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Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison

Robert Ellison

This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I begin with a rhetorical analysis of sermons preached on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the largest and best known missionary organization of its kind. I then examine a collection of sermons in which Hermann Adler, then rabbi of London’s Bayswater Synagogue and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pushes back against their efforts, offering the “true explanations” of passages which, in his view, had been improperly employed by Christian preachers. Finally, I trace a kind of “feedback loop” in which …

Developing A Discipleship Measurement Tool, Sherene Hattingh, Lindsay Morton, Kayle De Waal, Kevin Petrie, Rick Ferret, Julie-Anne Heise

Julie-Anne Heise

No abstract provided.

Developing A Discipleship Measurement Tool, Sherene Hattingh, Lindsay Morton, Kayle De Waal, Kevin Petrie, Rick Ferret, Julie-Anne Heise

Kevin Petrie

No abstract provided.

A Yoderian Appraisal Of Latin American Liberation Theology, Daniel Castelo

Daniel Castelo

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Study Of The Personality, Attitudes, And Overseas Experience Of Seventh-Day Adventist College Students Who Served As Short-Term Volunteer Missionaries, Donna Habenicht

Donna Habenicht

Problem. During the last ten years there has been a surge of Interest among college students in short-term volunteer missionary service. It was the purpose of the present study to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of a group of 150 Seventh-day Adventist college students who served as short-term volunteer missionaries (student missionaries) during the 1975-76 school year. Method The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (Form A), a series of semantic differential rating scales for selected religious, mission, cultural, and personal concepts, and a two-part questlonnaire were used to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of the student missionaries. …

Coste Prize Address.Docx, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

A Qualitative Analysis Of Discipleship In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Responses To A Global And Regional Survey, Sherene Hattingh, Lindsay Morton, Rick Ferret, Kevin Petrie, Julie-Anne Heise, Kayle De Waal

Julie-Anne Heise

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Analysis Of Discipleship In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Responses To A Global And Regional Survey, Sherene Hattingh, Lindsay Morton, Rick Ferret, Kevin Petrie, Julie-Anne Heise, Kayle De Waal

Kevin Petrie

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Analysis Of Discipleship In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Responses To A Global And Regional Survey, Sherene Hattingh, Lindsay Morton, Rick Ferret, Kevin Petrie, Julie-Anne Heise, Kayle De Waal

Lindsay Morton

No abstract provided.

Congregation Of The Mission, Circular Letters. Antoine Fiat, 1878-1914, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

Images Of The Body In The Life And Death Of A North Indian Catholic Catechist, Mathew Schmalz

Mathew Schmalz

No abstract provided.

The Nominations And Personnel Committee As A Tool For Laity Activation Within United Methodist Congregations Of The Alabama-West Florida Conference, Charles Ray Smith

Charles Kay Smith

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Interpreting The Bible With The Poor, Larry Caldwell

Larry Caldwell

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The Violence Of Conversion: Proselytization And Interreligious Controversy In The Work Of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

Critics of Christianity in India have frequently accused Christianity of being a predatory, imperialistic religion with absolutist tendencies, and have framed Christian evangelism as an aggressive, uncouth act. More recently, however, and in an idiom that resonates with many contemporary Indians, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1930-) has made the more controversial claim that the attempt to convert another person is itself an act of violence. In three parts, the paper 1) describes Dayananda’s claims, while bringing them into conversation with the arguments of earlier critics of Christianity (e.g., Mahatma Gandhi, Sita Ram Goel, Ashok Chowgule, Arun Shourie), 2) analyzes and critique …

Forty Years Of Greatness Crowned: A Narrative Of The History Of Asbury Theological Seminary, David M. Burkett, Ralph Loren White, Ralph L. Lewis, Willard R. Holman

Ralph E. White

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Storytellers: Scandinavian's Art Told Of Restoration, J. Michael Hunter

J Michael Hunter

Missionary work in Scandinavia began 150 years ago with the arrival of the first LDS missionaries in Denmark on June 14, 1850. In keeping with the observance of the sesquicentennial of the Scandinavian Mission, the Church News presents this article by J. Michael Hunter about two prominent Latter-day Saint artists from earlier days in that part of the world. The art and work of Carl Christian Anton Christensen (1831-1921) from Denmark and Danquart Anton Weggeland (1827-1918) from Norway are discussed, focusing on their use of art to tell stories. Images of their art accompany the article.

“The Church Of Pope Francis: A New Ecclesiology” In Theological Reimaginations: The Church We Want, Ed. A. Orobator, Stan Chu Ilo

Stan Chu Ilo

No abstract provided.

Images Of The Church In I Corinthians And I Timothy: An Exercise In Canonical Hermeneutics, Eugene E. Lemcio

Eugene E Lemcio

No abstract provided.

Missioners In The Muslim World, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

No abstract provided.

L'Homme A La Valise - Road Show De Toulouse, 1967, Keith D. Rowley, Mercedes Pallerola

Keith D Rowley

A mini opera or short musical play performed in Toulouse, France in 1967. Words by Mercedes Pallerola. One song composed by William Fifield.

L'Homme A La Valise - Road Show De Toulouse, 1967, Keith D. Rowley, Mercedes Pallerola

Keith D Rowley

A mini opera or short musical play performed in Toulouse, France in 1967. Words by Mercedes Pallerola. One song composed by William Fifield.

Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes In Asia And The Pacific, Hyaeweol Choi, Margaret Jolly

Hyaeweol Choi

The book examines the emergence of modern domesticities shaped through the dynamic interactions between Western Christian missionaries and women in Asia and the Pacific from the nineteenth century to the present.

Between Evangelism And Multiculturalism: The Dynamics Of Protestant Christianity In Indonesia, Chang Yau Hoon

Dr Chang Yau HOON

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Hindu-Christian Conflict In India: Globalization, Conversion, And The Coterminal Castes And Tribes, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence has not. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, and to elucidate the curious alliance, in that violence, of largely upper-caste, anti-minority Hindu nationalists with lower-status groups, by analyzing both with reference to the varied processes of globalization. The article begins with a short review of the history of anti-Christian rhetoric in India, and then discusses and critiques a number of inadequately unicausal explanations of communal violence before arguing, with reference to the work of Mark Taylor, that only theories linking …

Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, And Evangelical Anti-Dependency In A Haitian Refugee Camp, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Christianity And Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography, Chad M. Bauman, Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, Michelie Voss Roberts

Chad M. Bauman

No abstract available

Review Of Religious Division And Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

A review of Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007.

Review Of Missionaries And Their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David Hardiman, Manchester University Press, 2008.

Culture, Community And The Gospel: Reflections On An Outreach To Muslims, Daniel Ebert

Daniel J. Ebert

No abstract provided.

Culture And Interreligious Understanding According To The Romanian Philosopher Lucian Blaga, Michael S. Jones

Michael L Jones

Culture affects how we interpret our experiences and the way we construct our world. It also affects our ability to communicate with one another. The late Romanian philosopher Lucian Blaga developed a systematic philosophy of culture that explores and explains how culture challenges and at the same time facilitates interideological communication. This article introduces and explains these aspects of Blaga's philosophy and then applies them to the issue of interreligious dialogue. It concludes that Blaga's philosophy of culture promotes a high regard for culture and cultural distinctness and at the same time vindicates, enables, and promotes efforts at interreligious understanding.