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The Diakonis Function Of The Church In Hong Kong, Manfred Helmuth Berndt
The Diakonis Function Of The Church In Hong Kong, Manfred Helmuth Berndt
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The burden of the study was an attempt to answer the general question of the church's servant attitude by answering specific questions, within the limited framework of one methodology.
The Fear Of God As Ethical Motivation In Pauline Theology, Walter A. Maier
The Fear Of God As Ethical Motivation In Pauline Theology, Walter A. Maier
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The present writer has long been interested in the study of Pauline instruction concerning motivation for sanctification. In 1967 he presented to the faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, a Master of Sacred Theology thesis on the subject of the fourth of the abovementioned motivations for ethical living, namely, faith in the fact of the Christian's union with Christ and personal participation with Him in his death and resurrection. The opportunity to enter upon a concentrated study of what Paul has to say, in particular, about the sanctifying fear of God presented itself in the same year, when the writer …
Movements In The Church Of England As Reflected In English Prose Fiction Of The Eighteenth Century, William H. Traugott
Movements In The Church Of England As Reflected In English Prose Fiction Of The Eighteenth Century, William H. Traugott
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The eighteenth century, known as the Age of Reason in England, saw the effect of intellectual pursuits in the Church of England. Yet, prose fiction presented Anglicanism in an overtly active, working form rather than in a rational system of theologically-oriented statements about Christian teachings. The didacticism of the century's fiction was conducive to reflecting such an image. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate this prose fiction in terms of movements within the Church.
The Doctrine Of The Church In American Presbyterian Theology In The Mid-Nineteeth Century, David Clyde Jones
The Doctrine Of The Church In American Presbyterian Theology In The Mid-Nineteeth Century, David Clyde Jones
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
There is considerable unity in the principle with respect to the essential nature of the church, a unity which the theological leaders see as grounded in evangelical theology. However, even with the evangelical principle, perhaps because of it, some differences appear with respect to the church. The main purpose of the writer of this paper is to investigate the roots of those differences. One major problem discovered is a too great reliance on the distinction between the visible church and the invisible church.