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Practical Theology

George Fox University

2005

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"So Now What?" Using The New Science To Design A Flexible And Adaptable Spiritual Growth Process For New And Returning Believers In The Local Church, Christine A. Prescott Mar 2005

"So Now What?" Using The New Science To Design A Flexible And Adaptable Spiritual Growth Process For New And Returning Believers In The Local Church, Christine A. Prescott

Doctor of Ministry

This dissertation addresses the need for spiritual-growth opportunities in the local church for new adult Christians and those adults who are returning to the church after years of absence. This dissertation will identify concepts from the "new science' of quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and complexity theory to suggest elements for the creation of a flexible and adaptable spiritual-growth process.

I use the New Testament to address two assumptions of the thesis: that the spiritual growth of followers of Jesus Christ is a process of spiritual transformation that rests not a one-time conversion event but occurs over a lifetime of dynamic …


Jesus The Word According To John The Sectarian : A Paleofundamentalist Manifesto For Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially Its Elites, In North America - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson Jan 2005

Jesus The Word According To John The Sectarian : A Paleofundamentalist Manifesto For Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially Its Elites, In North America - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Review of Gundry, Robert H. Jesus the Word according to John the Sectarian: A Paleofundamentalist Manifesto for Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially Its Elites, in North America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. 137. ISBN-13: 978-0802849809