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Through the Manuscripts of Some Christian Missionaries
j OURNAL OF IsLAı'vlICJE RUSALEM STIJD!ES (SUMMER 2011) THE MODERN IMAGE OF THE HOLY LAND: THROUGH THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SOME CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES PAOLO MAGGIOLINI Luspio University, Roma This article aims to analyse the modern iınage of the Holy Land as it emerges from tbe accounts of several missionaries who visited this territory during the 19th century. The article will specifıcally examine tbe biography of William Lethaby (1910), who, with his wife, was affiliated with The Wesleyan Metbodists, and the manuscripts of Father Jausseo (1908, 1927), a Catholic missionary from France. The experiences of these people, crystallised in the historical texts that portray their lives, teli us about the encounter between two different cultural wotlds. The missionaries or travellers iınmersed tbemselves in the local field, took possessioo of it and rebuilt it according to their personal cultural sensibility, making it accessible to a wider Western audience. Thanks to this very act of force based on the written word, they reconstructed the iınage of the Holy Land, of its heart, Jerusalem, of its inhabitants and of the rights of the three monotheistic religions. They rewrote the local history and suggested the future of this land. The Holy Land and Jerusalem do not exist per se, but they are constructed according to the personal peı:ception of these people through the conviction of their moral and cultural superiority. Firstly, regarding the view of the Holy Land by Orientalists, the analysis of these sources gives an insight into the historical meaning and scope of the cultural acquisition process of the Holy Land and Jerusalem by the West. -
Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940
Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940 Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Open Jerusalem Edited by Vincent Lemire (Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University) and Angelos Dalachanis (French School at Athens) VOLUME 1 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/opje Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940 Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City Edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire LEIDEN | BOSTON Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. The Open Jerusalem project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) (starting grant No 337895) Note for the cover image: Photograph of two women making Palestinian point lace seated outdoors on a balcony, with the Old City of Jerusalem in the background. American Colony School of Handicrafts, Jerusalem, Palestine, ca. 1930. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.054/ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dalachanis, Angelos, editor. -
The Eastern Mission of the Pontifical Commission for Russia, Origins to 1933
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations August 2017 Lux Occidentale: The aE stern Mission of the Pontifical Commission for Russia, Origins to 1933 Michael Anthony Guzik University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the European History Commons, History of Religion Commons, and the Other History Commons Recommended Citation Guzik, Michael Anthony, "Lux Occidentale: The Eastern Mission of the Pontifical ommiC ssion for Russia, Origins to 1933" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 1632. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1632 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LUX OCCIDENTALE: THE EASTERN MISSION OF THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR RUSSIA, ORIGINS TO 1933 by Michael A. Guzik A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee August 2017 ABSTRACT LUX OCCIDENTALE: THE EASTERN MISSION OF THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR RUSSIA, ORIGINS TO 1933 by Michael A. Guzik The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017 Under the Supervision of Professor Neal Pease Although it was first a sub-commission within the Congregation for the Eastern Churches (CEO), the Pontifical Commission for Russia (PCpR) emerged as an independent commission under the presidency of the noted Vatican Russian expert, Michel d’Herbigny, S.J. in 1925, and remained so until 1933 when it was re-integrated into CEO. -
News Letter ENG. 48.Qxd
N° 48 Newsletter FA LL 2017 jerusalem cross ordinis equestris sancti sepulchri hierosolymitani @granmagistero.oessh www.oessh.va @GM_oessh Reflections of the Grand Master ow accurately Blessed John Henry Newman prepares the mood for this Advent HSeason: “The year is worn out: spring, summer, autumn, each in turn have brought their utmost, but they are over and the end is come. All is past and gone, all has failed... and the austere weather which succeeds, though ungrateful to the body, is in tone with our feelings, and acceptable. Thus the soul is cast forward upon the future... and does it rejoice that there are new heavens and a new earth to come. These are feelings of holy men waiting earnestly for the Advent of Christ.” Through Mary and Joseph, the Shepherds and Magi, the human race for the first time saw God face to face. In earliest days “Advent” marked that “Coming” of Christ – Christmas Day. In time, the scope of the mystery was broadened to include a preparation for his Christmas Coming and his “Final Coming” on Judgment Day. There is no better way to prepare for these mysteries than by celebrating what is so central to our Faith, his sacramental Coming in the Eucharist – for which we should prepare as well. Through the Sacrament of Penance, may each of us entrust to the forgiving Christ “all that is past, all that is gone and all that has failed” as we earnestly await for the Advent of Christ and the new hope it brings this Christmas. Edwin Cardinal O’Brien During his official trip to the Holy Land, the new Governor General received the gift of an icon of Our Lady of Palestine from the priests of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. -
Anglo-Ethiopian Relations: 1840-1868
University of Nebraska at Omaha DigitalCommons@UNO Student Work 12-1-1979 Anglo-Ethiopian relations: 1840-1868 Barbara in den Bosch University of Nebraska at Omaha Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork Recommended Citation Bosch, Barbara in den, "Anglo-Ethiopian relations: 1840-1868" (1979). Student Work. 438. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/438 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Work by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Anglo-Ethiopian Relationsi 1840-1868 A Thesis Presented to the Department of History and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha by Barbara in den Bosch December 1979 UMI Number: EP73076 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI EP73076 Published by ProQuest LLC (2015). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Thesis Acceptance Accepted for the faculty of the Graduate College, University of Nebraska, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts, University of Nebraska at Omaha. -
Holy Land and Holy See
1 HOLY LAND AND HOLY SEE PAPAL POLICY ON PALESTINE DURING THE PONTIFICATES OF POPES PIUS X, BENEDICT XV AND PIUS XI FROM 1903 TO 1939 PhD Thesis Gareth Simon Graham Grainger University of Divinity Student ID: 200712888 26 July 2017 2 CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction – Question, Hypothesis and Methodology Chapter 2: A Saint for Jerusalem – Pope Pius X and Palestine Chapter 3: The Balfour Bombshell – Pope Benedict XV and Palestine Chapter 4: Uneasy Mandate – Pope Pius XI and Palestine Chapter 5: Aftermath and Conclusions Appendix 1.The Roads to the Holy Sepulchre – Papal Policy on Palestine from the Crusades to the Twentieth Century Appendix 2.The Origins and Evolution of Zionism and the Zionist Project Appendix 3.The Policies of the Principal Towards Palestine from 1903 to 1939 Appendix 4. Glossary Appendix 5. Dramatis Personae Bibliography 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION – QUESTION, HYPOTHESIS AND METHODOLOGY 1.1. THE INTRIGUING QUESTION Invitation to Dr Theodor Herzl to attend Audience with Pope Pius X On 25 January 1904, the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the recently-elected Pope Pius X granted an Audience in the Vatican Palace to Dr Theodor Herzl, leader of the Zionist movement, and heard his plea for papal approval for the Zionist project for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Dr Herzl outlined to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church the full details of the Zionist project, providing assurances that the various Holy Places in Palestine would be “ex-territorialised” to ensure their security and protection, and sought the Pope’s endorsement and support, preferably through the issuing of a pro-Zionist encyclical. -
First Official Visit of the New Governor General to the Holy Land
Special focus: first official visit of the new Governor General to the Holy Land The Grand Magisterium delegation, accompanied by the Governor General, was received at the Latin Patriarchate by Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, New Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem. From September 10 to 16, 2017, Ambassador Leonardo Visconti of Modrone, Governor General of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, made his first official visit to the Holy Land. He was accompanied on this trip by a delegation composed of Msgr. Fortunato Frezza, Master of Ceremonies of the Order, Thomas McKiernan, President of the Holy Land Commission of the Grand Magisterium, Professor Bartholomew McGettrick, member of the same Commission, and the author of this report who is the director of the Order’s Communication Office in Rome. During this visit, the Governor General was able to spend time with his hosts at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem – in Israel, Palestine and Jordan – focusing his attention on the ongoing projects supported by the Order in the field of education, pastoral care and ministry for refugees. This visit providentially took place during 170th anniversary of the restoration of the Latin Patriarchate and the reorganization of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope Pius IX in the summer of 1847. Before his departure, the Governor General had the opportunity to meet with the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Msgr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in order to prepare for his pilgrimage since the Archbishop was unfortunately in Rome for the -
Christ Church (Anglican) in Nazareth: a Brief History with Photographs
St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 5 | October 2012 CHRIST CHURCH (ANGLICAN) IN NAZARETH: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH PHOTOGRAPHS By Duane Alexander Miller To understand the history of this parish one needs to understand a little bit of the background of what is now the Diocese of Jerusalem, which is one of the four dioceses of the Episcopal Church in Jerusa- lem and the Middle East, and which is part of the worldwide Angli- can Communion. The diocese started out as a joint venture of the Lutheran Prus- sian Church and the Church of England, so it was really a Protestant diocese, and not only an Anglican diocese. The Protestant diocese was founded in the 1840’s, in the days of the Ottoman Empire, and our first bishop was Michael Solomon Al- exander. He was a Jewish rabbi who came to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah. He became a priest, and was then conse- crated to be bishop of the newly formed Pro- testant Diocese of Je- Christ Church Nazareth from the courtyard, with a rusalem. He arrived tower but no steeple. Duane A. Miller ©2011 in Jerusalem in 1842 with his wife and children. In those days Jerusalem was a much-neglected, unhealthy place to live. Bishop Alexander died after only three years in Jerusa- lem and is buried on the Mount of Olives. The main goal of his min- istry was to establish a Hebrew congregation on Mount Zion—a goal that he and his co-workers saw as the fulfillment of biblical proph- ecy. -
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Mission Studies 38 (2021) 59–76 brill.com/mist Secularizing Effects of Christian Mission: Fifty Years After Elmer Miller’s “The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularization” Maryse Kruithof Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] Abstract It has been suggested that Christianity is inextricably linked with secularization due to its emphasis on purification and rationalization. But if we believe secularization in Europe is at least partly caused by internal developments within Christianity, may we then assume that secularization emerges wherever Christian missionaries are suc- cessful? Has the Christian mission unwittingly instigated secularization in its mission fields? This literature review analyses the argument that American anthropologist Elmer Miller made in the article “The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularization” (1970) and explores whether his thesis has been confirmed in academic literature dur- ing the past fifty years. Miller presents rationalization as the primary driver of secu- larization and explains how missionaries have played a decisive role in this process. This paper demonstrates that while rationalization has often been mentioned as an effect of the Christian mission in other sources, the process has rarely been linked to secularization in the mission field. Keywords secularization – rationalization – modernisation – westernization – diabolisation – re-enchantment 1 Mission and Secularization Various authors have suggested that Christianity and secularization are inextri- cably linked. In the comprehensive study A secular Age (2007), Charles Taylor © Maryse Kruithof, 2021 | doi:10.1163/15733831-12341774 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0Downloaded license. from Brill.com09/28/2021 11:58:14AM via free access 60 Kruithof picks up Weber’s classical thesis that secularization in Europe is the result of a long history of reform movements within western Christianity. -
Land of Promise?
LAND OF PROMISE? An Anglican exploration of Christian attitudes to the Holy Land, with special reference to ‘Christian Zionism’ A report from the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns Published by: The Anglican Consultative Council London, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9566596-1-3 © The Anglican Consultative Council 2 Table of contents Foreword………………………………………………………………………. 4 1. An Encounter in the darkness…………………………………… 7 2. Zionisms, anti-Zionisms and the Holy Land………………… 9 3. Some statements and reflections………………………………21 4. Some stories for Anglicans………………………………………..32 5. Some theological resources for Anglicans………………...36 6. Some history…………………………………………………………….39 7. Some key theological issues: gift; return; city…………..53 8. Mapping our views………….……………………………….………67 Afterword……………………………………………………………………..71 3 Foreword In his 2012 Easter Day sermon Archbishop Rowan Williams spoke of the ‘intractable problems’ of our time. He reflected: ‘At Easter we cannot help but think about the land that Jesus knew and the city outside whose walls he was crucified. These last months have seen a phase of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians yet again stalling, staggering and delivering little or nothing for those who most need signs of hope. Everything seems to be presented as a zero-sum game. And all who love both the Israeli and the Palestinian communities and long for their security will feel more desperate than ever … Listening to a rabbi talking about what it is like to witness the gathering up of body parts after a terrorist attack is something that can't be forgotten; neither is listening to a Palestinian whose parent or child has been killed in front of their eyes in a mortar bombing.’ The Archbishop went on to comment: ‘So how do we respond? By turning up the volume of partisanship, by searching for new diplomatic initiatives, by pretending it isn't as bad as all that after all? If we believe in a God who acts, we have to go beyond this. -
Archeology and Mission: the British Presence in Nineteenth- Century Jerusalem
Archeology and Introduction Mission: In 1834, James Cartwright, secretary of the London Society for the Conversion of the The British Jews, composed a pamphlet entitled “The Presence in Hebrew Church in Jerusalem,” in which he discussed the impetus for his organization’s Nineteenth- activities in Palestine. “It is well known,” he Century Jerusalem explained, “that for ages various branches of the Christian Church have had their Laura C. Robson convents and their places of worship in Jerusalem. The Greek, the Roman Catholic, the Armenian, can each find brethren to receive him, and a house of prayer in which to worship. In Jerusalem also the Turk has his mosque and the Jew his synagogue. The pure Christianity of the Reformation alone appears as a stranger.”1 This brand of evangelical Protestantism, which viewed itself as competing primarily A group of tourists with local man in with “degenerate” forms of Christianity Jerusalem, circa 1880. Source: Library of like Catholicism, represented the driving Congress. force behind British activity in Palestine, Jerusalem Quarterly 40 [ 5 ] and especially in Jerusalem, for much of the nineteenth century. It manifested itself especially in two fields: missionary activity and archeological pursuits. The British who poured into Palestine during the nineteenth century, undertaking missionary work, archeological research, or both, and took as their primary frame of reference a Protestant evangelical theology that situated itself in direct opposition to the ritualistic practices and hierarchical organization of Catholicism and, by extension, the Eastern Christian churches. This theological approach led the British to focus their energies on the small local populations of Christians and Jews, to the almost total exclusion of the Muslim community. -
Conversion and Conflict in Palestine
Conversion and Conflict in Palestine © Charlotte van der Leest – 2008 ISBN 978-90-9023203-4 Conversion and Conflict in Palestine The Missions of the Church Missionary Society and the Protestant Bishop Samuel Gobat Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof.mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 18 juni 2008 klokke 15:00 uur door Charlotte van der Leest geboren te Breukelen in 1973 Promotiecommmissie Promotoren: Prof.dr. H.L. Murre-van den Berg Prof.dr. E.G.E. van der Wall Referent: Dr. I.M. Okkenhaug (Universiteit van Bergen, Noorwegen) Overige leden: Dr. J.W. Buisman Prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher A research visit to Rome was funded by the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome (KNIR) Cover: Louis Haghe, ‘Cana’, a lithograph after a watercolour by David Roberts (Plate 33 from The Holy Land , vol. 1, 1842; part of the larger series The Holy Land, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia (1842-1849) © Trustees of the British Museum Contents Abbreviations ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------9999 MapMap------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- 111111 IntroductionIntroduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------