This thesis examines the construction of Anglican churches in Canada in the period between 1867 and 1914. During this period settlement and economic expansion occurred alongside new political arrangements and consciousness that involved religious observance and debate. The building of churches became an important site of architectural and cultural formation in part due to the circulation of pattern books and the development of print media. At its broadest level, this thesis assesses the influence of church building across the Confederation in the constitution of social economy and attitude, particularly around ideas of collective identity. Consequently the focus is the analysis of the effects of transatlantic and transcontinental exchanges of ideas of design taste on a representative selection of churches built over the protracted period of Confederation. To this end, the thesis examines the importation of pattern books of architecture, particularly those illustrating popular Neo-Gothic church designs from Britain and the United States. It demonstrates how print media not only influenced architects, builders and committees charged with ecclesiastical construction but also consolidated architectural practice and constrained the fashioning of an autonomous national architectural idiom. The thesis maintains a perspective of the very diversity of ethnic, cultural and political allegiance experienced across Canada that contested the apparent dominance of British imperial authority and colonial regulation. The case studies of Anglican churches re-present larger economic and socio-cultural trends subsequently contested by comparative cases of Roman Catholic, Non-Conformist and even Jewish structures that underscore the complex interchange of ideas and interests. They reveal the use of supposedly hegemonic taste in church design to register the presence of other denominations and religious groups in the formation of Canadian society. The thesis shows how debates about the design of churches in the evolving nation of Canada was integral to the ongoing definition of wider taste in architecture, to the development of local and regional economy, and to communal identity. These processes reflected the new spatial geographies and imagined maps of culture enabled by the commercial production, circulation and consumption of print media such as church pattern books. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / This research is set out as a narrative analysis of the functioning of church communities in moral formation from the selected congregations in the Diocese of Cape Town of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA). The study focussed on three churches in the diocese. The research methodology employed can be described as qualitative and descriptive in nature. The data was collected by means of interviews involving clergy, church wardens, leaders of various organisations/formations, and members of the church who are also community members.

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Since Antiquity, elements of Greek mythology and Hebraic history have intersected in many forms of literary and visual art. Renaissance philosophers, moved by skepticism, struggled to reconcile the historical and theological contradictions of these ancient sources, and scholars of European history Arthur Ferguson and Jean Seznec recognize resulting trends of mythological interpretation among authors of diverse disciplines. My research investigates ways in which London university professors John Taverner, John Case and an anonymous Oxford author utilized these interpretive methods in their music treatises of the early modern period and discusses the intersection of Protestant theology and Greek mythology in these authors’ defense of communal music. In 1611, Taverner claimed to follow St. Augustine’s example “to gather out of the writings of profane authors, that so taking the good and true from those unjust owners, we might reduce them to their proper and primary use.” Unlike some Protestants who waged literary war on the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology, Taverner and others employed “writings of profane authors” as an integral part of their rhetorical content, placing Apollo, Jupiter, and Mercury alongside Biblical figures as authoritative proof of music’s intrinsic virtue and appropriate usefulness. I contend that these authors sought to maintain Christian theological ideals while defending music’s rightful place in civil and ecclesiastical contexts by channeling their mythological sources through culturally acceptable lenses of historical and allegorical interpretation. A comparison of these treatises with histographies and mythographies circulating in early modern England reveals a hierarchy of source material achieved by filtering mythological references through subjective interpretative techniques. The investigation of literary authorities and rhetorical devices used in these treatises affords a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between ancient tradition and emerging rationalism and offers additional perspective on the philosophical discourse surrounding English Renaissance music.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-127).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-127).

This dissertation examines the use made of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in the pastoral work of Anglican Clergy. The practical theological focus of the study is reflection on praxis. Various theories of pastoral work are discussed. The history and development of the MBTI is given as well as the Jungian background to it. A qualitative research, grounded theory approach, is utilised. Interviews of 14 Anglican clergy generate the data for the research. The research questions are: "Why do Anglican clergy use the MBTI?"; "How do Anglican clergy use the MBTI?" The research findings show that Anglican clergy use the MBTI for the purpose of personal growth, clergy self-care, and understanding relationships. Anglican clergy attend workshops which encourage the application of MBTI insights in pastoral work. / Practical Theology / M Th. (Practical theology)

This dissertation examines the use made of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in the pastoral work of Anglican Clergy. The practical theological focus of the study is reflection on praxis. Various theories of pastoral work are discussed. The history and development of the MBTI is given as well as the Jungian background to it. A qualitative research, grounded theory approach, is utilised. Interviews of 14 Anglican clergy generate the data for the research. The research questions are: "Why do Anglican clergy use the MBTI?"; "How do Anglican clergy use the MBTI?" The research findings show that Anglican clergy use the MBTI for the purpose of personal growth, clergy self-care, and understanding relationships. Anglican clergy attend workshops which encourage the application of MBTI insights in pastoral work. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M Th. (Practical theology)

This study explores two ancient approaches to spirituality, together with the cultural contexts in which they developed. Spirituality is a popular concept today among people of widely differing religious traditions, and among those who espouse no religious tradition. Spirituality defines the way in which people relate to what concerns them ultimately, and ways in which this concern is manifested in their daily lives. This popular interest has resulted in the rise of spirituality as an academic discipline. An in-depth study of Celtic and African Spirituality is presented in this study. Celtic Spirituality dates from the fifth century CE onwards, whereas African Spirituality predates written history. Few examples of African Spirituality are recorded in writing before the twentieth century, although some have existed for centuries in oral form. Many Celtic poems, and other examples of traditional oral literature were collected and recorded in writing by medieval monks, and thus preserved for later generations in writing. Both Celtic and African Spiritualities have a healthy, integrated approach to the material world and to the spiritual world. They acknowledge a constant interaction between the two realms, and do not dismiss or devalue either the physical or the spiritual. Art and oral literature also play an important role in enabling communication and expression of ideas. Power and powerlessness emerges as a dominant theme in African thought and spirituality, especially where African peoples perceive themselves to be powerless politically or economically. Areas of relevance of Celtic and African Spiritualities to the life of the church today are identified and discussed, such as ecological spirituality; oral and symbolic communication; the role of women in church and society; and the theme of power. These are areas from which the world-wide church has much to learn from both Celtic and African Spiritualities. The findings of this study are then discussed in terms of their relevance and helpfulness to church and society. Insights from Celtic and African spiritualities should be used in the future to deepen devotional life of individual Christians and of congregations, and ideas such as ecological responsibility and recognition of the value and gifts of women should permeate the teaching and practice of the church in the future. / Religious Studies & Arabic Studies / D. Th.(Religious Studies & Arabic Studies)

何偉俊. / "2008年8月". / "2008 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-132). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / He Weijun. / Chapter 第一章： --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節： --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節： --- 前人硏究回顧 --- p.2 / Chapter 第三節： --- 硏究方法 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章： --- 戰前的香港聖公會教育 --- p.19 / Chapter 第一節： --- 教會傳教會的成立及到中國傳教的背景 --- p.19 / Chapter 第二節： --- 早期聖公會在香港的辦學情況 --- p.21 / Chapter 第三章： --- 何明華時期的聖公會教育 --- p.37 / Chapter 第一節： --- 近代宣教思潮的影響 --- p.37 / Chapter 第二節： --- 共產主義的威脅 --- p.42 / Chapter 第三節： --- 戰後難民潮與失學兒童 --- p.46 / Chapter 第四節： --- 辦學與教會財政的關係 --- p.51 / Chapter 第五節： --- 何明華與教會傳道會的分歧 --- p.60 / Chapter 第六節： --- 聖公會與政府的教育爭議 --- p.60 / Chapter 第七節： --- 辦學與傳教 --- p.65 / Chapter 第四章： --- 白約翰時期的聖公會教育 --- p.77 / Chapter 第一節： --- 免費教育 --- p.78 / Chapter 第二節： --- 七十年代的聖公會宗教教育 --- p.97 / Chapter 第五章： --- 總結 --- p.116