Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He is currently adjunct professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is notable for developing the "redemptive-movement" hermeneutic in his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis (2001). This book argues for full role equality of men and women in the church and family while concluding that ...
It is one of the four main types of social movements in sociology: alternative, redemptive, reformative, and revolutionary. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is an example of an alternative social movement because it targets one behavior—drunk driving. Through its efforts, MADD has caused tougher drunk driving laws to be enacted, and thus ...
William J. Webb, Canadian egalitarian theologian known for his 'redemptive-movement' hermeneutic; William Seward Webb (1851–1926), American doctor, financier, railroad president, and well-connected businessperson; William Snyder Webb (1882–1964), American anthropologist; William Trego Webb (1847–1934), educationist and author
World-accommodating movements draw clear distinctions between the spiritual and the worldly spheres. They have few or no consequences for the lives of adherents. These movements adapt to the world but they do not reject or affirm it. World-affirming movements might not have any rituals or any formal ideology. They may lack most of the ...
After ordaining 12 "disciples", Ji established both the Mentuhui movement and declared himself the Son of Heaven (True Dragon Emperor) of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ. The government of the Heavenly Kingdom, based out of Hanzhong , was established to overthrow and replace the government of the People's Republic of China .
The redemption movement is an offshoot of the Posse Comitatus, [10] an American far right organization which was established in 1969 by leaders of the white supremacist Christian Identity sect. The Posse's beliefs were rooted in antisemitism and they saw income tax , debt-based currency and debt collection as tools of Jewish control of the ...
The Biblical-Theological movement originated in Germany under the liberal teaching and writing of Johann Philipp Gabler, who emphasized the historical nature of the Bible over against an overly dogmatic reading of it. Nearly a century later, Princeton Theological Seminary inaugurated its first professor of biblical theology, Geerhardus Vos.
One of Quimby's patients, Mary Baker Eddy, later founded her own new religious movement, Christian Science. E. W. Kenyon and the Word of Faith movement synthesized New Thought with Pentecostalism, [3] while Norman Vincent Peale's Power of Positive Thinking incorporated New Thought doctrines into a blend of Methodism and Calvinism. [4]