papers read at the 1985 summer meeting and the 1986 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society Sheils, William J. Wood, Diana text xx Oxford Blackwell for the Society 1986 9999 monographic und eng

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xvi, 521 p. ; 23 cm. Sects under Constantine / Stuart G. Hall -- Pachomios of Tabennesi and the foundation of an independent monastic community / Graham Gould -- Confraternities of Byzantium / Peregrine Horden -- New sects and secret meetings: associations and authority in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / R.I. Moore -- Confraternities and the church in late medieval Florence / John Henderson -- Devotional confraternities in Renaissance Venice / Richard MacKenney -- Corpus Christi fraternities and late Medieval piety / Miri Rubin -- Social and economic spread of rural Lollardy: a reappraisal / Derek Plumb -- Godly community in theory and practice of the European Reformation / Euan Cameron -- Privy Kirks and their antecedents: the hidden face of Scottish Protestantism / James Kirk -- Leagues and associations in Sixteenth-Century French Catholicism / John Bossy -- Gracelesse and audacious companie: the family of love in the parish of Balsham, 1550-1630 / Christopher Marsh -- Genesis of a Godly community: two York parishes, 1590-1640 / Claire Cross -- English conventicle (Presidential address) / Patrick Collinson -- Oliver Heywood and his congregation / W.J. Shields -- Religious societies: Methodist and Evangelical 1738-1800 / John Walsh -- Idealism and association in early Nineteenth-Century dissent / Deryck Lovegrove -- From ranters to chapel builders: Primitive Methodism in the South Lincolshire fenland c.1820-1875 / R.W. Ambler -- Evangelical Alliance in the 1840's: an attempt to institutionalise Christian unity / John Wolffe -- Voluntaryism within the established church in Nineteenth-Century Belfast / S. Peter Kerr -- Volunatry absolutism: British missionary societies in the Nineteenth century / Peter Hinchliff -- Voluntary principle in the colonial situation: theory and practice / Margaret Donaldson -- From church to mission: an examination of the official missionary strategy of the Church Missionary Society on the Niger, 1887-93 / C. Peter Williams -- Building the 'Catholic Ghetto': Catholic organisations 1870-1914 / Hugh McLeod --/ Welfare state within the state: the Saint Vincent de Paul Society in Glasgow, 1848-1920 / Bernard Aspinwall -- Catholic federation 1906-1929 / Peter Doyle -- Finding a space for evangelicalism: evangelical youth movements in New Zealand / Peter J. Lineham -- Oxford Group Movement between the wars / D.W. Bebbington. edited by William J. Sheils; Diana Wood Christian communities.Christian sects.Christianity Societies, etc BV4404 .G7 1986 97806311505410631150544 220820