Manna In The Wilderness, 2017 Asbury Theological Seminary
How Much? How Little? How Much Religion May One Have? How Little May One Have, To Have Any At All?, 2017 Asbury Theological Seminary
How Much? How Little? How Much Religion May One Have? How Little May One Have, To Have Any At All?, Jesse Armon Baldwin
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
Stepping Out Of Constantine’S Shadow, 2017 University of Richmond
Stepping Out Of Constantine’S Shadow, Peter Iver Kaufman
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Beginning in 1970 and continuing for forty years thereafter, Robert Markus informed and enlivened discussions of Constantinian Christianity. His impressive erudition still illumines our understanding of the period “during which Christian Romans came slowly to identify themselves with traditional Roman values, culture, practices, and established institutions.” Markus identifies the world in which that assimilation slowly occurred as “the secular.” Accustomed to hearing about assimilation of that sort when conversations turn to Christianity’s affirmations of—or accommodations to— democratic structures or, more pointedly, to civil religion, we may consider Markus politically correct. Yet because he conscripted Latin Christianity’s prolific paladin, Augustine of …
La Doctrina De La Justificación Por La Fe—Parte I: ¿En Las Huellas De Los Reformadores, 2017 Andrews University
La Doctrina De La Justificación Por La Fe—Parte I: ¿En Las Huellas De Los Reformadores, Richard M. Davidson
Faculty Publications
"This is the first part of a series of three articles where the author examines the issue of justification by faith with emphasis on the Old Testament perspective. In this first part, the debate on justification in the context of the different Christian theological perspectives from the time of the Reformation to the present is reviewed in a panoramic way. In the second part, in the following article, the study focuses on the Old Testament perspective. Finally, the study concludes establishing a series of implications that the discussion of this topic in the Old Testament has for the understanding of …
Thomas Becket, 2016 Whitworth University
The Wesleyan Connection And Discipleship, 2016 Andrews University
The Wesleyan Connection And Discipleship, Woodrow W. Whidden
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies
No abstract provided.
The Temple Character Of Early Christianity, 2016 Winthrop University
The Temple Character Of Early Christianity, Matthew Higdon
Graduate Theses
I will argue that early Christianity more or less comprehensively envisioned itself, across varying traditions, to be a human-temple community, or a series of such communities; and that this word picture, this symbol, to a certain extent ordered their social life and aspirations. I propose three interlocking aspects to this priestly sociology. First, there is the element of unity. From the beginning, the temple model promoted unity, and it became particularly important later among very disparate groups of people within the church Second, the cultic motif generated a fresh kind of priestly ethics appropriate to the self-understanding of the movement. …
A Story Of Identity In The Christian East, 2016 College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
A Story Of Identity In The Christian East, Manya Gustafson
School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses
A survey of the division of the Christian Church in the East which also led ultimately to schism with the Church in the West. Supplying a context by introduction of the two biblical interpretive schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the essay frames the reconstruction of Christian identity in the territories of the East catalyzed by conflict between the leading ecclesial figures of St. Cyril and Nestorius, and traces efforts to negotiate unity. A closing reflection on possible lessons from the struggle considers how historical objective, interpretive consensus, right relationships, or recognition of present unity may assist the work to find …
History Of The Camp-Meeting And Grounds At Wesleyan Grove, Martha's Vineyard, 2016 Asbury Theological Seminary
History Of The Camp-Meeting And Grounds At Wesleyan Grove, Martha's Vineyard, H. Vincent
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
An Historical Study Of Christian Cosmic, 2016 Avondale College
An Historical Study Of Christian Cosmic, Ray Roennfeldt
Ray Roennfeldt
Cosmic dualism presented one of the most pervasive and challenging alternatives to Christian orthodoxy from early Christian times through to the Middle Ages. Manichaeism was the most prominent sect to purposefully promulgate dualism within the Christian Church, and its success can be measured by the fact that for centuries the Church tended to label anything that seemed to be dualistic as "Manichaean". The problem for the historian is to determine whether the sects on the fringe of the Church were indeed dualistic and whether they, in fact, had any common link with Manichaeism. Time and space preclude an exhaustive treatment …
Power Or Person: Nature Of The Holy Spirit, 2016 Andrews University
Power Or Person: Nature Of The Holy Spirit, Joann Davidson
Faculty Publications
Scripture is the primary source for any knowledge of the God of heaven—and when dealing with issues of divinity, it must be studied attentively and listened to carefully. Within its sacred pages God reveals Himself with a triune identity. The nature of the biblical God cannot be fully explained without God the Holy Spirit, along with Jesus and the Father. God’s personal plurality, seen throughout Scripture, presents One of the Three of the divine Godhead as the Holy Spirit. Because the Spirit has never been incarnated as Jesus was, He is more inscrutable, making, to a greater extent, potential misunderstandings …
Neo-Subordinationism: The Alien Argumentation In The Gender Debate, 2016 Andrews University
Neo-Subordinationism: The Alien Argumentation In The Gender Debate, Matthew L. Tinkham Jr.
Faculty Publications
Over the last forty years, the debate over gender roles in the home, church, and society has unprecedentedly escalated among Evangelical Christians—including Seventh-day Adventists—due to the introduction of an alien argumentation that grounds the permanent functional subordination of women to men ontologically in the being of God. This argument, which I have termed “neo-subordinationism,” states that women are ontologically equal but functionally subordinate to men because of a prescriptive hierarchical order that exists in the immanent Trinity and is recognizable through the economic Trinity. In this Trinitarian hierarchy the Son and the Holy Spirit are said to be ontologically equal …
Verdens Undergang (1916) And The Birth Of Apocalyptic Film: Antecedents And Causative Forces, 2016 Thompson Rivers University
Verdens Undergang (1916) And The Birth Of Apocalyptic Film: Antecedents And Causative Forces, Wynn Gerald Hamonic
Journal of Religion & Film
This essay describes the antecedents and causative forces giving rise to the birth of apocalyptic cinema in the early 20th Century and the first apocalyptic feature, Verdens Undergang (1916). Apocalyptic cinema's roots can be traced back to apocalyptic literary tradition beginning 200 BCE, New Testament apocalyptic writings, the rise of premillenialism in the mid-19th Century, 19th century apocalyptic fiction, a growing distrust in human self-determination, escalating wars and tragedies from 1880 to 1912 reaching a larger audience through a burgeoning press, horrors and disillusionment caused by the First World War, a growing belief in a dystopian future, and changes in …
Risen, 2016 King's College London
Risen, Katie Turner
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Risen (2016), directed by Kevin Reynolds.
Aux Origines Du Mandéisme : La Question De Jean Le Baptiste, 2016 Loyola University Chicago
Aux Origines Du Mandéisme : La Question De Jean Le Baptiste, Edmondo Lupieri
Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Nous avons exploré les origines du mandéisme et la possibilité d’une connexion historique avec la figure de Jean le Baptiste, puis l’histoire de la « découverte » des mandéens par les Européens au xvie siècle et la construction d’un « mythe des origines », selon lequel les mandéens ont été considérés des Chrétiens, disciples de Jean l’Évangéliste et, après, de Jean le Baptiste. Après quelques renseignements sur la structure socioreligieuse traditionnelle des communautés mandéennes, nous avons étudié certains éléments de la théologie et puis l’histoire du salut, de la création du monde et d’Adam, jusqu’à la venue de Jean …
Martha's Gift To Posterity: One Pulpit's Remarkable Story, 2016 Abilene Christian University
Martha's Gift To Posterity: One Pulpit's Remarkable Story, Mcgarvey Ice
Library Research and Publications
This articles examines, by way of narrating the use of an artifact---a pulpit, the local history of the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ (including especially their early relationship to Baptist Churches) in Nashville, Tennessee.
Me And We: God's New Social Gospel, 2016 Olivet Nazarene University
Me And We: God's New Social Gospel, Leonard Sweet, Craighton T. Hippenhammer
Faculty Scholarship – Library Science
A review of a book by Leonard Sweet that attempts to redefine the old social gospel into a new social gospel that is more evangelical in nature than the recent social justice movement.
Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren't Fundamentalists, 2016 Olivet Nazarene University
Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren't Fundamentalists, Al Truesdale (Editor), Craighton T. Hippenhammer
Faculty Scholarship – Library Science
A review of a book that delineates the differences between Christian fundamentalism and Wesleyanism, including theological control beliefs and why the distinctions matter, written by and published by well-known leaders in the Church of the Nazarene.
Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, 2016 College of the Holy Cross
Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
Contributors to Indian Catholicism: Interventions and Imaginings, the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism.
Authority, Representation, And Offense: Dalit Catholics, Foot Washing, And The Study Of Global Catholicism, 2016 College of the Holy Cross
Authority, Representation, And Offense: Dalit Catholics, Foot Washing, And The Study Of Global Catholicism, Mathew Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
In reflecting on a sharp scholarly exchange at a conference, this article explores issues of authority, representation, and offense in global Catholic and South Asian Studies. Focusing on the act of foot washing by Dalit Catholics, the article examines how scholarly offense is linked to particular claims of representational authority. The article also puts this discussion within the context of contemporary debates about Western portrayals of Indian culture and society.