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Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman, Tamara Leech Dec 2011

Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman, Tamara Leech

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-à-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.


Swinging Bridge - November 30, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Nov 2011

Swinging Bridge - November 30, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Swinging Bridge - November 10, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Nov 2011

Swinging Bridge - November 10, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Swinging Bridge - October 26, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Oct 2011

Swinging Bridge - October 26, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Swinging Bridge - October 12, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Oct 2011

Swinging Bridge - October 12, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Swinging Bridge - September 28, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Sep 2011

Swinging Bridge - September 28, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Swinging Bridge - September 14, 2011, Sari Heidenreich Sep 2011

Swinging Bridge - September 14, 2011, Sari Heidenreich

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Career In The Marketplace: Is It Appropriate For A Christian?, Michael E. Cafferky Jun 2011

Career In The Marketplace: Is It Appropriate For A Christian?, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

All settings where productive and legitimate service can be provided are valued in the Bible so long as each endeavor is pursued in a manner that honors God.


Doctrine After Foundationalism, Robert Lewis Fossett May 2011

Doctrine After Foundationalism, Robert Lewis Fossett

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Fossett, Robert, L. “Doctrine After Foundationalism.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2011. 250 pp.

This essay argues for an account of Christian doctrine that will bring to light the lingering entrenchment of foundationalism within the context of religious discourse and will show this entrenchment for what it is: a confusion inherited from the Enlightenment (and ultimately from Plato). In its place I offer an account of doctrine that is more explicitly Christological than what is currently being offered in the modern discussion on doctrine and that at the same time, moves the conversation past the assumptions of foundationalism. A properly Christian …


Relational Leadership: A Study Of Organizational Health And Clergy Within The Wesleyan Church, Brian Voyght Bradford May 2011

Relational Leadership: A Study Of Organizational Health And Clergy Within The Wesleyan Church, Brian Voyght Bradford

ATS Dissertations

In many large churches (over one thousand in weekend worship attendance) today, a vast relational disconnect exists between senior pastors and pastoral staff team members. As a result, many staff pastors feel unsatisfied in their team roles and relationships as well as feeling devalued as leader. This relational deficiency frequently results in a lack of communication, trust, and belief in and with the senior leader. The staff pastor’s productivity decreases and the church ceases to be what God designed it to be—a place of relational and social connection.

The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of relational leadership …


Everyman, A Modern Adaptation (Or, Number's Down), Merrick Robison May 2011

Everyman, A Modern Adaptation (Or, Number's Down), Merrick Robison

Honors Program Projects

Everyman is the most well known morality play that came out of the turn of the 16th century. Innumerable amounts of people have seen it in performance, both in the 1500s and modern day, since its revivals at the turn of the 20th century. It is a common choice of performance both on the professional and college level, and offers many opportunities for adaptation and modernization. The purpose for the project is to research the production and literary history of Everyman in order to write, produce, direct and perform in a modern adaptation of the morality play so it may …


Swinging Bridge - April 27, 2011, Jaime White Apr 2011

Swinging Bridge - April 27, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - April 13, 2011, Jaime White Apr 2011

Swinging Bridge - April 13, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - March 30, 2011, Jaime White Mar 2011

Swinging Bridge - March 30, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - March 2, 2011, Jaime White Mar 2011

Swinging Bridge - March 2, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - February 16, 2011, Jaime White Feb 2011

Swinging Bridge - February 16, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - February 2, 2011, Jaime White Feb 2011

Swinging Bridge - February 2, 2011, Jaime White

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Swinging Bridge - January 19, 2011, Jaime White Jan 2011

Swinging Bridge - January 19, 2011, Jaime White

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Confirmation And Ministry Participation, Jeffrey S. Harper Jan 2011

Confirmation And Ministry Participation, Jeffrey S. Harper

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Spiritual And Strategic Leadership In Pastoral Ministry, Pedro P. Magalhães Jan 2011

Spiritual And Strategic Leadership In Pastoral Ministry, Pedro P. Magalhães

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Images Of The Missional Church : Leadership, Culture, And Practices In Context, Brian Vann Miller Jan 2011

Images Of The Missional Church : Leadership, Culture, And Practices In Context, Brian Vann Miller

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Current Knowledge, Practies, And Desired Goals Of Small Group Ministry For Training Implications In The Churches Of The Trinity Annual Conference Of The Methodist Church In Malaysia, Andrew Kok-Khoon Tan Jan 2011

Current Knowledge, Practies, And Desired Goals Of Small Group Ministry For Training Implications In The Churches Of The Trinity Annual Conference Of The Methodist Church In Malaysia, Andrew Kok-Khoon Tan

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Equipping The Laity Through Discipleship Training In A Korean Church, Yijoon Chang Jan 2011

Equipping The Laity Through Discipleship Training In A Korean Church, Yijoon Chang

ATS Dissertations

The purpose of the research was to evaluate how effective discipleship training enhanced the spiritual maturity of lay believers and transformed them into churchbuilding leaders. The particular context of this study is Korean Madisonville United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nashville Korean United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and Sarang Community Church in Anaheim, California. This was an evaluative study using questionnaires and personal interviews to assist in measuring the effectiveness of discipleship training to enhance the spiritual maturity of lay believers.

The review of selected literature focuses on what the church is, who the pastor is, who the laity …


Coaching Pastors Of Faith Evangelical Church Of The Philippines Churches For Church Growth, Brent Hunter Burdick Jan 2011

Coaching Pastors Of Faith Evangelical Church Of The Philippines Churches For Church Growth, Brent Hunter Burdick

ATS Dissertations

Research has shown that one effective means of improving leader effectiveness in business and education is coaching. Coaching involves asking questions, exploring options, providing guidance, and training in skills. Ministry is enhanced by coaching. This research explored the impact coaching six pastors in the Faith Evangelical Church of the Philippines churches had on the numerical and spiritual growth of the churches they pastor. The study focused on the key leadership factors of preaching, personal spiritual maturity, and multiplication of small groups plus two survey-determined factors. The hypothesis was that as the pastor advanced in leadership skills and effectiveness in these …


How To Pray When You Don’T Know What To Say (Spanish), Elmer Towns Jan 2011

How To Pray When You Don’T Know What To Say (Spanish), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.


Porn, Popery, Mahometanism, And The Rise Of The Novel: Responses To The London Earthquakes Of 1750, Samara Anne Cahill Jan 2011

Porn, Popery, Mahometanism, And The Rise Of The Novel: Responses To The London Earthquakes Of 1750, Samara Anne Cahill

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

In February and March of 1750, two earthquakes hit London, provoking panic in the population and generating a great deal of providentialist rhetoric from religious authorities and selfproclaimed prophets alike. Public figures used the earthquakes as didactic opportunities to structure domestic identity and national security along gridlines of reason, faith, and national guilt. Such representations indicate not only that religious identity and faith remained important to Britons throughout the eighteenth century but also that, although Britons used Christian belief to structure their national identity, they were by no means convinced of the superiority of actual Christian behavior compared to that …


Missional Spirituality : Invitation To Listen, David Mullens Jan 2011

Missional Spirituality : Invitation To Listen, David Mullens

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Restoring The Balance Between Doing And Being : The Functional Pastor And Adrian Van Kamm's Formative Spirituality, H. Fred Meadows Jan 2011

Restoring The Balance Between Doing And Being : The Functional Pastor And Adrian Van Kamm's Formative Spirituality, H. Fred Meadows

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Praying For Your Children (Indonesian), Elmer Towns, Dave Earley Jan 2011

Praying For Your Children (Indonesian), Elmer Towns, Dave Earley

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.


Theology Of Confessionist Dialogue: A Theology Of Religions In The Religious Situation In Korea, Young Seok Song Jan 2011

Theology Of Confessionist Dialogue: A Theology Of Religions In The Religious Situation In Korea, Young Seok Song

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.