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The Concise Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church
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Christian church, Pasadena, Jan. 26-18
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View of the damaged facade and stained glass windows of the First Christian Church at Marengo Avenue and Walnut Street in Pasadena, California, following a tornado on January 26, 1918. Bricks from the facade of the building have been blown off exposing wood frame beneath and rubble is scattered on the ground.
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Wilshire Christian Church interior, Los Angeles
Visual Materials
View of the interior of the Wilshire Christian Church at 634 Normandie Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as seen from the balcony with the organ, choir, pews, and parishioners visible.
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Wilshire Boulevard and Wilshire Christian Church, Los Angeles, Cal
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Image of buildings, automobiles, street, and traffic lights on Wilshire Boulevard as seen from the intersection of Irolo Street, with the Wilshire Christian Church at center left, in Los Angeles, California. Various signs on the boulevard read "Elise Helen excellent full course dinners" "KFAC," which is attached to the radio station transmission tower, the "Gaylord" building, "Standard Oil Products," "Standard Stations Inc." A double-decker tour bus, gasoline service station, and the Brown Derby restaurant are also visible.
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Mormon theory of church and state : a dissertation
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Typewritten dissertation for Jensen's Ph.D. degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago. The dissertation describes the separation of church and state in Mormon theology and philosophy, with an emphasis on the theological underpinnings of Mormon political practices. Includes a descriptions of Mormon links to Islamic practices (including a comparison of Mohammed and Joseph Smith and the Mormon "jihad"); the "theocratic era" in Illinois from 1839 to 1840 and the 1846-1849 theocracy in Iowa and Utah; the creation of government for the State of Deseret and Nauvoo, Illinois; the western expansion of the Mormon church; the establishment of Mormon ecclesiastical courts; conflicts between Mormon and non-Mormon factions; and speculations on the future of the Mormon church. Also covers church and political history centered around Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Includes a table of contents and bibliography.
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St. Peter in the East, Oxford by R.N. Lyne (Fourth Edition) [+1 photograph of All Saint's Church, Oxford]
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This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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Churches - Los Angeles
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