consiste em saber até que ponto o discurso religioso boanergista, atravessado por uma visão políticoeclesiástica, se abre a uma relação lingüístico-ideológico-discursiva com a teologia calvinista reformada, oriunda do movimento hermenêutico da Reforma Protestante do século XVI, e refletida nos documentos confessionais da IPB. A escolha das formas de discursos palestras, sermões e preleções se justifica pelo fato de que eles revelam um espectro bastante grande de termos que produzem efeitos de sentido religioso, o que nos permite concluir que a interdiscursividade é uma manobra de argumentação construtiva de discurso, que faz com que o discurso bíblico seja um dos suportes argumentativos para estabelecer uma relação de verdade entre o enunciador e o enunciatário. A Análise do Discurso, a Retórica e a Semiótica servem como fundamentação teórica nesta pesquisa e têm como objetivo abrir para o estudioso de língua portuguesa e para o analista de discurso campos de teorias discursivas diversas, sem deixá-lo perder, obviamente, os pré-requisitos fundamentais e particulares de cada uma das teorias, representados por seus objetos de pesquisa e por suas técnicas metodológicas
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Moura, Mariana Lapagesse de. "Guerra de virtudes e vícios: o veneno das heresias nos Comentários de Martin Del Rio." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-06102011-141501/.
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Este trabalho pretende analisar a obra de Martin Del Rio, Comentarios de las alteraciones de los Estados de Flandes: sucedidas despues de la llegada del Señor Don Iuan de Austria a ellos, hasta su muerte, originalmente escrita em latim. Para fundamentação teórica, é apresentado o contexto da Bélgica no século XVI, e como este foi importante para a escrita do autor. Também são abordadas as questões da guerra, do mal e da heresia como elementos que constituem a base do pensamento de Martin Del Rio. São levados em consideração a escrita da história e os hábitos de leitura de seus contemporâneos.This study aims to examine Martin Del Rio`s book, Comentarios de las alteraciones de los Estados de Flandes: sucedidas despues de la llegada del Señor Don Iuan de Austria a ellos, hasta su muerte, originally written in Latin. For theoretical reasons, this study presents the context of Belgium in the sixteenth century, and how it was important for the author`s writings. Also, the issues of the war, the evil and the heresy are considered as elements that form the basics of his thoughts. History books and the reading habits of his contemporaries are other subjects of this analysis.
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Kim, Byoung Gi. "The idea of creation ordinances in Calvinism and neo-Calvinism." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Sap, Jan Willem. "Paving the way for Revolution : Calvinism and the struggle for a democratic constitutional State /." Amsterdam : VU Uitgeverij, 2001. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0703/2001406720.html.
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Xavier, Paulo da Costa. "Ética protestante e relações de trabalho: contribuições do calvinismo para a gestão de pessoas." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2013. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2427.
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Previous issue date: 2013-03-04The purpose of the present dissertation is to demonstrate that the protestant ethic, especially that of Calvinist orientation, can be seen as an essential factor in the building of productive, wholesome e just work relations, as well as in the development of an effective management of persons in corporations.The research is developed from the central hypothesis that one of the key aspects of the spirit of capitalism is the protestant view of work as vocation and that in the original Calvinist perspective, this view of work is in accordance with the sacred Scriptures adopted by Christianity and should generate justice based personal and work relations.The retrieval of this Calvinist view of work is based on the approach of authors such as Abraham Kuyper and André Biéler, while also engaging with critical perspectives on Protestantism proposed by Karl Marx and Max Weber, among others. From our theoretical and bibliographical review, we seek a systematization of facts and foundations that demonstrate the relevance of the Calvinist work ethic and its influence in the development and progress of capitalism and for people management in corporations. Finally, we propose a management model applicable in corporations, based on Christian morals and codes of ethics, in which the focus is on the valorization of the human person, by means of a retrieval of the contribution of the Calvinist work ethic in its origin, regardless of the distortions and progressive secularization that this ethic has undergone with the progression of rationalism and individualism in modernity.
O presente trabalho objetiva demonstrar que a ética protestante, mais especificamente em sua vertente calvinista, pode ser vista como fator essencial na construção de relações de trabalho produtivas, sadias e justas, bem como no desenvolvimento de uma gestão eficaz de pessoas nas corporações. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir da hipótese central de que um dos aspectos fundamentais do espírito do capitalismo é a visão protestante do trabalho como vocação e que na perspectiva calvinista original, essa visão de trabalho estaria de acordo com as Escrituras Sagradas adotadas pelo cristianismo e deveria gerar relações sociais e de trabalho baseadas na justiça. O resgate da visão calvinista do trabalho tem por base a abordagem de autores como Abraham Kuyper e André Biéler, e ao mesmo tempo um engajamento com as perspectivas críticas do protestantismo propostas por Karl Marx e Max Weber, entre outros. A partir da revisão teórica e bibliográfica, aspirou-se sistematizar os fatos e fundamentos que demonstram a relevância da ética calvinista do trabalho e a sua influência no desenvolvimento e progresso do capitalismo e para a gestão de pessoas nas corporações. Por fim, propomos um modelo de gestão aplicável nas corporações atuais, calcado na moral e códigos de ética cristã onde o foco é a valorização do ser humano, por meio do resgate da contribuição de uma ética calvinista do trabalho em suas origens, independentemente das distorções e progressiva secularização que esta ética sofreu a partir da progressão do racionalismo e individualismo na modernidade.
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Alano, Josely de Moraes Antonio. "O atual discurso teológico-musical na Igreja Presbiteriana Independente de Botucatu: possibilidades e limites para uma renovação litúrgica brasileira." Faculdades EST, 2014. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=621.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorUma análise do atual discurso teológico-musical presente no espaço do culto da Igreja Presbiteriana Independente de Botucatu IPIBot é o objeto deste trabalho. Este discurso demonstra aspectos híbridos na estrutura litúrgica desta igreja, aspectos estes oriundos tanto do universo musical quanto teológico, e que entendemos serem característicos da cultura pós-moderna. A presença de outras expressões artísticas, que não somente o canto ou instrumento, como por exemplo, o órgão, neste caso a arte circense e a dança, ambas no espaço do culto, apontam para transformações na cultura litúrgica e talvez em novas formas de expressão da igreja como um todo. A análise destes elementos presentes no culto da IPIBot foi feita por meio de levantamento histórico e litúrgico através de boletins e documentos da igreja, bem como da participação da autora como membro da mesma. A IPIBot assimilou em parte a chamada cultura gospel como forma de sobrevivência diante da multiplicidade de igrejas no universo religioso atual, sem perder o contato com a tradição, seu principal instrumento para conferir a identidade presbiteriana reformada que lhe é peculiar. Desta forma, caracteriza-se o hibridismo como uma estratégia de adaptação à pós-modernidade sem, no entanto, gerar novas formas litúrgicas que se constituam como modelo de igreja. Caracteriza-se o discurso musical como principal elemento catalisador deste hibridismo, formador de um imaginário teológico-musical que sustenta a tradição junto à nova tendência pós-moderna e que confere identidade à IPIBot. Desta forma, esperamos contribuir para a reflexão do papel da música no culto como espaço de múltiplas faces, formador deste imaginário e das transformações pela renovação teológica, averiguando as possibilidades e limites para uma renovação litúrgica brasileira, dentro e fora do âmbito das igrejas de origem reformada.
Defining as hybrid and intrinsic to the post-modernity the question of the current theological-musical speech practiced in the Independent Presbyterian Church of Botucatu IPCBOT, besides being essential to this comprehension, it becomes plausible when revealed to the musical reality in the churches and the theological ways that surround the liturgy in the Christian cult space. As an heiress of the reformation during the XVI century, and in Brazil, consequence of the North-American Presbyterian missions, the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPCB) obtained its own identity in 1903, when a schism divided the Presbyterian Church (PC), originating the IPCB. At the first chapter, it is delineated the history of the IPCB and its liturgical structure, as well as the musical groups currently acting in this church. At the second chapter it was aimed to understand the mainly concepts that guide the defense of the hybridism process present in the theological-musical imaginary construction in the IPIBOT. At the third chapter it was developed a brief panorama of the theological and musical movements, which supported by the ideal dialogue of the church with the culture and social reality of the country, culminated in the current liturgical reality of the church, the intimacy with the reformed Presbyterian identity and the gospel culture. At the fourth and last chapter, it was approached, analyzing the theological-musical speech, the possibility of the imaginary that these days confers identity to the IPCBOT as a hybridism result, by the tripartite analysis of the musical work, methodologically supported on the musical semiology propose of Jacques Nattiez and Jean Molino. In this respect, based on the theological-musical speech, it is expected that this research contributes for the reflection of the music mission in a cult as a space of multiple facets, former of this imaginary and the transformations via the theological renovation, inquiring the possibilities and limits for a Brazilian liturgical improvement, inside and outside the reformed churches.
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Streete, Adrian George Thomas. "Calvinism, subjectivity and early modern drama." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/12800.
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This thesis examines the connections between Calvinism and early modern subjectivity as expressed in the drama produced during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. By looking at a range of theological, medical, popular, legal and polemical writings, the thesis aims to provide a new historical and theoretical reading of Calvinist subjectivity that both develops and departs from previous scholarship in the field. Chapter one examines the critical question of 'authority' in early modern Europe. I trace the various classical and medieval antecedents that reinscribed Christ with political authority during the period, and show how the Reformers' conception of conscience arises out of this movement. In chapter two, I offer a parallel reading of Reformed semiotics in relation to the individual's response to two specific loci of power, the Church and the stage. Chapter three brings the first two chapters together by outlining the development of Calvinist doctrine in early modem England. Chapter four offers a theoretical reading of the early modern 'unconscious' in relation to the construction of England as a Protestant nation state against the threat of Catholicism. In the next four chapters, I show how the stage provided the arena for the exploration of Calvinist subjectivities through readings of four early modern plays. Chapter five deals with Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and in particular the Calvinist conception of Christ interrogated throughout the play. Chapter six looks at The Revenger's Tragedy in relation to the question of masculine lineage and the Name-of-the-(Calvinist)-Father. Finally, in chapters seven and eight, I examine two of William Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. In the first, I demonstrate how the play's concern with witchcraft brings about a parody of providential discourse that is crucial to an understanding of Macbeth's subjectivity. And in the second, I excavate the use of the biblical book of Revelation in Antony and Cleopatra in order to show how an understanding of the text's 'religious' concerns problematises more mainstream readings of the drama.
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Joby, Christopher Richard. "Calvinism and the arts : a re-assessment." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2873/.
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Although many believe John Calvin had a negative attitude towards the arts, particularly visual art, my contention is that we find within his writings and the development of the Reformed tradition a more positive attitude, to the arts than has hitherto been recognized. In chapters one and two, I look in detail at Calvin's own writings. I begin by examining exactly what type of visual art he rejected and what type he affirmed. I then look at how his eschatology and epistemology, particularly his use of the metaphor of mirror, allow us to argue for the placing of certain types of art within Reformed churches, notably history and landscape paintings. In chapters three and four, I consider music and architecture within Calvin's writings and the Reformed tradition. I suggest that the respective ontologies of metrical psalms and Reformed church-buildings both share something with those of history and landscape paintings and that it is inconsistent to allow for the former, but reject the latter. In the last three chapters, I focus on visual art. I examine the development of decoration and forms of visual art such as stained-glass windows in selected Reformed churches and suggest that it naturally follows that history and landscape paintings should be allowed for in such churches. I look at examples of these from seventeenth- century Netherlands, when Calvinism was the pre-dominant mode of religious expression, and argue that their form and content provide us with ontological and epistemological arguments which inevitably lead to the conclusion that their continued exclusion from Reformed churches is no longer tenable. In short, the use of appropriate works of art in Reformed churches is wholly consistent with the fundamental notions underpinning Calvin's theology and liturgical practices in the Reformed tradition, and their continued exclusion from most of these churches is an anomaly.
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Free, Preston William. "Calvinism and the early Restoration Movement leaders." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p031-0176.
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Tremaglio, Cynthia Ann. "Joseph Bellamy : from Calvinism to New Divinity /." Abstract available, 2009. http://149.152.10.1/record=b3077867~S16.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Katherine A. Hermes. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-80). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.
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McNeill, John. "Theological issues in relation to children within Calvinian epistemology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610717.
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Moraes, Gerson Leite de 1973. "Filosofia e política em João Calvino." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281256.
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Orientador: Roberto Romano da SilvaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A presente tese de doutoramento tem por escopo discutir aspectos filosóficos e políticos relacionados à figura de João Calvino e dos seus discípulos, que são chamados comumente de reformados ou calvinistas. Para tal foi necessário abarcar um longo período que se inicia na Baixa Idade Média, vista como incubadora de discussões filosóficas, econômicas, sociais, políticas e teológicas que acabaram desembocando no Renascimento Cultural, que trouxe à tona as Reformas Protestantes. Com o fim do monopólio católico em termos religiosos de um lado, e o estabelecimento da secularização em rápida expansão do outro, as Reformas Protestantes colocavam-se como uma inovação porque ofereciam a possibilidade de se vivenciar a fé cristã a partir de novas perspectivas, mas também podiam ser vistas como mantenedoras do forte fundamento religioso da sociedade europeia ocidental. Nesse jogo de inovação e manutenção da ordem, a Reforma Calvinista talvez tenha sido a que mais possibilidades de inovação ofereceu ao ambiente já destacado. João Calvino não foi somente um reformador, ou seja, um homem que construiu um modelo religioso na cidade de Genebra, e que serviu de referência para muitos outros lugares na Europa e fora dela, mas foi também um intelectual de grande envergadura, pois sua obra, crivada de aspectos teológicos, oferece subsídios para uma série de outras discussões nos campos filosófico, político, econômico, social. Pode-se dizer que Calvino foi um entre muitos pilares da modernidade. A presente tese discutiu e trouxe à tona as várias possibilidades de leitura e aplicabilidade dos conceitos desenvolvidos por João Calvino. Como consequência do seu trabalho, o velho mundo e a América tiveram oportunidades para colocar suas ideias em prática, seja numa transposição direta, ou com algumas adaptações. Nesse sentido, a tese dá uma ênfase especial para a atuação dos monarcômacos franceses, com sua teoria contratualista de organização do poder, numa época de desenvolvimento e consolidação do absolutismo como forma de governo. Além disso, procurou ressaltar a importância do calvinismo no combate à tirania, mostrando a necessidade de valorização das formas representativas de poder. Destaca, ainda, alguns casos em que os canais de comunicação entre o magistrado e o povo já não existiam, e que a possibilidade radical do tiranicídio tornou-se uma opção. Outra questão que ficou evidente na tese ora apresentada é que o calvinismo não foi e não é um bloco monolítico, pois debaixo de tal rótulo existem diferenças gritantes entre os grupos que se autodenominam representantes dessa tradição, e que vêm desde o século XVI tentando, através do discurso da permanência dos valores outrora defendidos, apropriarem-se exclusivamente dessa cosmovisão. Ademais, um outro elemento chamou a atenção na pesquisa, a saber, a injustiça cometida contra Calvino no campo epistemológico, pois nosso autor ficou reduzido à doutrina da predestinação, o que se configura num grande prejuízo na compreensão dele e de suas contribuições para o mundo moderno. Tentamos mostrar que Calvino e o calvinismo transcendem esses aspectos, e que suas contribuições foram de suma importância para o debate filosófico e políticResumo:
Abstract: This doctoral thesis has the purpose to discuss philosophical and political issues related to the figure of John Calvin and his disciples, which are commonly called the Reformed or the Calvinists. For this, it was necessary to cover a long period beginning in the late Middle Ages, which is seen as an incubator for philosophical, economic, social, political and theological discussions eventually emptying into the Cultural Renaissance, that brought about the Protestant Reform. With the end of the Catholic monopoly in religious terms on one side, and the establishment of secularization in rapid expansion on the other, Protestant Reforms put up as an innovation because they offered the possibility of living the Christian faith from new perspectives, but also could be seen as sustaining the strong religious foundation of Western European society. In this game of innovating and maintaining order, the Calvinist Reformation perhaps was the movement that more innovation possibilities offered to the environment already highlighted. John Calvin was not only a reformer, or a man who built a religious model in Geneva, and served as a reference for many other places in Europe and beyond it, but he was also a great intellectual figure because his work riddled with theological aspects provided grants to a number of other fields in philosophical, political, economic, and social discussions. It can be said that Calvin was one of the many pillars of modernity. This thesis has discussed and brought to light the various possibilities of reading, and the applicability of the concepts developed by John Calvin. As a result of his work the old world and America had opportunities to put their ideas into practice, in direct transpositions or with some adaptations. In this sense, the thesis gives a special emphasis to the role of the enemies of the French monarchy, with their contractual theory of power organization in a time of development and consolidation of the absolutism as a form of government. Moreover, it emphasized the importance of Calvinism in the fight against tyranny, showing the need for enhancement of representative forms of power. Also shows that in some cases, where the channels of communication between the magistrate and the people no longer existed, the radical possibility of tyrannicide became a valid option. Another issue that became apparent in the thesis presented here is that Calvinism was not, and is not a monolithic block, because under that label, there are striking differences between the groups calling themselves representatives of the same tradition, and that since the sixteenth century, they have been trying, by a speech based upon the permanence of values once defended, to be the owners of this worldview. Furthermore, another element called attention in the research, namely the injustice committed against Calvin in the epistemological field, as the author was reduced to his doctrine of predestination, which configures a great loss to understand himself and his contributions to the modern world. We try to show that Calvin and Calvinism go far beyond that, and their contributions were critical in the philosophical and political debate.
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Heslam, Peter S. "Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism : an historical study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359531.
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Prytz, Øyvind. "Italo Calvinos litterære erfaringseksperiment." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17321.
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Wilson, David. "Church and chapel : parish ministry and Methodism in Madeley, c.1760-1785, with special reference to the ministry of John Fletcher." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/church-and-chapel-parish-ministry-and-methodism-in-madeley-c17601785-with-special-reference-to-the-ministry-of-john-fletcher(1e7d35c4-f662-4cfb-a3c9-89417fd629cb).html.
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This thesis examines the ministry of John Fletcher (1729-85), vicar of Madeley, Shropshire (vic. 1760-85) as a case study on the Church of England and Methodism in the eighteenth century. Studies of Fletcher have tended to focus either on his contribution to Methodist theology or on his designation as Wesley's successor as the leader of the Methodists. The parish of Madeley has been, for the most part, peripheral to Fletcher studies. The present thesis, however, has aimed to examine Fletcher in his parochial context; to study both what the parish tells us about Fletcher, but also what Fletcher tells us about the parish, and more specifically, about the church in the eighteenth century in a local context. The main argument of this thesis is that Fletcher's ministry at Madeley was representative of a variation of a pro-Anglican Methodism--localized, centred upon the parish church, and rooted in the Doctrines and Liturgy of the Church of England. Three recent publications have provided a triad for understanding Fletcher: (1) in his industrial context; (2) in his theological context; and (3), in his relationship with leaders in the Evangelical Revival. This thesis has sought to examine a fourth component: Fletcher's work as an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, that is, in his ecclesial and ministerial context. The main body of the thesis focuses on two primary aspects of Fletcher's parish ministry: his stated duties and his diligence in carrying out other responsibilities and meeting other needs which arose, including addressing the various tensions which developed during his incumbency. Fletcher's background and his call to parochial ministry as well as the religious history of Madeley are outlined first (Chapter 1). There are three chapters which examine his performance of stated duties: worship services and preaching (Chapter 2); pastoral care andeducation (Chapter 5); and confrontation of erroneous doctrine (Chapter 6). Fletcher's ministry also included a scheme of church extension, represented primarily by his development of religious societies on which other aspects of his parochial duty built (Chapter 3). His evangelicalism and commitment to his parish simultaneously raised tensions between Fletcher and his parishioners (provoked by his 'enthusiasm' or zeal), and between Fletcher and John Wesley, whose variations of Methodism had similar aims, but different models of practice. A chapter is devoted specifically to these issues (Chapter 4).Fletcher's chapel meetings formed an auxiliary arm of the church, operating as outposts throughout his parish. His parishioners considered his ministerial model a 'Methodist' one even though it was not technically part of Wesley's Connexion (other than the fact that his itinerants were guests in the parish). In all, it is the conclusion of this thesis that Fletcher's pastoral ministry represents some of the best work of Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, demonstrating that despite the manifest challenges of industrializing society, residual dissent, and competition from the church's rivals, the Establishment was not incapable of competing in the religious marketplace.
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Vasconcelos, Marisa de. "Projeto Criança Feliz: um estudo de caso da aplicação da cosmovisão calvinista de ação social." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2442.
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Previous issue date: 2014-02-20The present research aims at promoting a reflection on the application of the Calvinist Cosmovision for the Happy Child Social Project, and its protagonists in Vila Buenos Aires Presbyterian Church. This church belongs to São Paulo s Eastern Presbytery in São Paulo s capital, belonging to the Brazilian Presbyterian church council. Some taken actions were related to the proposed theme: the qualitative approach, the historical and comparative procedures, together with a descriptive and exploratory research, giving support to the study case in its analysis, interpretation and evaluation of the Happy Child Project. Therefore, in its first action we get acquainted with the Calvinist Cosmovision fundaments linked to social action and its application. The second action shows the relevance and viability of Social Projects for the Presbyterian churches in today s social context, as a social action practice for both the local church and society. The third action analyzes and evaluates both the collected data and reports in the Happy Child Case Study, through evaluation procedures suggested by the Social Projects Evaluation Manual, by Eduardo Marino, from the Ayrton Senna Institute. This way, it is pointed out that the Calvinist Cosmovision is anchored in the concept of creation, fall and redemption of man, pointing out to the church s wholly mission and social action, since man was made into God s image and resemblance, where the major objective is the glory of God manifested in everything and everyone. It is recognized the relevance and viability of Social Projects in Presbyterian churches as a way of legitimating the integral mission in the process of evangelization, as an expression of love to others and as manifestation of God s sovereign will in redeeming the fallen man in all areas of his life. It is highlighted that the pedagogical practice must guide and permeate all social projects in their making, implementation and operation, as well as all social and educative actions aiming at experience fields still left out in our society. Thus, by taking these actions, it is considered plausible and relevant the use of the Calvinist Cosmovision of Social Action for Social Projects and its protagonists in Vila Buenos Aires Presbyterian Church for today s social context.
A presente pesquisa tem como seu objetivo principal promover uma reflexão sobre a aplicação da Cosmovisão Calvinista de Ação Social para o Projeto Social Criança Feliz e seus protagonistas na Igreja Presbiteriana de Vila Buenos Aires, igreja que pertence ao Presbitério Leste de São Paulo na capital paulista, concílio este da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil. Algumas ações foram pertinentes ao tema proposto: a abordagem qualitativa, os procedimentos históricos e comparativos, junto a uma pesquisa exploratória e descritiva apoiaram o Estudo de Caso em sua análise, interpretação e avaliação sobre o Projeto Criança Feliz. Neste sentido, em sua primeira ação se conhece quais os fundamentos da Cosmovisão Calvinista para Ação Social e sua aplicação. A segunda ação apresenta a relevância e viabilidade de Projetos Sociais para Igrejas Presbiterianas no atual contexto social como prática de ação social para a igreja local e sociedade. A terceira ação analisa, interpreta e avalia os dados e relatos coletados no Estudo de Caso do Projeto Criança Feliz, mediante instrumentos de avaliação sugeridos pelo Manual de Avaliação de Projetos Sociais da autoria de Eduardo Marino, do Instituto Ayrton Senna. Deste modo, constata-se que a Cosmovisão Calvinista está ancorada no conceito de criação, queda e redenção e aponta para ação e missão integral da Igreja em relação ao homem reconhecido à imagem e semelhança de Deus, sendo seu objetivo maior a glória de Deus manifesta em tudo e em todos. Reconhece-se a relevância e viabilidade de Projetos Sociais em Igrejas Presbiterianas como uma forma de legitimar a missão integral no processo de evangelização, como expressão de solidariedade e amor ao próximo e como manifestação da vontade soberana de Deus de redimir o homem caído em todas as áreas de sua vida. Ressalta-se que a prática pedagógica deve orientar e permear todos os Projetos Sociais em sua elaboração, implementação e operacionalização, como toda a ação socioeducativa voltada para os campos de experiência que ainda são excludentes em nossa sociedade. Ao concretizar essas ações considera-se plausível e relevante a aplicação da Cosmovisão Calvinista de Ação Social para Projetos Sociais e seus protagonistas na Igreja Presbiteriana de Vila Buenos Aires para ao atual contexto social.