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Part of the series The United States in the world;United States in the world.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Prologue: An American missionary in London — Introduction: Christian imperialism and American foreign missions — Hierarchies of heathenism — Missions on the British model — Mission schools and the meaning of conversion — Missions as settler colonies — American politics and the Cherokee mission — Missionaries and colonies — A Christian colony in Singapore — Conclusion: Missions and American imperialism.

Subjects:

• Missions, American — History — 19th century.
• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions — History.
• Political messianism — United States — History — 19th century.
• Christianity and politics — United States — History — 19th century.
• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. fast (OCoLC)fst00515262
• Christianity and politics. fast (OCoLC)fst00859736
• Missions, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01023860
• Political messianism. fast (OCoLC)fst01732352
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1800 – 1899 fast

Requested by Lansing, M.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217).
• The first half — Halftime — The second half.

Subjects:

• Middle-aged persons — Religious life.
• Middle-aged persons — Psychology.
• Self-realization — Religious aspects — Christianity.

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• The day the music died — Singing the Church’s song — Finding the center of gravity — Amusing ourselves to death — Martin Luther’s lost Christmas hymn — What’s your congregation’s hymn repertoire? — The dark side of Christmas carols — The creeping kudzu of applause — The Persistent Widow and the Church’s songs — Hymns Jesus would not have liked — Advice for young church musicians — Finding the congregation’s voice — About those lesser festivals — Music as craft: advice for fledgling composers — The beauty of simplicity — What are you giving up for Lent? — Celebrating Easter, for more than a day — Regaining our balance — To sing or not to sing at Holy Communion — How do your chor rehearsals end? — Getting back on track: shaping the faith through liturgy and song — Simple, lean, and spare — Making surprising connections.
• It is hoped that these brief essays will cause the reader to think again about some subjects related to worship and church music, and perhaps come to new or different conclusions. These essays can be helpful and useful as discussion starters for worship committees or conversations between pastors and church musicians. From foreword.

Subjects:

• Public worship.
• Music in churches.
• Liturgics.

Requested by Klemp, M.

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Notes:

• Originally published in 1979 by Random House, New York.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-174) and index.
• The controversy over Christ’s resurrection : historical event or symbol? — One God, one bishop : the politics of monotheism — God the father/God the mother — The passion of Christ and the persecution of Christians — Whose church is the true church ? — Gnosis : self-knowledge as knowledge of God.
• A startling account of the meaning of Jesus and the origin of Christianity based on gnostic gospels and other secret texts, written almost 2,000 years ago, recently discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt –Jacket subtitle.

Subjects:

• Gnosticism.
• Apocryphal Gospels.
• Nag Hammadi codices.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217).
• The first half — Halftime — The second half.

Subjects:

• Middle-aged persons — Religious life.
• Middle-aged persons — Psychology.
• Self-realization — Religious aspects — Christianity.

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Notes:

• The day the music died — Singing the Church’s song — Finding the center of gravity — Amusing ourselves to death — Martin Luther’s lost Christmas hymn — What’s your congregation’s hymn repertoire? — The dark side of Christmas carols — The creeping kudzu of applause — The Persistent Widow and the Church’s songs — Hymns Jesus would not have liked — Advice for young church musicians — Finding the congregation’s voice — About those lesser festivals — Music as craft: advice for fledgling composers — The beauty of simplicity — What are you giving up for Lent? — Celebrating Easter, for more than a day — Regaining our balance — To sing or not to sing at Holy Communion — How do your chor rehearsals end? — Getting back on track: shaping the faith through liturgy and song — Simple, lean, and spare — Making surprising connections.
• It is hoped that these brief essays will cause the reader to think again about some subjects related to worship and church music, and perhaps come to new or different conclusions. These essays can be helpful and useful as discussion starters for worship committees or conversations between pastors and church musicians. From foreword.

Subjects:

• Public worship.
• Music in churches.
• Liturgics.

Requested by Klemp, M.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
• The signs of our times — Jesus’s spirituality — Personal transformation — Jesus and the experience of oneness.

Subjects:

• Spirituality.
• Jesus Christ — Person and offices.

Requested by Noonan, N.

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Part of the series The classics of western spirituality;Classics of Western spirituality.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-353) and index.
• Lutheran devotions — Lutheran hymns.
• Sacred meditations (1606) School of piety or The practice of godliness (1622) / Johann Gerhard — Spiritual hours of refreshment (1664) / Heinrich Müller — Gotthold’s occasional devotions (1667) Treasure of the soul (1675) / Christian Scriver — Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake, awake, for night is flying) Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (O morning-star, how fair and bright) / Philipp Nicolai — Ach bleib’ mit deiner Gnade (Abide among us with thy grace) / Josua Stegmann — Herzliebster Jesu, was hast Du verbrochen (Alas, dear Lord, what law then hast thou broken) Herr unser Gott, lass nicht zu Schanden werden (Ah! Lord our God, let them not be confounded) O Gott, du frommer Gott (O God, thou faithful God) O Jesu Christe wahres Licht (Christ, our true and only light) Hilf mir, mein Gott (Oh help me, God, that e’er for thee) / Johann Heermann — Nun danket alle Gott (Now thank we all our God) / Martin Rinckart — O Licht geboren aus dem Lichte (O light, who out of light wast born) / Martin Opitz — In allen meinen Thaten (Where’er I go, whate’er my task) / Paul Fleming — Hilf, Herr Jesu, lass gelingen (Help us, O Lord! Behold, we enter) Werde Licht du Stadt der Heiden (All ye gentile lands awake!) Wie wohl hast du gelabet (O living bread from heaven) Gott sei gelobet der allein (Now God be praised, and God alone!) / Johann von Rist — Wie soll ich dich empfangen (Ah Lord, how shall I meet thee) Frölich soll mein Herze springen (All my heart this night rejoices) O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (O sacred head, now wounded) Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld (Lamb goes uncomplaining forth) Auf, auf mein Herz mit Freuden (Awake, my heart, with gladness) O Jesu Christ, mein schönstes Licht (Jesus, thy boundless love to me) Sollt’ ich meinem Gott nicht singen (I will sing my maker’s praises) Was Gott gefällt O frommes Kind (What pleases God, o pious soul) Ist Gott für mich, so trete (If God himself be for me) Befiehl du deine W

Subjects:

• Meditations.
• Lutheran Church — Prayers and devotions.
• Lutheran Church — Hymns.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles — Early Cistercian theology in England — Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism — Female versus male spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne — Richard Rolle of Hampole : England’s first great mystic — Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England — The cloud of unknowing and related tracts — Walter Hilton : England’s mystic theologian — The singular vision of Julian of Norwich — Margery Kempe : the shocking fool in Christ — Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.
• In English translated from German.

Subjects:

• Mysticism — England — History — Middle Ages, 600-1500.
• English literature — Middle English, 1100-1500 — History and criticism.
• Christian literature, English (Middle) — History and criticism.
• England. fast (OCoLC)fst01219920
• 600 – 1500 fast
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

Requested by Adamo, P

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-254) and index.
• Postsecular America / Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen — The religious convictions of college and university professors / Neil Gross and Solon Simmons — Can faith be more than a sideshow in the contemporary academy? / Robert Wuthnow — A level playing field for religion in higher education / John J. DiIulio Jr. — The ideals and diversity of church-related higher education / Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen — Why faculty find it difficult to talk about religion / Mark U. Edwards Jr. — Faculty priorities / R. Eugene Rice — The religious and spiritual journeys of college students / Larry A. Braskamp — The different spiritualities of the students we teach / Robert J. Nash and DeMethra LaSha Bradley — Spirituality, diversity, and learner-centered teaching / Elizabeth J. Tisdell — Taking religion seriously in public universities / Warren A. Nord — Religious pluralism, the study of religion, and postsecular culture / Amanda Porterfield — Professing understanding and professing faith / Lee S. Shulman — Talking about religion / Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen.

Subjects:

• Universities and colleges — Religion.
• Church and education.

Requested by Irvine, G.