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An Evaluation Of Selected Seventh-Day Adventist Sermons In Taiwan In The Light Of Criteria For Biblical Teaching, John Chun-Ming Lu

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Task

The project's, first task is to gain a view of the nature and purpose of preaching with special emphasis on the relationship of the Bible to preaching. Then it proceeds to survey- Seventh^-day Adventist preaching in Taiwan with respect to its strengths and weaknesses. And, finally, it makes an attempt to design materials for the teaching of preaching in Taiwan, keeping in mind the expressed needs and special situations confronted there.

Method and Organization of the Study

Chapter I is a theoretical study of a view of the nature and purpose of preaching based on an examination of the …

Mission: Vol. 10, No. 4

Mission

Mission: Vol. 10, No. 4. The articles in this issue include: "A Response to 'Infallibility of the Bible and Higher Criticism'" by Bruce Wadzeck, "If You Liked Nixon You'll Love Carter" by All Stotts, "On Loving Carter, the Center Takes Hold" by Harold Straughn, "Scholar and Proclaimer, RUdolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)" by Thomas H. Olbricht, "Iowa Basic Agnostic Proficiency Exam" by Dan Lindstrom, "The Church of the Sunbelt Boom and the Crisis of Authority" by Norman L. Parks, "Colloquy Within" a poem by Robert W. Lawrence, "Books" by Bobbie Lee Holley, "Forum," "Cross Currents," and "Looking Out."

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 11

Mission

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 11. This issue includes the following articles: "Shaping a Responsible Ministry" an analysis from the editor, "And Now Won't You Come While We Dance and Sing" by Gene Shelburne, "Alexander Campbell and the Millennium" by Richard T. Hughes, "Forum," "The Meaning and Significance of the Restitution Motif" by Everett Ferguson, "The Infallibility of the Bible and Higher Criticism" by Harry R. Boer, "God, I Ache" by Allen Holden, Jr., "So You Believe in Evolution!" by John N. Clayton, "Index, Volume 9," and "Cross Currents."

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 8

Mission

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 8. This issue contains the following articles: "The Price of Peace in Gainesville" an interpretive report from the editor, "Commentary," "Funerals Without Caskets" by Wes Reagan, "I Have a Dream" by Paul Keckley, "Restoration Update: The 'One Cup' Segment in American Church History" by James W. Russell, "The Care and Management of Guilt" by Jim Reynolds, "Renewal in the Pulpit: Jeremiah, Baal, and Jesus" by Wendall Willis, "Penalty" a poem by Roy Z. Kemp, "Forum," and "Cross Currents."

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 1

Mission

Mission: Vol. 9, No. 1. The articles in this issue include: "New Editor Named," "What & So What," "Clothes for the Body--A Journal's Agenda" by Ron Durham, "Approaches to Church Leadership" by Frank Delton, "What are Your Motives?" by Charlotte Ritter, "The God in Chains" by Carl Ketcherside, "In Memoriam" by Victor L. Hunter, "Books," and "Forum."

Mission: Vol. 8, No. 9

Mission

Mission: Vol. 8, No. 9. The articles in this issue include: "In the Beginning," "Women in Christ Today: A Special Report" by Marquita Moss, "God's Design: Woman's Dignity" by Bobbie Lee Holley, "Women in Submission" by Pat Suba, "Please Try to Understand" by Carol Gafford, "Women Alone," "Forum," and "What & So What."

Mission: Vol. 7, No. 10

Mission

Mission: Vol. 7, No. 10. The articles in this issue include: "Christian Health and the Critical Belief Factor" by Lyle W. Brooks, "Restoration and the Cultural Risk" by Ron Durham, "Seedpicker's Notebook," "Three Poems from Luke's Gospel" by Elton D. Higgs, "Crisis in Preaching: Interview" by Robert R. Marshall, "Ongoing Easter: The Sign of the Fish" by David H. C. Read, "Looking Out," "Books," "Movies" by John Novak and Mary York, "Forum," and "What & So What" by from the editor.

Book Review. - Literatur, Robert H. Smith

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 12

Mission

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 12. The articles in this issue include: "Why the Church of Christ?" by anonymous, "Is There a Message?" by Thomas Olbricht, "The Plight of the Church of Christ Liberal" by Wayne Willis, "To Close My Eyes, verse" by Paul Thomas, "Can the Church Be Saved?" by Steven Spidell, and "Executive Decree, humor" by John Hollembeak.

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 10

Mission

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 10. The articles in this issue include: "The New Expression of the American Civil Religion" by Richard T. Hughes, "Religion in Black and White" by Lucile Todd, "Black Theology, interview" by Victor L. Hunter, "Miami Images: Politics 1972" by Prentice A. Meador, Jr., "From Inside In" by James Galuhn, and "Harsh Words, graphic" by J. T. Morrow.

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 9

Mission

Mission: Vol. 6, No. 9. This issue includes the following articles: "Toward a Theology of Healing" by Foy C. Richey, "Choose Life, graphic" by J. T. Morrow, "One Giant Step for the Churches" by Edward Fudge, "The New Shape of the American Civil Religion" by Richard T. Hughes, "Openness and Growth: The Belmont Experience, interview" by Victor L. Hunter, "Jesus and George Gallup" by Wesley C. Reagan, "Self-Knowledge, verse" by Linda Robling.

Book Review. - Literatur, Walter Wegner

Concordia Theological Monthly

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Book Review. - Literatur, Carl S. Meyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

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Is God Trying To Tell Us Something?, Wayne Saffen

Concordia Theological Monthly

As the 1970s began, the western region of the National Campus Ministry Association held a convocation at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus to consider "Life Planning." The present article is a revision of this author's discussion paper for that conference. Its theme really deals with the crisis in ministry as such. As usual, campus ministry turns out to be one of the sensitive outposts catching some of the first signals of changes coming to affect church and ministry in the world. It is shared here with a wider readership in a firm commitment to and belief in confraternity …

Book Review. - Literatur, Carl S. Meyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur

Book Review. - Literatur, Carl S. Meyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur

Mission: Vol. 4, No. 7

Mission

Mission: Vol. 4, No. 7. This issue includes the following articles: "On Capturing Psychology For the Church's Mission" by Neil Clark Warren, "Psychiatry and Religion" by John V. Vanderpool, "Psychiatry and Religion: A Review" by James D. Bales, "A Right Therapy for the Wrong Reason" by Foy C. Ritchey, "On the Trying of Heretics and the Burning of Witches, part two" by Don Reece, "Pax Animae, a poem" by Paul A. Parrish, and "Taking Jesus Seriously" by Prentice A. Meador, Jr.

Homiletics, Arthur Carl Piepkorn, George W. Hoyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Homiletical: Archaeology and Preaching

The Correlation Of Selected Malady Concepts Of Psychotherapy With Their Theological Counterparts, As Evidenced In The Pastoral Counseling Literature Of 1945-1957, Robert E. Rediehs

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The basic concern of this paper is whether or not psychotherapy and theology have anything to do with each other. There is much feeling in Christian tradition about the extent to which extra-theological studies relate to theology. The present paper will not deal with the efforts which have been made to point out a dissimilarity between these fields. Rather it hypothesizes that psychotherapy and theology are, in some sense, related, and that this can be demonstrated in the terminology and meanings of pastoral counseling.

Book Review. - Literatur, Frederick W. Danker

Concordia Theological Monthly

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Book Review. - Literatur, Frederick W. Danker

Concordia Theological Monthly

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The Gospel And The Theological Task, John H. Tietjen

Concordia Theological Monthly

"I'm no theologian, but …. " You have heard the statement many times. After a learned presentation by a theological professor at a pastoral conference a parish pastor rises to add his wisdom to the discussion and begins with those words, most often to take exception to something the professor has said. A delegate to a church convention utters them to convince his fellow delegates of the practical, down-to-earth advice he is about to offer, usually stated in very specific theological terms in spite of his introduction.

Mission: Vol. 2, No. 4

Mission

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Book Review. - Literatur, Edgar Krentz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur

Sexuality, Marriage, And Divorce In 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:16, Walter J. Bartling

Concordia Theological Monthly

No other social institution can begin to compete with marriage as a subject of ethical concern and reflection on all levels and in all periods of Biblical thought (for example, the opening chapters of Genesis, specific regulatory injunctions in the Torah, the ethical message of the prophets, wisdom literature - both canonical and extracanonical, the Sermon on the Mount, the Tables of Duties in Paul and Peter). Equally important for a study of marriage are the varying patterns of marital and familial life reflected in passing references and allusions in historical accounts (for example, the patriarchal family history, the chronicles …

Book Review. - Literatur, Erwin L. Lueker

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur

Book Review. - Literatur, Erwin L. Lueker

Concordia Theological Monthly

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Book Review. - Literatur, Frederick W. Danker

Concordia Theological Monthly

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Book Review. - Literatur, Carl Volz

Concordia Theological Monthly

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The Hermeneutical Problem And Preaching, V. C. Pfitzer

Concordia Theological Monthly

One is sometimes tempted to the thought that the theologian's work is often carried out not in obedience to the Great Commission of Matt. 28:19 f.: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations … teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you," but rather in compliance with an unknown saying which might run: "Go ye therefore and discuss with all nations, … and make into problems whatsoever I have commanded you.” It is thus with some diffidence that I have left the word "problem" in the heading of this paper. But I do it for the following …