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Mission Leadership And Church Growth, Chris Sugden Apr 2004

Mission Leadership And Church Growth, Chris Sugden

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

My question is what we can learn from Dr. Cho’s experience and writings about the role of leadership of Christian communities in Church growth. It is quite legitimate to do this as there are precedents in Christian history to characterize a movement of God by the writings and activities of a leader – there are Lutheran churches and Wesleyan churches. We are meeting to reflect on what characterizes a Choian church.


A Response To Chris Sugden, Peter Beyerhaus Apr 2004

A Response To Chris Sugden, Peter Beyerhaus

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

No abstract provided.


The Ustad: Domesticating The Other From With(In/Out), Anilkumar Payyappilly Vijayan Apr 2004

The Ustad: Domesticating The Other From With(In/Out), Anilkumar Payyappilly Vijayan

Journal of Religion & Film

With the help of a post-90 film of Keralam - a state that has acquired a literacy rate of above 95 percent and projects itself as liberal and secular by not conceding even a single seat to the Hindutva forces either in the State Legislative Assembly or the Central Parliament after its formation in 1956 - I plan to demonstrate how hegemonic ideologies of history and religion oozed into the sphere of aesthetic representation. The narrative of the film The Ustad oscillates between the two polarities of the Janus-faced hero. And my expectation in the following pages is to point …


Public Theology In Central Europe, Charles C. West Feb 2004

Public Theology In Central Europe, Charles C. West

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Faithful Transgressions, Laura L. Bush Jan 2004

Faithful Transgressions, Laura L. Bush

All USU Press Publications

The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, "I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church." Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, "with my own deeply ingrained religious beliefs …


To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation In Black Atlanta, 1875-1906, Allison Dorsey Jan 2004

To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation In Black Atlanta, 1875-1906, Allison Dorsey

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.