Selected letters of William Bright, D.D.; regius professor of ecclesiastical history in the University of Oxford; canon of Christ church.

Includes bibliographical references.

Meanings of the Sabbath for Worship in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

This study investigates the meanings and significance of the seventh-day Sabbath for worship in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In recent years, both the day and concept of Sabbath have attracted ecumenical attention, but the focus of scholarship has been placed on Sunday as the Lord's Day or Sabbath with little consideration given to the seventh-day Sabbath. In contrast, this project examines the seventh-day Sabbath and worship on that day from theological, liturgical, biblical and historical perspectives. Although not intended as an apology for Seventh-day Adventist practices, the work does strive to promote a critical and creative conversation with other theological and liturgical traditions in order to promote mutual, ecumenical understanding. Historical research into the origins and nature of the principal day for weekly Christian worship provides a starting point for discussion on Sabbath. Reconsideration of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity in recent studies suggests that the influence of Judaism lasted longer than previously supposed, thereby prolonging the developmental process of Sabbath (seventh day) to Sunday. A possible coexistence of Sabbath and Sunday in early Christianity offers an alternative to perspectives that dichotomize Sabbath and Sunday from Christian antiquity onward, and thus for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, suggests biblical and historical validity for their Sabbath worship practice. Recent theological perspectives on Sabbath and Sunday are examined, particularly those of Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann and Pope John Paul II. While all three of these theologians stress the continuity of Sabbath and Sunday and speak mainly to a theology of Sunday, they do highlight the significance of Sabbath—which is relevant to an interpretation of seventh-day Sabbath worship. The study concludes that the seventh-day Sabbath is significant for worship in the Seventh-day Adventist Church because it symbolizes the relationship between God and human beings, reminds humanity of the creating and redeeming God who acts in history, and invites persons to rest and fellowship with God on a day sanctified by God.

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.

Notebook describing scholars' and church fathers' accounts of the Resurrection, undated

This notebook contains prose entries about many different scholars' accounts of Jesus Christ's Resurrection. Prince apparently studied over fifty authors' writings concerning the Resurrection and recorded in this notebook what he considered to be the significant details of each authors' interpretation.

The calendar of the Anglican Church illustrated : with brief accounts of the saints who have churches dedicated in their names, or whose images are most frequently met with in England : the early christian and medieval symbols : and an index of emblems.

Calf, rebacked.

The apocalypse of Jesus ; being a step in the search for the historical Christ,

Bibliography : 3 p. following p. xi.

The parables read in the light of the present day /

On spine: The parables of Christ.

The sceptic's manual : or, Christianity verified, being a new method of appeal to the understandings and consciences of Deists, Jews, Sceptics, and formal professors ... as exemplified in the conversion of notorious sinners, and in the lives of distinguished saints.

"This work is chiefly derived from the writings of Leslie, Fletcher, and Simpson." -Pref.

Parable of the rich man and Lazarus : illustrated in nine lectures, delivered in the First Universalist Church in Portland, Maine, 1883 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Eight sermons on the nativity, personal character, crucifixion and death, resurrection and ascension of Christ : with critical and explanatory notes interspersed : several Hebrew odes, literally translated : and miscellaneous observations, chiefly religious and moral, taken from various eminent authors, with occasional remarks /

Pages [ii], [iv] and [263]-[264] are blank.

Christ and Christianity : sermons on the mission, character, and doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth /

Mode of access: Internet.

Christ and Christianity : sermons on the mission, character, and doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth /

Mode of access: Internet.

The penitential discipline of the primitive church for the first four hundred years after Christ, together with its declension from the fifth century downwards to its present state, impartially represented.

Bibliographical footnotes.

A sermon on the divinity of Christ /

Mode of access: Internet.

Defensio Fidei nicænæ. A defense of the Nicene creed, out of the extant writings of the Catholick doctors, who flourished during the three first centuries of the Christian church; in which also is incidentally vindicated the Creed of Constantinople; concerning the Holy Ghost.

Translated from the Latin as found in Edward Burton's edition of the author's works, Oxford, 1827. Burton's notes are included. cf. Advertisement, v. 1, p. [iii]