The character of the Regent Park community is directly flavoured by its Christian links. While it still attracts both men and women who fancy a life in the Baptist ministry it is thoroughly modern and open in ecumenical outlook with members entering a wide variety of careers. No religious test or barriers are presented to applicants and there is no expectation of ordination. The institution specialises in providing opportunities to explore the Christian mind through academic study and its Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture. Many theology students from other colleges will come for tuition at Regent’s Park, such is its expertise in this area.
Regent’s Park is situated just north of the city centre and has over 150 students, around a third are postgraduates. The college tries to house all its undergraduates but this can be tricky and is not guaranteed. Unusually for Oxford it can house a certain number of couples and families. Despite its small numbers the college also excels in rowing and has provided crew members for both the university and Great Britain.
Baptist roots
Before Victorian times both Oxford and Cambridge universities would insist that all students had to be Anglicans and were required to affirm this. This was not seen as discrimination, but as the sacred promotion of a belief system that made the country strong. Non-Anglicans were free to set up their own institutions as long as it wasn’t in Oxford.
It is from this background that Regent’s Park has its roots. The London Baptist Educational Society was founded in the much more liberal London of 1752, developing into a collegiate establishment in 1810 on a site acquired in Stepney. The college became affiliated with the University of London and moved t...
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Ivy covered quad
Regent’s Park has a beautiful intimate main quad, with dining hall, library and chapel, which becomes covered in ivy during the Trinity term. Most students are accommodated in classically styled buildings from the early 20th century. The library is open 24 hours a day and is predictably filled with books on theology, philosophy, English and law, as well as all the other expected subjects. The collection boasts of numerous important non-British publications that even the mighty Bodleian Library does not have, drawing theologians from other colleges. The wooden panelled common room is said to be one of the finest in the university.
Emmanuelle the 90 year old tortoise, who became a TV star by appearing on ‘Blue Peter’, lives in the main quad.
The Church of England was not a good religion during the sixteenth century, the puritans want to practice their own religion but the Church of England would not allow them. People didn’t want to obey the churches authority anymore. The Puritans it particular did not want to follow the Church of England. Over time, “the church of England began to crack down on those who refused to bow to their authority” (www3.gettysburg.edu) this caused the Puritans to leave England. The puritans left England and went on a dangerous journey to be free from the church. It was so bad that, “it got to the point where the puritans decided to face the dangerous journey to the New World rather than be persecuted for their religion” (www3.gettysburg.edu) these people would rather put their lives and families in danger than to be put down by the Church of England. There were ranks inside the church and women were at the bottom.
The demand for so many clergy to be ordained quickly led to restructuring clerical requirements. This demand could be shown in mere numbers, for example: "In 1841 there were just over 14,000 clergy in England and in 1891 there were more than 24,000" (Parsons 25). In the 1840s these clergy were primarily trained at the two major universities, Oxford and Cambridge. A small percentage (14%) came from small theological colleges. Many people could not afford to send their sons to these universities for the length of time required to become ordained. The combination of the increased demand in number of clergy needed and the time restriction for development created a crisis. The result of this crisis, was the development of the lesser theological colleges for the non-ordained and vocationally trained clergy.. This caused a number of issues to be raised. The result of this trend was " the growth of non-university clergy and the inadequacy of its theological instruction" (qtd.
Parishioners often ask me if there is really any difference between United Methodist and the Baptists down the road. The answer, “quite a lot,” generally surprises them. When they ask me to explain, I often point them in the direction of our polity and the theology it reflects.
In the novel Grand Avenue. Greg Sarris uses the theme thread of poison to connect all of his separate stories about the Toms’, a Pomo Indian family. He proves that the roots of a family are the basis which gives the family its structure, even if those roots are bad. In the Toms’ family they’re roots were poisoned from the very founding of the family starting with Sam Toms’. His poison was not the fact that he tried to steal a married woman away, but that he was filled with secrets, deceptions, and self hatred. His family was founded on these poisened roots and passes the poisen down generation after gerneration. The only way to stop the poison, or inner self hatred taken out in other forms, was to let go of past and talk about the secrets and lies. Once a person does this they are able to learn from their mistake , in a sense the break free from the poison. If Sam Toms’ , the founder or root of the family,would have broken free of his poisen by talking about his mistake he made, his whole family per haps would have turned out completely different. As a result of his secrets and lies his family was rasied to make the same immoral desisions as he made throughout his life. His family, like Sam, didn't take responcilblity for their mistakes, which spread the poison onto the next generation. Tracing the poison throughout the Tom’s beginning at the roots, shows just how important the roots indeed are.
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 19(1), 69-84. Heim, D. (1996). The 'Standard'. Phil Jackson, Seeker in Sneakers. Christian Century, 133(20), 654-656.
The arboretum is located at the north end of campus, past the beef unit and across the street from the equine unit on Via Carta Road. It may be difficult to locate since a visitor needs...
The Church of England, Christianity, Puritanism, these are all very strong and powerful parts of society throughout the 17th century, especially in the American colonies; people who...wielded these beliefs, those who believed themselves closer to god than the next person, they were usually judges, lawyers and others with the ability to tell another “what’s what” if you ever went up against one of these people you would most likely lose for you don't have god behind you.
At St. Ambrose University, the housing is mainly two bedrooms sharing one bathroom, instead of a communal bathroom. Private universities are mainly about giving a safe and supportive community that each resident can feel comfortable enough in to thrive. On top of the great housing, there are resident hall activities like volunteering. There are also over fifty clubs and after class activities available at St. Ambrose. There are academic, cultural, recreational and even more types of clubs and class activities available. St. Ambrose does its best to provide a home, away from home.
...s distributed in Theology 101 at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle on 22 April 2008.
In valuing the developable land at Canary Wharf, there are several factors to take into account. Namely, it is crucial to decide on an appropriate rate at which to discount the projected cash flows for the property. The developable properties of Canary Wharf come with considerable risk. For example, the London office market downturn, as well as significant market hits for the large financial services tenants of Canary Wharf, presents serious tenant lease up and lease covenant negotiation risks. How long will it take to attract quality tenants to the buildings, especially as financial services tenants are currently stressed? Additionally, the requirement for further planning consent on the buildings indicates that construction on three of the sites can not commence for a number of years. How can one accurately predict the market in the future? Will the London Office market significantly improve or continue to decline? What will interest rates look like? Songbird must consider the risk of valuing such sites several years into the future. Further, Songbird must consider the weighty transportation risk. If the Crossrail project does not come to fruition in a timely manner with necessary approvals, development will not proceed as planned, causing cost overruns and heavy construction delays. Assuming that Canary Wharf is able to get the necessary transportation approvals, Canary Wharf's projected cash flows should be discounted at 12.5% in order to mitigate risks to be faced. Given this discount rate, as well as considering all taxes, debt obligations, rents and rent-free periods, and all construction costs, an appropriate bid on the developable sites at Canary Wharf is ₤809,000 (the Net Present Value of the cash flows, discounted at 12.5%). Please see Exhibit 1 for a detailed pro forma of all projected cash flows.
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Parking by the dormitories is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Those who live in Brown Hall, which is behind the Thompson center, have the most parking problems on campus. This is because the Thompson center is a very large building housing various departments on campus. Therefore it receives a lot of traffic all day. Visitors to the campus are taking over the parking lots around the Thompson center, which is forcing students to park other places on campus and some students chose to disregard the signs posted for reserved parking.
campus of the University. These parking lots vary in size from 6 to 294 spaces.
A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902–2007 by Ernest Nicholson 2004 pages 125–126
hundreds of double or triple rooms and is usually located besides the school premises. It is the