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Brushy Creek Baptist Church to its congregation
No full textA three page bulletin from Brushy Creek Baptist Church to its congregation
Louisville Baptist Church to James C. Furman
No full textA three page letter and envelope from the Louisville Baptist Church to James C. Furma
Camden Baptist Church to James C. Furman
No full textA two page letter and envelope from Camden Baptist Church to James C. Furma
James C. Furman to Louisville First Baptist Church
No full textA two page letter and envelope from James C. Furman to the Louisville First Baptist Church
Committee of Welsh Neck Baptist Church to James C. Furman
No full textA one page letter and envelope from the Committee of Welsh Neck Baptist Church to James C. Furma
Committee of Savannah Church to James C. Furman
No full textA one page letter and envelope from the Committee of the Savannah Church to James C. Furma
The Restoration of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem
No full textA lot has been said and written so far about the history of the church of the Nativity. Many are the reports, historical documents, scientific articles that can be referenced in retracing the evolution of the church from its origins until today. It is not the intention of the Authors to re-propose what has been said so far by authoritative sources and with the utmost abundance of details. The purpose of this book is only to accompany the reader along a path that began in the distant 2009 and is now approaching a conclusion, or at least what has been always considered a fundamental goal.
The restoration of the church of the Nativity has been and will always be an event of extraordinary cultural, religious and political importance. At present the church is the only Byzantine monument in all Palestine handed down in its almost original form, for which a global restoration was designed and above all completed with such a vast use, never seen in precedence, of economic and human resources, diverse and highly qualified professional skills and advanced technologies and instruments.
By summarizing the work experiences carried out in the last decade throughout the church in a coordinated and interactive manner, this book tries to provide, through the description of the restoration interventions made and using the big amount of information collected onsite, a more comprehensive and organic knowledge of the church as a whole. Therefore, in exposing the state of conservation of each part of the church (roof structures and covering, masonry, plasters, mosaics, columns and paintings) and the interventions of restoration carried out, reference will be made to all those archaeological findings discovered onsite during the work phases and through which it will be possible to relocate in their place some tesserae of the large mosaic representing the history of the church. It is hoped that every reader has something to learn from the results of this restoration campaign and that a fruitful intellectual exchange can be established among architects, restorers, art historians and engineers, like the one which took place daily on the scaffolding of the church throughout these years.
Each chapter of the book refers to a specific part of the church and describes in detail the conservation and restoration interventions carried out on the basis of previous historical studies, surveys, analyses of the state of conservation, tests on materials carried out onsite and in Laboratory. The topics are treated with scientific rigor but at the same time in a very discursive way and by using a simple and easily understandable language even by those who for the first time approach the problems of the restoration of historical buildings. In a narrative style, which is mainly based on a reasoned description of the interventions performed, the Authors will try to exploit the reader's ability to immediately understand the nature of the problems and the reasons behind the choice of particular techniques or procedures. With reference to each intervention and at the end of each Chapter some simple guidelines are also provided for the maintenance of what has been restored
Committee of Welsh Neck Baptist Church to James C. Furman
No full textA two page letter and envelope from the committee Welsh Neck Baptist Church to James C. Furma
The spatial ordering of community in English church seating, c.1550-1700
No full textThe evidence for this thesis includes several hundred pew disputes heard before the church courts in the period c.1550-1700. The jurisdictions examined here include the dioceses of York, of Chester, of Coventry and Lichfield, and of London. These have been supplemented by churchwardens' accounts, parish registers and vestry minutes. These sources also often contained pew lists and plans that are analysed alongside rate assessments and other taxation records.
This thesis investigates the relationship between church seating arrangements and the social hierarchy of local communities in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. It firstly, therefore, explores both legal and official views regarding church seating and status. Secondly, it examines the nature and chronology of conflict over pews, and the social profile of disputants. Thirdly, it explores popular perceptions of the social order through the analysis of the depositional evidence generated by pew disputes. Fourthly, the chronology of pew litigation is explored in the light of ecclesiastical policy and the reaction to these policies in the localities, particularly during the 1630s. Fifthly, the thesis considers the possibility that dispute was a function of the function implication of changing methods of pew allocation. Finally, through the consideration of the meaning of conflict over church seating as it erupted in the context of three parishes over a number of years, the role each of these themes played in helping to construct the local social order is analysed.
The analysis of the records of pew disputes and of the politics of space in church here enables us to perceive more clearly how contemporaries attempted to negotiate their social roles across a complex web of intersecting and overlapping hierarchies and thereby become agents in the recreation of the local social order. Moreover, depositional evidence in particular suggests that status itself was a compound phenomenon that incorporated a number of factors including wealth, age, gender, reputation and officeholding
The Church of Christ in early Bernicia: forerunners and foundation
No full textA firmly multidlsciplinary approach starts from a theological definition of the Church as the Body of Christ, and Christians as empowered by the Holy Spirit, the possibility of miracle, and the reality of warfare with demons are taken seriously, and scholarly belief in them defended. They are made the subject of excursuses. Hagiographic writings are treated with cautious respect. Bernicia, land and people, and its relationship to its neighbours are considered. In a demographic excursus the view that Dark Age life-span was short is rebuffed. Part two discusses the life and mission of the Church in sub-Roman Britain. In our area evidence for this proves to be largely limited to the shadowy activities of Ninian and Kentigern, therefore further evidence of the status of the British church in the fifth and sixth centuries is sought in Patrick’s Confession and Gildas's De Excidlo Britɸmniae. A new model for the latter - the sermon of the protomartyr Stephen - is proposed; as is a new exegesis of D. E. B. c.69, which may have Implications for our understanding of the persistence of Pelagian beliefs. An excursus considers the significance of white stones in association with Christian burial. The origins of the mission of Augustine are considered briefly. Part three considers the mission of Paulinus in detail, in particular the reasons for its collapse; in contrasting it with the Celtic mission misslological principles are cited. A reappraisal of Paulinus's retreat, more favourable to him than that normally held, is reached by invoking wartime experience. The discipline of obstetrics is involved to advance the theory that /Ethelburh's delivery was premature; also earlier to re-examine the Herbert Ian account of Kentigern's conception, where the 'something contrary to sound doctrine' is identified, against the hitherto standard view, as the apparent approval, by Servanus, of extramarital coitus. The final establishment of the Church in Bernicia is seen as occurring principally as the result of Aidan's mission, but with valid contributions from the British and Roman traditions. That Simeon of Durham gave the credit for this foundation to Oswald is found Justifiable. A new genealogical tree of Oswy has been constructed, and maps have been provided
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