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Curtis, Jonathan Paul. "Methodism and abstinence : a history of the Methodist Church and teetotalism." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25394.
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This thesis has two overarching aims. The first aim is to understand the origins and development of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism, particularly through the theology that informed what may broadly be called the Methodist teetotal movement in its period of greatest popularity from 1830 until 1919. The second is to consider the downfall of this movement in the period from 1945 until 1974, when the Methodist Connexion adopted the view that each Methodist “must consider his personal attitude to all drugs in relation to his Christian vocation”. The need for the study arises from the relative dearth of historical investigation regarding Methodism and abstinence. Representations of Methodism and abstinence tend either to be partisan or to lack wider understanding of the abstinence movement, or the theology of Methodism. Methodologically, this thesis attempts to hold together historical and theological considerations; it is important to consider both the socio-economic contexts in which diverse abstinence and teetotal movements arose and the theological motivations that drove British Methodist belief and practice. Regarding the origins and development of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism, it is proposed in this thesis that the Bible Christians were the first organised Methodist abstainers, and that their practice was likely to have been influenced by John Wesley's theologies of sanctification, holiness and Christian perfection. The thesis is an attempt to counter the Bible Christian’s diminished historical significance, as well as to investigate the likely impact of the theological underpinnings for their abstinence. Regarding the downfall of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism in the period from 1945 until 1974, this thesis will propose that a loss of focus upon holiness as a catalyst for abstinence was detrimental to the growth and continuation of the teetotal movement throughout Methodism after World War Two. It will highlight the general rejection of this focus on encouraged abstinence in the second half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the changes and disagreement within British Methodism to which this dismissal led. Concluding comments allude to the need for a renewed witness within British Methodism to societal and theological imperatives for both temperance and abstinence.
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Griffiths, Leslie John. "A history of Methodism in Haiti 1817-1916." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602447.
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Lane, Hannah M. "Re-numbering souls, lay Methodism and church growth in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 1861-1881." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1993. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23854.pdf.
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Garratt, Delia. "Primitive Methodism in Shropshire, 1820-1900." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4728.
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This thesis extends our understanding of the history of the Primitive Methodist Connexion by examining the denomination in a part of the country - Shropshire - in which it enjoyed considerable success during the nineteenth century, but on which there has been very little research. It takes as its starting point the relative lack of historical research on the Methodist circuit, a crucial innovation in religious provision, which gave Wesleyan Methodism and its subsequent offshoots considerable flexibility to coordinate their work in a highly effective way. To expand our understanding of Primitive Methodism in Shropshire, the structure and organisation of the Primitive Methodist circuit is outlined, and the nature of the experience provided for its followers is examined. The socio-economic profile of Primitive Methodist followers is explored and a close correlation between the social background of the preachers and their congregations is established. The factors underlying the denomination's success in the county are examined, and its progress in relation to other religious bodies is analysed. The effects of changing missionary tactics, internal dissension, sub-division and chapel building are investigated. Particular attention is paid to denominational administration, local governance, and changes in the spatial structures of circuits, as Primitive Methodism moved from early evangelistic enthusiasm towards consolidation as a major denomination.
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Sandford, Chad. "Practicing Piety: Sarah Jones and Methodism in 1790s Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626462.
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Johnson, Melvin. "The national politics and politicians of Primitive Methodism." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15456.
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This thesis, which assists our understanding of the interaction between religious belief and political activity, presents a study of the politics of the Primitive Methodist Church and the MPs associated with it between 1886 and 1922. This was the zenith of the Church’s political activism. It traces Primitive Methodism’s evolution from an apolitical body, preaching individual salvation and with a particular mission to the working classes, to one that also promoted social salvation through progressive politics. The Church’s emphasis on individual moral improvement during its early decades receded and it increasingly advocated collectivist solutions to social ills, eventually espousing a balanced and synergetic combination of the two principles. This increasing engagement with progressive national politics manifested itself in the election of December 1885. In the wake of the franchise extension of 1884, 12 working-class MPs were elected, five of whom were closely associated with the Church. Although two working men, including Thomas Burt, the son of a Primitive Methodist local preacher, had preceded them in 1874, this influx of plebeian MPs was an event unprecedented in parliamentary history. The proportion drawn from a minor religious denomination was also notable. All told, my research has identified 44 MPs associated with Primitive Methodism between its foundation in the first decade of the nineteenth century and 1932, when the Church merged with other Methodist denominations. Although it frequently asserted that it was not wedded to any one political party, the reality was different. Initially, the Church and its MPs were firmly Liberal. However, the Liberal allegiance gradually diminished and an increasing number of Primitives supported other political parties, particularly the emergent Labour Party. Historians have often focused on the importance of Primitive Methodists in the foundation and leadership of a number of early trade unions, particularly those for coal miners and agricultural labourers. The historian Eric Hobsbawm deduced from this that the Church experienced a ‘partial transformation … into a labour sect’: mutating from a purely religious organization into one that provided the Labour Movement with leaders. However, he lamented the lack of detailed inquiry into the religious background of the early generation of working-class MPs. This thesis remedies that deficiency in relation to the Primitive MPs, within the context of the Church’s own parliamentary agenda. The core of this study begins in 1886 with the election of the group of Primitive MPs and ends in 1922 as the Church’s leadership began to realise that political activism was no longer a harmonising force for its members. It explores the Church’s official parliamentary aims and priorities as expressed at its Annual Conferences and District Meetings, the spectrum of members’ views articulated in Church publications, and the activities of its MPs in and out of Parliament. These are considered in the context of Primitive Methodism’s social and occupational composition, its geographical distribution, and theological foundations. Although necessary to understanding the Church’s political trajectory, lack of space has restricted discussion of the Church’s political activism from 1923 to 1932 to a brief overview.
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Jones, Christopher Cannon. "Methodism, Slavery, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1820." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068530.
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From its quit arrival in the British colonies of North America in the 1760s, Methodism unexpectedly grew to become America's largest Protestant denomination by the early nineteenth century. But its rapid growth was not limited to the early United States. Methodist missionaries attracted large numbers of converts in Britain's remaining North American and Caribbean colonies. This dissertation analyzes the connections that linked and ultimately divided Methodists across political, social, and racial lines throughout the Atlantic world, arguing that the movement’s rapid expansion amidst revolutionary change led to the fracturing of the transatlantic ties that united its adherents. This project thus expands the geographical borders of early American Methodism to include regions beyond the United States, including Britain’s Maritime, Canadian, and Caribbean colonies, and even venturing across the Atlantic Ocean to the West African community of Sierra Leone, where a large number of former slaves from the American South resettled following the American Revolution. Methodists spoke of themselves as a connection, a term that signified both their adherence to the teachings and theology of John Wesley and their attachment to other Wesleyan Methodists across the globe. The events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including political revolutions in North America and the Caribbean, slave rebellions, and growth of the abolitionist movement exposed strains within the Methodist connection, as adherents divided over national allegiance and race. “Methodism, Slavery, and Freedom” is organized into six broadly thematic chapters covering the period from 1770-1820. The first chapter sets the stage for those that follow, tracing the migrations of several groups of Methodists in the wake of the American Revolution. Methodists found themselves on all sides of the conflict, and participated in both the Loyalist diaspora and the republican march westward. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 propose a reexamination of Methodist attitudes toward slavery and antislavery, examining the impact of Methodist connections between the United States and the Caribbean on institutional policies and individual activities. Chapter 5 shifts attention the impact of revolutionary events and racial tensions on the ecclesiastical politics of Methodism, comparing and contrasting the first independent black Methodist churches in the United States and West Africa. The sixth and final chapter returns to some of the themes explored in chapter 1, analyzing the experience of Methodists in the United States-Canadian borderlands from the American Revolution through the War of 1812.
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Easton, David Peter. "'Gathered into one' : the reunion of British Methodism, 1860-1960, with particular reference to Cornwall." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683271.
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Rodell, Jonathan Michael. "The appeal of Methodism(s) in Bedfordshire 1736-1851." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609028.
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Aikens, Alden Warren. "Christian perfection in central Canadian Methodism 1828-1884." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75889.
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The thesis indicates how central Canadian Methodists came to terms with Christian perfection in the years 1828-1884. It demonstrates that the concept was a matter of constant and considerable concern, and that the primary force in determining how it was attended to was the influence of John Wesley. The main elements of the concept are set out--an experience possible through momentary faith and resulting in cleansing from sin and the ability to love God with pure love. Influences upon Canadian Methodism are probed and, in particular, the thought of John Wesley on the subject is investigated. Lines of influence from Wesley to Canadian Methodism are traced. The thesis sketches the importance of the concept as seen in attempts to define it, to bring it to personal experience, to urge others to seek and find it. In the concluding remarks, some of the writer's observations are reflected.
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Smith, John Q. "The origins and development of the Keighley Methodist Circuit : a study of Methodism in a Yorkshire textile community, 1748-1850 /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148726460321656.
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Turberfield, Alan. "A critical appraisal of the Rev. Dr. John Lidgett CH., 1854-1953, theologian, educationalist and ecclesiastical statesman between 1890 and 1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244241.
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Price, Matthew Hunter. "Methodism and Social Capital on the Southern Frontier, 1760-1830." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408796401.
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Luker, David. "Cornish Methodism, revivalism, and popular belief, c. 1780-1870." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fe395cb7-7a81-40ee-9aaf-7cc8a5b5b593.
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In this regional study of Methodist development and societal influence throughout the period of industrialisation, recent trends in Methodist historiography at a national level are combined with the research and source material accumulated at a local level, to provide a detailed analysis of Methodist growth in Cornwall between the years 1780 and 1870. The thesis is divided loosely into three sections. In the first, four chapters outline the essential background to interpretative analysis by considering, in turn, recent historiographical developments in Methodist studies; social change in Cornwall during industrialisation; the performance of the Anglican Church in the county as represented in the Visitation Returns for 1779, (as well as historical and structural reasons for its 'failure'); and Methodist growth as expressed through available statistical indices, especially the date of formation of Methodist societies, and the 1851 Ecclesiastical Census. In the second section, one long chapter is devoted to an in-depth, county-wide analysis of Methodist growth, which considers the impact of external factors, particularly socio-economic, and internal circumstances, such as the degree of maturity of pastoral and administrative machinery, and the level of Connexional or lay control over chapel and circuit affairs, on the form and function of Methodism in nine distinct socioeconomic regions within the county. In the third section, four chapters concentrate on West Cornwall, where Methodism was strongest, in order to examine the roots of, and reasons for, the distinctively indigenous form of Methodism which developed there. On the one hand, the pastoral and administrative difficulties in exerting adequate Connexional control are considered; while on the other, an interpretation of the 'folk' functionality of revivals and of Methodism as a 'popular religion' is offered.
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Jones, Christopher C. ""We Latter-day Saints are Methodists" : the influence of Methodism on early Mormon religiosity /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3005.pdf.
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Holgerson, Timothy W. "To the “serious reader”: the influence of John Wesley’s a christian library on methodism, 1752-1778." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13165.
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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Robert D. Linder<br>After years of selecting, editing, omitting, reducing and correcting what would become printed as over fourteen thousand pages of devotional literature for a young Methodist movement in the wake of the English Evangelical Revival, John Wesley pronounced his A Christian library: consisting of extracts from, and abridgments of, the choicest Pieces of practical divinity which have been published in the English tongue in fifty volumes (1749-1755) an underappreciated treasure and an overtaxing expenditure. Taking their lead from Wesley’s comments, scholars and historians of Wesley studies and Methodism have neglected to take a closer look at the ways the library may have been successful. This study argues that despite being initially a marketing disappointment and an expensive liability, John Wesley’s Christian library was influential in helping to shape the spiritual lives of “serious readers” within Methodism, particularly from 1752-1778.
In the preface to the Christian library, Wesley revealed his standard for measuring the influence of the Library. However, despite offering a premature and partial assessment of the library in his journal entry at the end of 1752, providing some public responses to criticisms of the library in 1760 and again in the early 1770s, and writing some personal letters that recommended the library to others in the 1780s, Wesley did not publish an evaluation of what he believed the Christian library had accomplished during his life. Thus, based on the collaborative evidence gathered from the personal accounts of early Methodist preachers and the final address of Francis Asbury to American Methodists, this study makes the case that Wesley’s Christian library had a substantial positive influence on Methodism.
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Lewis, Simon. "Early anti-Methodism as an aspect of theological controversy in England, c.1738-c.1770." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8da41b0f-6aeb-4497-9d7d-f9634f3a4a06.
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This thesis provides the first large-scale reintegration of anti-Methodism into the wider theological controversies of the eighteenth century. It argues that there was a close connection - and in many cases, a direct link - between anti-Methodist writers and those involved in other theological controversies. Moreover, it shows that anti-Methodist polemics interacted with and were informed by contemporary debates on such issues as Deism, miracles, and the afterlife. This study also explores authors who used anti-Methodism as a forum to voice heterodox views. The fact that these heterodox ideas were often disagreeable to both evangelicals and High Churchmen is significant because it suggests that - on various points of theology - John Wesley and George Whitefield differed little from their âorthodox' Anglican opponents. By highlighting these theological similarities between evangelicals and High Churchmen, this thesis challenges the traditional stereotype that the eighteenth-century Church of England had become indifferent to theology. Chapter One introduces Wesley and Whitefield's key Anglican opponents, and discusses the print culture of early anti-Methodist literature. Chapter Two locates the soteriological disputes between Methodist and anti-Methodist divines as part of a long-standing debate on faith and works, which can be traced back to earlier clashes between Reformed and Arminian divines during the Restoration period. Chapter Three analyses Methodist teachings on self-denial, and considers the ways in which anti-Methodist clergymen reconciled their attacks on evangelical asceticism with their seemingly contradictory charges of antinomianism. Chapter Four explores how anti-Methodism was used as a platform to voice heterodox views on original sin and the afterlife. Chapters Five and Six provide a fundamental reappraisal of the relationship (and perceived relationship) between evangelicalism and irreligion by showing that anti-Methodism overlapped with anti-Deism and the eighteenth-century miracles debate. The final chapter shows that anti-Methodist authors often adopted a decidedly partisan approach to historical writing, which was modelled on seventeenth-century polemical historiography.
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Kindley, Carolyn E. "Miriam's timbrel : a reflection of the music of Wesleyan Methodism in America, 1843-1899." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/454809.
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The purpose of the study was to examine nineteenth century church music practices. This was done by 1) studying the attitudes displayed in the church periodical of The Wesleyan Methodist Connection (later, Church) of America; 2) locating and analyzing 44 tunes suggested in Miriam's Timbrel, a hymnal published for the Connection in 1853. This church was formed by people who seceded from a number of different denominations over the issue of slavery. It therefore represented the music practices of several American Protestant groups of the time.Findings1. Vocal music dominated music worship practices.2. Congregational singing was emphasized; every worshipper was urged to participate.3. Choirs were permitted but were often criticized and many thought their membership and music should be carefully regulated.4. There was much controversy over instrumental music; from 1845 to 1899 the church Discipline recommended that congregations dispense with its use.5. The history of each suggested tune was studied. Sources were discovered to be primarily European, either by actual composition or by influence.6. The tunes were grouped in categories according to origin: 1) the "better music" school of Lowell Mason and his coworkers, twelve tunes; 2) parlor songs by known composers, twelve; 3) folk song origin, nine; 4) European sacred sources, six; 5) European secular sources, four; 6) early American hymn tune, one.Similar characteristics were discovered among the tunes.The majority displayed:A 6- or 7-tone scaleMelodic range o f a 7th-9thFour or eight line stanzasConjunct melody linesSyllabic or slightly neumatic settings Common duple, triple, or quadruple meters Repetitive rhythmic patternsGenerally slow harmonic rhythm Simple harmonic structuresMajor keys with less than four sharps/flatsNon-traditional poetic meters.The tunes were relatively simple, easily learned, and in the popular styles, sacred and secular, of the nineteenth century.
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Terry, James Gordan. "The causes and effects of the divisions within Methodism in Bradford, 1796-1857." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1999. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/4607/.
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Some years ago I completed an M. A. degree at Huddersfield University on 'The Fly Sheet Controversy and the Wesleyan Reform movement in Birstall and the Spen Valley 1849-1857'. The present study is wider in scope and includes all the divisions within Methodism and is centred on Bradford, but includes the Bingley and Shipley circuits and the Birstall and Cleckheaton circuits, the whole being referred to as 'the Bradford area'. Between 1796 and 1857 several groups of Methodists left their Wesleyan chapels to create new societies, still Methodist in doctrine and tradition, but with different styles of church government. The Independent Methodists, Primitive Methodists and Bible Christians were looking for greater freedom to organise their worship and evangelical outreach without the restrictions imposed by Conference and the ministers. In other cases secessions followed disputes over specific issues - the Methodist New Connexion sought greater democracy and more lay involvement, the Protestant Methodists resented the approval by Conference of an organ at Brunswick Chapel, the Wesleyan Methodist Association objected to arrangements for ministerial training and the Wesleyan Reformers complained of ministerial domination of Methodism. Each division was different, but behind them all lay a pattern of continuing conflict between ministers and lay members. This obliged many Methodists to make difficult and far-reaching choices between remaining within Wesleyan Methodism and making a new commitment to an uncertain future. In every dispute both sides claimed the moral high ground, and both were certain that they were right. Wesleyan ministers claimed authority in accordance with the principle of the Pastoral Office, but found themselves in a difficult situation, being obliged by Conference to rule as well as to lead. Lay members felt in a strong position among family and friends within their chapels, but many were unwilling to give unquestioning obedience to men who were little different in background from themselves, preferring instead a more open and more democratic style of Methodism. The national background of each dispute is outlined before its impact on the Methodists in the Bradford area is considered in detail, and the outcome of each confrontation is then examined. An attempt is then made to assess the significance of membership of the different Methodist denominations in terms of political activities and relationships with other churches, although it is suggested that little evidence is available to distinguish between members of the various Methodist groups. In summary, conflict between ministers supported by Conference and the lay members weakened local Methodism. The hardening of attitudes by both sides and their refusal to compromise, which led to the creation of new Methodist groups, destroyed the unity of Methodism in the Bradford area.
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Murton, Stoehr Catherine. "Salvation from empire : the roots of Anishinabe Christianity in Upper Canada." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1324.
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This thesis examine the cultural interaction between Anishinabe people, who lived in what is now southern Ontario, and the Loyalists, Euroamerican settlers who moved north from the United States during and after the American Revolution. Starting with an analysis of Anishinabe cultural history before the settlement era the thesis argues that Anishinabe spirituality was not traditionalist. Rather it inclined its practitioners to search for new knowledge. Further, Anishinabe ethics in this period were determined corporately based on the immediate needs and expectations of individual communities. As such, Anishinabe ethics were quite separate from Anishinabe spiritual teachings.
Between 1760 and 1815, the Anishinabe living north of the Great Lakes participated in pan-Native resistance movements to the south. The spiritual leaders of these movements, sometimes called nativists, taught that tradition was an important religious virtue and that cultural integration was dangerous and often immoral. These nativist teachings entered the northern Anishinabe cultural matrix and lived alongside earlier hierarchies of virtue that identified integration and change as virtues.
When Loyalist Methodists presented their teachings to the Anishinabeg in the early nineteenth century their words filtered through both sets of teachings and found purchase in the minds of many influential leaders. Such leaders quickly convinced members of their communities to take up the Methodist practices and move to agricultural villages. For a few brief years in the 1830s these villages achieved financial success and the Anishinabe Methodist leaders achieved real social status in both Anishinabe and Euroamerican colonial society.
By examining the first generation of Anishinabe Methodists who practiced between 1823 and 1840, I argue that many Anishinabe people adopted Christianity as new wisdom suitable for refitting their existing cultural traditions to a changed cultural environment. Chiefs such as Peter Jones (Kahkewahquonaby), and their followers, found that Methodist teachings cohered with major tenets of their own traditions, and also promoted bimadziwin, or health and long life, for their communities. Finally, many Anishinabe people believed that the basic moral injunctions of their own tradition compelled them to adopt Methodism because of its potential to promote bimadziwin.<br>Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2008-07-17 13:59:23.833
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Tooley, W. Andrew. "Reinventing redemption : the Methodist doctrine of atonement in Britain and America in the 'long nineteenth century'." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20230.
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This thesis examines the controversy surrounding the doctrine of atonement among transatlantic Methodist during the Victorian and Progressive Eras. Beginning in the eighteenth century, it establishes the dominant theories of the atonement present among English and American Methodists and the cultural-philosophical worldview Methodists used to support these theories. It then explores the extent to which ordinary and influential Methodists throughout the nineteenth century carried forward traditional opinions on the doctrine before examining in closer detail the controversies surrounding the doctrine at the opening of the twentieth century. It finds that from the 1750s to the 1830s transatlantic Methodists supported a range of substitutionary views of the atonement, from the satisfaction and Christus Victor theories to a vicarious atonement with penal emphases. Beginning in the 1830s and continuing through the 1870s, transatlantic Methodists embraced features of the moral government theory, with varying degrees, while retaining an emphasis on traditional substitutionary theories. Methodists during this period were indebted to an Enlightenment worldview. Between 1880 and 1914 transatlantic Methodists gradually accepted a Romantic philosophical outlook with the result that they began altering their conceptions of the atonement. Methodists during this period tended to move in three directions. Progressive Methodists jettisoned prevailing views of the atonement preferring to embrace the moral influence theory. Mediating Methodists challenged traditionally constructed theories for similar reasons but tended to support a theory in which God was viewed as a friendlier deity while retaining substitutionary conceptions of the atonement. Conservatives took a custodial approach whereby traditional conceptions of the atonement were vehemently defended. Furthermore, that transatlantic Methodists were involved in significant discussions surrounding the revision of their theology of atonement in light of modernism in the years surrounding 1900 contributed to their remaining on the periphery of the Fundamentalist-Modernist in subsequent decades.
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Johansson, Marcus. "Amerikansk metodistmission i Sverige : Den svenska Metodistkyrkans etablering åren 1865–1876." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kyrkohistoria, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256371.
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This is a study of American Methodist Mission in Sweden and how this mission eventually formed the Methodist Church in Sweden 1876. The mission began as a consequence of returning Swedish emigrants and sailors who had encountered Methodism in America, mainly through the works of Swedish-American missionary Olof Gustaf Hedström on the Bethel ship in New York. During the 1850’s Methodist missionaries were sent to Scandinavia by the American Missions Society. The first to come to Sweden was Johan Peter Larsson, who spent two years in Sweden in 1854 before he was transferred to Norway. He returned in 1865 and was followed by a number of missionaries during the next years. Most important of these were Victor Witting who arrived in Gothenburg at the end of 1867. During 1868 the first congregations and a national association for missionaries were formed. The bylaws of the association for missionaries relates to the section in Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church about The Annual Conference. Methodist mission expanded fast in Sweden, at first along the coasts, and during the 1870’s equally fast on land. Up to the forming of a church in 1876 the mission never expanded further north than Orsa. The establishment of the Methodist Church in Sweden shares a lot of similarities with the development in Denmark, Finland and Norway. The expansion in Sweden was faster compared to the other countries. One reason for this was the large amount of missionaries that were sent to Sweden. All four churches formed according to new religious legislation and were the first to do so in all four countries.
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Connelly, Angela. "Methodist Central Halls as public sacred space." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/methodist-central-halls-as-public-sacred-space(c9dea4ca-53f1-48a3-8da2-1054ba8f7f9a).html.
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Few people know that the first sessions of the General Assembly of the UN in 1946 were held in a place of worship - Westminster Central Hall. It was part of an ambitious construction programme, initiated by the Wesleyan Methodists, which resulted in Central Halls in most British cities. They were, and in some cases still are, flexible, multi-functional spaces used on a daily basis for a wide range of purposes. They are widely perceived as public space but they are also sacred - camouflaged churches, created as sites for missionary activity and social outreach by a faith which from its origins has challenged the dichotomy between sacred and secular space. They have never been systematically studied – even their number and locations were unknown. This thesis tells their story by presenting them as an undocumented building type of social and cultural significance. It explores the concept of building type and the dimensions of social and cultural analysis that may be explored with the method. The typological approach is then demonstrated with a specific monographic focus on Methodist Central Halls from the 1880s to the present. Using a combination of visual methods, archival research and personal testimony, the analysis offers insights into the many aspects of Methodism through the long twentieth century – the church’s spatial distribution, its modes of mission and worship, its cultural identity and its business model. These centrally located assembly halls with their landmark architecture are for many towns still the top venues for meeting and entertainment. The typology of such public sacred spaces is not only a chapter in the history of British cities but provides findings of wide interest for religion and society.
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Grosclaude, Jérôme. "La question des ministères dans les relations entre l'église d'Angleterre et les méthodistes [1791-1979]." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030049.
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Si l’on porte un regard d’ensemble sur les pratiques par lesquelles, dès leur naissance en 1738, les méthodistes se démarquaient de l’orthodoxie de leur « Eglise-mère », l’Eglise d’Angleterre, il est possible d’identifier une base commune, qui serait une conception différente des ministères. C’est en effet, sur cette question que se cristallisèrent les divergences entre les disciples de John Wesley d’une part, et l’Eglise d’Angleterre d’autre part. Le père du méthodisme considérait en effet que prêtres et évêques étaient du même ordre presbytéral et que, en conséquence, ils avaient les mêmes pouvoirs, et notamment celui d’ordonner. Les méthodistes se distinguaient également des anglicans par leur conception du ministère de la Parole, puisqu’ils estimaient que Dieu pouvait désigner des laïcs pour prêcher l’Evangile. C’est donc à la question des ministères que l’on peut,en fin de compte, rattacher toutes les divergences qui se firent jour entre méthodisme et anglicanisme. Ces divergences se prolongèrent après la mort de John Wesley en 1791. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, les deux Eglises s’éloignèrent de plus en plus l’une de l’autre en raison du désaccord qui existait quant à la validité du ministère méthodiste qui ne s’inscrivait pas dans la succession apostolique. Il fallut attendre les années 1950-1960 pour que l’idée d’une fusion du méthodisme britannique et de l’Eglise d’Angleterre au sein d’une même Eglise épiscopalienne germe au plus haut niveau, avant d’échouer définitivement en 1972 devant le refus de l’Assemblée de l’Eglise puis du Synode général de l’avaliser<br>If we cast a global look on the practices through which, from the beginning of the movement in 1738, the Methodists deviated from Church of England’s (their « mother-Church »’s) orthodoxy, we can identify a common factor: a different conception of the ministries. It is on this single question that John Wesley and his disciples fundamentally diverged from the Church of England’s principles, since the father of Methodism considered that priests and bishops formed essentially a single “presbyter” order and consequentially had the same powers, including that of ordination. The Methodists also had a different conception of the Ministry of the Word, since they considered that God could call lay people to preach the Gospel. All the differences that arose between Methodism and the Church of England can then be traced to the question of the ministries. These differences continued after the death of John Wesley in 1791. Throughout the XIXt! h century, the two denominations grew further apart because of their disagreement concerning apostolic succession. In the 1950s and 1960s, however, the reunion of British Methodism and the Church of England in a single Episcopalian confession was contemplated but finally abandoned in 1972 because of the refusal of the Church of England’s Church Assembly and then of its General Synod to approve this union
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Pragya, Samani Pratibha. "Prekṣā meditation : history and methods". Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24340/.
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This study is an attempt to trace the history and development of prekṣā-dhyāna (perception meditation), developed in the last quarter of the twentieth century by Ācārya Mahāprajña (1920-2010), the tenth ācārya of the Jaina Śvetāmbara Terāpanth sect. Prekṣā-dhyāna represents a new synthesis of ancient Jaina ascetic techniques, classical ritualistic meditative elements, and modern science, aimed at an audience that is global and inclusive of Jainas and non-Jainas alike. The argument of the thesis is that prekṣā-dhyāna is an expression of Jaina modernism that has a firm foothold in the world of international meditative practices. The study uses textual sources to provide a historical overview of the Jaina meditative tradition in an area that has not yet been explored. It examines the theory and practice of prekṣā-dhyāna in detail. It demonstrates that Mahāprajña's construction of the prekṣā-dhyāna system integrates seven distinct sources: (i) Jaina textual accounts of meditative practices (ii) elements of Hindu yoga systems (iii) elements of Buddhist vipassanā meditation (iv) Āyurvedic concepts (v) Astronomical elements (vi) modern science and (vii) reflections on his own experiences and explorations. Finally, twentieth century Jaina meditative systems other than prekṣā-dhyāna, newly developed by mendicants from the Śvetāmbara Mūrtipūjaka and Sthānakavāsī traditions have been examined and their similarities and differences vis-à-vis prekṣā-dhyāna investigated. The reasons for the current proliferation of these new systems of meditation in the Jaina tradition have also been examined. This thesis demonstrates that Mahāprajña's innovative use of scientific concepts, which was not previously incorporated within Jaina meditation systems, is unique and represents an important step towards Jaina modernism.
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Dundon, Colin George History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Raicakacaka : 'walking the road' from colonial to post-colonial mission : the life, work and thought of the Reverend Dr. Alan Richard Tippett, Methodist missionary in Fiji, anthropologist and missiologist, 1911-1988." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38694.
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This thesis contributes to the literature on the history of the transition from colonial to post-colonial in the Pacific. It explores the contribution of an individual to this transition, Rev. Dr. Alan Richard Tippett, as a focus for illuminating the struggles in the transitions and the development of post-colonial theory for mission. Alan Richard Tippet sailed to Fiji as an ordained Methodist missionary in 1941. He was a product of a Methodist parsonage and heir to the evangelical and revival tendencies of the Cornish Methodism of his family. He began his missionary career steeped in the colonial visions of the mission enterprise fostered by the Board of Missions of his church. He was eager to study anthropology but was given no chance to do so before he left Australia. He pursued his study of anthropology and history in Fiji and began to question the paternalism of colonial theory. Early in his time in Fiji he made the decision to join with those who sought change and the death of colonial mission. In his work as a circuit minister, theological educator, writer and administrator he worked to this end. He developed his talent for writing and research, encouraging the Fijian church to take pride in its past achievements. He became alienated from the administrators of the Australasian Methodist Board of Missions and could find no place in the Australian church. In 1961 he left Fiji and began a course of study at the newly formed Institute of Church Growth in Eugene, Oregon. This led him into the orbit of Donald McGavran and the newly emerging church growth theory of Christian mission. Although his desire was to enhance the study of post-colonial mission in Australia he could not find a position to support him even after he gained a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon. After research in the Solomon Islands he returned to the USA to assist Donald McGavran in the formation of the now famous School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. While at Fuller he exercised considerable influence in the development of missiological theory and especially the application of anthropological studies in post-colonial mission. Although he contributed to both the ecumenical and evangelical debates on mission, he found himself caught up in the bitter debates of the 1960s and 1970s between them and, despite all efforts to maintain links, lost contact with the ecumenical wing. Retiring to Australia in 1977 he found that his world reputation was not recognised in his native land. He continued his work apace, although he was deeply saddened by the ignorance he found in Australia and by his continued rejection. He finally donated his library to St. Mark???s National Theological Centre. He died in 1988 in Canberra.
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Tjia, Dewi. "Statistical Methods for History Matching of Hydrological Model." Thesis, Curtin University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57347.
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Four history matching methods were used to calibrate the parameters of the LUCICAT model for three catchments in Western Australia. The methods used were ant colony optimization (ACOR and DACOR), Robust Parameter Estimation and Gauss Levenberg Marquadt. These methods were applied directly and indirectly, and in the latter case multidimensional Kriging and artificial neural networks were used to build proxy models for LUCICAT. All HM methods performed favourably well.
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Peters, Garry D. "Tradition and memory in Protestant Ontario, Anglican and Methodist clerical discourses during Queen Victoria's Golden (1887) and Diamond (1897) Jubilee celebrations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ53274.pdf.
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Forsaith, Peter S. "The correspondence of the Revd' John W. Fletcher : letters to the Revd' Charles Wesley, considered in the context of the Evangelical Revivial." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289152.
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Siregar, Mulya E. "Time series analysis of mortgage choice : history, theory, and methods /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953567772079.
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Scratcherd, George. "Ecclesiastical politics and the role of women in African-American Christianity, 1860-1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:120f3d76-27e5-4adf-ba8b-6feaaff1e5a7.
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This thesis seeks to offer new perspectives on the role of women in African-American Christian denominations in the United States in the period between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. It situates the changes in the roles available to black women in their churches in the context of ecclesiastical politics. By offering explanations of the growth of black denominations in the South after the Civil War and the political alignments in the leadership of the churches, it seeks to offer more powerful explanations of differences in the treatment of women in distict denominations. It explores the distinct worship practices of African-American Christianity and reflects on their relationship to denominational structure and character, and gender issues. Education was central to the participation of women in African-American Christianity in the late nineteenth century, so the thesis discusses the growth of black colleges under the auspices of the black churches. Finally it also explores the complex relationship between domestic ideology, the politics of respectability, and female participation in the black churches.
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Ying, PuLe, and LingZhi Fan. "Methods For Test Case Prioritization Based On Test Case Execution History." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14785.
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Motivation: Test case prioritization can prioritize test cases, optimize the test execution, save time and cost. There are many different methods for test case prioritization, test case prioritization method based on test case execution history is one kind of them. Based on the test case execution history, it’s easier to increase the rate of fault detection, hence we want to do a study about test case prioritization methods based on the test case execution history. Meanwhile, executing the feasible methods to compare the effectiveness of them. For the motivation of the thesis may be regarded as an example for experiencing approach for comparing test case prioritizations based on test case execution history, or as a study case for identifying the suitable methods to use and help improve the effectiveness of the testing process. Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to look for a suitable test case prioritization method that can support risk based testing, in which test case execution history is employed as the key criterion of evaluation. For this research, there are three main objectives. First, explore and summarize methods of test case prioritization based on test case history. Next, identify what are differences among the test case prioritization methods. Finally, execute the methods which we selected, and compare the effectiveness of methods. Methods: To achieve the first and the second study objectives, a systematic literature review has been conducted using Kitchenham guidelines. To achieve the third study objective, an experiment was conducted following Wohlin guidelines. Results: In our thesis: 1) We conducted a systematic literature review and selected 15 relevant literatures. We extracted data of the literatures and then we synthesized the data. We found that the methods have different kinds of inputs, test levels, maturity levels, validation and "automated testing or manual testing". 2) We selected two feasible methods from those 15 literatures, Method 1 is Adaptive test-case prioritization and Method 2 is Similarity-based test quality metric. We executed the methods within 17 test suites. Comparing the result of two methods and non-prioritization, the mean Average Percentage of Defects Found (APFD) of Adaptive test-case prioritization execution result (86.9%) is significantly higher than non-prioritization (51.5%) and Similarity-based test quality metric (47.5%), it means that the Adaptive test-case prioritization has higher effectiveness. Conclusion: In our thesis, existing test case prioritization methods based on test case execution history are extracted and listed out through systematic literature review. The summary of them and the description of differences can be available in the thesis. The 15 relevant literatures and the synthesized data may be as a guideline for relevant software researchers or testers. We did the statistical test for the experimental result, we can see two different test case prioritization methods have different effectiveness.
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Firth, Richard. "Methodist worship : with reference to historic practice, the Methodist worship book, and current patterns in the Newcastle Methodist district." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4416/.
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Methodism, as a hybrid denomination, being neither Anglican nor Free Church, was endowed by the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, with worship characterised by a twofold practice, the liturgy of The Book of Common Prayer on the one hand and the free form preaching service on the other. The thesis traces the history and the development of this pattern on through the use of the different service books, the latest of which is The Methodist Worship Book published in 1999. How this book came about is explored and the response to its publication by Methodist ministers, churches and members is researched by the use of questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Developments in the shape of the preaching service are also considered. Greater variety in Methodist worship in general is then reviewed. Some pointers for the future are explored, as indeed whether or not today’s alternative patterns of worship may be regarded as essentially Methodist.
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Kolodyazhny, V. M. "Atomic Functions: the History of the Formation, Development and Practical Application." Thesis, NTU "KhPI", 2016. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/24749.
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Atomic functions are infinitely differentiable compactly supported solutions of functional differential equations
of a special type. After the first successful building of the functions performed by VL Rvachev and VA Rvachev
in the 70s of the previous century, different classes of the atomic functions of one and several variables were
studied, which have found application in the solution of various problems of mathematical analysis and
mathematical modeling of practical problems.
Generalization of atomic functions to the case of several variables associated with the expansion of their
possible application to solving boundary value problems in partial derivatives had been considered, in
particular, and the development of new methods for the numerical solution of such tasks. Mathematical tools
based on atomic functions of several variables have the necessary properties of universality and locality, to be
requested in the practice of numerical solutions of boundary value problems. The study of functional
differential equations, which are used for their formation other differential operators, fo rexample, Laplace,
Helmholtz, biharmonic operators et al., leads to the construction of the special form of atomic functions.
The atomic functions form the classes radial basis functions that allow you to develop on their basis meshless
scheme of solving boundary value problems. In comparison with the known radial basis functions atomic radial
basis functions have advantages, namely, are infinitely smooth, satisfy the functional-differential equation,
effectively computable, have explicit formulas for the calculation of the Fourier transform.
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Webster, Robert. "Methodism and the miraculous : John Wesley's contribution to the Historia Miraculorum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439687.
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Watkins, Mark N. "Technology and the history-social science framework." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1055.
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Carlsson, Emma. ""Som vilken sagoberättelse som helst" : Fem lärare berättar om sin historieundervisning i mångkulturella klassrum." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, Samhällsstudier och didaktik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36388.
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Samhället och skolan är idag en mångkulturell plats och i vissa klassrum har mer än hälften av eleverna utländsk bakgrund. Det finns en motsättning mellan det mångkulturella klassrummet och fokuseringen på den svenska historien i kursplanen i historia för årskurs 4–6. Identitetsutvecklingen kan försvåras för elever med utländsk bakgrund i och med att de inte får lära sig om sitt ursprung i skolan. Studiens syfte har därför varit att undersöka hur lärare anpassar undervisningen för att möta elevers identitetsutveckling utifrån elevernas etniska och kulturella bakgrund. Studien har en hermeneutisk teoretiska ansats. Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem lärare som undervisar historia i årskurs 4–6 framkom det att lärarna främst anpassar arbetssätt efter elevernas språkliga svårigheter och inte deras bakgrund. Lärarna ser dock elevernas olikheter som en stor tillgång i undervisningen.<br>Today both society and school is a multicultural meeting place and in some classrooms more than half of the students have a foreign background. There is a divergence between the multicultural classroom and the focus on the Swedish history in the syllabus in history. The identity development can be hampered for students with foreign background if they don’t get to learn about their origin in school. The aim of this study has therefore been to examine how teachers adapt their teaching to meet pupils’ identity development based on the pupils’ ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The theoretical approach of the study is hermeneutic. Trough semi structured interviews with five teachers that teach history in grade 4–6 emerged that the teachers mainly adapt their teaching methods due to the pupils’ linguistic difficulties and they don’t adapt the content due to the students’ background. Though the teachers see the pupils’ differences as an access in the teaching.
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Benjamin, Keith Richard. "Missionary tendencies in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, 1980 to 2000: a critical history." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4165.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil<br>The problem that will be investigated in this research project may be formulated in the following way: Which tendencies may be identified in the mission programmes of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa during the period from 1980 to 2000? This thesis will provide a critical historical overview of missionary tendencies in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa from 1980 to 2000 with particular emphasis on the Journey to a New Land Convocation held in 1995. From 2000, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa had begun to reconsider the changes implemented following the Journey to a New Land Convocation. It will investigate such tendencies in the light of the emerging ecumenical paradigm of Christian mission as postulated by David Bosch. I will argue that three phases may be identified in the focus of the mission of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa during this period, namely 1) a period of ecumenical involvement from 1980-1993, 2) the introduction of the process called a “Journey to a New Land” from 1993 to 1995 and 3) the impact of this process on the mission of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa from 1995 to 2000. The thesis will provide an overview and critical analysis of these phases in order to assess whether the emerging ecumenical paradigm of Christian mission as postulated by David Bosch is reflected in each of these phases. A literary review indicates that the missionary focus of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa does not reflect the emerging postmodern paradigm of working towards togetherness. Nor does it proclaim a vision of unity but shows a tendency towards denominational needs. It does not embrace a diversity thereby enriching its missionary focus to give substance to the emerging ecumenical paradigm but shows more divergence than integration. There is also clear evidence that it opted for a holistic rather than a pluralistic approach to defining its missionary focus.
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Nicholson, George. "Statistical methods for inferring human population history from multi-locus genetic data." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275404.
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Stewart, Catherine Helen. "Multilevel modelling of event history data : comparing methods appropriate for large datasets." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2007/.
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Abstract When analysing medical or public health datasets, it may often be of interest to measure the time until a particular pre-defined event occurs, such as death from some disease. As it is known that the health status of individuals living within the same area tends to be more similar than for individuals from different areas, event times of individuals from the same area may be correlated. As a result, multilevel models must be used to account for the clustering of individuals within the same geographical location. When the outcome is time until some event, multilevel event history models must be used. Although software does exist for fitting multilevel event history models, such as MLwiN, computational requirements mean that the use of these models is limited for large datasets. For example, to fit the proportional hazards model (PHM), the most commonly used event history model for modelling the effect of risk factors on event times, in MLwiN a Poisson model is fitted to a person-period dataset. The person-period dataset is created by rearranging the original dataset so that each individual has a line of data corresponding to every risk set they survive until either censoring or the event of interest occurs. When time is treated as a continuous variable so that each risk set corresponds to a distinct event time, as is the case for the PHM, the size of the person-period dataset can be very large. This presents a problem for those working in public health as datasets used for measuring and monitoring public health are typically large. Furthermore, individuals may be followed-up for a long period of time and this can also contribute to a large person-period dataset. A further complication is that interest may be in modelling a rare event, resulting in a high proportion of censored observations. This can also be problematic when estimating multilevel event history models. Since multilevel event history models are important in public health, the aim of this thesis is to develop these models so they can be fitted to large datasets considering, in particular, datasets with long periods of follow-up and rare events. Two datasets are used throughout the thesis to investigate three possible alternatives to fitting the multilevel proportional hazards model in MLwiN in order to overcome the problems discussed. The first is a moderately-sized Scottish dataset, which will be the main focus of the thesis, and is used as a ‘training dataset’ to explore the limitations of existing software packages for fitting multilevel event history models and also for investigating alternative methods. The second dataset, from Sweden, is used to test the effectiveness of each alternative method when fitted to a much larger dataset. The adequacy of the alternative methods are assessed on the following criteria: how effective they are at reducing the size of the person-period dataset, how similar parameter estimates obtained from using methods are compared to the PHM and how easy they are to implement. The first alternative method involves defining discrete-time risk sets and then estimating discrete-time hazard models via multilevel logistic regression models fitted to a person-period dataset. The second alternative method involves aggregating the data of individuals within the same higher-level units who have the same values for the covariates in a particular model. Aggregating the data like this means that one line of data is used to represent all such individuals since these individuals are at risk of experiencing the event of interest at the same time. This method is termed ‘grouping according to covariates’. Both continuous-time and discrete-time event history models can be fitted to the aggregated person-period dataset. The ‘grouping according to covariates’ method and the first method, which involves defining discrete-time risk sets, are both implemented in MLwiN and pseudo-likelihood methods of estimation are used. The third and final method to be considered, however, involves fitting Bayesian event history (frailty) models and using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods of estimation. These models are fitted in WinBUGS, a software package specially designed to make practical MCMC methods available to applied statisticians. In WinBUGS, an additive frailty model is adopted and a Weibull distribution is assumed for the survivor function. Methodological findings were that the discrete-time method led to a successful reduction in the continuous-time person-period dataset; however, it was necessary to experiment with the length of time intervals in order to have the widest interval without influencing parameter estimates. The grouping according to covariates method worked best when there were, on average, a larger number of individuals per higher-level unit, there were few risk factors in the model and little or none of the risk factors were continuous. The Bayesian method could be favourable as no data expansion is required to fit the Weibull model in WinBUGS and time is treated as a continuous variable. However, models took a much longer time to run using MCMC methods of estimation as opposed to likelihood methods. This thesis showed that it was possible to use a re-parameterised version of the Weibull model, as well as a variance expansion technique, to overcome slow convergence by reducing correlation in the Markov chains. This may be a more efficient way to reduce computing time than running further iterations.
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Olumuyiwa, Olubunmi Taiwo. "A history of the Methodist/Anglican collaboration in Nigeria within the Yoruba socio-cultural context." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2904/.
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This thesis examines the history of Anglican and the Methodist churches’ collaboration in Western Nigeria during the era of the missionaries and after. The intention is to establish the approach that the early foreign missionaries bequeathed to the mission-oriented churches has been a particular problem, which has inhibited the emergence of a truly African or Nigerian form of unity particularly between the Anglican and the Methodist churches. A critical evaluation of the churches’ collaboration in Nigeria would suggest that what obtains is institutional and doctrinal unity introduced by the missionaries. While this study appreciates and commends the efforts of the early missionaries for laying these collaborative and ecumenical foundations, the study holds that it does not go far enough especially in attaining its potential to positively affect the sociocultural, religious and political challenges facing contemporary Nigeria society. Such an effective collaborative spirit is achievable only when it is contextualized, employing local and indigenous approaches including indigenous theological education. This thesis does not condemn western contributions because there are aspects of western culture that are still relevant in the context of global collaboration. However, it stresses the need for the understanding of ecumenical collaboration from different cultures particularly in Yoruba speaking region of Nigeria, so that, instead of looking up too much to the West for leadership in ecumenism, it should grow in the Nigerian climate and culture
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Hedman, Jörgen. "...de bultades till bättring : till frågan om Sveriges kristnande." Thesis, Gotland University, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-585.
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<p>The written sources concerning the process of christianization in Sweden has for a long time been limited to two main texts, Rimberts vita of St. Ansgarius and Adam of Bremen´s History of the bishops of Hamburg. This is due to a rigid source criticism in the beginning of the 20th century, which put other material – in particular the norse sagas – out of consideration. The last twenty years however, new questions have been raised concerning the christianization, partly because of new archaeological findings, new interpretations of the significance of runic stones and the recent debate about the formation of the Swedish medieval kingdom. The subject has been discussed from many different angles, and with a lot of scholarly effort.</p><p>This text raises the question whether the christianization of Sweden was a peaceful or violent process, and investigates the possibility of answering the question through an analysis of all the relevant written material available and in the light of recent archaeological findings. There are several methodological problems pertaining to written material from the early middle ages which are raised and discussed. The sources are initially presented from a critical viewpoint, and then the material is analyzed with a matrix construed from the categories Wortmission, Tatmission, and Schwertmission, each with subdivisions drawn from the texts. The author contends that the source material conclusively supports that the christianization was a violent process and also a fairly rapid one.</p>
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Johansson, Ellinor. "Gymnasieelevers förståelse och upplevelser av Förintelsen i historieundervisningen." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-67326.
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This study focus is on pupils historical understanding of the Holocaust. The main purpose and question in this study is to answer what types of work methods and materials pupils used in Holocaust education in historical class. The method used is an survey on 136 high school’s pupils in Sweden for receiving a better understanding of what historical use of Holocaust pupils meet in historical class. The analyze of the material from the survey focused on four out of seven historical uses based on the historian Klas-Göran Karlsson’s typology on the uses of history, those are ideological, moral, political-educational and scientific use. The theory is used for analysing how pupils encounter the holocaust in the historical classroom. Results from the survey show that pupils meet a variation of historical information and facts is used throw how and what pupils work with the Holocaust. All four of the historical use of history could be seen in the results, but above all the scientific use and the ideological use. The scientific use of the Holocaust focuses on factors and relationship between causal factor and outcome. The ideological use of the Holocaust focuses on the understanding of democratic and human values. The study reveals that no historical use is dominant in the different classes, that means the individual meeting whit information about the Holocaust and pupil has an important value in what type of understanding and historical use the pupil have of the Holocaust.
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Baso, Giacomo. "Toward a Universal Model for the Mass Accretion History of Dark Matter Halos in Cosmological Simulations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425859.
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It is now well established that a large percentage of the energy density of the universe is in the form of non-baryonic dark matter, a still unidentified type of matter that does not emit or interact with electromagnetic radiation. At the present time, most of the dark matter is virialized in large structures called ‘halos’ which formed via hierarchical clustering, a series of subsequent mergers of smaller halos originating from the growth of the perturbations of the density field of the early universe. The study of this tree of mergers, and of its main branch, is of primary importance in understanding the properties of halos at the present time.
The primary tools for the study of the evolution of structures in the non-linear regime are large numerical simulations, that evolve some suitable initial conditions by numerical integration of the gravity equations. We will present our set of simulations, partly developed in the context of this work. By exploiting the large statistic and dynamical range provided, we will present our refinement and expansion of a previous model for the mass accretion history of the halos, greatly expanding its applicability. In particular, our model will allow us to characterize both the median mass accretion history as well as the full halo-to-halo distribution, and we will discuss some applications. Studying the scatter of the distribution, we will present a preliminary analysis of the percentile distributions of mass accretion histories. Despite non-conclusive results, we will provide a characterization that can be useful in checking the validity of methods to generate synthetic merger trees.
We will argue for the universality of the model, which allows us to apply our results to massive neutrino cosmologies. Multiple experiments in recent years confirmed the existence of flavor oscillations in the propagation of neutrino fluxes, a phenomenon usually interpreted as the effect of a nonzero mass for the neutrinos together with a mixing of the flavor and mass eigenstates. The presence of non-zero neutrino masses has severe cosmological implications, causing in particular a slowdown in the growth and evolution of the structures on small scales. We will illustrate how to modify our model to account for these effects.<br>È ormai ben accettato che una grande percentuale della densità di energia dell’universo è sotto forma di materia oscura non barionica, un tipo ancora identificato di materia che non emette o interagisce con la radiazione elettromagnetica. Attualmente, la maggior parte della materia oscura è virializzata in grandi strutture chiamate ‘aloni’ formatisi tramite clustering gerarchico, una serie di fusioni successive di aloni più piccoli originatisi dalla crescita delle perturbazioni del campo di densità dell’universo primordiale. Lo studio di questo albero di fusioni, e del suo ramo principale, è di primaria importanza per la comprensione delle proprietà degli aloni al tempo attuale.
Gli strumenti principali per lo studio dell’evoluzione delle strutture in regime non lineare sono grandi simulazioni numeriche, che evolvono opportune condizioni iniziali per integrazione numerica delle equazioni della gravità. Presenteremo il nostro set di simulazioni, in parte sviluppate nel contesto di questo lavoro. Sfruttando l’ampia statistica e gamma dinamica fornita, presenteremo il nostro raffinamento ed espansione di un modello precedente per la storia di accrescimento di massa degli aloni, ampliando notevolmente la sua applicabilità. In particolare, il nostro modello ci permette di caratterizzare sia la storia di formazione mediana sia la distribuzione completa degli aloni, e ne discuteremo qualche applicazione. Studiando lo scatter della distribuzione, presenteremo un’analisi preliminare delle distribuzioni percentili delle storie di accrescimento di massa. Nonostante i risultati non siano conclusivi, forniremo una caratterizzazione che può risultare utile per controllare la validità di metodi per generare alberi di fusioni sintetici.
Discuteremo dell’universalità del modello, che ci permette di applicare i nostri risultati a cosmologie di neutrini massivi. Diversi esperimenti negli ultimi anni hanno confermato l’esistenza di oscillazioni di sapore nella propagazione di flussi di neutrini, un fenomeno di solito interpretato come l’effetto di una massa non nulla per i neutrini insieme ad un mixing degli autostati di sapore e di massa. La presenza di masse non nulle dei neutrini ha grandi implicazioni cosmologiche, provocando in particolare un rallentamento della crescita e dell’evoluzione delle strutture su piccola scala. Illustreremo come modificare il nostro modello per tenere conto di questi effetti.
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White, James W. "The doctrine of Christian perfection its historic and contemporary relevance for Methodism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Muir, Elizabeth Gillan 1934. "Petticoats in the pulpit : early nineteenth century methodist women preachers in Upper Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39216.
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Women preached and itinerated in different Methodist traditions in the first half of the nineteenth century in Canada. By the middle of the century, many of them had relinquished the pulpit and they soon disappeared. In the United States of America, women preachers also met with resistance, but well before the twentieth century some Methodist women had been ordained. Although many aspects of the Canadian and American contexts were similar, women preachers experienced a somewhat different reception in each country because of the contrasting political climate. Whereas the American Methodist churches reflected the more liberal atmosphere of their country, the Canadian Methodist Episcopal church intentionally adopted the more reactionary stance of the British Wesleyans in order to gain respectability and political advantage. The other Canadian Methodist churches gradually imbibed this conservative atmosphere, and as a result, Canadian women were eventually discouraged from a preaching role. This dissertation recovers the history of a number of nineteenth century Methodist women preaching in Canada, examines their British heritage and the experiences of their American sisters, and suggests reasons for the Canadian devolution.
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Gleason, Douglas Paul. "Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626807.
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EIRite, Kimberly Ann, Laura Ann Stanley, Randi Dawn Seligson, and Deborah Ann Trautner. "An integrated approach to teaching history in the middle schools." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1196.
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Bryan, William Jennings. "Toward pastoral teaching of church history in the local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p100-0078.
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Lipson, Mark (Mark Israel). "New statistical genetic methods for elucidating the history and evolution of human populations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89873.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2014.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173).<br>In the last few decades, the study of human history has been fundamentally changed by our ability to detect the signatures left within our genomes by adaptations, migrations, population size changes, and other processes. Rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology have now made it possible to interrogate these signals at unprecedented levels of detail, but extracting more complex information about the past from patterns of genetic variation requires new and more sophisticated models. This thesis presents a suite of sensitive and efficient statistical tools for learning about human history and evolution from large-scale genetic data. We focus first on the problem of admixture inference and describe two new methods for determining the dates, sources, and proportions of ancestral mixtures between diverged populations. These methods have already been applied to a number of important historical questions, in particular that of tracing the course of the Austronesian expansion in Southeast Asia. We also report a new approach for estimating the human mutation rate, a fundamental parameter in evolutionary genetics, and provide evidence that it is higher than has been proposed in recent pedigree-based studies.<br>by Mark Lipson.<br>Ph. D.