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A Church Growth Study Of Three Churches In Kottayam, Robinson Stephenson

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Many of the churches in the North Kerala Section have been stagnant for years. In some churches over 50 percent of the members are inactive. This study analyzes the hindrances to the growth of three churches in the Kottayam District and suggests a strategy for church growth.

Method

The theological, historical, missiological, and practical dimensions of church growth were examined. A church growth approach was used which included an analysis of the factors involved in the growth and decline of three SDA churches in the Kottayam district. The growth patterns of three churches over the past ten years were …

Francis Bacon Takes On The Ghouls: The "First Principles" Of Religious Freedom, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

John Witte, Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment:
Essential Rights and Liberties
Westview Press 2000

From the Review

This is a great time for students of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and of what Professor John Witte calls the American "experiment" with religious freedom. We've been blessed these past few years with an in-print seminar - an upper-division offering, team-taught by faculty heavyweights - on this experiment, its products and prospects, and the values that have shaped it. Our teachers and texts have included, to name just a few, Professor Steven Smith's Foreordained Failure: The Constitutional Quest for a …

Playing With The Word: The Use Of Participatory Drama Technique In The Sermon, Donald R. Murray Jr.

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Apocalyptic Visions, Amir Hussain

Theological Studies Faculty Works

On November 20, 1999, I was privileged to chair a session of the Religion, Film and Visual Culture group at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The session was entitled "Film and the Apocalypse", and consisted of the five papers that are collected in this volume. The word "apocalypse" comes from a Greek root meaning to reveal or uncover, which is precisely what I understand films to do, reveal something about the world. In these five papers, much is revealed about the apocalyptic visions of a number of contemporary Hollywood films. This essay will be a …

Deseret News / Manti, Utah / Marriott, J. Willard / Snow College, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

Four articles by J. Michael Hunter from the Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2000), including articles about the Deseret News, Manti, Utah, J. Willard Marriott, and Snow College. The articles provide very brief overviews of the topic.

After Fides Et Ratio: New Models For A New Millennium, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Secrets Of Creation In 2 (Slavonic) Enoch, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Leadership And Ministry In The Church-As-Family, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Differential Perceptions Of English Teachers About The Teaching Of Literature In Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools In Selected Regions Of The Caribbean, Shirley Ann Mcgarrell

Dissertations

Problem. Literature, as a subject in the English curriculum, is not taught in all Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) secondary schools in the Caribbean. This research attempts to investigate and document the reasons why this subject is not taught as part of the English curriculum in some schools and yet is taught in other schools. Literature, as a course of study, addresses philosophical, moral, ethical, and spiritual questions, and often teachers are not the central controllers in determining whether this subject should be taught in church-operated secondary schools. The literature teacher’s role could be pivotal in this situation, but only if …

The Issue Of Antitrinitarianism In The Fifteenth-Century Novgorod-Moscow Movement: Analysis And Evaluation, Oleg Zhigankov

Dissertations

This study attempts to examine the trinitarian beliefs of the fifteenth-century Novgorod-Moscow movement, analyzing both their own writings and the polemical writings of those who considered their teaching antitrinitarian.

The main objective of the present research is to contribute to the restoration of the authentic theological identity of this movement. Chapter 1 defines the problem, which has already been raised by some nineteenth-century scholars who have pointed out that the allegedly antitrinitarian character of the Subbotniks' movement must be open for further discussion. It also shows that no systematic research on Subbotniks' theology has ever been produced.

The second chapter …

Masculinity And Femininity: Origins And Implications (Chapter Two Of Growing Strong Daughters), Lisa Graham Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

Excerpt: "God could have made one sex, but he chose to create two distinct image-bearing creatures. Articulating conclusions about how women and men bear God's image differently is difficult, perhaps because we believe we must first figure out which differences to attribute to environment and which are knitted into our beings at conception."

The Pedagogy Of Proclamation: Homiletical Training Among Pastoral Interns In The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, Paul Mark Cross

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Twenty Centuries Of Living Hymns, Lilianne Douhkan

Faculty Publications

"The following is a distillation of a spoken presentation by the author, assisted by the Andrews University choirs, given as the opening event of Faith Ablaze! Hymns of Heart and Heritage, a hymn festival held at Andrews University in November, 1999.1 It is a journey through time, starting with the beginnings of the church and continuing to the present, one in which we hope you, the reader, like those present that evening, can come to a better understanding of how our hymns came about, and what they meant to those who preceded us. Given the constraints in time that evening …

Reflections On The Future Of Social Justice, Lucia A. Silecchia

Scholarly Articles

This article reflects on the nature of the key social justice questions of our time. It then explores five broad principles of Catholic social thought that may be brought to bear on those questions.

Spaces For The Spirit: Christian Spirituality As Represented By Australian Media, Jennifer Anne Jones

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

Creation, Life, And Hope: Essays In Honor Of Jacques B. Doukhan, Jiri Moskala

All Books

No abstract provided.

Luther And "Social Ethics", Terrance Adamson

Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers

For Luther, it appears, that there is a distinction between an office of authority and the office holder. The office holder is the same as any other Christian with the same divine command to "love" in and through his call. Instruction and Christian admonition to the individual regarding faith and Christian duty does not, in itself, violate the distinction between Law and Gospel.

Family

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Vision, Winter 1999

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

VisionFinding Aid

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 110, Israel Antiquities Authority

Hadashot Arkheologiyot–Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Bilingual Series)

Tel Dan – 1998, 48/98, Avraham Biran [1] Ha-Gosherim, 2509, 2717, Nimrod Getzov [2] Tel Ḥaẓor – 1998, 1/98, Amnon Ben-Tor [4] Naḥal Yeḥi‘am, 2671, Nimrod Getzov [6] Kefar Veradim, 2362, Nimrod Getzov [7] Parod, 142/97, Oren Tal, Yigal Tepper, Yotam Tepper and Alexander Fantalkin [7] Hayonim Cave, 46/97, Ofer Bar-Yosef [11] Kafr el-Makr, 55/95, Arthur Segal [11] ‘Akko (Acre), the Eastern Moat, *2421, Eliezer Stern [12] ‘Akko, Derekh Ha-Nof C, 2439, 2734, Howard Smithline and Eliezer Stern [15] Old ‘Akko, the Fortress, 12/97, Eliezer Stern [16] Qiryat Ata …

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 39, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Deaf Catholic Newsletter, Winter-Advent 1999

Deaf Catholic Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Philapelphia, PA

Deaf Catholic Newsletter Finding Aid

Historical Roots Of Slovenian Christoslavic Mythology, Mitja Velikonja

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Full Issue 1999 (Volume Ii)

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

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

Religious Studies Faculty Scholarship

A discussion of a Dalit (Untouchable) Catholic catechist and communist activist in India. The article focuses on the use of bhajans by Kabir to articulate a Dalit Christian vision of redemption and salvation. The article also focuses upon Dalit resistances and social activism.

Vincentian Bibliography

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

The Jubilee In St. Vincent's Thought, Antonio Orcajo C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Deaf Dialogue, October 1999

Deaf Dialogue

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Deaf Dialogue Finding Aid

Volume 17 (A), Number 1, Department Of Church Relations

Pacific Church News

Edited by Jerry Rushford

Fall 1999

Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented October 22, 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.