David Dowland
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269298
- eISBN:
- 9780191683589
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269298.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
This book presents one of the first analytical accounts of Anglican theological training during its formative period, the 19th century. Until this time Oxford and Cambridge had been recognized as the ...
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This book presents one of the first analytical accounts of Anglican theological training during its formative period, the 19th century. Until this time Oxford and Cambridge had been recognized as the most desirable sources of Anglican clergymen, but there was to be a surge of little-known colleges attended by lower-middle-class ordinands which cut across the assumption that the training received at the fashionable colleges was superior. The book discusses the official attitudes towards the innovation of training large numbers of middle-class and lower-middle-class men for the ministry in an industrial age where a shift of power to the lower classes was widespread.Less
This book presents one of the first analytical accounts of Anglican theological training during its formative period, the 19th century. Until this time Oxford and Cambridge had been recognized as the most desirable sources of Anglican clergymen, but there was to be a surge of little-known colleges attended by lower-middle-class ordinands which cut across the assumption that the training received at the fashionable colleges was superior. The book discusses the official attitudes towards the innovation of training large numbers of middle-class and lower-middle-class men for the ministry in an industrial age where a shift of power to the lower classes was widespread.
STEVE BRUCE
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199281022
- eISBN:
- 9780191712760
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199281022.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter details the growth of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in Northern Ireland (and its international expansion) and its development of schools, missionary work, and theological ...
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This chapter details the growth of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in Northern Ireland (and its international expansion) and its development of schools, missionary work, and theological training. It considers whether success and increasing public acceptance has moderated the Church's distinctive separatism and its puritanism, and concludes that growth has not resulted in much change yet.Less
This chapter details the growth of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in Northern Ireland (and its international expansion) and its development of schools, missionary work, and theological training. It considers whether success and increasing public acceptance has moderated the Church's distinctive separatism and its puritanism, and concludes that growth has not resulted in much change yet.
David Dowland
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269298
- eISBN:
- 9780191683589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269298.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
During the early nineteenth century, the Anglican theological training was deemed superior in the much popular universities of Oxford and Cambridge, pushing lesser-known colleges into inferiority. ...
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During the early nineteenth century, the Anglican theological training was deemed superior in the much popular universities of Oxford and Cambridge, pushing lesser-known colleges into inferiority. However, in the latter years of the nineteenth century, these lesser-known colleges were becoming prominent in the Church of England. This book discusses the lesser-known colleges which formed during the nineteenth century to provide Anglican theological training which had changed the assumption that training at fashionable universities and colleges was superior. The book particularly focuses on the official attitudes towards the innovation of training of lower-class men for the ministry during the nineteenth century wherein the shift of social power leaned towards the lower members of the strata hence changing the education and social atmosphere in the nineteenth century.Less
During the early nineteenth century, the Anglican theological training was deemed superior in the much popular universities of Oxford and Cambridge, pushing lesser-known colleges into inferiority. However, in the latter years of the nineteenth century, these lesser-known colleges were becoming prominent in the Church of England. This book discusses the lesser-known colleges which formed during the nineteenth century to provide Anglican theological training which had changed the assumption that training at fashionable universities and colleges was superior. The book particularly focuses on the official attitudes towards the innovation of training of lower-class men for the ministry during the nineteenth century wherein the shift of social power leaned towards the lower members of the strata hence changing the education and social atmosphere in the nineteenth century.
David Dowland
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269298
- eISBN:
- 9780191683589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269298.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
In 1803, Thomas Burgess was enthroned at St David's where he was perceived as another indifferent English bishop. However, this chapter discusses the dedication and the passion of Thomas Burgess in ...
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In 1803, Thomas Burgess was enthroned at St David's where he was perceived as another indifferent English bishop. However, this chapter discusses the dedication and the passion of Thomas Burgess in providing a quality Anglican theological training and education in the impoverished see of St David's. From being a relatively unknown college in Wales, the St David's College became a Welsh substitute for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge wherein eventually, the College gained affiliation to Oxford University. The chapter also discusses the many issues and problems surrounding the College such as the increasing number of competitors, the failure to create prestige in their degrees and courses, and issues with administration and governance. One of the most striking features of the College is that while the College was originally intended for the impoverished members of the diocese of St David's, the College was predominantly governed by Oxford and Cambridge graduates — an indicator that while efforts had been made to elevate the status of local colleges, the prestige and dominance of the deemed superior universities continued to thrive and limit the capabilities of lesser-known colleges.Less
In 1803, Thomas Burgess was enthroned at St David's where he was perceived as another indifferent English bishop. However, this chapter discusses the dedication and the passion of Thomas Burgess in providing a quality Anglican theological training and education in the impoverished see of St David's. From being a relatively unknown college in Wales, the St David's College became a Welsh substitute for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge wherein eventually, the College gained affiliation to Oxford University. The chapter also discusses the many issues and problems surrounding the College such as the increasing number of competitors, the failure to create prestige in their degrees and courses, and issues with administration and governance. One of the most striking features of the College is that while the College was originally intended for the impoverished members of the diocese of St David's, the College was predominantly governed by Oxford and Cambridge graduates — an indicator that while efforts had been made to elevate the status of local colleges, the prestige and dominance of the deemed superior universities continued to thrive and limit the capabilities of lesser-known colleges.
Roman Cholij
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199566976
- eISBN:
- 9780191701993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566976.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This chapter presents an account of the life and times of Theodore the Stoudite to provide an insight into his faith and, in particular, his monastic beliefs in hopes of seeing his public actions ...
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This chapter presents an account of the life and times of Theodore the Stoudite to provide an insight into his faith and, in particular, his monastic beliefs in hopes of seeing his public actions from a broader perspective and in their proper context. Born in Constantinople in 759 during the reign of iconoclast Emperor Constantine V, Theodore received his theological training informally from his general education and later from private study and formal guided tuition as a monk within the monastery. Theodore's family established the Sakkoudion monastery, which had a distinctive ethos and regime that attracted many new candidates. The emperor, however, ordered the Sakkoudion community dispersed after Theodore decided to break communion with the patriarch for his complicity in what Theodore saw as an adulterous second marriage of Constantine VI. When Augusta Irene took over the throne, Theodore was offered the old monastery of Stoudios, which became the main monastery of the confederation, with Theodore and his followers becoming known as Stoudites. As a reformer of respected authority and the head of a large group of monks, Theodore became very influential, such that he found himself imprisoned or exiled during the second phase of the moechian controversy and the revival of iconoclasm. At the age of 66, Theodore died while at a monastery at Prinkipo. In the years following his death, his writings, including his Cathecheses, letters, homilies, and liturgical works, were assembled into a corpus. His stature within monastic circles as a leader, teacher, and defender of Gospel values was enormous. As a monastic reformer, his contribution to the Byzantine Church was unique and long-lasting.Less
This chapter presents an account of the life and times of Theodore the Stoudite to provide an insight into his faith and, in particular, his monastic beliefs in hopes of seeing his public actions from a broader perspective and in their proper context. Born in Constantinople in 759 during the reign of iconoclast Emperor Constantine V, Theodore received his theological training informally from his general education and later from private study and formal guided tuition as a monk within the monastery. Theodore's family established the Sakkoudion monastery, which had a distinctive ethos and regime that attracted many new candidates. The emperor, however, ordered the Sakkoudion community dispersed after Theodore decided to break communion with the patriarch for his complicity in what Theodore saw as an adulterous second marriage of Constantine VI. When Augusta Irene took over the throne, Theodore was offered the old monastery of Stoudios, which became the main monastery of the confederation, with Theodore and his followers becoming known as Stoudites. As a reformer of respected authority and the head of a large group of monks, Theodore became very influential, such that he found himself imprisoned or exiled during the second phase of the moechian controversy and the revival of iconoclasm. At the age of 66, Theodore died while at a monastery at Prinkipo. In the years following his death, his writings, including his Cathecheses, letters, homilies, and liturgical works, were assembled into a corpus. His stature within monastic circles as a leader, teacher, and defender of Gospel values was enormous. As a monastic reformer, his contribution to the Byzantine Church was unique and long-lasting.
Arie L. Molendijk
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192898029
- eISBN:
- 9780191924477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192898029.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The main intellectual developments discussed in this chapter are the rise of the historical-critical study of the Bible and the science of religion in the Netherlands in the second half of the ...
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The main intellectual developments discussed in this chapter are the rise of the historical-critical study of the Bible and the science of religion in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. Both developments concern the historization of the field of theology itself, the use of historical and comparative methods to study religions. The influence of the natural sciences and Darwinism on theology was not particularly strong in the Netherlands. The first section addresses the ground-breaking work of the Old Testament scholar Abraham Kuenen, especially in relation to the publications of Julius Wellhausen and William Robertson Smith. The second section is devoted to the Dutch Radical School, which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The third section focuses on the new 1876 Higher Education Act, which introduced history of religions and philosophy of religion (often considered to be the two main branches of the ‘science of religion’) as part of the theological curriculum. The fourth section briefly introduces the work of two Dutch ‘pioneers’ of the science of religion and their views on theology in relation to it. Cornelis Petrus Tiele originally hoped for a complete transformation of theology into a science of religion that could fulfil the tasks of theology in a scholarly fashion, whereas Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye aimed at a new phenomenology of religion that would remodel the study of religion, including Christianity.Less
The main intellectual developments discussed in this chapter are the rise of the historical-critical study of the Bible and the science of religion in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. Both developments concern the historization of the field of theology itself, the use of historical and comparative methods to study religions. The influence of the natural sciences and Darwinism on theology was not particularly strong in the Netherlands. The first section addresses the ground-breaking work of the Old Testament scholar Abraham Kuenen, especially in relation to the publications of Julius Wellhausen and William Robertson Smith. The second section is devoted to the Dutch Radical School, which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The third section focuses on the new 1876 Higher Education Act, which introduced history of religions and philosophy of religion (often considered to be the two main branches of the ‘science of religion’) as part of the theological curriculum. The fourth section briefly introduces the work of two Dutch ‘pioneers’ of the science of religion and their views on theology in relation to it. Cornelis Petrus Tiele originally hoped for a complete transformation of theology into a science of religion that could fulfil the tasks of theology in a scholarly fashion, whereas Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye aimed at a new phenomenology of religion that would remodel the study of religion, including Christianity.
