James Herbert
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264294
- eISBN:
- 9780191734335
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264294.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter discusses the separation and independence of the AHRB from the HEFCE. In 2001, through the aid of Bahram Bekhradnia, the AHRB gained autonomy from the HEFCE. At the beginning of the ...
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This chapter discusses the separation and independence of the AHRB from the HEFCE. In 2001, through the aid of Bahram Bekhradnia, the AHRB gained autonomy from the HEFCE. At the beginning of the fiscal year in April 2001, the ARHB became a company limited by guarantee. In September of the same year, the organisation gained legal status as a charity, hence affording it certain tax advantages. The newly independent company and charity took on new trustees, however it retained its broad responsibilities. It also took on the responsibility for producing its own audited Statutory Accounts. At the same time, the organisation's staff formally transferred to the employment of the ARHB and in the following year additional staff were recruited. In the month of October, the organisation signed a ten-year lease contract on its new office in Whitefriars Building in Bristol. In addition, the organisation was also attaining full realization of its programmes and objectives. It formed three award schemes including the Research Leave scheme. It also created the Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts. In addition, the organisation also formed new funding schemes and in 2002, upon the approval of the government, the Research Council funded projects throughout the UK. In sum, as Chief Executive David Eastwood puts it, the ARHB was achieving independence and operating in ways which still mirrored those of the research councils.Less
This chapter discusses the separation and independence of the AHRB from the HEFCE. In 2001, through the aid of Bahram Bekhradnia, the AHRB gained autonomy from the HEFCE. At the beginning of the fiscal year in April 2001, the ARHB became a company limited by guarantee. In September of the same year, the organisation gained legal status as a charity, hence affording it certain tax advantages. The newly independent company and charity took on new trustees, however it retained its broad responsibilities. It also took on the responsibility for producing its own audited Statutory Accounts. At the same time, the organisation's staff formally transferred to the employment of the ARHB and in the following year additional staff were recruited. In the month of October, the organisation signed a ten-year lease contract on its new office in Whitefriars Building in Bristol. In addition, the organisation was also attaining full realization of its programmes and objectives. It formed three award schemes including the Research Leave scheme. It also created the Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts. In addition, the organisation also formed new funding schemes and in 2002, upon the approval of the government, the Research Council funded projects throughout the UK. In sum, as Chief Executive David Eastwood puts it, the ARHB was achieving independence and operating in ways which still mirrored those of the research councils.
Martin Ceadel
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199241170
- eISBN:
- 9780191696893
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199241170.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international ...
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Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international relations, yet too close to the Continent for isolationism to be an option, the country has provided favourable conditions for those aspiring not merely to prevent war but to abolish it. The period from the Crimean War to World War II marked the British peace movement's age of maturity. In 1854, it was obliged for the first time to contest a decision — and moreover a highly popular one — to enter war. It survived the resulting adversity, and gradually rebuilt its position as an accepted voice in public life, though by the end of the 19th century its leading associations such as the Peace Society were losing vitality as they gained respectability. Stimulated by the First World War into radicalizing and reconstructing itself through the formation of such associations as the Union of Democratic Control, the No-Conscription Fellowship, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the movement endured another period of unpopularity before enjoying unprecedented influence during the inter-war years, the era of the League of Nations Union, the Oxford Union's ‘King and country’ debate, the Peace Ballot, and the Peace Pledge Union. Finally, however, Adolf Hitler discredited much of the agenda it had been promoting the previous century or more. This book covers all significant peace associations and campaigns.Less
Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international relations, yet too close to the Continent for isolationism to be an option, the country has provided favourable conditions for those aspiring not merely to prevent war but to abolish it. The period from the Crimean War to World War II marked the British peace movement's age of maturity. In 1854, it was obliged for the first time to contest a decision — and moreover a highly popular one — to enter war. It survived the resulting adversity, and gradually rebuilt its position as an accepted voice in public life, though by the end of the 19th century its leading associations such as the Peace Society were losing vitality as they gained respectability. Stimulated by the First World War into radicalizing and reconstructing itself through the formation of such associations as the Union of Democratic Control, the No-Conscription Fellowship, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the movement endured another period of unpopularity before enjoying unprecedented influence during the inter-war years, the era of the League of Nations Union, the Oxford Union's ‘King and country’ debate, the Peace Ballot, and the Peace Pledge Union. Finally, however, Adolf Hitler discredited much of the agenda it had been promoting the previous century or more. This book covers all significant peace associations and campaigns.
Paul M. Collins
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198270324
- eISBN:
- 9780191683985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198270324.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
In his approach to the question of being, Karl Barth sought to reconstruct the inheritance of the West. Barth drew his answer to the question of being from the witness of the Scriptures to the living ...
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In his approach to the question of being, Karl Barth sought to reconstruct the inheritance of the West. Barth drew his answer to the question of being from the witness of the Scriptures to the living God, and from God's dealings with the world. Thus, it is from the Incarnation and the event of God's self-revelation that we learn who God is. The divine act and event of self-revelation is understood to be the revelation of the divine being, and this becomes the basis for the interpretation of the biblical testimony that God is love. Thus, the essence of God is understood as life and love, as act and event. God's being-in-act is the reality and life of the one who loves in freedom. In that God's being-in-act is understood in terms of the Trinity and the event of revelation, it is also to be understood in terms of the divine self-reiteration (or identity-in-distinction) and the divine fellowship.Less
In his approach to the question of being, Karl Barth sought to reconstruct the inheritance of the West. Barth drew his answer to the question of being from the witness of the Scriptures to the living God, and from God's dealings with the world. Thus, it is from the Incarnation and the event of God's self-revelation that we learn who God is. The divine act and event of self-revelation is understood to be the revelation of the divine being, and this becomes the basis for the interpretation of the biblical testimony that God is love. Thus, the essence of God is understood as life and love, as act and event. God's being-in-act is the reality and life of the one who loves in freedom. In that God's being-in-act is understood in terms of the Trinity and the event of revelation, it is also to be understood in terms of the divine self-reiteration (or identity-in-distinction) and the divine fellowship.
Andrew R. Holmes
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199288656
- eISBN:
- 9780191710759
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199288656.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter describes the opportunities for fellowship and spiritual development that existed alongside public worship by assessing family worship and the development of prayer and fellowship ...
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This chapter describes the opportunities for fellowship and spiritual development that existed alongside public worship by assessing family worship and the development of prayer and fellowship meetings. It offers some comments about the impact of evangelicalism upon lay involvement in religious life in general, and Presbyterian church life in particular.Less
This chapter describes the opportunities for fellowship and spiritual development that existed alongside public worship by assessing family worship and the development of prayer and fellowship meetings. It offers some comments about the impact of evangelicalism upon lay involvement in religious life in general, and Presbyterian church life in particular.
Cicely Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198570530
- eISBN:
- 9780191730412
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570530.003.0005
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research
1961 was a difficult period in Cicely Saunders' personal life following the deaths of Antoni Michniewicz and her own father. This short paper offers some wider thoughts on the meaning of death in ...
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1961 was a difficult period in Cicely Saunders' personal life following the deaths of Antoni Michniewicz and her own father. This short paper offers some wider thoughts on the meaning of death in contemporary society and contains the memorable phrase: ‘A society which shuns the dying must have an incomplete philosophy’. It shares that the dying need the community, with its help and fellowship, and the care and attention which will quieten their distress and enable them to go peacefully. The community needs the dying to make it think of eternal issues and to make it listen and give to others.Less
1961 was a difficult period in Cicely Saunders' personal life following the deaths of Antoni Michniewicz and her own father. This short paper offers some wider thoughts on the meaning of death in contemporary society and contains the memorable phrase: ‘A society which shuns the dying must have an incomplete philosophy’. It shares that the dying need the community, with its help and fellowship, and the care and attention which will quieten their distress and enable them to go peacefully. The community needs the dying to make it think of eternal issues and to make it listen and give to others.
Gerald SJ O'Collins
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199203130
- eISBN:
- 9780191707742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203130.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter considers the present mediation of salvation to the Church through the Holy Spirit, the living bridge between the past events of salvation and the present experience of salvation. The ...
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This chapter considers the present mediation of salvation to the Church through the Holy Spirit, the living bridge between the past events of salvation and the present experience of salvation. The Spirit creates fellowship, beauty, and life. The role of the Holy Spirit and that of the risen Christ, while distinct and different, are profoundly connected.Less
This chapter considers the present mediation of salvation to the Church through the Holy Spirit, the living bridge between the past events of salvation and the present experience of salvation. The Spirit creates fellowship, beauty, and life. The role of the Holy Spirit and that of the risen Christ, while distinct and different, are profoundly connected.
Walter Armbrust
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691162645
- eISBN:
- 9780691197517
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691162645.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history. How was the passage from ...
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The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history. How was the passage from utmost euphoria into abject despair experienced, not only by those committed to revolutionary change, but also by people indifferent or even hostile to the revolution? This book explores the revolution through the lens of liminality—initially a communal fellowship, where everything seemed possible, transformed into a devastating limbo with no exit. To make sense of events, the book looks at the martyrs, trickster media personalities, public spaces, contested narratives, historical allusions, and factional struggles during this chaotic time. It shows that while martyrs became the primary symbols of mobilization, no one took seriously enough the emergence of political tricksters. Tricksters appeared in media—not the vaunted social media of a “Facebook revolution” but television—and they paved the way for the rise of Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi. In the end, Egypt became a global political vanguard, but not in the way the revolutionaries intended. What initially appeared as the gateway to an age of revolution has transformed the world over into the age of the trickster. The book is a powerful cultural biography of a tragic revolution.Less
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history. How was the passage from utmost euphoria into abject despair experienced, not only by those committed to revolutionary change, but also by people indifferent or even hostile to the revolution? This book explores the revolution through the lens of liminality—initially a communal fellowship, where everything seemed possible, transformed into a devastating limbo with no exit. To make sense of events, the book looks at the martyrs, trickster media personalities, public spaces, contested narratives, historical allusions, and factional struggles during this chaotic time. It shows that while martyrs became the primary symbols of mobilization, no one took seriously enough the emergence of political tricksters. Tricksters appeared in media—not the vaunted social media of a “Facebook revolution” but television—and they paved the way for the rise of Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi. In the end, Egypt became a global political vanguard, but not in the way the revolutionaries intended. What initially appeared as the gateway to an age of revolution has transformed the world over into the age of the trickster. The book is a powerful cultural biography of a tragic revolution.
Zain Abdullah
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195314250
- eISBN:
- 9780199871797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314250.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Although global forces might make it possible to search for hope around the world, one might face challenges that make it impossible to attain. African Muslims in Harlem represent a blues people in ...
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Although global forces might make it possible to search for hope around the world, one might face challenges that make it impossible to attain. African Muslims in Harlem represent a blues people in search of hope—hope for their families, hope for themselves, and hope for their children yet unborn. This final chapter discusses what might be at stake for them at this particular stage of their journey. They have made great strides as they seek better avenues of incorporation into American society, but their survival is uncertain. Much relies on the kind of fellowship they are able to develop among themselves and with local residents and how much of their religious traditions they can pass on to the second generation.Less
Although global forces might make it possible to search for hope around the world, one might face challenges that make it impossible to attain. African Muslims in Harlem represent a blues people in search of hope—hope for their families, hope for themselves, and hope for their children yet unborn. This final chapter discusses what might be at stake for them at this particular stage of their journey. They have made great strides as they seek better avenues of incorporation into American society, but their survival is uncertain. Much relies on the kind of fellowship they are able to develop among themselves and with local residents and how much of their religious traditions they can pass on to the second generation.
Lewis V. Baldwin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195380316
- eISBN:
- 9780199869299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380316.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The emphasis is on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s struggle to define the church in intellectual and theoretical terms, a struggle that began with and extended through his academic training at Morehouse, ...
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The emphasis is on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s struggle to define the church in intellectual and theoretical terms, a struggle that began with and extended through his academic training at Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston (1944–54). King’s student papers are examined for what they reveal concerning his views on church history and images of the church as authority, tradition, hierarchy, and institution. The claim is that King’s academic years afforded the initial context for the working out of his understanding of various images of the church (i.e., body of Christ, household of God, fellowship of believers, conscience of the state, chief moral guardian of society, symbol of the beloved community) in theoretical terms. The chapter ends with an analysis of King’s sermons, speeches, interviews, and writings concerning the church and its role in society.Less
The emphasis is on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s struggle to define the church in intellectual and theoretical terms, a struggle that began with and extended through his academic training at Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston (1944–54). King’s student papers are examined for what they reveal concerning his views on church history and images of the church as authority, tradition, hierarchy, and institution. The claim is that King’s academic years afforded the initial context for the working out of his understanding of various images of the church (i.e., body of Christ, household of God, fellowship of believers, conscience of the state, chief moral guardian of society, symbol of the beloved community) in theoretical terms. The chapter ends with an analysis of King’s sermons, speeches, interviews, and writings concerning the church and its role in society.
Paul D. Numrich
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195386219
- eISBN:
- 9780199866731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386219.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Lake Street Church, officially affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA denomination, is “intentionally ambiguous” about its identity and draws only loose boundaries between Christians and ...
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Lake Street Church, officially affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA denomination, is “intentionally ambiguous” about its identity and draws only loose boundaries between Christians and non-Christians. Each year the church invites non-Christian representatives to participate in its Worldwide Community Sunday. The pastor sees this celebration as a way to be as “radically inclusive” as Jesus was in his own table fellowship. The church also offers regular programs on world religions, including Hindu and Buddhist meditation. The chapter features a Bhagavad Gita discussion group and interviews with church members who find Lake Street Church a supportive community for their spiritual journey. “Spiritual seekers, regardless of racial, sexual, or religious orientations are all welcome!” proclaims a church brochure, which notes that more than sixteen religious traditions are represented in the congregation.Less
Lake Street Church, officially affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA denomination, is “intentionally ambiguous” about its identity and draws only loose boundaries between Christians and non-Christians. Each year the church invites non-Christian representatives to participate in its Worldwide Community Sunday. The pastor sees this celebration as a way to be as “radically inclusive” as Jesus was in his own table fellowship. The church also offers regular programs on world religions, including Hindu and Buddhist meditation. The chapter features a Bhagavad Gita discussion group and interviews with church members who find Lake Street Church a supportive community for their spiritual journey. “Spiritual seekers, regardless of racial, sexual, or religious orientations are all welcome!” proclaims a church brochure, which notes that more than sixteen religious traditions are represented in the congregation.
Ruth Livesey
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263983
- eISBN:
- 9780191734731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263983.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines the lives and writings of three sisters, each of whom responded to Morris's works with enthusiasm: Grace, Constance (Garnett), and Clementina Black. It explores the rhetoric of ...
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This chapter examines the lives and writings of three sisters, each of whom responded to Morris's works with enthusiasm: Grace, Constance (Garnett), and Clementina Black. It explores the rhetoric of ‘fellowship’ that permeated the mixed-sex discussion groups and early socialist organizations frequented by the Blacks and all the writers whose works are subsequently studied in the book. The discussion examines the Black sisters' idiosyncratic political beliefs and their various attempts to advance the socialist cause through labour organization. The chapter also explores the extent to which the Blacks' work and writing for the socialist movement forced them to address the ‘Woman Question’ as a concern in its own right by the late 1880s. The chapter closes with an analysis of Clementina Black's historical romances published in the late 1890s.Less
This chapter examines the lives and writings of three sisters, each of whom responded to Morris's works with enthusiasm: Grace, Constance (Garnett), and Clementina Black. It explores the rhetoric of ‘fellowship’ that permeated the mixed-sex discussion groups and early socialist organizations frequented by the Blacks and all the writers whose works are subsequently studied in the book. The discussion examines the Black sisters' idiosyncratic political beliefs and their various attempts to advance the socialist cause through labour organization. The chapter also explores the extent to which the Blacks' work and writing for the socialist movement forced them to address the ‘Woman Question’ as a concern in its own right by the late 1880s. The chapter closes with an analysis of Clementina Black's historical romances published in the late 1890s.
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266531
- eISBN:
- 9780191601583
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266530.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
Why Barnabas was sent to Antioch, and why he recruited Paul. The problems of table-fellowship for Jewish and Gentile believers in Antioch. The Roman road system in Asia Minor as arteries through ...
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Why Barnabas was sent to Antioch, and why he recruited Paul. The problems of table-fellowship for Jewish and Gentile believers in Antioch. The Roman road system in Asia Minor as arteries through which the gospel flowed in a mission shared by Paul and Barnabas. Travel conditions were harsh and unforgiving, and gave rise to a key element in Paul’s theology (‘Sin’).Less
Why Barnabas was sent to Antioch, and why he recruited Paul. The problems of table-fellowship for Jewish and Gentile believers in Antioch. The Roman road system in Asia Minor as arteries through which the gospel flowed in a mission shared by Paul and Barnabas. Travel conditions were harsh and unforgiving, and gave rise to a key element in Paul’s theology (‘Sin’).
William Horbury
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264577
- eISBN:
- 9780191734267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264577.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Charles Francis Digby Moule (1908–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was probably the most influential British New Testament scholar of his time. The youngest of their three children, he was ...
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Charles Francis Digby Moule (1908–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was probably the most influential British New Testament scholar of his time. The youngest of their three children, he was born in the same house as his father, and spent a happy if often solitary childhood in China. Moule spent three years studying theology and training for Holy Orders in the Church of England at Ridley Hall. He soon had to take on leadership of New Testament teaching at the University of Cambridge for the Regius Professor, A. M. Ramsey. Moule was also fascinated, without losing his head as a critic, by the associated question of interaction between liturgy and literature in the early church, posed by such cultic interpreters of the gospels as G. Bertram. He joined the Evangelical Fellowship for Theological Literature, founded in 1942, an impressive body of younger authors that came to include Henry Chadwick, G. W. H. Lampe, S. L. Greenslade, and F. W. Dillistone; the moving spirit was Max Warren.Less
Charles Francis Digby Moule (1908–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was probably the most influential British New Testament scholar of his time. The youngest of their three children, he was born in the same house as his father, and spent a happy if often solitary childhood in China. Moule spent three years studying theology and training for Holy Orders in the Church of England at Ridley Hall. He soon had to take on leadership of New Testament teaching at the University of Cambridge for the Regius Professor, A. M. Ramsey. Moule was also fascinated, without losing his head as a critic, by the associated question of interaction between liturgy and literature in the early church, posed by such cultic interpreters of the gospels as G. Bertram. He joined the Evangelical Fellowship for Theological Literature, founded in 1942, an impressive body of younger authors that came to include Henry Chadwick, G. W. H. Lampe, S. L. Greenslade, and F. W. Dillistone; the moving spirit was Max Warren.
David Harrington Watt
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195068344
- eISBN:
- 9780199834822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195068343.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, a congregation that deeply valued the traditions of the Anabaptists, was located in a section of West Philadelphia that was not at all prosperous. Many of the ...
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The Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, a congregation that deeply valued the traditions of the Anabaptists, was located in a section of West Philadelphia that was not at all prosperous. Many of the people associated with the fellowship were devoted to “traditional family values” and many of them believed that homosexuality was a sin. The congregation was not, by any means, made up exclusively of people who were thoroughgoing feminists. Nevertheless, the Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship was a place where patriarchal norms were sometimes interrogated. It was also a place where people were taught that Christians sometimes ought to resist the power of nation‐states and of corporations. At the Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, forms of hierarchy associated with ministerial authority were viewed with suspicion.Less
The Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, a congregation that deeply valued the traditions of the Anabaptists, was located in a section of West Philadelphia that was not at all prosperous. Many of the people associated with the fellowship were devoted to “traditional family values” and many of them believed that homosexuality was a sin. The congregation was not, by any means, made up exclusively of people who were thoroughgoing feminists. Nevertheless, the Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship was a place where patriarchal norms were sometimes interrogated. It was also a place where people were taught that Christians sometimes ought to resist the power of nation‐states and of corporations. At the Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, forms of hierarchy associated with ministerial authority were viewed with suspicion.
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195173901
- eISBN:
- 9780199835577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195173902.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Park Street Congregational church was founded in 1809 as a bastion of Protestant orthodoxy during a time of Unitarian growth. Over the course of the 19th century the church stuck to its theological ...
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Park Street Congregational church was founded in 1809 as a bastion of Protestant orthodoxy during a time of Unitarian growth. Over the course of the 19th century the church stuck to its theological agenda, but charted a more uncertain course in a changing urban environment. At the brink of closing its doors in 1900, Park Street revitalized under the leadership of A.Z. Conrad and his insistence on a strong conservative, evangelistic program. By the 1930s, Park Street was the center of a regional movement, spurred by the aggressive leadership of pastor Harold John Ockenga and the entrepreneurial zeal of the New England Fellowship, an organization dedicated to worldwide revival.Less
Park Street Congregational church was founded in 1809 as a bastion of Protestant orthodoxy during a time of Unitarian growth. Over the course of the 19th century the church stuck to its theological agenda, but charted a more uncertain course in a changing urban environment. At the brink of closing its doors in 1900, Park Street revitalized under the leadership of A.Z. Conrad and his insistence on a strong conservative, evangelistic program. By the 1930s, Park Street was the center of a regional movement, spurred by the aggressive leadership of pastor Harold John Ockenga and the entrepreneurial zeal of the New England Fellowship, an organization dedicated to worldwide revival.
Linda O. McMurry
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195139273
- eISBN:
- 9780199848911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195139273.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on Wells-Barnett's fight against racism in American popular culture. Her leadership in the Negro Fellowship League (NFL) ensured that protest and politics would not be ignored. ...
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This chapter focuses on Wells-Barnett's fight against racism in American popular culture. Her leadership in the Negro Fellowship League (NFL) ensured that protest and politics would not be ignored. The league agitated against prejudice and injustice especially in Chicago and Illinois. To fight for rights on the national level, Wells-Barnett affiliated the organization with William Monroe Trotter's Equal Rights League in 1913. To promote political activity, the NFL hosted candidates' forums and urged voter participation. Many of Wells-Barnett's experiences confirmed her 1913 assertion that “when principle and prejudice come into collision, principle retires and leaves prejudice the victor.”Less
This chapter focuses on Wells-Barnett's fight against racism in American popular culture. Her leadership in the Negro Fellowship League (NFL) ensured that protest and politics would not be ignored. The league agitated against prejudice and injustice especially in Chicago and Illinois. To fight for rights on the national level, Wells-Barnett affiliated the organization with William Monroe Trotter's Equal Rights League in 1913. To promote political activity, the NFL hosted candidates' forums and urged voter participation. Many of Wells-Barnett's experiences confirmed her 1913 assertion that “when principle and prejudice come into collision, principle retires and leaves prejudice the victor.”
Alcuin Blamires
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199248674
- eISBN:
- 9780191714696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248674.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The chapter links the primary role of friendship and fellowship in inherited ethics with the prominence of fellowship as a fragile ideal in the General Prologue, where it is announced only to be ...
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The chapter links the primary role of friendship and fellowship in inherited ethics with the prominence of fellowship as a fragile ideal in the General Prologue, where it is announced only to be subjected to systematic strain in the subsequent evolution of the Canterbury Tales. Fellowship is immediately threatened within the Knight’s Tale and in the pilgrim frame by masculine animosities that make ethical suppositions about ideal friendship look sentimental. Anger and defamation are key drivers in the Tales. Eruptions of both, right through to the penultimate tale, often require conciliatory intervention. Chaucer acknowledges a tradition of female conciliation, but also draws inspiration from Seneca’s essay on anger management. Eventually, when competitive instincts have all but ‘un-sewn’ the seams of friendship, it is the Parson’s ambition to ‘knit up’ the pilgrims’ unravelling project.Less
The chapter links the primary role of friendship and fellowship in inherited ethics with the prominence of fellowship as a fragile ideal in the General Prologue, where it is announced only to be subjected to systematic strain in the subsequent evolution of the Canterbury Tales. Fellowship is immediately threatened within the Knight’s Tale and in the pilgrim frame by masculine animosities that make ethical suppositions about ideal friendship look sentimental. Anger and defamation are key drivers in the Tales. Eruptions of both, right through to the penultimate tale, often require conciliatory intervention. Chaucer acknowledges a tradition of female conciliation, but also draws inspiration from Seneca’s essay on anger management. Eventually, when competitive instincts have all but ‘un-sewn’ the seams of friendship, it is the Parson’s ambition to ‘knit up’ the pilgrims’ unravelling project.
Kenneth M. Ludmerer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195181364
- eISBN:
- 9780199850167
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181364.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Throughout its history, the American medical school, like the rest of the country's system of higher education, had been shaped by social, economic, and political developments in the larger society. ...
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Throughout its history, the American medical school, like the rest of the country's system of higher education, had been shaped by social, economic, and political developments in the larger society. Thus, it was hardly a surprise that many of the pressures experienced by academic health centers in the 1970s and 1980s arose from outside events. Yet, academic health centers encountered additional dilemmas that could not so clearly be related to external pressures. A number of traditional challenges to medical education grew more intense: the problem of teaching bedside medicine as biomedical research became increasingly molecular, the perpetual difficulty of achieving a suitable institutional balance between teaching and research, and the ongoing dilemmas of residency and fellowship training. These frustrating problems arose mainly from the evolution of medical knowledge and the institutional development of academic health centers rather than from the challenges imposed by a hostile external environment.Less
Throughout its history, the American medical school, like the rest of the country's system of higher education, had been shaped by social, economic, and political developments in the larger society. Thus, it was hardly a surprise that many of the pressures experienced by academic health centers in the 1970s and 1980s arose from outside events. Yet, academic health centers encountered additional dilemmas that could not so clearly be related to external pressures. A number of traditional challenges to medical education grew more intense: the problem of teaching bedside medicine as biomedical research became increasingly molecular, the perpetual difficulty of achieving a suitable institutional balance between teaching and research, and the ongoing dilemmas of residency and fellowship training. These frustrating problems arose mainly from the evolution of medical knowledge and the institutional development of academic health centers rather than from the challenges imposed by a hostile external environment.
Andrew Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195181005
- eISBN:
- 9780199851010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181005.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In ...
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This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In his most famous poem, nominally a “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Ashbery acknowledges that the influence of other people is so powerful that it is impossible to locate an autonomous self apart from those with whom one interacts. Despite much commentary to the contrary, the self in Ashbery does not exist alone in the universe. The chapter also states that Ashbery is obsessed with kinetic motion and its paradoxical dance with stasis. Such half-thwarted interpersonal encounters drive Ashbery's poetry forward: the engine behind his poems runs on the dialectical movement back and forth between the insularity of the self and its interconnections with others.Less
This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In his most famous poem, nominally a “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Ashbery acknowledges that the influence of other people is so powerful that it is impossible to locate an autonomous self apart from those with whom one interacts. Despite much commentary to the contrary, the self in Ashbery does not exist alone in the universe. The chapter also states that Ashbery is obsessed with kinetic motion and its paradoxical dance with stasis. Such half-thwarted interpersonal encounters drive Ashbery's poetry forward: the engine behind his poems runs on the dialectical movement back and forth between the insularity of the self and its interconnections with others.
Deborah Lavin
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198126164
- eISBN:
- 9780191671623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198126164.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates ...
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Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates frequented the College as his weekend guests. His rather surprising friendship with T. E. Lawrence had begun in London. Curtis has been elected to his Fellowship to complete The Commonwealth of Nations, but he found that ‘the political landscape had so changed, and my own outlook upon it had widened to such an extent, that the “Commonwealth of Nations” Part I was too obsolete to continue’. The extraordinary title and form Curtis chose — Civitas Dei — show that he was still labouring to reconcile responsible government and internationalism, his principle of Commonwealth with his personal morality and hatred over war.Less
Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates frequented the College as his weekend guests. His rather surprising friendship with T. E. Lawrence had begun in London. Curtis has been elected to his Fellowship to complete The Commonwealth of Nations, but he found that ‘the political landscape had so changed, and my own outlook upon it had widened to such an extent, that the “Commonwealth of Nations” Part I was too obsolete to continue’. The extraordinary title and form Curtis chose — Civitas Dei — show that he was still labouring to reconcile responsible government and internationalism, his principle of Commonwealth with his personal morality and hatred over war.
