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Christian Navy Chaplains And The Challenge Of Expanding Religious Pluralism, Timothy Oswald
Christian Navy Chaplains And The Challenge Of Expanding Religious Pluralism, Timothy Oswald
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
Oswald, Timothy J. “Christian Navy Chaplains and the Challenge of Expanding Religious Pluralism.” D.Min. Major Applied Project, Concordia Seminary – St. Louis. 2013. 245 pp.
Navy chaplains are expected to facilitate for the religious needs of those from other faiths. For chaplains who believe in the exclusivity of the Christian religion, this can create theological and even personal tensions about support for religious practices which the chaplain believes to be false.
This project explores those tensions and proposes ways to help exclusivist Navy chaplains navigate them. The final ministry product is a Power Point® brief. It draws from bibliographic research, …