Home schooling in view of John Calvin : a study in education and communion of saints /

This study explores the tension that has emerged around the rise of home schooling in a faith-community strongly committed to establishing and maintaining day schools in the tradition of John Calvin. It aims to identify and understand factors that contributed to this tension and to find ways to bridge, diffuse, reduce, or eliminate it. In line with Calvin, personal convictions, and the nature of the community, the study takes a Christian epistemological and axiological stance. Its premise is that the integrity of the commvmity is more important than the manner in which its children are taught. The study reviews relevant literature and several interviews. It considers both secular and Christian literature to understand communities, community breakdown, and community restoration. It also examines literature about the significance of home, school, and community relationships; the attraction of Reformed day schools; and the appeal of home schooling. Interviews were conducted with 4 home schooling couples and 2 focus groups. One focus group included local school representatives, and the other home schoolers and school representatives from an area with reputedly less tension on the issue. Interviews were designed for participants to give their perspectives on reasons for home schooling, the existing tension, and ways to resolve the issues. The study identifies the rise of home schooling in this particular context as the initial issue and the community's deficiency to properly deal with it as the chief cause for the rising tensions. However, I argue that, within the norms the community firmly believes in, home schooling need not jeopardize its integrity. I call for personal, social, and spiritual renewal to restore the covenant community in gratitude to God.

The Function of Norms and Values in the Construction of Social Identity in Groups who experienced intergroup Conflicts

I present my explorative research about conflict and social identity. The Social Identity Approach of Henri Tajfel and John Turner is used as theoretical frame in the study. The main question is how the construction of social identity of group members is influenced by an inter-group conflict. The research project consists of two parts: 1. An empirical study conducted with qualitative research methods to investigate a today’s congregation of the Swiss reformed Church who experienced a conflict about twenty years ago. This conflict ended by the separation of a sub-group from the congregations. This group forms an independent community today. Members of both congregations where interviewed about the meaning which membership has for them and about their interpretation of the conflict. 2. An analysis of the Gospel of Matthew with questions who where developed out of the empirical study and the Social Identity Approach to better understand the separation conflict between the Matthean community and the synagogue.

Berner Gesangbuch : Psalmen, Lieder und Festlieder.

Includes "Anhang von sechs Melodieen (dem Berner Gesangbuche beigegeben durch Beschluss der Synode vom 20. Juni 1866)" for descant, alto, tenor and bass voices.

Der grössere Catechismus /

Mode of access: Internet.

The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow in North Tarrytown, New York; a record of the early gravestones and their inscriptions.

"In 1926 the History Research Society of the Tappan Zee had published ... 'The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow' ... a partial record."

A memorial service for the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Swiss reformer, Ulric Zwingli.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Acts and proceedings.

Mode of access: Internet.

Calvin's Calvinism ... /

[2] A defense of the secret providence of God: Introduction by John Calvin to his defence of the secret providence of God [i.e. conclusion to A treatise on the eternal predestination of God, etc., etc.]. Calumniator's preface to certain articles (that is, calumnies) purporting to be extracted from the writings of John Calvin [with] Reply of John Calvin to the Calumniator's preface [with] Articles extracted from the Latin, as well as the French, books of John Calvin on predestination [with] Calumniator's statements and observations [with] Reply [i.e. Replies] of John Calvin.

Egyházi beszédei /

Mode of access: Internet.

Through the years with Aberdeen. 1925 to 1949.

Mode of access: Internet.

Étude comparée des deux morales Luthérienne et Réformée /

Thesis--Université de Paris.

Institutes of the Christian religion. A new translation

Mode of access: Internet.

Tracts relating to the reformation.

v. 2-3, "translated from the original Latin and French by Henry Beveridge."

Ioannis Calvini Institutio christianae religionis : cum brevi annotatione atque indicibus locupletissimis ad editionem Amstelodamensem /

Includes bibliographical references.

Theological treatises.

Mode of access: Internet.