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Celtic Benediction: Morning And Night Prayer, J. Philip Newell, Markus H. Mcdowell

Leaven

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No Longer I: Being Transformed Into The Image Of Christ, Larry E. Hall, Perry L. Stepp

Leaven

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Living Faithfully In A Fragmented World: Lessons For The Church From Macintyre's After Virtue, Jonathan R. Wilson, Carl Flynn

Leaven

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How Wide The Divide? A Morman And An Evangelial In Conversation, Craig L. Blomberg, Stephen E. Robinson, Craig Churchill

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Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Richter

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Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach, Judith And Jack Balswick, Jack B. Holland

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Christians Caught In The Divorce Trap, Bruce Parmenter, Bob Laver

Leaven

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Chattel Or Person? The Status Of Women In The Mishnah, Judiith Romney Wegner, Krystin D. Higgins

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Family Ministry, Diana Garland, Eleanor Daniel

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Family Ministry, Charles Sell, Clifford W. Berger

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Families In The New Testament World, David Balch, Carolyn Osiek, Robert F. Hull

Leaven

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Can't Be Tamed: A Feminist Analysis Of Apocrypha And Other Scripture, Catherine Alison Ballard

Scripps Senior Theses

This paper is my own unique feminist analysis of certain apocryphal texts. Though the texts I use have common themes, they are divided into what I consider the three most societally important aspects of an ancient woman’s identity: virgin, mother, and whore. The Acts of Thecla and The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena deal with virginity. II Maccabees, The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, and select chapters of Augustine’s Confessions represent motherhood. Finally, the hagiographies Life of Pelagia and Life of Mary navigate through the mire of sexualities that deviate from norms.

By The Waters Of Babylon: How Biblical Perspectives On Suffering Became Personal, Lynn Mitchell

Leaven

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A Prayer For The Spirit In The Church, Markus Mcdowell

Leaven

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Imagining The Potential: Ministry Of Women In The Twenty-First Century, Kathy Pulley

Leaven

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Reading Ephesians From The New Perspective On Paul, Gary Edward Weedman

Leaven

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Editors' Notes, Stuart Love, D'Esta Love

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Update - February 2012, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Cancer Stories: An Argument for Narrative Ethics
-- Dual-Degree Masters of Arts in Bioethics
-- From the Director
-- Finding a Voice for Seventh-day Adventist Ethics in the Radical Reformation?

The Failure Of National Religious Policy In The Post-Soviety Region: The Experiences Of The Jehovah's Witnesses In Russia And Greek Catholics In Romania, Beth M. Admiraal

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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A Modus Vivendi? Sex, Marriage & The Church, William L. Portier, Nancy Dallavalle, Christopher C. Roberts, Tina Beattie, R. R. Reno, Patricia Hampl, Luke Timothy Johnson, Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Paul Baumann

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

During the 1960s, nearly 80 percent of adult Americans were married. A recent analysis of U.S. census data reported that only 52 percent of adult Americans were married in 2009. That is the lowest percentage reported in the 100 years the Census Bureau has collected such information. The reasons for this dramatic cultural shift are well known: high rates of divorce; changing attitudes toward premarital sex; social acceptability of cohabitation; the weakening of the stigma surrounding out-of-wedlock births and single parenting; the postponement of marriage and children for academic or professional reasons.

Among those with only a high-school education or …

A Future I Trust In: Identity And Vocation As The Parent-Leader, Karen M. Gieseke

Children, Youth, and Family (CYF) Papers

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Pepperdine Bible Lectures: The Rushford Years, 1983-2012, Bill Henegar

Pepperdine Bible Lectures: Programs

Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritual Feasts.

Written and edited by Bill Henegar.

The Pepperdine Bible Lectures is an annual event hosted by Pepperdine University featuring a wide variety of lectures and classes on topics and themes in the Bible and Christianity.

Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

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Review Of Ramanuja And Schleiermacher: Toward A Constructive Comparative Theology, Sucharita Adluri Ms.

Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications

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Book Review: Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role Of Business In Missions By Steve Rundle And Tom Steffen, Anthony Casey

Great Commission Research Journal

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Seeking God’S Will: The Experience Of Information Seeking By Leaders Of A Church In Transition, David H. Michels

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

What is the experience of information seeking (IS) by leaders of a church in transition, as they seek the will of God for their church? In this ethnographic pilot study, I begin to create a picture of leaders’ information seeking, first for personal faith building and then for corporate decision making, and I consider the impact of new technologies on these processes. Religious IS did not differ significantly from other everyday-life information seeking (ELIS) experiences, except when subjects were acting in leadership roles. Prominent themes were theological diversity and prayer.

Book Review: A Light To The Nations: The Missional Church And The Biblical Story By Michael W. Goheen, Tereso C. Casino

Great Commission Research Journal

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Bishop Stephen Neill, The Imc And The State Of African Theological Education In 1950, Dyron Daughrity

All Faculty Open Access Publications

From April to July of 1950, Bishop Stephen Neill (1900-1984) took a sweeping tour of East and West Africa to assess the state of African theological education. He visited Egypt, Sudan, and the six British territories in tropical Africa: Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Gold Coast (Ghana), and Sierra Leone. Employed by the World Council of Churches at the time, Neill was appointed by the International Missionary Council to spearhead the project. The overall objective was to shed light on what could be done to improve the quality of theological education and the training of ministry in Africa. Neill produced a …

A Study Of Warfare Theodicy In The Writings Of Ellen G. White And Gregory A. Boyd, Martha O. Duah

Dissertations

The problem of evil has been an issue for all religions over the centuries. But it is a crucial issue for theism because of its affirmation of the co-existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God and evil. Theologians and philosophical theologians have developed a plethora of materials in response to the problem. However, according to critics, none of the responses in and of themselves adequately deals with theism's problem of suffering and evil. As a result, this study explores the warfare theodicy, a Christian response to the problem of sin, suffering, and evil, which seems to have been neglected …

The Concept Of Divine Love In The Context Of The God-World Relationship, John C. Peckham

Dissertations

The love of God is central to God's relationship to the world. This dissertation addresses the conflict of interpretation between the transcendent-voluntarist and immanent-experientialist models regarding divine love in the context of the God-world relationship by applying a canonical methodology. Chapter 1 introduces the background, purpose, problem, scope, and plan of study as well as the final-form canonical theological method employed in the investigation. Chapter 2 briefly surveys the historical theology of love, tracing the central conceptions of divine love and the God-world relationship by selected, highly influential thinkers. Chapter 3 presents and analyzes the irreconcilable interpretations of divine love …