Showing papers on "Idolatry published in 1991"

To Strengthen the King’s Hands: Dynastic Legitimacy, Militia Reform and Ideas of National Unity in England, 1745-1760

Abstract: A national militia has been the cry of every patriot since the Revolution, and this measure, both in Parliament and in the field, was supported by the country gentlemen or Tories, who insensibly transferred their loyalty to the House of Hanover. In the language of Mr. Burke, they have changed the idol, but they have preserved the idolatry.

Confronting the Idolatry of Family: A New Vision for the Household of God

Abstract: Prologue: Protestant Ideals and Historical Realities This Prologue summarizes the book. There are three parts: Part 1 is an analysis of the origins of current attitudes about church and family. Part 2 is a discussion of the way values often believed to be "God-given and biblical" are related to the values of the American Dream. In Part 3, describes the role of church leaders in planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on "the Christian home" as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formation.

Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths

Abstract: Preface to the 1997 Reprint - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Islam and Christian Monotheism J.Hick - Incarnation and Trialogue D.Cohn-Sherbok - Idolatry and Religious Faith R.Ambler - The Qur'an and Revelation Y.Zaki - Progressive Revelation and Religious Uncertainty D.Cohn-Sherbok - The Political Implications of Revelation N.Solomon - The Qur'anic Conception of Apostleship H.Askari - Stereotyping Other Theologies N.Solomon - Jesus and Mohammad J.Hick

'A rationall of old Rites': Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urn Buriall' and the Conflict over Ceremony

Abstract: Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Buriall, for all its claims of universality, is distinctly a product of its time, addressing issues that were hotly contested during the period of the English Civil War. Browne's famous treatise on funeral rites is an interesting test case for the relations between literature and politics during the seventeenth century, in part because its subject may not strike us es being overtly political. Browne is political though not quite polemicalf; he engages with politically controversial issues, yet is detached in his paradoxical, sceptical approach. Religious controversy was inseparable from politics during this period. During the I64os Parliament repeatedly legislated matters of religion. They passed various ordinances for the reformation of religion, abolishing episcopacy as the form of church-government, and calling for all 'monuments' of 'Idolatry' in churches (such as altars, tapers, and crosses) to be removed and destroyed.' Particularly relevant for my reading of Browne, on 4 January I645 Parliament banned the use of the Book of Common Prayer 'in any Church, Chappel, or place of public Worship': The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament ... resolving, according to their Covenant, to reform Religion according to the Word of God, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches ... do judge it necessary that the said Book of Common Prayer be Abolished ... [and that the many statutes for uniformity of prayer, service, and administration of sacraments from Edward VI on] be and stand from henceforth repealed, void and of none effect.2

Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse Today

Abstract: There have been many accounts, in Rousseau's own day and since, of the enormous success enjoyed by La Nouvelle Helo¨se, in France and elsewhere, in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Rousseau himself speaks in the Confessions (I, 545–8) of its initial enthusiastic reception, and in his correspondence we find numerous letters from people in all walks of life and from all social classes whose praise of Rousseau, following the publication of his novel, bordered on idolatry. Recently, Claude Labrosse has analysed, in great detail, the reception of Rousseau's novel on its publication in 1761 and the years immediately following.