Early Alexandrian Christianity

1971 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rorert M. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Church History ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of

Nearly everything that is recorded about the early history of Alexandrian Christianity lies in theChurch Historyof Eusebius. Many Alexandrian theological writings are preserved, but as might be expected they cast little light on historical events. Now the basic difficulty with Eusebius' work is that it has to be classified as “official history.” It therefore contains a judicious mixture of authentic record with a good deal of suppression of fact and occasional outright lies. He wrote it in defence of himself and his friends and their outlook toward the nascent imperial church establishment under God's messenger Constantine.

A study in British Trade Union history. Attempts at ‘General Union’ 1829—1834

1938 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 359-462
Author(s):  
G. D. H. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Early History ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
British Trade ◽  
Dramatic Rise ◽  
History Of ◽  
Union History

The best-known episode in the early history of Britsh Trade Unionism is the dramatic rise and fall of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in 1833—1834. Robert Owen's sudden emergence as the leader of a mass movement reported to number a million adherents, the trial and transportation of the unfortunate ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ for the crime of administering unlawful oaths, the presentation of the ‘document’ demanding renunciation of Trade Union membership by masters in many parts of the country, and the complete eclipse of the Grand National within a year of its first foundation, make a story which has been told many times with effect, and does not need telling over again. But though this particular story is well-known, there is a good deal that remains obscure in Trade Union history both during this critical year and, still more, during the few previous years when the idea of an all-embracing ‘General Union of Trades’ was taking hold of one section after another of the British working classes.

Notices of the Early History of the Parish of Govan

1858 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 212-216
Author(s):  
James C Roger
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
History Of

This article traces the historical events and religious activities that took place in the parish of Govan. The author describes some of the notable structures in the parish that are of architectural or historical interest and emphasises the charitable work of the parish throughout its history.

scholarly journals XV. —The Indians in Armenia, 130 b.c.—300 a.d.

1904 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of

The existence of an ancient Indian colony in Armenia is well known to Armenian scholars, but Indianists have paid little attention to it. We owe our knowledge of it to Zenob, a Syrian, and a native of Glak (Klag), which Mr. Ellis suggests may be the Armenian equivalent of Kerak. Zenob became an ecclesiastic in an unknown town of Cappadocia called Nystra, and was the companion of St. Gregory the Illuminator on an idol-smashing tour through Armenia, about the year 304 a.d. By St. Gregory's command he wrote an account of this expedition to his Cappadocian brethren, and in it he gives a lively account of the Illuminator's little war with the Indian idolaters of Tarôn (Darôn). Zenob's history, composed originally in Syriac, has come down to us in an Armenian version, which has suffered from revision. It has been twice translated into French, and part of it into English. Zenob's work has the charm and freshness of a contemporary narrative, and throws a good deal of light on the early history of monachism and the worship of relics. He was well acquainted with the Indians he mentions, as he was for twenty years Abbot of the Convent of the Nine Springs, founded by St. Gregory on the site of the Indian temple. The convent beacme one of the most famous in Armenia, and was popularly known from the time of Zenob as the convent of Glak.

The Church: Ideology or Institution

1981 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Kingdon
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Training ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Church History ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Religious Educators ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
American Society

I am greatly honored but a bit puzzled to find myself president of the American Society of Church History. Most of my predecessors in this position have been professors within theological faculties or departments of religion. Even those who have been, like me, members of secular departments of history, have generally received some formal instruction in religious studies. But this year you have chosen a president who is entirely secular in both education and career, whose graduate training was in diplomatic history of the Reformation period and whose teaching has been largely limited to secular state universities. I descend, to be sure, from a line of Protestant missionaries, ministers and religious educators, and over the years I have learned a good deal of historical theology from some very gifted students. But neither asset, I fear, places me very securely within the line of succession in which I now find myself.

Ireland and the continent in the eleventh century

1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 193-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey Gwynn
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Early History ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
History Of ◽  
Norman Invasion ◽  
Do So

It has become a commonplace of Irish history to assume that this country lay outside the full stream of European life until the twelfth century, and to preface an account of the Norman invasion with a brief survey of the very remarkable movement for the reform of the Irish church which we associate principally with the name of St Malachy. Dean Lawlor's short introductory essay to his translation of St Bernard's Life of St Malachy appeared in 1920, and is still the most readable version of this commonly accepted view. It is the purpose of this paper to criticise this view as a whole, and I shall have a good deal to say in criticism, not only of Lawlor's essay, but also of the last chapter of Kenney's otherwise admirable Sources for the early history of Ireland. All the more reason why I should begin by stating clearly my own personal debt to both these scholars. If I criticise their conclusions and their inadequate statement of the evidence, I do so in full consciousness of all that I have learned from their useful publications.

Aristotle's Account of the Origins of Philosophy

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Frede
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
General View ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Evidential Value ◽  
History Of

This article sheds light on Aristotle's own understanding of philosophy. It tries to give an account of how Aristotle seeks to determine and to explain the origin of philosophy and to account for its early development. It focuses on his account of the history of philosophy from its beginnings down to his own time in Metaphysics 1.3–10, in particular 1.3–6. It derives a good deal of knowledge about early Greek philosophy directly from Aristotle. A great deal of the information provided by later ancient sources itself is derived from Aristotle and his students, like Theophrastus or Eudemus. The evidential value of this information is rather high. It also is clear that Aristotle had his own particular perspective on the history of early Greek philosophy, and that his students largely shared his general view of the early history of Greek philosophy.

scholarly journals PASTOR EYO NKUNE OKPO ENE (1895 – 1973): THE FORGOTTEN HERO OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NIGERIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (08) ◽  
pp. 20654-20659
Author(s):  
Professor Onah Augustine Odey ◽  
Dr Gregory Ajima Onah
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Church History ◽  
Early History ◽  
Cross River ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
Christian Students ◽  
History Of ◽  
Apostolic Church

This brief article is a legacy of the authors twenty-five year teaching experience of Nigerian Church History in three Nigerian Universities between May 25, 1987 and May 31, 2012 and his ministerial duties and lecture on Church history in the Lutheran Seminary in Nigeria and the various interaction with other Christian brethren, especially in relationship with Christian students of The Apostolic Church, Nigeria. In this article, the researchers have tried to describe the early history of the Apostolic Church in Cross River State of Nigeria, West Africa, through a brief biographical stetch of Pastor Eyo Nkune Okpo Ene of Ambo Family, Mbaraokom, Creek Town (Obio Oko), who lived between 22nd November, 1895 and 1st February, 1973 (78years). This work is a paragon or model of other similar ones: like those of Garrick Idakatima Sokari Braide, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Essien Ukpabio, Jonathan Udo Ekong and others.

scholarly journals The prophetic voice of the ecumenical church in South Africa and the role of the Volkskerk van Afrika

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Katts
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Prophetic Voice ◽  
History Of

In this essay the author briefly wants to state the historical events that led to the spirit of Ecumenism. Secondly the article wish to give an overview of the early history of the Volkskerk van Afrika and state the church’s experience and response at the time. Thirdly the article outlines how the Volkskerk van Afrika came to join the ecumenical movement and finally portrays what the prophetic voice of the ecumenical Church in South Africa entails or should be today.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Independence of Cuba from Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. e45606
Author(s):  
Juliana Fillies Testa Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Historical Events ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Miguel Barnet ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Testimonial Novel ◽  
The Moment

The testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet is one of the pioneers of the narrative genre and has attracted the attention of critics from the moment of its publication. Scholars see the testimonial novel as a text that allows the reader access to a "genuine" episteme, safeguarded by a witness of historical events. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate that the narrative of the maroon and former mambí Esteban Montejo opens new ways of reading and analyzing historical events. In particular, I will focus on Montejo’s statements on the Cuban War of Independence. For this purpose, I will use the theory of the Subaltern Studies as a methodological tool. The analysis will show the denial of Afro-Cuban agency in the official history of independence in Cuba, and will offer a reading of the events that recognizes the important Afro-descendant contribution.

William Nicolson, F.R.S. and the runes of the Bewcastle Cross

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-190
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Old English ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Early History ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Promising Source ◽  
The Church

The writings of a seventeenth/eighteenth century divine do not sound a promising source of material for a modern discussion of a point in Old English linguistics. Yet any examination of the runic texts engraved on the Bewcastle Cross, one of the most important and controversial monuments of Northumbrian art, must begin with a report of William Nicolson, a Cumberland cleric, Bishop of Carlisle from 1702 to 1718 and thereafter Bishop of Derry and nominated Archbishop of Cashel and Emly. In this connexion the student of Old English finds an interest in the early history of the Royal Society. O f Nicolson the man we know a good deal, for diaries, notebooks and many of his letters have survived. He had wide interests, which he pursued with energy. He engaged in the religious and political controversies of his time, studied languages, writing Latin and German with ease and having some knowledge of Scandinavian tongues, and also found time to be an antiquarian, local historian and student of the natural sciences. We find him writing on botanical and geological subjects, translating a work on astronomy, examining collections of coins and medals, observing local industries and their techniques, recording old inscriptions, collecting lists of local dialect words, remarking ancient and curious buildings, and commenting on folk customs. He corresponded with the learned antiquaries of his time, and wrote and edited books on antiquarian subjects. Among Nicolson’s interests was one in runic inscriptions. Besides recording the two rune-stones then known in his native county of Cumberland, he twice made the toilsome journey to Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire to see the fragments of the famous runic cross which lay in the church there. His drawings of the runic texts of one of these fragments are of the greatest importance to the modern runologist.

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