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Maternal Employment, Marital Status, And Religiosity And The Social Adaptational Status Of First Grade Children In Selected Oregon Schools, Grace Peng-Mi Chew
Maternal Employment, Marital Status, And Religiosity And The Social Adaptational Status Of First Grade Children In Selected Oregon Schools, Grace Peng-Mi Chew
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
This study attempted to examine whether certain maternal variables (i.e., maternal employment, marital status, and religiosity) could be used to accurately predict first-graders' social adaptational status (SAS), as measured by the Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation Scale (TOCA).
One-hundred-and-fifty volunteering mothers (or mother surrogates) and their first-grade child(ren) participated in this study. Familial and individual data were obtained through a structured mother interview. The participating children's teachers rated the children's SAS on the TOCA during the 9th and 15th weeks of the academic school year. Five Christian-oriented private schools and two public schools participated in this study.
Developing A Program For Interpersonal Ministry In The Liturgy For St. Paul Lutheran Church Shreveport, Louisiana, Wesley Toncre
Developing A Program For Interpersonal Ministry In The Liturgy For St. Paul Lutheran Church Shreveport, Louisiana, Wesley Toncre
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
This major applied project explores the Scriptures, the Lutheran Confessions, the tradition of the Fathers and contemporary ecclesiastical thinking in an attempt to discover and begin to define the contributory role of the individual worshiper in Lutheran corporate liturgical worship today. Further, it develops a workshop structure that is designed to provide members of one particular congregation with the knowledge, attitudes, skills and opportunities to execute those roles by serving one another effectively in response to God's ministry to them while they are gathered around Word and sacrament.
It is noted that neither Holy Scripture nor the Lutheran Confessions restrict …
Leviticus 17:11 And The Theology Of Sacrifice, Robert Clancy
Leviticus 17:11 And The Theology Of Sacrifice, Robert Clancy
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
It should be noted from the start that "objectivity” as it is commonly understood is not a goal of this thesis. The primary reason is that such objectivity is considered Tobe impossible. That is, if by "objectivity" one means that one reads and studies a text without presuppositions and without a hermeneutic, then one is striving after wind. No reader is a tabula rasa. All scholars read texts from within a given school of thought. Historical critics have certain presuppositions regarding texts, for instance, starting with the assumption that cultic material is late (post-exilic). Redaction critics assume the existence of …
The Revival Of Damascene Tile Production In The Second Half Of The Sixteenth Century, Farida Mourad
The Revival Of Damascene Tile Production In The Second Half Of The Sixteenth Century, Farida Mourad
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Last World Emperor And The Angelic Pope: Eschatological Figures As Representative Of The Medieval Struggle Of “Sacerdotium" And “Imperium”, Christopher Joseph Beiting
The Last World Emperor And The Angelic Pope: Eschatological Figures As Representative Of The Medieval Struggle Of “Sacerdotium" And “Imperium”, Christopher Joseph Beiting
Masters Theses
In adopting the Christian faith, medieval people also obtained a tradition within Christianity, that of esehatology. Because of this tradition, there was a receptiveness among some for prophetic visions of the future, visions of widely varied nature. Two very popular themes running through this visionary tradition involved two eschatological figures, the Last World Emperor and the Angelic Pope, whose advent would right all wrongs and transform medieval society. This thesis will examine elements of medieval political theory as they developed out of contemporary events. It will also trace the growth and development of the figures of the Last World Emperor …
The Theological And Political Evolution Of Henry Ward Beecher, Tim Hutchinson
The Theological And Political Evolution Of Henry Ward Beecher, Tim Hutchinson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Henry Ward Beecher [1813-1887] "was the most influential minister in America and one of the leading molders of public .opinion of his day." A romantic, a progressive, an idealist, "Beecher was as much the embodiment of nineteenth century America as Walt Whitman..." He was one of the great orators of his time or any time. With his background firmly rooted in American Puritanism, it is ironic that he would be praised as a leader of liberal thought in America. Years after Beecher's death, Harry Emerson Fosdick would comment that whenever we preach freely to sympathetic audiences the social gospel..., we …
An Exploratory Study Of Female Networking In A Mormon Fundamentalist Polygynous Society, Janet Bennion Cannon
An Exploratory Study Of Female Networking In A Mormon Fundamentalist Polygynous Society, Janet Bennion Cannon
Dissertations and Theses
The present study is comprised of two parts: 1) an exploratory ethnography of a contemporary polygynous community governed by a strong patriarchal ideology in Pinesdale Montana with emphasis on social relationships, and 2) an analysis of the factors which have allowed women's groups to develop in Mormon fundamentalism. The ethnographic account of the community contextualizes the occurrence of female groups in Pinesdale. A model of the formation of female groups designed by Nancy Leis (1974) in her study of the West African Ijaw is used to provide a better understanding of how female groups are formed, and is applied to …
Faith Affirmed Through Eucharistic Miracles, Teresa Santoyo
Faith Affirmed Through Eucharistic Miracles, Teresa Santoyo
Pastoral Institute
The purpose of this project is to explore what is the relationship between the declining participation of the faithful in the celebration of the Mystery of the Eucharist and their respective understanding of the term "Real Presence" as it relates to the mystery of the eucharist.
Small Groups: Growing In The Lutheran Church, Alan Bachert
Small Groups: Growing In The Lutheran Church, Alan Bachert
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
The purpose of this major applied project is threefold. First, through a study of the Scriptures, the history and use of small groups will be traced, and the text will demonstrate that it is God's will that His Church grow and be brought into a relationship with Himself. Secondly, the necessity and strategy for persons to be brought into a relationship with one another as they grow in discipleship will be emphasized and discussed in a chapter which reviews not only biblical data, but also provides a search of related literature from the fields of both theology and social psychology. …
Aspects Of The Calendar Of The Hebrew Bible And Its Theological Significance, Charles Blanco
Aspects Of The Calendar Of The Hebrew Bible And Its Theological Significance, Charles Blanco
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
The purpose of the thesis is twofold. We endeavor to provide the exegetical base for the understanding of the calendar used by God's4people in the Old Testament. There is, of course, a certain heuristic value to our topic for Old Testament studies at large. Beyond that, we find our study to be unique in its approach. Apart from the confessional position outlined above, we came to the texts without any preconceived notions about the nature, structure, and use of the Hebrew calendar. Conversely, the vast majority of works on the calendar are undertaken to prove a particular point of view. …
An Analysis Of Gospel Elements In Selected Major Works Of Charles Dickens, Steven Smith
An Analysis Of Gospel Elements In Selected Major Works Of Charles Dickens, Steven Smith
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
It is my thesis that Dickens' use of "Gospel elements" in the works studied is both intentional and fundamental to the themes and structures of the novels. The Gospel elements present are no afterthought or coincidence but significant in Dickens' intent and meaning.
The Doctrine Of Baptism As Confessed By C. F. W. Walther's Gesangbuch Of 1847, Jon Vieker
The Doctrine Of Baptism As Confessed By C. F. W. Walther's Gesangbuch Of 1847, Jon Vieker
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the vitality with which the Doctrine of Baptism was confessed in the hymnody of those who emigrated from Saxony to Perry County, Missouri and later formed "The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States."® Their first Gesanabuch of 1847,edited by C. F. W. Walther, the Missouri Synod's first President and stellar leader in nineteenth century American Lutheranism, will serve as the principal source.
The Promises Of Prosperity In The Old Testament An Exegetical And Theological Examination, Paul Naumann
The Promises Of Prosperity In The Old Testament An Exegetical And Theological Examination, Paul Naumann
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
Certain factions among Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, Neo-Pentecostalism, Millennialism, and media religion (or what is frequently termed the "Electronic Church") proclaim what amounts to a gospel of success and physical/material prosperity. It can be systematized into three main teachings, with some overlap. They are 1) divine healing or divine health (i.e. never getting sick to begin with) 2) positive confession (i.e. we have what we say or" claim") and finally 3) material prosperity. For our purposes we shall put these all together and refer to them generally as "Prosperity Theology" without drawing a distinction between bodily and material wellbeing.
The Chrisitian Day Of Worship Gatherings- Its New Testament Practice And Theological Basis, David Fielding
The Chrisitian Day Of Worship Gatherings- Its New Testament Practice And Theological Basis, David Fielding
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
This paper presents an antidote to sabbatarianism, namely the New Testament teaching of Christ as the fulfillment of the sabbath. A corollary to this idea is the matter of Christian freedom regarding the day for worship. The principle of Christian liberty in such matters is neglected by legalistic sabbatarians. It needs to be said that Christ did not directly abolish the sabbath. He fulfilled it. Observance of a particular day is not satisfactory in the Christiane era, as this study demonstrates.
A Study Of The Root Hesych- In The New Testament, John Armstrong
A Study Of The Root Hesych- In The New Testament, John Armstrong
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
The purpose of this paradigmatic study is to compare and contrast hesychazein with similar terms such as sigan and siopan. To what extent are these words synonymous, and to what extent are they not? This is an example of the lexical field approach in which the meaning of a given word is not considered as an independent unit but as a component in the structure of a field of related words. Jost Trier, the pioneer of lexical field theory, has said that the value of a word is first known when it is marked off against the value of neighboring …
The "I" In The Storm: Paul's Use Of The First Person Singular In Romans 7, Michael Middendorf
The "I" In The Storm: Paul's Use Of The First Person Singular In Romans 7, Michael Middendorf
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The purpose here is not merely "to spill more ink.” Rather, it is to address approaches to and facets of these issues which have not yet been adequately considered or appreciated. This thesis proposes to answer the questions surrounding the identity, the spiritual condition, and the purpose of the "I" in Romans 7. It will arrive at its conclusions by means of an exegetical study of Romans 7, through an analysis of Paul's use of the first person singular in his letters, and on the basis of Pauline theology as a whole.
In order to provide the necessary background for …
Presbyterian Missions To Indians In Western Canada, James Codling
Presbyterian Missions To Indians In Western Canada, James Codling
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
This paper seeks to explain the success and failure of Presbyterian missions to Indians in western Canada. It attempts to discover if there has been an authentic engagement between the Gospel of Christ and the cultures of these Indians. The focus is on the theology of missions and its application. The question of Christian relationship to culture is an important issue.
The problem that the Presbyterian Church in Canada faced in its missions to Indians was theological. The Christian faith challenged an Indian religion. It was theology that determined how the religion of the Indian should be approached by Presbyterian …
The Theology Of Israel's Sea Crossing, Rodger Dalman
The Theology Of Israel's Sea Crossing, Rodger Dalman
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
In Exodus 14:2, God commanded Israel to do a strange thing. God directed Israel to turn from their route, and to walk into a trap. By wandering to the shores of a reed sea, Israel intentionally gave Pharaoh the impression that they were lost, and tempted him to pursue them. Why would God command this? After all, Egypt had already been destroyed. Thousands of Egyptians had died. Pharaoh's will had been broken, and he had let Israel go.. The nation was already leaving Egypt for Palestine. Why did Israel not simply pass through the border fortresses and go on their …
Gadara Of The Decapolis, Lee Maxwell
Gadara Of The Decapolis, Lee Maxwell
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The topic of this dissertation is "Gadara of the Decapolis." The ruins of this ancient Decapolis city are situated in and to the west of the modern village of Umm Qais in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The present-day village is located about thirty kilometers northwest of the Jordanian city of Irbid and approximately ten kilometers southeast of the Sea of Galilee. The site lies atop the Jordanian plateau, which drops off sharply to the north toward the Yarmuk River and to the south toward the Wadi al-'Arab before it gradually lowers to the west in a number of terraces …
The Odyssey Of Theodicy: St. Augustine’S Search For A Solution To The Problem Of Evil, David P. Giroir
The Odyssey Of Theodicy: St. Augustine’S Search For A Solution To The Problem Of Evil, David P. Giroir
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Inspiring A Church To Dream, Jerry Austin Jenkins
Inspiring A Church To Dream, Jerry Austin Jenkins
Doctor of Ministry Theses
No abstract provided.
Knowing God In William Blake: A Study To Find Meaning In His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, And Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Knowing God In William Blake: A Study To Find Meaning In His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, And Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Institute for the Humanities Theses
This project takes a look into the philosophical and theological sources found in the work of William Blake as they culminate in his epic poem Jerusalem. This study includes an examination of the philosophies of Plato and Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical pathway, the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah, and finally an examination of the works of Blake himself. We work from a three-fold premise: 1) that mystical experience occurs, 2) that archetypes exist in the collective unconscious, and 3) that these archetypes can be known through intuition and mystical experience. The focus is on those elements which are characteristic …
The Eucharistic Theologies Of Nineteenth Century Anglican And Lutheran Repristination Movements Compared, Jonathan Charles Naumann
The Eucharistic Theologies Of Nineteenth Century Anglican And Lutheran Repristination Movements Compared, Jonathan Charles Naumann
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
The measure of congruity achieved by the independent efforts of these Lutherans and Anglicans of the nineteenth century, as they tried to repristinate purity of doctrine and orthodoxy, may constitute a superior model for modern-day ecumenical endeavours. This is especially the case if the route to Christian unity via a tolerance of contradictory doctrines around the eucharistic table threatens to collapse under the weight of its own implausibility.
The Relationship Of Eucharistic Communities In Latin America And The United States, Claudia A. Ramisch
The Relationship Of Eucharistic Communities In Latin America And The United States, Claudia A. Ramisch
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
The Foundation, Evolution, And Adequacy Of "Authentic Action" In The Corpus Of David Tracy, David Livingston
The Foundation, Evolution, And Adequacy Of "Authentic Action" In The Corpus Of David Tracy, David Livingston
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
To Be Is To Be In Relationship, Donna Jean O'Connor Hayes
To Be Is To Be In Relationship, Donna Jean O'Connor Hayes
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Toward A Theology Of Pastoral Counseling: The Transformative Healing Of Story Found In The Psychotherapy Of Alice Miller And The Narrative Theology Of Frederick Buechner, Margaret Mcgrath
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
The Foundation, Evolution, And Adequacy Of "Authentic Action" In The Corpus Of David Tracy, David Livingston
The Foundation, Evolution, And Adequacy Of "Authentic Action" In The Corpus Of David Tracy, David Livingston
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Fundamentalist Fervor: The Political Activism Of America's Protestant Fundamentalists, Lori Taylor Crawford
Fundamentalist Fervor: The Political Activism Of America's Protestant Fundamentalists, Lori Taylor Crawford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Theological Voices. Pac Politics And The Abortion Debate: Abortion Politics And The Reagan Era, Kenneth W. Barber
Theological Voices. Pac Politics And The Abortion Debate: Abortion Politics And The Reagan Era, Kenneth W. Barber
Honors Theses
This investigation shall focus upon the issue of legalized abortion. I believe the complex controversy surrounding the issue of abortion, demonstrates more clearly than any other single contemporary issue the social, political, moral and religious forces working for change in a post-Reagan America. I shall examine in depth the theology, writings, strategies and activities of those Americans who seek to express themselves and their beliefs in religious, or religiously supported interest groups.
The current debate surrounding abortion legislation lends itself to several forms of analysis: religious, political, sociological, etc. I will write from the perspective of a student of religion. …