This article explores the ministry of service and love of neighbour exercised by Katharina Schutz Zell, wife of the Strasbourg Reformer Matthias Zell, focusing on Schutz Zell's theological justification for her ministry and her attempts to help those around her to understand their suffering in terms of the Gospel. Following Luther, Schutz Zell saw love of neighbour as an important means of spreading the Gospel, and thus as private activity, but as public ministry. Her work exemplifies, and may have served as a model for, the role of (female) deacon as defined by the Reformed tradition.
This study assumes a personal and critical perspective and explores the point of view of a few African American ordained women ministers whose stories about their calls to the preaching ministry give clues as to the motivation and inspiration of other women committed to answering a Divine call. I...
Acknowledging the explanation of the parable of the Weeds (Tares, Darnel) as secondary, this article attempts to show that the parable itself could very well be original, though heavily retouched by the author of the First Gospel. After a comparison with the version offered by the Gospel of Thoma...
This article deals with the problem of how to understand the notion of imputatio within Martin Luther's doctrine of justification, which for Luther is both necessary and sufficient. The author shows that Luther interprets imputatio in a threefold way: by outlining (1) the non-imputation of sin, t...
Between 1900 and 1934, Christian and post-Christian members of the Socialist Party of America articulated a distinctive theology. Committed to the Social Gospel's preaching of social salvation, they insisted that only an end to capitalism would usher in the Kingdom of God on earth. For many party...
The lifestyles of the three earliest Dominican women's communities were formulated according to their specific historical conditions and exigencies during the years 1206-2Initially, the women associated with the preaching mission of Diego of Osma and Dominic Guzman were based at Prouille in the L...
This article addresses the Internet as a campaign communication channel, and the approach is to explore voters' use of the Internet for electoral information in the contemporary Norwegian campaign. Theoretically it is argued for a distinction between party-controlled and uncontrolled online commu...
In this paper, I redress an analytic deficit in debates about sedition by providing an explanatorily account of the relation between speech and action using speech act theory as developed by J.L. Austin. The specific focus will be on speech acts advocating violence against the state, in the form ...
This article uses thirteenth-century hospital sermons as a window into the moral and religious environment of these charitable institutions, large numbers of which were founded during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. What emerges from the reportationes of sermons preached in the hotel-dieu o...
The historical study of women and religion in the early Americas has garnered substantial scholarship in the last 30 years. The influence of women's history and feminist studies has generated great interest on the topic of gender and religion. Scholars have analyzed women's religious history usin...
This article explores the religious selfhood of an exemplary Bible Christian woman, Mary Thorne (1807-1883). Founded in 1815 as a splinter group of Wesleyan Methodism, the Bible Christian denomination invoked an epistemology which stressed the correlation between religious and familial obligation...
