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The Chautauqua Text-Books. No. Thirty-Five. Outlines of General History

By: John Heyl Vincent

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The Chautauqua Text-Books. No. Thirty-Five. Outlines of General History

By: John Heyl Vincent

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385397863

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Teaching the World

Foundations for Online Theological Education

By: Gabriel Etzel,Timothy Paul Jones,Chris Jackson,John Cartwright

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Teaching the World

Foundations for Online Theological Education

By: Gabriel Etzel,Timothy Paul Jones,Chris Jackson,John Cartwright

More and more seminaries, Christian universities, and Bible colleges are opting to train future ministers and missionaries online. What happens when the movement toward online education is shaped by pragmatic or financial concerns instead of Scripture and theology? Ministry training can be reduced to a mere transfer of information as institutions lose sight of their calling to shape the souls of God-called men and women in preparation for effective ministry. How might online ministry training look different if biblical and theological foundations were placed first? Teaching the World brings together educators from a wide range of backgrounds and from some of the largest providers of online theological education in the world. Together, they present a revolutionary new approach to online theological education, highly practical and yet thoroughly shaped by Scripture and theology.

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223

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433691604

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9781433691607

Brief History of Greece

By: Joel Dorman Steele,John Heyl Vincent,Esther Steele

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Brief History of Greece

By: Joel Dorman Steele,John Heyl Vincent,Esther Steele

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385304369

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PTL

The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire

By: John Wigger

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PTL

The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire

By: John Wigger

In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. with half a dozen friends. By 1987 they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million people a year, and millions of adoring fans. The Bakkers led a life of conspicuous consumption perfectly aligned with the prosperity gospel they preached. They bought vacation homes, traveled first-class with an entourage and proclaimed that God wanted everyone to be healthy and wealthy. When it all fell apart, after revelations of a sex scandal and massive financial mismanagement, all of America watched more than two years of federal investigation and trial as Jim was eventually convicted on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. He would go on to serve five years in federal prison. PTL is more than just the spectacular story of the rise and fall of the Bakkers, John Wigger traces their lives from humble beginnings to wealth, fame, and eventual disgrace. At its core, PTL is the story of a group of people committed to religious innovation, who pushed the boundaries of evangelical religion's engagement with American culture. Drawing on trial transcripts, videotapes, newspaper articles, and interviews with key insiders, dissidents, and lawyers, Wigger reveals the power of religion to redirect American culture. This is the story of a grand vision gone wrong, of the power of big religion in American life and its limits.

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Oxford University Press

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0199379726

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Canada's Entrepreneurs

From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash : Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Under the Direction of John English and Réal Bélanger

By: John English

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Canada's Entrepreneurs

From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash : Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Under the Direction of John English and Réal Bélanger

By: John English

Beginning with an accessible overview of the rise of entrepreneurialism in Canada, it features portraits of 61 individuals organized thematically. Here, readers will meet a variety of seminal characters: the merchants of the first trading posts and the commercial empire of the St. Lawrence; the industrialists of the Maritimes, Central Canada, and the West; the railway builders and urban developers; and everyone in between."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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University of Toronto Press

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144261286X

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Circuit Chautauqua

From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America

By: John E. Tapia

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Circuit Chautauqua

From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America

By: John E. Tapia

In the late 19th century the chautauqua movement became a popular form of adult education and entertainment in the United States. With noted lyceum speakers (such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan) and local talent, the movement spread throughout the country and was particularly popular in the rural areas of the Midwest. An overview of the lyceum and of adult education in 19th century America is followed by an examination of the rise of the circuit chautauqua. Its popularity during the 1920s is detailed as is its demise, brought on by the Great Depression and the rise of the film industry.

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McFarland

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078640213X

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Fictions of Certitude

Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920

By: John S. Haller

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Fictions of Certitude

Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920

By: John S. Haller

The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals The nineteenth century’s explosion of scientific theories and new technologies undermined many deep-seated beliefs that had long formed the basis of Western society, making it impossible for many to retain the unconditional faith of their forebears. A myriad of discoveries—including Faraday’s electromagnetic induction, Joule’s law of conservation of energy, Pasteur’s germ theory, Darwin’s and Wallace’s theories of evolution by natural selection, and Planck’s work on quantum theory—shattered conventional understandings of the world that had been dictated by traditional religious teachings and philosophical systems for centuries. Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920 investigates the fin de siècle search for truth and meaning in a world that had been radically transformed. John S. Haller Jr. examines the moral and philosophical journeys of nine European and American intellectuals who sought deeper understanding amid such paradigmatic upheaval. Auguste Comte, John Henry Newman, Herbert Spencer, Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Fiske, William James, Lester Frank Ward, and Paul Carus all belonged to an age in which one world was passing while another world that was both astounding and threatening was rising to take its place. For Haller, what makes the work of these nine thinkers worthy of examination is how they strove in different ways to find certitude and belief in the face of an epochal sea change. Some found ways to reconceptualize a world in which God and nature coexist. For others, the challenge was to discern meaning in a world in which no higher power or purpose can be found. As explained by D. H. Meyer, “The later Victorians were perhaps the last generation among English-speaking intellectuals able to believe that man was capable of understanding his universe, just as they were the first generation collectively to suspect that he never would.”

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University Alabama Press

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0817320539

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Bay View

By: Dr. John J. Agria,Mary A. Agria

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Bay View

By: Dr. John J. Agria,Mary A. Agria

Bay View is a jewel box of a Northern Michigan Chautauqua community along the shores of Little Traverse Bay, southwest of the Mackinac Bridge. Founded in 1875 and now a National Historic Landmark, its 31 public buildings and 450 cottages are among the most pristine examples of 1900-era High Victorian architecture in the United States. Historical photographs capture the fascinating journey via rail and Great Lakes steamer to the early campgrounds beech-forested hillside. Rare images trace its path from a wilderness Methodist campground to a vibrant embodiment of Chautauquas four pillars: the arts, education, recreation, and religion. Building on the Camp Meeting and Chautauqua traditions, the founders forged a unique lifestyle that ends every November only to resume with renewed energy every April. The turrets, towers, and gingerbread of this timeless Brigadoon excite the imagination today just as they did more than 135 years ago.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439645221

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Lycoming College, 1812–2012

On the Frontiers of American Education

By: John F. Piper

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Lycoming College, 1812–2012

On the Frontiers of American Education

By: John F. Piper

Lycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education is the story of Lycoming College, a liberal arts and sciences college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The College is one of the fifty oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and is the oldest that retains a relationship to the United Methodist Church. The College shares many characteristics with peer institutions which have retained the liberal arts and sciences as the basis of their academic programs. It also has the distinction of having evolved through four different stages of American education, and has reached a fifth. It began as the Williamsport Academy in 1812, a school that offered a higher level of education than common schools. Academies became the ancestors of public high schools. In 1848 a group of Methodists bought the Academy and transformed it into Dickinson Seminary, soon renamed Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. It was a preparatory school, not a school of theology, despite its name. In 1929 the leaders of the Seminary added a Junior College to their school. Junior colleges were a new frontier of American education in the early 20th Century and Dickinson Junior College became the first fully accredited private junior college in Pennsylvania. After World War II the Junior College became a four year institution and chose the name Lycoming. In 2000 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching included Lycoming in its list of 213 national liberal arts colleges. This latest frontier has become a challenge to the College to sustain its program in an ever changing American educational landscape.

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1611483719

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The Chautauqua Text-Books. No. Thirty-Five. Outlines of General History

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Canada's Entrepreneurs

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