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Beating The Odds: Successfully Following A Long-Term Pastor, Richard A. Danielson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Small Church Revitalization Within The Central Florida District Of The Church Of The Nazarene, George E. Sloan Jr.

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

From Teflon To Velcro: Assimilating Newcomers Into Faithbridge United Methodist Church, E. Kenneth Werlein

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Developing A Contextual Theology In Melanesia With Reference To Death, Witchcraft, And The Spirit World, Neville R. Bartle

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Evangelical Theology And Open Theism: Toward A Biblical Understanding Of The Macro Hermeneutical Principles Of Theology?, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

"Even If Noah, Daniel, And Job" (Ezekiel 14:14,20) - Why These Three?, Jo Ann Davidson

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Is There Room For Systematics In Adventist Theology?, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Banquet Type-Scene In The Parables Of Jesus, Fazadudin Hosein

Dissertations

Biblical narratives abound in ancient literary and oral conventions. One such convention is the type-scene. The study of the type-scene originated in 1933 with Walter Arend who studied compositional recurrent patterns and variations in the epics of Homer. Later, the study was developed by Robert Alter inhis treatment of biblical narratives. The type-scene was a narratorial device used by ancient orators and writers in which traditional elements of repetitive compositional patterns were told and retold ininnovative ways to an audience, raising their expectation and sometimes causing surprise. Conventional elements that make up the type-scene were catchwords, motifs, characters, and themes. …

Who Are The Habiru Of The Amarna Letters?, S. Douglas Waterhouse

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Creation In Isaiah, Wann M. Fanwar

Dissertations

This study investigates the role of creation thought in Isaiah in order to determine its relationship to Isaiah's concept of God as creator, especially as it pertains to his salvific work for and through Israel. This investigation is carried out in three steps. First, Isaiah's use of creation language, which involves specific explicit creation terms and implicit references (metaphors), is investigated. Second, selected creation texts, namely, 4:2-6; 43:1-7; 44:24-45:25; and 65:17-25, are exegeted. Third, Isaiah's creation thought is studied in relationship to other significant concepts in the book, such as salvation theology and redemption history, and God's salvific intention for …

Mental Health Needs And Resources In Christian Communities Of South Korea, Lisa Graham Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

In an effort to understand the mental health needs and resources of Korean Christians, we collected quantitative and qualitative data through surveys and interviews with Korean pastors and Christian educators. Several mental health concerns were identified: the high level of daily stress faced by many Koreans, marriage and family concerns, conflicts between Korean culture and the teachings of the church, and a tendency to keep emotional discomfort suppressed. Mental health resources include deep spiritual commitment to a life of prayer, high levels of commitment to family and community, cultural values of persistence and patience, and reliance on Christian communities for …

Church Renewal For Kentucky United Methodism?: Evaluating The Purpose-Driven Church® Network Pilot, James Cole Wofford

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Increasing Assimilation And Decreasing Attrition Through The Development Of A Lay Ministry And Congregational Care Program, Robin B. Scott

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

They Will Cast Out Demons: How Christian Exorcism Is Practiced In North America, Michael David Mohr

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Gathering A Crowd For A First Service Launch, Edwin Dale Locke

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ablaze With Love: A Video Documentary To Sensitize The Church Of The Nazarene To Its Heritage Of Gender Mutuality In Ministry, Janine T. Metcalf

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Mind Of Christ? A Phenomenological Explication Of Personal Transformation And Cosmic Revision In Christian Converts In Western Australia, Stuart Cranford Devenish

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Religious converts routinely report differences in the way they attribute meaning as a consequence of religious conversion. Previously known objects, events and persons are perceived differently as a result of a new plausibility structure being brought to bear. Converts experience themselves and their lives as fundamentally problematic due to their limitations in the face of seemingly insurmountable physical, moral or spiritual crises, and set out in search of a resolution to their anguished existence. The resolution comes as they encounter God, the one whom-it is thought-holds within his hands the resolution to their problem and the seeds of their transformation …

Using The Jesus Narrative For Discipleship, Christopher T. Heckaman

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reasoning With Unbelievers And The Place Of The Scripture In Tertullian's Apology, Paul Livermore

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Images Of The Church In I Corinthians And I Timothy: An Exercise In Canonical Hermeneutics, Eugene E. Lemcio

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

In But Not Of The World: The Confluence Of Wisdom And Torah In The Solomon Story (I Kings I-Ii), Frank Anthony Spina

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Concept Of Election And Second Isaiah: Recent Literature, Joel Kaminsky

Religion: Faculty Publications

In this article I contend that the conceptual categories utilized by many recent scholars engaged in analyzing the idea of election in the Hebrew Bible have led to a variety of interrelated misunderstandings, both of the idea of election in general and of specific texts invoked in such discussions. This article traces out the distortions in the scholarship on this central theological concept and shows how similarly problematic trends also occur in discussions of Second Isaiah, a text frequently cited in studies of election. I conclude by offering a brief sketch of both a new possible reading of Second Isaiah …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 35 No 2 - November 2000), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Common Grace, Theonomy, and Civic Good: The Temptations of Calvinist Politics (Reflections on the Third Point of the CRC Kalamazoo Synod, 1924) by John Bolt - 205 / What Kind of Book Is Calvin's Institutes? by Randall C. Zachman - 238 / Calvin and Catholic Trinitarianism: An Examination of Robert Reymond's Understanding of the Trinity and His Appeal to John Calvin by Paul Owen - 262 / Calvin and the Nicodemite Controversy: An Overlooked Text of 1541 by Robert White - 282 / Calvin Bibliography: 2000 by Paul Fields - 297 / Scholia et Homiletica: The Use and Abuse …

Preaching: A Ministry Of Newness, Gregory A. Smith

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The message of the New Testament draws heavily on the concepts of newness and renewal. Nearly three dozen New Testament passages discuss “new” things—new wine, new commandment, new creation, new song and new Jerusalem, to name a few. The imagery of newness occurs in narrative, didactic and apocalyptic literature and is used by every New Testament author except James and Jude. Not only does the biblical concept of newness provide a useful paradigm for interpreting New Testament theology, but it also outlines the contours of the task of preaching. Preaching is the proclamation of a new message for the purpose …

The Role Of The Icon In The Serbian Krsna Slava Celebration - Ecclesiastical And Missiological Challenges, Dimitrije Popadic Ph.D

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Review: The Covenant Formula: An Exegetical And Theological Investigation By Rolf Rendtorff, Joel Kaminsky

Religion: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Orthodoxy And Ecumenism In Eastern Europe Today, Leonid Kishkovsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Presence And Importance Of Selected Principles For Nurturing Volunteers Among Youth Ministries Considered Effective, James Dunaway Moye Jr.

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Equipping The Equippers : A Covenant Group Training Model For Pastors, Debra Kaye Wallace-Padgett

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Christianity In Latvia In The Twentieth Century, Liva Fokrote

Seminary Masters Theses

This paper is about Christianity in Latvia in the twentieth century. The country of Latvia is located on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea in Northeastern Europe. Christianity was brought to this country at the end of the twelfth century. Only in the twentieth century did the Christian Church in Latvia become truly indigenous and diverse.

The Church history in Latvia began with the crusading attempts of German bishops and religious orders that brought Roman Catholicism to Latvia at the end of the twelfth century. The Catholic bishops and religious orders dominated both the ecclesiastical and political life in …