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A Declaration Of Christian Freedoms
The Minister-Elder Relationship Within “Churches That Work”, Steve Cloer
The Minister-Elder Relationship Within “Churches That Work”, Steve Cloer
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
This essay is the summary of a research project focused on how the minister-elder relationship in Churches of Christ can facilitate missional transformation in an established church. Twenty-five reputable congregations of Churches of Christ were researched that were profiled as “Churches That Work” by The Christian Chronicle from 2006-2013. A survey was conducted of these congregations’ elders and ministers assessing their leadership practices and perspectives. Four congregations were selected based on results of the survey and qualitative strategies of interviewing, focus groups, observation, and document gathering were used. Five patterns of a missional polity developed: elders as nurturing pastors, ministers …
« Nous Avons Besoin D’Ouvrir Le Pays » : Le Développement Et Le Scénario Clef Du Point De Vue Chrétien Dans L’Espace Social Des Séries Télévisées De Kinshasa, Katrien Pype
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
This article offers a discussion of “development” rhetoric as expressed in and around television drama in Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Producers (artists and pastors of Awakening Churches; some individuals are both) contend that their work will transform society, will combat the social and political crisis and will contribute to the development of the nation. Pentecostal christians embrace the melodrama because these television serials emphasize the spiritual development of the individual. I argue that the fictive representation of witchcraft relates to the Pentecostal diagnosis of the crises, and that the narrative emplotment of the TV serials …
Growing Up In Christ: Ellen G. White’S Concept Of Discipleship, Denis Fortin
Growing Up In Christ: Ellen G. White’S Concept Of Discipleship, Denis Fortin
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies
No abstract provided.
The Ramallah Friends Meeting: Examining 100 Years Of Peace And Justice Work, Maia Carter Hallward
The Ramallah Friends Meeting: Examining 100 Years Of Peace And Justice Work, Maia Carter Hallward
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Spirituality Of Peacemaking, Jean Zaru
The Ramallah Friends School: 150 Years Of Endurance, Understanding, And Good Teaching, Gordon Davies
The Ramallah Friends School: 150 Years Of Endurance, Understanding, And Good Teaching, Gordon Davies
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Contributors--Quaker Religious Thought, No. 127
Contributors--Quaker Religious Thought, No. 127
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Accompaniment In Palestine, Jessy Hampton
Accompaniment In Palestine, Jessy Hampton
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Quaker Religious Thought, No. 127, Howard R. Macy, Max Carter
Front Matter, Quaker Religious Thought, No. 127, Howard R. Macy, Max Carter
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Love Wins: Quaker Activism In Israel And Palestine, Jennifer Bing, Lucy Duncan
Love Wins: Quaker Activism In Israel And Palestine, Jennifer Bing, Lucy Duncan
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz
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, Mathew Schmalz
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.
The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas
Journal of Global Catholicism
This article presents a feminist analysis of patriarchy persisting in Catholicism of the Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala. The article specifically considers the impact of charismatic Catholicism on women of the Syro-Malabar rite and argues that it is important to interrogate this new face of religiosity in order to fully understand how certain rituals are allowed to change and be fluid, while others, especially concerning female sexuality, are enshrined as “tradition” which often restricts the parameters for women’s empowerment and may reinforce caste and patriarchal hegemonies preventing feminist solidarity across different religious- and caste-based groups.
Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz
Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
This article examines three Catholic home shrines in a Dalit community in North Indian and argues that it is misleading to think that home shrines and other collections of material objects are somehow static conveyors of meaning. “Meaning” can mean many things or nothing at all, depending upon the terms we are using and the scholarly methods we deploy. The crucial aspect of Dalit Catholic home shrines is that they are literally open to interpretation and reinterpretation, to touching and being touched. Their significance—their meaning—depends not on decoding their structure or symbolic logic, but interacting with them as part of …
The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico
The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico
Journal of Global Catholicism
This essay discusses the challenges faced by Indian Catholicism, particularly as it seeks to adapt to and in contemporary, post-colonial India through the process or program of what is called inculturation, a self-conscious program of adaptation to Indian religion and culture. Since Indian Catholicism is constituted by so many irreducible persons-in-relation, the article focuses on the life of the Catholic priest, Swami Ishwar Prasad in whose life we may chart something of the inculturation movement and the Catholic tradition as it is found in North India region, in one rather long and rich lifetime connecting two centuries. The article seeks …
In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah
In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah
Journal of Global Catholicism
This article considers whether Indian Christianity can be said to have a distinctive ecological vision. The first two parts of the article examine Christian environmentalism in two native forms of Indian Christianity: Tamil Christianity and Tribal Christianity. Continuing with the theme of conformity to the local culture—though of the elite—the third part of the article investigates how Christian Ashrams function as dynamic centers for ecological praxis. The last part of the article considers how contemporary Indian Christian communities can respond to the ecological challenges confronting them.
Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston
Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston
Journal of Global Catholicism
This article combines ethnographic description of the practices of Hindu and Christian visitors of the St. Antony Shrine in Chennai with the observation that this material cannot be understood using the standard world religions paradigm that essentializes Christianity as exclusivistic. Drawing upon the visual and material culture of the shrine in light of premodern and Vatican II templates for inculturation and the negotiation of religious difference, the article highlights overlap between Tamil Hinduism and the Tamil Popular Catholicism of the site to argue that the beliefs and practices documented should inform descriptive and normative accounts of Catholic Christianity. Because Tamil …
A Theology Of Missional Leadership In The Book Of Revelation, Gyeongchun Choi
A Theology Of Missional Leadership In The Book Of Revelation, Gyeongchun Choi
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
Dissertation Notice:
This study aims to establish a theology of missional leadership through motifs inherent in the cosmic conflict between God and Satan in the Book of Revelation, examining the Apocalypse and comparing it with relevant leadership theories. The Book of Revelation is a valid source of understanding pastoral and missional leadership because it contains leadership terminologies and concepts and reveals the Lamb’s leadership behavior and exposes the counterfeit leadership of the Dragon.
The Distinctive Characteristics Of Religious Leadership: A Case Study Of The International Church Of The Foursquare Gospel In The United States, Stephen Bialowas
The Distinctive Characteristics Of Religious Leadership: A Case Study Of The International Church Of The Foursquare Gospel In The United States, Stephen Bialowas
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
Dissertation Notice:
Full Text of the Thesis available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
The study concluded that religious leadership as practiced in the Foursquare Church is best described by a combination of the five contemporary theories and Weber’s theory.
Ministry In Secular Employment (Mse) In The Church Of England, 1960- 2000, Thomas Christopher Keighley
Ministry In Secular Employment (Mse) In The Church Of England, 1960- 2000, Thomas Christopher Keighley
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
Dissertation Notice:
Analysis identified that the experimental start to the initiative had not been embedded into the structure and strategy of the church, while being well embedded into the culture and structures of the worlds in which the Ministers in Secular Employment lived and worked. The church adopted a homeostatic approach to this development characterized by dioceses and their bishops acting independently. MSE had not been explored for its potential in the field of mission or cultural integration of church and society. The church continues to understand its mission and purpose in terms of stipendiary parish …
A Theological Heritage For New Evangelicalism And Its Social Justice Focus, Kenley Hall
A Theological Heritage For New Evangelicalism And Its Social Justice Focus, Kenley Hall
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Based on a review of relevant literature, this article will look at this emerging submovement within evangelicalism that researchers are referring to as “New Evangelicals” and its expanding social consciousness. Then the article will address an issue I believe is of critical importance: a likely theological and historical heritage for New Evangelicalism that can serve as a theological resource and even connection between them and the larger evangelical narrative.
Witchcraft, The Occult, And The Church, Bruce Bauer
Witchcraft, The Occult, And The Church, Bruce Bauer
Andrews University Seminary Student Journal
This paper suggests that fear, unwillingness to talk about witchcraft issues, ignorance concerning the protecting power of God, embrace of a powerless Christianity, a weak grounding in the Word of God and several other factors and conditions have permitted witchcraft and occult practices to exist among members in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Several practical steps are then listed that can be taken to reduce such practices.
The Perceived Need For Spiritual Development Among Female Church Of Christ Students At Harding University, Anessa Westbrook
The Perceived Need For Spiritual Development Among Female Church Of Christ Students At Harding University, Anessa Westbrook
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
This work explores how female students perceive their need for personal spiritual development. In a male-dominant structure, women may question their need to develop spiritually. Three areas of college life were investigated to see how they influenced female students’ perception of their own need for spiritual development: pre-college experiences, classroom experiences, and co-curricular religious activities. The research questions focused on these three areas in an effort to identify what was most effective in achieving spiritual growth among female students from a Church of Christ background. A survey was conducted among a sample of 610 sophomore female and male students.
Results …
Front Matter, Quaker Religious Thought, No. 126, Howard R. Macy
Front Matter, Quaker Religious Thought, No. 126, Howard R. Macy
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Remixing The Post-Civil Rights Era: Responding To Daniels' A Convergent Model Of Renewal, Daniel White Hodge
Remixing The Post-Civil Rights Era: Responding To Daniels' A Convergent Model Of Renewal, Daniel White Hodge
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
A Convergent Model Of Renewal: Response To Quaker Theological Discussion Group, C. Wess Daniels
A Convergent Model Of Renewal: Response To Quaker Theological Discussion Group, C. Wess Daniels
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
A Quaker Approach To Interreligious Dialogue: Michael Birkel's Qur'an In Conversation, Julie Meadows
A Quaker Approach To Interreligious Dialogue: Michael Birkel's Qur'an In Conversation, Julie Meadows
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Contributors--Quaker Religious Thought, No. 126
Contributors--Quaker Religious Thought, No. 126
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.
Review Of Brian Drayton And William P. Taber, Jr. A Language For The Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom From The Quaker Movement, Michael Birkel
Review Of Brian Drayton And William P. Taber, Jr. A Language For The Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom From The Quaker Movement, Michael Birkel
Quaker Religious Thought
No abstract provided.