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Worldviews: Concepts Or Narratives? An Integrative Definition To Assess Their Controlling Effect In The Biblical And Atheistic Evolutionary Models, Flavio Prestes Iii

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

What are worldviews? What are their characteristics? How do they work? This article offers tentative responses to these questions through the integration of concepts and narratives. Using the biblical and the atheistic evolutionary narratives as case studies, it also seeks to show how worldviews have a significant, though not absolute, controlling effect on one’s perception of reality.

Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Age

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

One way to define a disciple is “a follower of someone’s words.” In a pluralistic age, there are many words beckoning would-be disciples to particular ways of life, all promising some kind of wellness. These word-ways are ingredients of worldviews, a program or map for orienting oneself in the world. Worldviews answer core questions about human existence, often in the form of a story. This essay argues that contemporary pluralism is the result of abandoning the Bible as our control story, a loss that is as much a failure of what Charles Taylor calls the social imaginary. If this diagnosis …

The Appropriation Of The Hellenistic-Egyptian Cult Of Serapis: A Multi-Disciplinary Study Focusing On Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Their Coinage, And Villas, Vivian A. Laughlin

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Angels And Sub-Divine Supernatural Beings: Their Characteristics, Function, And Relationship To God And Humanity In Deuteronomy-Kings, Amanda J. Mcguire-Moushon

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Sanctuary/Temple In Genesis 1–3: A Reevaluation Of The Biblical Evidence, Jahisber Peñuela-Pineda

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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"Let Us Make אדם": An Edenic Model Of Personal Ontology, Marla A. Samaan Nedelcu

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Constructing A Theology Of Relational Life Through The Themes Of Creation, Incarnation, And Re-Creation As An Alternative To Current Categories Of Religions, Andrew Thompkins

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Toward A Biblical Theology Of God’S Presence In Christian Theology: A Study Of How Different Interpretations Of The Divine Presence Affect Liturgy, Karl Tsatalbasidis

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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The Nature Of David’S Kingship At Hebron: An Exegetical And Theological Study Of 2 Samuel 2:1–5:5, Christian Vogel

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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The Theological Significance Of The Relations Of Freedom And Time In The Sciences And Humanities: An Evaluation Of The Contributions Of David Bohm And Pauli Pylkkö, Michael F. Younker

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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The Commentators’ Bible: The Rubin Jps Miqra’Ot Gedolot [Review] / Carasik, Michael., Felipe A. Masotti

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Resurrection Of The Dead In Early Judaism: 200 Bce–Ce 200 [Review] / Elledge, Casey D., Jan A. Sigvartsen

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar [Review] / Van Der Merwe, Christo H. J., Jacobus A. Naudé, And Jan H. Kroeze, Eds., Oliver Glanz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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God’S Library: The Archaeology Of The Earliest Christian Manuscripts [Review] / Nongbri, Brent., Christopher R. Chadwick

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Zondervan Handbook Of Biblical Archaeology: A Book By Book Guide To Archaeological Discoveries Related To The Bible [Review] / Price, J. Randall And H. Wayne House., Elizabeth Emswiler

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Doubt, Faith & Certainty [Review] / Thiselton, Anthony C., Rebecca Murdock

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Exploits In The Tropics, C. O. Moulton

Heritage Material

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In Christ's Stead : Autobiographical Sketches, Joanna Patterson Moore

Heritage Material

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My Experience And Call, With A Brief Summary Of Seven Years Labor In Central India, Frank C. Hotle

Heritage Material

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The John Allen Chau Archive: Citations To Primary Sources, Major News Reports & Commentary, Thad R. Horner, Daniel D. Isgrigg, Angela Sample, Jane B. Malcolm, Sally J. Shelton, Roger Rydin

John Chau Archive

A bibliography of primary sources, general news sources, commentary, and related sources concerning the death of John Allen Chau, ORU Alumnus and missionary who was killed by members of the Sentinelese people, a remote tribe on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This bibliography contains links to websites as of December 12, 2018.

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