Church Newspapers Research Articles

The Church Renewal Movement in Ukraine: Based on the Materials of the Kharkiv “Tserkovna Hazeta” (1906)

The article describes the church renewal movement, the emergence of which Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century was a fully natural phenomenon due to the formation of initial liberal processes in society generally caused by the revolution of 1905–1907. It is shown that, not being national-liberation movement, the renewal movement was ideologically based in many respects on the principles of the functioning of the old Orthodox Church in Ukraine (Kyiv Metropolis), which was absorbed by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686. The move was, in particular, about the independence of the church from the state, canon law, freedom of religion. As evidenced by the materials of the “Tserkovna Hazeta” (“Church Newspaper”), Kharkiv renewalists advocated the need for intra-church reforms in close connection with reforms of a general social nature. Among them were the following: shortening the working day and improving the working conditions of workers, overcoming the lack of land owned by peasants, granting civil rights and freedoms to all categories of the population, banning the death penalty. Rejecting the course of complete separation of the state from the church, the renewalists professed their harmony, the goal of which was declared to be the formation of a “Christian public”, and the means of its creation was to be non-violent “Christian politics”. The short-term existence of the church renewal movement is interpreted first due to the narrow social base of renewal at that time, and second to be a proof of the imperial Russian state’s inadmissibility of any forms of ecclesiastical and generally social liberal ideology.

»Gesellschaftlicher Dienst« oder »gebotene Parteinahme«?

The main aspect of this article is to present the reactions in the media of the GDR and the Federal Republic to the Synod of the Federation of Protestant Churches in the GDR (BEK) in Dresden in 1972 and Heino Falcke’s lecture, »Christus befreit – darum Kirche für andere«. It reproduces central excerpts from these newspaper-articles and analyzes their statements. As a result, it can be stated that the synod and the main presentation were received in East and West with different emphases: The reporting on the synod in the church newspapers of the GDR was critical and rarely differed in their judgments. In the Mecklenburgische Kirchenzeitung and some theological journals of the GDR, however, Falcke’s lecture was openly attacked. The daily newspapers of the GDR, controlled by the SED, tried to interpret the synod as an expression of good relations between church and state; the newspapers of the CDU published further reports and comments, but partly also attacks against Falcke’s input. The coverage in the newspapers of the Federal Republic focused on the problems between church and state, which were discussed on the synod. Thanks to the epd and especially to Reinhard Henkys there was a reporting on the deliberations of the synod in the newspapers and on the radio; excerpts from Falcke’s speech were taken up and disseminated. It’s interesting that the international press, especially in Great Britain, has reported extensively.

Corporeality in the View of Selected Christian Churches in Czech Lands from 1917 to 1970

This paper presents part of a wider research project, focusing on the view of corporeality, which was presented by selected Christian churches through church documents and commentaries in church newspapers during the period from 1917 to 1970 in the Czech lands. The view on corporeality was deduced from the churches’ view of body and soul and their mutual relationship, as well as from their attitude to activities that are focused primarily on the development of the physical aspect of man, consequently on sport and physical exercise, and also to the world in its materialistic form in general. The applied research methods were: the discourse-historical approach and hermeneutics. Five essential discourses were identified that construct the view on corporeality: the discourse of givenness; the discourse of acquired construct; the national discourse; the discourse of instrument; and the discourse of non-fulfilment. Within their framework, four so-called cross-sectional discourses were identified: freedom – bondage; unity – discord; fragment – whole; spiritual – material. The paper‘s findings suggest that the selected churches approach the body and soul dualistically, yet they should be not put in an antagonistic but in a congruent relation. The presented empirical research uncovered a view on corporeality that has not yet been expressed in specialist literature or any research carried out, as it dealt with the view of Christian churches on corporeality. Keywords: Corporeality, The Church, The Mutual Relationship between Soul and Body

Was Joseph Smith a Monarchotheist? An Engagement with Blake Ostler's Theological Position on the Nature of God

Was Joseph Smith a Monarchotheist? An Engagement with Blake Ostler's Theological Position on the Nature of God

Church Media and Reconciliation in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA)

In honour of Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel, this article is dedicated to her last endeavour, “to reflect on the road travelled” of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). Plaatjies-Van Huffel became outspoken against the lack of internal unity in URCSA, especially after the retraction of her nomination as Actuarius at the URCSA Cape Synod elections in 2018. In this regard, the article focuses particularly on reconciliation in URCSA with a focus on the role of the church media as a medium for reconciliation. The paper will focus on the media reporting of the DRMC church newspaper, Die Ligdraer, between 1990 and 1994 on church unification between the DRCA and the DRMC as a case study to reflect on what role church media can play in the internal unification processes in URCSA. The author conducts a rhetorical analysis of the DRMC’s newspaper, Die Ligdraer, and its role in the facilitation of unification between two churches (DRMC and DRCA), with different ethnic and cultural traditions that became reconciled and united in the context of political transition within the broader South African context.

СРПСКИ ЦРКВЕНИ ЧАСОПИСИ О ОРГАНИЗАЦИЈИ, ШИРЕЊУ И ДЈЕЛОВАЊУ КОМУНИЗМА У КРАЉЕВИНИ СХС/ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ (1920–1940)

The primary intention of the paper is to show Communism organization, expansion and operation followed by Serbian Church magazines between 1920 and 1940 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia. The author, will by analyzing all available and the relevant church newspapers from that period show how the Serbian Church magazines reacted to Communism. Special attention will be paid to the organization, expansion and (secret) action of the Communists since the founding of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPY) and the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) until the beginning of World War II. Communism, at the time, was a new political philosophy which was developed as a child of socialism versus capitalism. Communism slowly came to the scene of the new state which was founded after World War I. Communism using the still young, economically weaken, and we can say insufficiently organized, multinational and multi-religious Kingdom, slowly, with a great discipline of his supporters and good organization expanded its field of action. In this paper, we will talk about it, whether, and how, Serbian church magazine recognized organization and expansion of the new political thinking and how it commented on itture.

Accessing Early Black Print

Accessing Early Black Print Eric Gardner My contribution to the 2014 mla roundtable from which this forum grew centered on the word “access,” treating it capaciously and moving from questions of digitization and the preparation of editions to broad questions of praxis. In this Legacy forum I reiterate some of my arguments, update others, and emphasize how those arguments apply especially to Black women’s histories, texts, and places in print culture studies. Now as then, much that I have to say expresses worry and sometimes anger, but, as I did at the roundtable, I want to open with a moment of joy. Drafting the original piece, I snuck time to read the Legacy tributes to Frances Smith Foster and was especially enriched by Elizabeth Engelhardt’s “Cultivate Your Look of Astonished Disdain: Seven Mentoring Lessons from Frances Smith Foster.” “Lesson #3” is “The stakes are too high for us to be bored or boring.” “At the end of … [Foster’s] classes,” Engel-hardt writes, “the lesson was becoming clear. This stuff matters too much to waste time. And we have to do it together” (233–34). This moment remains my primer on access—a broad and expansive “we,” a real sense of duty, and a recognition that with access comes immense responsibility. Digitization has, of course, changed not only the approaches and some of the focal texts of African American literary study but also the very concept of “access.” The North American Slave Narratives project (nasn) on the Documenting the American South website (one of William L. Andrews’s greatest gifts to the field) remains a beacon. It is free, usable with even a slow Internet connection, carefully planned and executed, and rich in rare resources. It makes selective images available and provides some limited apparatus. Further, what might simply seem a massive collection is actually a powerful argument for the diversity of the genre.1 But “digital” does not mean accessible, and far too few of our resources are available even through venues like the nasn project. Try, for example, to find a single early issue of the Christian Recorder online without a subscription to Accessible Archives. If you are at a Research I institution, visit the database page of a regional comprehensive university or a small liberal arts college and imagine doing your work—our work—with the resources many academics actually have. Better yet, visit a handful of public libraries in diverse neighborhoods [End Page 25] and see how many make available the Black Abolitionist Papers, the Black Biographical Dictionaries project, or the Chadwyck-Healey African American poetry collection, to say nothing of the newer historical Black newspaper projects from vendors like ProQuest and ebsco. I submit that if we rediscover wonderful texts and only twenty or even two thousand individuals can access them, we have failed—especially if those twenty or two thousand are only at locations that still have significant library budgets. These issues are particularly important to African American women’s literature. Even as we are beginning to understand that Black and/or abolitionist periodicals often provided the best and sometimes only venues for early Black writers, we have barely begun to confront the fact that such venues were all the more important for Black women, who were generally denied print participation even more than Black men were. Even the small number of Black women able to create and/or find opportunities for book publication often relied heavily on periodicals. Consider, for example, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s single novel originally published between boards and her three novels serialized in the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper. Or think of exciting rediscovered writers like Lizzie Hart and Edmonia Goodelle Highgate, who seem to have published only in periodicals. While select projects have allowed scholars to begin to consider such writers, their work will never be widely accessible until we honestly explore alternative recovery and distribution methods and learn the lessons that the nasn project has been teaching for years. Similarly, almost all of the ongoing “big data” projects tied to nineteenth-century American literature will continue to ignore or dismiss Black voices (especially Black women’s voices) until their data sets have wider and...

Franz Unger and Sebastian Brunner on evolution and the visualization of Earth history; a debate between liberal and conservative Catholics

Abstract The point of departure for this study of the debate on links between sciences and religion is a church newspaper that appeared in Vienna after the revolution of 1848. In it we find the arguments of a particularly conservative journalist and priest (Brunner) who attacked scientific topics, such as evolution and the position of Franz Unger (1800–1871), who was a professor at the University of Vienna and who is a well-known figure in the history of science, because of his numerous contributions to cellular biology, plant physiology, biogeography and palaeobotany, and most of all because of his surveys of pre-Darwinian evolution theory. He was one of the first scientists who tried, in 1852, to suggest the temporal development of the natural world in a visual form. I propose here that the controversy between conservative clergy and liberal academics was invigorated not least because Unger was capable of using Catholic culture to communicate his concepts and representations of evolution and the Earth's development and to make them understandable. In return, Brunner understood how to exploit Unger's work and use Mosaic geology as a counterpoint for his strengthening of Catholic orthodoxy. This debate proves not to be a permanent conflict between religion and science, but to lie within the Viennese Catholic culture within which the protagonists took their stance.

Style of Igbo Newspapers: A case Study of Òzísà

This paper analyzes the style adopted by the newspapers that are written in the Igbo language, with the Ozisa newspaper as a case study. Ozisa is, in the main, a quarterly church newspaper. We attempt the analysis of its style from the points of view of its layout, sentence types, punctuation marks employed, choice of words, use of figurative expression, etc. All these are categorized and discussed under the graphetic, grammatical, lexical, and semantic levels (See Salawu, 2004). The aim is basically to contribute in improving on the readership of Ozisa; more so as available materials show that many Igbo people now prefer the English language to the Igbo language (Eme, 2004; Okodo, 2006). The analysis concludes that the style of Ozisa is generally good, but there is still room for an improvement.

Church Newspaper Readership and Faith Community Integration

Church newspaper readership positively relates to institutional aspects of faith community involvement: participation in governance and tithing. Church newspaper use does not consistently relate to involvement in noninstitutional aspects of church life: Sunday school classes, mission projects, or fellowship groups. These findings—from a survey of Protestant leaders in Texas—indicate that faith community involvements may be too complicated for the original community integration hypothesis to explain. The institutional/noninstitutional differences hint at a factor not considered by earlier researchers—interest in how the faith community is run. People can be active in church life without needing information about how the faith community functions. Furthermore, people who give less than a tithe do not read church newspapers as much as tithers. Depth interviews indicate that tithing may result more from conditioning than education. Because many adults with no church background join congregations today, they may not be conditioned to give. That has stewardship implications.

The Pacific mission press

The missions were the first to bring printing presses to the region and usually the first to establish a newspaper in the various islands. Despite their limited circulations, church newspapers are still important because of their role in preserving local languages and because of their historical function.

… NO MORE GUESTS AND ALIENS?!: IMMIGRANT CONGREGATIONS AND THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF HESSE‐NASSAU

International Review of MissionVolume 85, Issue 337 p. 205-208 … NO MORE GUESTS AND ALIENS?!: IMMIGRANT CONGREGATIONS AND THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF HESSE-NASSAU Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse, Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse is deputy director of the Office for Mission and Ecumenical Relations of the Protestant Church of Hesse-Nassau.Search for more papers by this authorMargit Kaseva, Margit Kaseva Margit Kaseva is managing secretary of this office and a member of the Finnish Congregation in Frankfurt. This paper was written in cooperation with Dr Paul Löffler and is a slightly adapted version of an article published in the Protestant Church Newspaper, no. 25, 1995, Frankfurt.Search for more papers by this author Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse, Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse is deputy director of the Office for Mission and Ecumenical Relations of the Protestant Church of Hesse-Nassau.Search for more papers by this authorMargit Kaseva, Margit Kaseva Margit Kaseva is managing secretary of this office and a member of the Finnish Congregation in Frankfurt. This paper was written in cooperation with Dr Paul Löffler and is a slightly adapted version of an article published in the Protestant Church Newspaper, no. 25, 1995, Frankfurt.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1996.tb03479.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume85, Issue337April 1996Pages 205-208 RelatedInformation

Marriage and the Churches in the 1930s: Royal Abdication and Divorce Reform, 1936–7

In a general history of modern England A. J. P. Taylor stated that by the 1920s England ‘had ceased to be, in any real sense, a Christian nation’. He was no doubt referring to declining membership and attendance figures in most Protestant Churches (not the Roman Catholic Church), and may have been implying that there had been substantial abandonment of traditional belief. In regard to traditional morality, based on Christian precepts, he found greater laxity but no very noticeable decline; and this conclusion seems to be generally supported by Church experience in trying to uphold established morality in the inter-war years. Church assembly records and church newspapers show constant concern with familiar moral enemies such as drunkenness and gambling, and possible new dangers in the shape of films, broadcasting and information about birth control. Gambling was increasing because of the popularity of football pools and greyhound racing, but drunkenness appeared less common than before 1914, and the cinema was reasonably harmless (a Cinema Christian Council and other bodies striving to keep it so), as also was television when its broadcasts began in 1936. None the less, the general decline in church attendance was an indication of an increasingly secularised society in which the Churches, taken as a whole, had diminishing influence, and arguably this had a weakening effect on traditional morality.

The Newspaper and Community Integration

Several questions bearing on Janowitz's classic community-integration hypothesis were pursued in a survey of 500 members of a Catholic diocese in the Northwest. Church ties were positively associated with subscribing to the church newspaper, with participation in church groups having the strongest relationship. Some ties to local churches were positively associated with commercial newspaper subscribing, most especially participation in church groups. Ties to church and volunteer associations had separate and joint positive relationships to commercial newspaper subscribing, demonstrating evidence of an additive effect. All these results were consistent with the community integration hypothesis.

The Prison Diary of a Mormon Apostle

Research Article| November 01 1947 The Prison Diary of a Mormon Apostle M. Hamlin Cannon M. Hamlin Cannon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1947) 16 (4): 393–409. https://doi.org/10.2307/3635856 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation M. Hamlin Cannon; The Prison Diary of a Mormon Apostle. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 1947; 16 (4): 393–409. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3635856 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1947 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.