Christianity

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Hawkshaw
The third section of the poem returns to the themes of immortality, impermanence, and the saving grace of Christianity . Dionysius, visiting Myra's grave thirty years after her death, laments her loss but praises God...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Frances Billington
From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Fredrika Bremer
Bremer signalled what was new in this novel by admitting in her preface that she is tired of writing about young lovers, and is turning to filial love (specifically the paternal relationship) as the more...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Kingsford
AK 's intention in The Perfect Way was to reveal the Ancient Doctrine of the Constitution of Existence and the Nature of Religion and to supply a system of thought and rule of life adapted...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Kingsford
The book offers fragments of the Sacred Books of Hermes , which arose from the latest productions of Greek philosophy yet contain some traces of the religious doctrine of ancient Eygpt.
Trismegistus, Hermes. The Virgin of the World. Translators Kingsford, Anna and Edward Maitland, Wizards Book Shelf, 1977.
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These doctrines...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Frances Brooke
Judith Romilly progresses from an old and cramping belief onward to the next unfolding phase—to one tasting the joys of a loftier and more austere atmosphere
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
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through her encounters with the hero and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community.
Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984.
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She deals briefly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kristeva
Le féminin et le sacré investigates the place of women in the domain of the sacred, and in various world religions. L'Incroyable besoin de croire argues that Christianity paved the way for humanism.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
MF begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West 's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Leonora Carrington
Pushing against the femme-enfant who frequently emerges at the centre of surrealist art and writing, this book's heroine, Marion Leatherby, is a ninety-two-year-old crone. She is described by her grandson as a drooling sack of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Hume Clapperton
JHC responds that Lathbury has missed several benefits that agnosticism offers to women and to society at large, including the exchange of truth for delusion, a standpoint from which clearness of thought and stability of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
While the twenty-two volumes cover a wide range of topics, eight of them directly address the history or practices of Christianity and four focus on philosophical topics. These belonged, CFC felt, to a subject complementary...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC 's introduction regrets the effects of sectarian or partisan interpretations of primitive Christianity . She firmly believed that in order to be the best possible Christian one should not only make a thorough study...

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7 March 203: In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus,...

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7 March 203

In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus , Perpetua , author of the earliest surviving text in Latin by a woman, was martyred at Carthage in North Africa.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

6 June 1391: A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted...

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6 June 1391

A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted an attack on the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain.
Nirenberg, David. “Unrenounceable Core”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 14, 23 July 2009, pp. 16-17.
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1733: A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed...

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1733

A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed that no one shall be deemed a mulatto after the third generation . . . but . . . shall have all the privileges and immunities of...

1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

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1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.

By late October 1942: C. S. Lewis published the book version of...

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By late October 1942

C. S. Lewis published the book version of The Screwtape Letters, an epistolary fiction in which a senior devil, Screwtape, offers advice to his nephew, a junior devil, on tempting and ultimately damning a...

1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).
Vedantam, Shankar. “Lost recording of Gandhi uncovered”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Aug. 2008, p. 30.
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1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...

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1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feminist theology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly,...

14-15 November 2014: At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in...

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14-15 November 2014

At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in north-east Nigeria, 276 students who were there during the holidays to take a physics exam were abducted by the terrorist group calling itself Boko Haram ...

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