DOCSLIB.ORG

Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for "Profiles in Belief", the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5b69q9tj No online items Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for "Profiles in Belief", the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada Lucinda Glenn Graduate Theological Union Archives Graduate Theological Union 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, California, 94709 Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501 Email: [email protected] URL: http://gtu.edu/library/information/special-collections © 2007 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved. GTU 89-5-015 1 Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for "Profiles in Belief", the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada Collection number: GTU 89-5-015 Graduate Theological Union Archives Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, California Processed by: Lucinda Glenn Date Completed: June 18, 2003 Encoded by: UCSC OAC Unit © 2007 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for "Profiles in Belief", the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada Dates: 1926-1977 Bulk Dates: (Bulk 1966-1973) Collection number: GTU 89-5-015 Creator: Piepkorn, Arthur C. Collection Size: 27 boxes 26 linear ft. Repository: The Graduate Theological Union. Library. Berkeley, CA 94709 Abstract: The collection contains materials gathered or generated for researching, compiling, and writing Arthur Piepkorn's "Profiles in Belief". Materials include correspondence, drafts of material written by Piepkorn, copies of information from books or other sources, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, periodicals, periodical and newspaper articles, photographs, bibliographies, etc. Shelf locations: 4/A/1 - 4/B/3 Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation Arthur C. Piepkorn Research Collection for "Profiles in Belief", the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, GTU 89-5-015. Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA. Acquisition Information The Collection was transferred in 1983 to the Graduate Theological Union Archives from the Christ Seminary-Seminex Library, St. Louis, MO. Biography Arthur Carl Piepkorn, 1907-73, was born June 21, 1907 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He married Miriam Agatha Sodergren, 1904-78, in 1936 and they had four daughters, Mary Catharine, b. 1937, Faith Elisabeth, b. 1939, Felicity Ann, b. 1942, and Angela Dorothea, b. 1944. GTU 89-5-015 2 Dr. Piepkorn received degrees from Concordia College, Milwaukee, 1925, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1928, and a Ph.D. with a specialization in Babylonian archeology from the University of Chicago, 1932. He was ordained in 1930 by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod serving pastorates in St. Louis, Chisholm, MN, and Cleveland. 1940-51, he served as a U.S. Army chaplain, and was the senior chaplain of the U.S. Occupational Forces in Germany, 1945. In 1951, he joined the faculty at Concordia Seminary as Professor of Systematic Theology. Piepkorn joined with the faculty majority in signing protests to controversial resolutions passed in the early 1970s by the Missouri Synod at their New Orleans Convention. He was subsequently promoted to a non-teaching administrative position and offered "honorable retirement" at age 65. Piepkorn resigned instead, and with other faculty members who split from Concordia, became part of the Christ Seminary - Seminex, the seminary in exile. He suffered a fatal heart attack December 13, 1973. Dr. Piepkorn was a prolific preacher, lecturer, researcher, and author. His largest undertaking was Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada which he had begun about 1965 and was working on at the time of his death. This had been commissioned by Concordia Publishing House to update F.E. Mayer's 1961 The Religious Bodies of America. Dr. Piepkorn had worked on that publication and is listed as an author as well. Profiles in Belief was completed and edited by John H. Tietjen, then posthumously published in four volumes by Harper and Row in 1977. ( Note: The biographical information is taken from the Guide to the Piepkorn Papers in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, Chicago. See the full Guide in Box 20, File Folder 21b.) Dr. Piepkorn's method for researching and gathering the information to be included in Profiles was first to contact all the bodies listed in the 1961 Religious Bodies, send them copy from the book, and ask for updates or corrections. He also searched for and contacted bodies not listed in the 1961 book asking for information on their organizations and beliefs. He used informants all over the U.S. and Canada, usually Lutheran pastors serving churches in a town or area to help him locate and get information on still more bodies. There were also two major researchers who assisted in gathering information. From the late 1960s, he was assisted by James V. Geisendorfer, and in the 1970s by J. Gordon Melton. Melton and Geisendorfer later co-authored A Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States, 1977. Dr. Melton, directing the Institute for the Study of American Religion since 1969, has deposited his extensive research materials, known as the American Religions Collection, to the Special Collections Department the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. He has continued to research and publish in Dr. Piepkorn's tradition, notably The Encyclopedia of American Religions. Dr. Piepkorn included leaders and/or members of all the bodies he researched in formulating and interpreting their history, beliefs, organization, and practices. The Collection includes extensive correspondence between Piepkorn and individuals within each of the bodies. He would send them an introductory letter explaining the project, and if he had a written piece, he would include it and ask for their feedback, updates, or corrections. The Collection is built from this interaction between Piepkorn and members of the bodies he was researching. As much as possible, he let the people speak their beliefs with a minimum of his external interpretation. In the Foreword to Vol. 1 of Profiles in Belief, Martin E. Marty writes: "Arthur Carl Piepkorn was a confessional Lutheran, but he does not use the confessional stance as a means of ranking the value of beliefs. Instead, that stance turned out to be the means of assuring readers that the author knew the importance of beliefs, knew what it was to confess a faith, was aware of the intellectual power that can reside in a religious tradition." (Pg. xii) Harry McSorley continues in the Introduction: "... facts, figures and insights concerning comparative theology and ecclesiology that regularly amazed those who knew Piepkorn were not odd tidbits stored up in a pedantic section of this first-rate scholar's mind. They, and thousands more, were all part of a grand design that is finally beginning to emerge with the appearance of this first volume of Profiles in Belief, an unprecedented encyclopedic treatment by one man of the religious bodies of the United States and Canada. ... [M]any of us wish we could have what we do not have - Piepkorn's own preface and introduction. Only there would we be able to learn definitively of Piepkorn's objectives, intentions and methodological assumptions and techniques. (Pg. xv) ... I take it as beyond dispute that Piepkorn has pursued his study 'in fidelity to truth and with a spirit of good will.' (Pg. xvi)" John H. Tietjen ends his Editor's Preface: "As Arthur Carl Piepkorn himself would have concluded, pax et gaudium." (Pg. xiv) Scope and Content of Collection The Collection was transferred in 1983 to the Graduate Theological Union Archives from the Christ Seminary-Seminex Library, St. Louis, MO. That same year the Seminex librarians sent Piepkorn's personal papers to the Lutheran Church archives. The Profiles Collection was sent to the Graduate Theological Union Library because the library was collecting heavily in New Religious Movements and alternative religions and organizations. The Center for the Study of New Religious Movements had been established at the GTU in 1977. As part of the Center's mission, it set up a resource collection in the GTU Library for scholarly research. Though the Center closed in 1983, the Library continued the New Religious Movements collecting focus. GTU 89-5-015 3 The Piepkorn Profiles Collection was sent to the GTU Library to augment its New Religious Movements collections. In 1985, the GTU Library staff went through the Piepkorn Collection and removed files on new or alternative religious groups. These were transferred to the New Religious Movements Organizations Vertical Files Collection (GTU 99-8-1) (See collection guide, Box 20, File Folder 21a). All the files removed from the Piepkorn Collection have been identified in the NRM Organizations Vertical Files Collection so that the intent and extent of Piepkorn's original research can be reconstructed and understood as a whole. Box 20 holds inventory lists of the Piepkorn Collection received from the Seminex Library, a Master List of Piepkorn's Church Bodies files, and an alphabetical list of Church Bodies. From this list, the GTU Library Staff checked off which files were removed and transferred to the New Religious Movements Vertical Files Collection. Included with the files sent from Seminex were several books. These have been transferred to three areas in the GTU Library: the circulating collection, the Rare Books collection, or put in Storage for library use only. The book titles are all listed in the "Separation Notes". By the several stamps in the books, it appears that they were Dr. Piepkorn's personal property which he donated to the Seminex Library.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Becoming a Member of the General Anthroposophical Society
    Becoming a member of the General Anthroposophical Society “Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.” Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts, GA 26, Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1999 Dear Reader! It is likely not by accident that you came to be reading this booklet, and we hope that you find in it a welcome introduction to the Anthroposophical Society as initiated by Rudolf Steiner. This booklet is intended to serve as a kind of overview of and roadmap for the many aspects of the Society. With the Anthroposophical Society at the heart, Anthroposophy and its practices around the world extend far beyond the Society itself. We hope you will consider becoming a member and are interested in exploring what Anthroposophy has to offer you in your own path of development. Anthroposophy recognizes that each individual human is a physical, soul and spiritual being, and that we each find meaning and purpose through relationships to each other, to the world around us, and to the wider universe. Rudolf Steiner’s life achievement is that through Anthroposophy as a scientific method of acquiring knowledge, the reality of a spiritual world and its connection to the evolution of the human being can be known. Further, there are many practical initiatives based on a distinct understanding of people and the world through Anthroposophy as researched and made known by Rudolf Steiner. These include among others: Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, natural cosmetics, values-based work with economics, organic architecture, and anthroposophical medicine. Within the Anthroposophical Society there are numerous paths and levels of commitment, which you are free to explore and choose based upon your own interests and capacities.
    [Show full text]
  • Stability and Development in Canon Law and the Case of "Definitive" Teaching
    Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2001 Stability and Development in Canon Law and the Case of "Definitive" Teaching Ladislas M. Örsy Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] Vol. 76 Notre Dame Law Review, Page 865 (2001). Reprinted with permission. © Notre Dame Law Review, University of Notre Dame. This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/569 76 Notre Dame L. Rev. 865-879 (2001) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Religion Law Commons STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN CANON LAW AND THE CASE OF "DEFINITIVE" TEACHING Ladislas Orsy, SJ!:~ The beginning of knowledge is wonder, wonder provoked by a puzzle whose pieces do not seem to fit together. We do have such an on-going puzzle in canon law; it is the prima facie conflict between the demand of stability and the imperative of development. Stability is an essential quality of any good legal system because a community's lav{s are an expression of its identity, and there is no identity without permanency. Many times we hear in the United States that we are a country held together by our laws. Although the statement cannot be the full truth, it is obvious that if our laws ever lost their stability, the nation's identity would be imperiled. In a relig­ ious community where the source of its identity is in the common memory of a divine revelation, the demand for stability is even stronger.
    [Show full text]
  • The Dutch Spainfighters
    The Dutch Spainfighters: ‘People who did not think solely on a national level, but also internationally’ The role of national sentiments in a transnational environment Romée Beaufort S1236024 Thesis ResMA PCNI Universiteit Leiden Supervisor: dr. Eric Storm 15752 words 13-12-2018 Image from IISG, CNDIBSBO, stuk 49, manuscript from Jacob Heshof. Quote from IISG, CNDIBSBO, stuk 40, interview with Willem de Jong: ‘mensen die niet louter nationaal, maar ook internationaal dachten’ Table of content Introduction - p. 2 Chapter 1: Why Spain?: ‘Hitting Hitler in Spain signifies the defense of our fatherland’ - p. 10 Chapter 2: In Spain: the old dream of ‘workers of the world, unite!’ turned into reality? - p. 23 Chapter 3: After Spain: ‘Look there is the steamboat from far-away Spain again’ - p. 34 Conclusion - p. 41 Bibliography - p. 44 1 ‘Janus Leijnse, Syria-goer avant la lettre’1 In recent years, Dutch newspapers have been filled with headlines covering the stories of Syria- goers, Dutch citizens and residents travelling to Syria to join the ranks of jihadist groups. In 2015, which may have been the peak of Islamic State’s power, the number of Dutch Syria- goers, including women, was estimated at 220.2 The media reports and contemplates on their motivation, radicalization, recruitment and the danger these fighters possibly constitute when they return to the Netherlands.3 Politicians participate in heated debates on the status of the nationality and passports of Dutch Syria-goers. 4 The exact nature of the motives of these fighters and their actual actions, organizations and roles in Syria remain within the domain of speculation.
    [Show full text]
  • Charitable Ownership/Use
    PT 01-59 Tax Type: Property Tax Issue: Charitable Ownership/Use STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS RUDOLF STEINER BRANCH OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL No. 00-PT-0010 SOCIETY OF CHICAGO (98-16-1077) P.I.N: 14-18-313-003 v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE RECOMMENDATION FOR DISPOSITION APPEARANCE: Messrs. Donald Schramm and Glenn Guttman of Rieff, Schramm & Kanter on behalf of the (hereinafter the “applicant”). SYNOPSIS: This proceeding raises the following issues: first, whether applicant qualifies as: (a) “religious society” whose property is subject to exemption under Section 15-40 of the Property Tax Code, 35 ILCS 200/1-1 et seq. (hereinafter the “Code”) if used for appropriate purposes; or; (b) a “school” within the meaning of Section 15-35 of the Code; or, (c) an “institution of public charity within the meaning of Section 15-65(a) of the Code; and, second, whether real estate identified by Cook County Parcel Index Number 14-18-313-003 (hereinafter the "subject property") was used for the exempt purposes specified in Sections 15-35, 15-40 and/or 15-65 during any part of the 1998 assessment year. The underlying controversy arises as follows: 1 Applicant filed an Real Estate Tax Exemption Complaint with the Cook County Board of Review (hereinafter the “Board”) on June 30, 1999. The Board reviewed applicant’s complaint and recommended to the Illinois Department of Revenue (hereinafter the "Department") that the requested exemption be denied on grounds of insufficient evidence. The Department then issued its initial determination in this matter, which found that the subject property was not in exempt ownership and not in exempt use, on January 13, 2000.
    [Show full text]
  • New Thought Bulletin V19 N6 Aug 1934
    ®.11 letu lbougbt JuBetin ,'·/"' ,.. \. '. ' I OFFICIAL MAGAZINE }1 ··--:' ~~~~~~; OF THE August, 1934 Vol. XIX, No. 6 Inter-National Truth Alliance REPORT OF ANNUAL CONGRESS THE FREE WORKING OF GOD'S LAW PUBUSHEDBI_-M_o_N_TH~LY~~~--~--~~--~-s-~_rs_SUE__ s_A_YE~AR The International New Thought Alliance Rooms 3n-312 Ouray Building 805 G Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. "Entered as second·claas matter December 9, $1.00 a Year- 10 Cents per Copy 1920, at thepost officeatWaahington,D.C., under the Act of March 3, 1879.'' Juttrnnttnuttl Nrw Wqnugqt Alltttutr H lltJdquarteTs 811-Sl!t OtmAY B=mo, 805 G STREET N. W. WABmNGTON, D. C. Executive Board Auditor, WM. I. HoscuoUER, President, JAMES A. EDGERTON, 25 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, ill. 1395 National Press Bldg., Wash., D. C. MRS. GRACE LIGHTFOOT PATCH, Secretary, Lucy McDONNELL, 3303 13th St., N. W., Wash., D. C. Headquarters Miss ELEANOR MEL, 1st Vice-Pres., DR. AMELIA A. RANDALL, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass. 2744 4th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. MRS. F. BEAL-CLARK, 2nd Vice-Pres., REV. C. W. MEACHAM, 215112 W. 12th St., Oklahoma City, 4308 Gano, St. Louis, Mo. Okla. 3rd Vice-Pres., MRS. MARGARET B. OMERLY, MRS. AGNES BARTON HASKELL, 8412 Navahoe St., Philadelphia, Pa. 179 Pine St., Holyoke, Mass. Treasurer, W. E. WING, MRS. ERMA WELLS, Larkin Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Church of Truth, Spokane, Wash. PAST PRESIDENTS MRS. ELIZABETH TOWNE DR. THOMAS PARKER BOYD REV. MURREL G. POWELL DR. HARRY GRANISON HILL MR. LORENZO B. ELLIOTT REV. EDNA LISTER TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Official Roster--------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Editorial by the President-JAMES A.
    [Show full text]
  • Saint John Henry Newman, Development of Doctrine, and Sensus Fidelium: His Enduring Legacy in Roman Catholic Theological Discourse
    Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021): 60–89 Saint John Henry Newman, Development of Doctrine, and Sensus Fidelium: His Enduring Legacy in Roman Catholic Theological Discourse Kenneth Parker The whole Church, laity and hierarchy together, bears responsi- bility for and mediates in history the revelation which is contained in the holy Scriptures and in the living apostolic Tradition … [A]ll believers [play a vital role] in the articulation and development of the faith …. “Sensus fidei in the life of the Church,” 3.1, 67 International Theological Commission of the Catholic Church Rome, July 2014 N 2014, THE INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL Commission pub- lished “Sensus fidei in the life of the Church,” which highlighted two critically important theological concepts: development and I sensus fidelium. Drawing inspiration directly from the works of John Henry Newman, this document not only affirmed the insights found in his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), which church authorities embraced during the first decade of New- man’s life as a Catholic, but also his provocative Rambler article, “On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine” (1859), which resulted in episcopal accusations of heresy and Newman’s delation to Rome. The tension between Newman’s theory of development and his appeal for the hierarchy to consider the experience of the “faithful” ultimately centers on the “seat” of authority, and whose voices matter. As a his- torical theologian, I recognize in the 175 year reception of Newman’s theory of development, the controversial character of this historio- graphical assumption—or “metanarrative”—which privileges the hi- erarchy’s authority to teach, but paradoxically acknowledges the ca- pacity of the “faithful” to receive—and at times reject—propositions presented to them as authoritative truth claims.1 1 Maurice Blondel, in his History and Dogma (1904), emphasized that historians always act on metaphysical assumptions when applying facts to the historical St.
    [Show full text]
  • Giuseppe Maria Abbate the Italian-American Celestial Messenger
    Magnus Lundberg & James W. Craig Jim W Giuseppe Maria Abbate The Italian-American Celestial Messenger Uppsala Studies in Church History 7 1 About the Series Uppsala Studies in Church History is a series that is published in the Department of Theology, Uppsala University. It includes works in both English and Swedish. The volumes are available open-access and only published in digital form, see www.diva-portal.org. For information on the individual titles, see the last page of this book. About the authors Magnus Lundberg is Professor of Church and Mission Studies and Acting Professor of Church History at Uppsala University. He specializes in early modern and modern church and mission history with a focus on colonial Latin America, Western Europe and on contemporary traditionalist and fringe Catholicism. This is his third monograph in the Uppsala Studies in Church History Series. In 2017, he published A Pope of Their Own: Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church and Tomás Ruiz: Utbildning, karriär och konflikter i den sena kolonialtidens Centralamerika. The Rev. Father James W. Craig is a priest living in the Chicagoland area. He has a degree in History from Northeastern Illinois University and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta the national honor society for historians. He was ordained to the priesthood of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church in 1994 by the late Archbishop Theodore Rematt. From the time he first started hearing stories of the Celestial Father he became fascinated with the life and legacy of Giuseppe Maria Abbate. He is also actively involved with the website Find a Grave, to date having posted over 31,000 photos to the site and creating over 12,000 memorials to commemorate the departed.
    [Show full text]
  • Yearbook American Churches
    1941 EDITION YEARBOOK s of AMERICAN CHURCHES (FIFTEENTH ISSUE) (BIENNIAL) Edited By BENSON Y. LANDIS Under the Auspices of the FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA Published by YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN CHURCHES PRESS F. C. VIGUERIE, (Publisher) 37-41 85TH ST., JACKSON HEIGHTS, N. Y. PREVIOUS ISSUES Year of Publication Title Editor 1916 Federal Council Yearbook .............. H. K. Carroll 1917 Yearbook of the Churches................H. K. Carroll • . 1918 Yearbook of the Churches................C. F. Armitage 1919 Yearbook of the Churches................C. F. Armitage 1920 Yearbook of the Churches.............. S. R. Warburton 1922 Yearbook of the Churches................E. O. Watson 1923 Yearbook of the Churches............... E. O. Watson 1925 Yearbook of the Churches............... E. O. Watson 1927 The Handbook of the Churches....... B. S. Winchester 1931 The New Handbook of the Churches .. Charles Stelzle 1933 Yearbook of American Churches........ H. C. Weber 1935 Yearbook of American Churches.........H. C. Weber 1937 Yearbook of American Churches.........H. C. Weber 1939 Yearbook of American Churches.........H. C. Weber Printed in the United States of America COPYRIGHT, 1941, BY SAMUELWUEL McCREA CAVERTCAVEf All rights reserved H CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................................... iv I. The Calendar for the Christian Years 1941 and 1942 .................... v A Table of Dates A h e a d ....................................................... x II. Directories 1. Religious
    [Show full text]
  • Black History, 1877-1954
    THE BRITISH LIBRARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE: 1877-1954 A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO MATERIALS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY BY JEAN KEMBLE THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE, 1877-1954 Contents Introduction Agriculture Art & Photography Civil Rights Crime and Punishment Demography Du Bois, W.E.B. Economics Education Entertainment – Film, Radio, Theatre Family Folklore Freemasonry Marcus Garvey General Great Depression/New Deal Great Migration Health & Medicine Historiography Ku Klux Klan Law Leadership Libraries Lynching & Violence Military NAACP National Urban League Philanthropy Politics Press Race Relations & ‘The Negro Question’ Religion Riots & Protests Sport Transport Tuskegee Institute Urban Life Booker T. Washington West Women Work & Unions World Wars States Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Bibliographies/Reference works Introduction Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, African American history, once the preserve of a few dedicated individuals, has experienced an expansion unprecedented in historical research. The effect of this on-going, scholarly ‘explosion’, in which both black and white historians are actively engaged, is both manifold and wide-reaching for in illuminating myriad aspects of African American life and culture from the colonial period to the very recent past it is simultaneously, and inevitably, enriching our understanding of the entire fabric of American social, economic, cultural and political history. Perhaps not surprisingly the depth and breadth of coverage received by particular topics and time-periods has so far been uneven.
    [Show full text]
  • October 2015 Volume XLVII, Number 7 CONTENTS
    a publication of Assemblies of Yahweh An Assemblies of Yahweh publication. Assemblies of Yahweh, The Narrow Way Newsletter, The Sacred Name Broadcaster, The Sacred Name Broadcast, The Sacred Scriptures, The Sacred Name Telecast, and WMLK Radio are Service Marks and Trade- marks of Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507 October 2015 Volume XLVII, Number 7 CONTENTS 1 What is the Authoritative Biblical Calendar for Yahweh’s Assembly Today? Does it matter when we keep Yahweh’s holy days? Obviously, it does matter, because Almighty Yahweh designates this sacred time for His worship. 7 The Civilizing Cycle People of the supposedly ‘civilized’ Western world disrobe in public, falling Page 1 into a modern-day degeneration of the civilizing cycle. The Scriptures, however, teach modesty of dress and rejection of these worldly trends. 11 On What Day Will the Messiah Return? Are you waiting until the eleventh hour to repent and prepare for the Second Coming of Yahshua the Messiah? Will Yahshua find us watching when He returns? 14 World Religion in Chaos The religions of the world are in confusion—rejecting sound doctrine. Page 7 Standing opposite of this confusion is the Assemblies of Yahweh, who not only accepts sound doctrine, strives to live by it each day. 16 Quest for Healthful Living The Scriptures teach a doctrine of purity of the body; therefore, it should be our objective to live as healthfully as we can. 21 Program Log Be sure to listen to the Sacred Name Broadcast and watch the Sacred Page 16 Name Telecast. Tell your friends! Also, streaming is available at your con- venience at www.WMLK.net.
    [Show full text]
  • Pentecostalism As Religion of Periphery: an Analysis of Brazilian Case
    Pentecostalism as religion of periphery: an analysis of Brazilian case Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor philosophae (Dr. phil.) eingerichtet an der Philosophischen Fakultät III der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Von Master of Science Brand Arenari Präsident der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrick Olbertz Dekanin der Philosophen Fakultät III Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal Gutachter: 1: Klaus Eder 2: Jessé Freire Souza Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 12.12.2013 1 Abstract All the analyses we have developed throughout this dissertation point to a central element in the emergence and development of Pentecostalism, i.e., its raw material – the promise of religious salvation – is based on the idea of social ascension, particularly the ascension related to the integration of sub-integrated social groups to the dynamics of society. The new religion that arose in the USA focused on the needs and social dramas that were specific of the newly arrived to the urban world of the large North-American cities, those who inhabited the periphery of these cities, those that were socially, economically, and ethnically excluded from the core of society. We also analysed how the same social drama was the basis for the development of Pentecostalism in Latin America and, especially, in Brazil. In this country, a great mass of excluded individuals, also residents of urban peripheries (which proves the non-traditional and modern characteristic of these sectors), found in Pentecostalism the promises of answers to their dramas, mainly the anxiety to become integrated to a world in which they did not belong before. Such integration was embedded in the promise present in the modernity of social ascension.
    [Show full text]
  • A Note of Explanation: -- Even Though This File Is "About" and Not "By" Paul King, Because He Was Widely
    A Note of Explanation: -- Even though this file is "about" and not "by" Paul King, because he was widely known, loved, and revered by many in the Bible Missionary Church and Conservative Holiness Movement, I have elected to place the file in a folder under his own name. -- DVM * * * * * * * PAUL KING -- AT HOME WITH THE LORD By Spencer Johnson Paul E. King was born to Rev. and Mrs. L. W. King at Pittsburgh, Pa. on Oct. 7, 1920. At the age of 18 he was genuinely born of the Spirit and a short time later was sanctified wholly. Soon after he was saved he answered the call to preach. He took his ministerial studies at Trevecca College. He continued to study after his college days and prepared himself that he might rightly divide the word of truth and proved himself to be a workman that needed not to be ashamed. His father founded the Tri-State Holiness camp meeting at Clinton, Pa. In the early days of his ministry Brother Paul was a faithful and regular attendant at the camp meetings. It was there in the camp meeting that he met Lucille Hoffman, who at that time was a part of the spiritual Hoffman trio. The friendship between Paul King and Lucille Hoffman grew and blossomed into a beautiful romance which culminated in the wedding of Paul and Lucille on June 1, 1945. They were sweethearts until the day of his death. They became a useful and powerful team for God. Before his marriage Paul had pastored at Dalton, Georgia.
    [Show full text]