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Behind The Iron Curtain: The Impact Of Persecution On Evangelical Worship, Christy Gabrielle Solomon

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite detailed accounts of religious persecution faced by evangelicals behind the Iron Curtain, many narratives are incomplete, and therefore, the understanding of the extent persecution impacted the worship of believers is limited. With more Christians today being persecuted for their faith than ever before, it is important for believers in America to understand what happens in the lives of their Christian brothers and sisters when they face persecution. By comparing the religious practices of these evangelicals before, during, and after the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the differences in corporate and individual worship as a result of persecution become evident. …

Harvesting Hope: Biblical Preaching With People Of The Land, Catherine Belles

Doctor of Ministry Theses

This project seeks to customize generic preaching skills to better serve rural Midwest churches in a time of great transition. “What seeds are we planting that our harvest will be hope in Jesus Christ? Does the Word of God affect our response, and are we transformed by that change, so that hope becomes part of our faith DNA?” Seeking to encourage prophetic visioning, preacher, leaders, and members to live into God’s ongoing new creation. Harvest is a major theme in rural communities and biblical narrative, a metaphor of grace and judgement. Preachers are encouraged to glean the faith stories of …

"Returning To My Father" : A Decolonial Reading Of Lk 15:11-32 Towards A Reconstruction Of African Theological Anthropology For Authentic Sacramental Ethics Via Indigenous Divinity Graduate Schools., Besem Etchi

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper makes three hermeneutical contributions: (1) By uncovering the Indigenous Norse zero-point subtext structuring today's Catholic liturgy, the paper constructs ancestral primacy as the delinking methodology for indigeniztion; (2) By emphasizing ritual as transformative technology for identity and relationship, in its wielding of neurolinguistic programming, the paper establishes indigenous epistemology as the proper spatial locus for any symbolic exchange that emerges authentic sacramental ethics; (3) By discussing the possibilities that creating indigenous Divinity graduate schools in African countries offers, a path of realizing sociopolitical stability and harmony in African states as a communal body is systematized.

With the ritual …

Implementing Vocational Training At Escuela Quiteña De Estudios Bíblicos, Joshua K. Marcum

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This DMin project addressed the problem of the absence of a viable training model to equip graduates of EQEB (Escuela Quiteña de Estudios Biblicos) for self-sustaining ministry. Based upon a theology of vocation, the project implemented and evaluated the inclusion of a technical-skills component to EQEB’s current seminary training. The project followed the integration of sixteen EQEB students in the vocational program implemented during the 2015-2016 school year. Qualitative research data gathered from five group interviews with these students, my own field notes, and a faculty interview provided the substance upon which I based the project´s findings. Over a seven-month …

Ite, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Eugene Richard Schlesinger

Dissertations (1934 -)

Since the latter half of the twentieth-century, a great many churches and ecclesial communities have agreed that the basic contours of what is called an ecclesiology of communion represents their own self-understanding. Communion ecclesiology centers upon a vision of the church as sharing together in the life of God, with ecclesiastical apparatus such as office, liturgy, and sacraments seen as facilitating this communion. Understood in this light, communion ecclesiology represents a movement away from overly juridical accounts of the church and toward a more organic conception of the church. For nearly the same time frame, a parallel missiological consensus has …

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: March 2016, Julius T. Medenblik, Cory Willson, Mary Vanden Berg, Sarah Schreiber

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Articles
3 - From the President: How Now Shall We Live? by Jul Medenblik
4 - Every Believer Called to Mission by Cory Willson
6 - Prayers from the Missional Conference by Mary Vanden Berg and Sarah Schreiber
8 - Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics by John Bolt
9 - Meet Herman Bavinck by Jessica Driesenga
12 - Fostering Formation for Mission in Our Classrooms by Kristy Manion
15 - Is There a Future for Sacrifice? by Erin Zoutendam
16 - Taste and See Israel Trip by Paula Seales
18 - Church Growth and Its Challenges in Ethiopia by Fikre Norcha

Reformed Worship (Rw) 117 - Advent / Christmas (September 2015), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Angels and Songs by Chris Schoon....3

Worship Amid Pain by Swee Hong Lim....10

The Word Became Flesh by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap....24

Articles

Editorial: Thinking Deeply by Joyce Borger....2

For Pastors: Missional Preaching for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany by Scott Hoezee....16

Q&A: Whatever Happened to the Second Coming? by John D. Witvliet....46

Resources

The Ghost of a Chosen Legacy by Jennie Stephenson....9

Who Do You Say I Am? by Maria Monteiro....18

Come and See: A Visual Choir by Lisle Gwynn....20

Light for Our Wilderness by Tracie Wiersma....28

Sonny's Cupcake Cafe by …

Cultivating The Practice Of Missional Hospitality For Small Groups At West Houston Church Of Christ, Kevin Stewart

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This doctor of ministry thesis presents the results of a project in which I led a team to develop a plan to cultivate the practice of missional hospitality for small groups at West Houston Church of Christ. I used missional theology as a framework to give shape to the practice of hospitality. The project team met for nine weeks in the fall of 2014. The team practiced lectio divina focused on Luke 10, participated in theological reflection on missional hospitality, and fulfilled assignments to practice missional hospitality. These activities helped form the group spiritually and informed the development of a …

Vincentiana Vol. 52, No. 4 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

When Scholarship Goes South: Biblical Scholarship And Global Trends, Evertt W. Huffard

Restoration Quarterly

Huffard, Evertt W. (2006) "When Scholarship Goes South: Biblical Scholarship and Global Trends," Restoration Quarterly: Vol. 48 : No. 2.

This repository hosts selected Restoration Quarterly articles in downloadable PDF format. For the benefit of users who would like to browse the contents of RQ, we have included all issue covers even when full-text articles from that issue are unavailable. All Restoration Quarterly articles are available in full text in the ATLA Religion Database, available through most university and theological libraries or through your local library’s inter-library loan service.

The Shadow Side Of The Vincentian Mission, John P. Prager C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

La Face Obscure De La Mission Vincentienne, John P. Prager C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

El Lado Oscuro De La Vocación Misionera Vicenciana, John P. Prager C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 1 - April 1994), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / "Covenant" Overload in Reformed Theology by John H. Stek - 12 / The Continuing Conundrum: Calvin and the Conditionality of the Covenant by Peter A. Lillback - 42 / The Covenant of Works and the Stability of Divine Law in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodoxy: A Study in the Theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus à Brakel by Richard A. Muller - 75 / The Doctrine of the Abrogations in the Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669) by W. J. Van Asselt - 101 / The Perkinsian Moment of Federal Theology by Michael McGiffert - …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 24 No 1 - April 1989), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Hermeneutical Issues Then and Now: The Janssen Case Revisited by David E. Holwerda - 7 / Common Grace by Herman Bavinck, translated by Raymond C. Van Leeuwen - 35 / The Dimension of Ultimacy and Theology of Culture: A Critical Discussion of Langdon Gilkey by Brian J. Walsh - 66 / Dutch Calvinist Philosophical Influences in North America by Richard J. Mouw - 93 / Scholia: The Water of Baptism and the Wine of Communion by James LaGrand - 121 / Jude and the Rhetorician: A Dialogue on the Rhetorical Nature of the Epistle of Jude by Thomas R. …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 10 No 1 - April 1975), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Celebration in a State of Trauma by Amry Vandenbosch - 5 / Current Trends in the Ecumenical Movement by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 28 / Book Reviews - Foundations of Mission Theology by Sedos (ed.); Mission Theology Today by John Power, reviewed by Robert Recker - 46 / The Long Day of Joshua and Six Other Catastrophes by Donald W. Patten, Ronald R. Hatch, and Loren C. Steinhauer, reviewed by Elco H. Oostendorp - 57 / The Mission of the Church by Edward Schillebeeckx, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 60 / The Full Harvest by C. H. …