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The Development Of A Prayer Ministry Group In A Local Church For Baby Boomers, Richard G. Calhoun

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

No Place For Wisdom? Age Discrimination In The Clergy Call Process, John Charles Cooper

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Responses To Issue #86, R. W. Tucker, Bill Samuel

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Conversation In Nauvoo About The Corporeality Of God, Jacob Neusner

BYU Studies

Religion scholar Jacob Neusner looks at the corporeal nature of God through the lens of Mormonism and Judaism. He addresses anthropomorphism and incarnation, and concludes that the way to know God is through “our relationship with him, not through our act of the incarnation of God in heart and mind and soul.” Neusner appreciates the powerful doctrine of God’s corporeality taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the 1842 King Follett Sermon, which says that men may converse with God “as one man converses with another.” He says, “In the formative documents of the Torah in its oral version, that …

Book Review: "Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs And Practices", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Julius Lipner's Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices.

Marketing Seventh-Day Adventist Higher Education In Southeast Asia, Geoffrey A. Pauner

Dissertations

Problem

There has been a concern by educational leaders of the Adventist church in the Asia Pacific Division that a number of parents of Seventh-day Adventist students choose to educate their children in non-Adventist primary and secondary schools. This study sought to determine if this concern is prevalent in Adventist colleges in Southeast Asia. To find answers to this concern the following questions were posed.

1. What methods do these colleges use to promote or recruit SDA students?

2. How do these colleges attract SDA students?

3. What special programs are in place in the colleges to retain SDA students? …

Factors Related To Clergy Sexual Misconduct, Donald L. Totten

Dissertations

Problem. Clergy sexual misconduct creates credibility, marital, family, and financial problems in the general church. The purpose of this study was to determine, through a survey research methodology, personality and situational factors in the lives of active clergy that may be related to clergy sexual misconduct.

Method. Two hundred sixty-nine pastors filled out questionnaires pertaining to spiritual well-being, locus of control, burnout, social support, active pre-marital sexual conduct, erotic thoughts, naivete/lack of training, demographics, and sexual involvement with a non-spouse while in the ministry. Univariate, discriminant, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the influence of each variable …

Spiritual Nurture In The Local Seventh-Day Adventist Congregation Through The Spiritual Gifts Of Prophecy And Shepherding, Francy Duran

Dissertations

The purpose. The purpose of this research was to analyze the church as a nurturing entity, and the spiritual gifts that enable the church to develop a ministry of spiritual nurture.

Method. This study followed the documentary methodology. The Scripture data, in both Old and New Testaments, regarding the purpose of the church and the gifts of prophecy and shepherding were analyzed indepth. Secondary sources, including books, journal articles, and research reports, were used where applicable.

Conclusion. The church was called to accomplish a specific ministry. This ministry is much more than the Gospel proclamation that leads to conversion and …

Development Of The Concept Of Salvation In Seventh-Day Adventist Children And Adolescents 7 To 18 Years Of Age Who Attend Public Schools, Bradley S. Booth

Dissertations

Problem. This study sought to explore how the concept of salvation and assurance of salvation develop in Seventh-day Adventist children and adolescents who have been educated only in public schools.

Method. Using a developmental, cross-sectional design, semi-clinical interviews were conducted with 91 subjects 7 to 18 years of age. Subjects also completed a demographic information survey and drawings. Parents were also interviewed. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.

Results. Three of the eight sub-concepts of salvation were age-related in their development (the impact of sin on one's relationship to God, baptism, and being saved). The most growth in understanding of …

Paternal Alcohol Abuse And Psychological Functioning Of Adolescents: An Investigation Of Moderating Variables, Blase E. Masini

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Image Of God As The Foundation Of A Right To Health Care: A Comparison Of Selected Papal And U.S. Texts, 1979-1993, Timothy L. Doherty

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Maybe A Lawyer Can Be A Servant; If Not…, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Consider the way we American lawyers learn about the relationship between the church and the law: This grand constitutional and legal order we propose to serve is unfolded before us and built up in our minds and hearts; it comes to us out of multi-volume sets of course books, and, like the gods of Canaan, it comes to us as religious: Thomas Jefferson said America was God's New Israel; David Hoffman, the grandfather of legal ethics in America, spoke of the law as a temple and of us lawyers as priests who served in the temple; Law Day speakers commonly …

Brer Rabbit Is Dying: The Demise Of Traditional Morality Among The Kikuyu People Of Kenya And An Effort To Reclaim It, Dewey O. Huston

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Plan For Strengthening Expository Preaching By Korean Seventh-Day Adventist Pastors, Chongho Yang

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Adventist churches in Korea urgently need expository preaching to act as a counterbalance to the strong traditional emphasis on topical preaching. The greatest problem of preaching in Adventist churches of Korea seems to be a lack of biblical content. Complicating this is a widespread failure to correctly apply hermeneutical principles to biblical exposition.

Method

Two taped sermons preached by each of seven selected Seventh-day Adventist preachers in Korea were collected and analyzed in the light of the criteria established for authenthic expository preaching. The criteria were obtained from the review of biblical and current literature.

Results

It was found …

Assessing Modern Bankruptcy Law: An Example Of Justice, Veryl Victoria Miles

Scholarly Articles

The task undertaken in this article will be to consider how well modern bankruptcy law measures up to concepts of justice that have evolved from Catholic social thought. The application of Catholic social justice in the assessment of whether a law is "just" or "unjust" can be viewed as a rational progression in evaluating the quality of justice achieved under a law.

One Small Voice, Winter 1995

One Small Voice

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Fall River, MA

One Small Voice Finding Aid

The Bible

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Delayed Hominization: Reflections On Some Recent Catholic Claims For Delayed Hominization, Mark Johnson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Deaf Dialogue, November 1995

Deaf Dialogue

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Deaf Dialogue Finding Aid

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter, November-December 1995

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Portland, OR

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter Finding Aid

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 30 No 2 - November 1995), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial by John Bolt - 343 / Calvin and the "Calvinists": Assessing Continuities and Discontinuities between the Reformation and Orthodoxy by Richard A. Muller - 345 / The Use of Philosophy in the Theology of Johannes Maccovius (1578–1644) by Martin I. Klauber - 376 / "Heaven Is a World of Love": Edwards on Heaven and the Trinity by Amy Plantinga Pauw - 392 / Doctrinal Development in Scripture and Tradition: A Reformed Assessment of the Church's Theological Task by Mark W. Karlberg - 401 / Calvin Bibliography: 1995 by Peter De Klerk - 419 / Scholia: Is Homosexuality a …

Centres For Handicapped Children In Madagascar, Vincent Carme C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Program; 1995-10-13, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

No abstract provided.

Ccju Perspective, Fall 1995, Center For Christian-Jewish Understanding

CCJU Perspective

Highlights: Forging bonds: CCJU honors Cardinal O'Connor for interfaith work -- Teaching the Holocaust, by Maureen Lutz -- CCJU Director Rabbi Bemporad meets Pope John Paul II -- The Splendor of Truth, by Rabbi Jack Bemporad -- Wenzel named new executive director; Ehrenkranz promoted; Harris is grants director -- Elie Wiesel gives commencement address and received an honoris causa from Sacred Heart University.

The Lda Today, Vol. 2, No. 2, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

No abstract provided.

New Jersey Catholic Records Newsletter, Vol. 15, No.1, New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission

New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission newsletters

The Commission reminds its readers of the Conference on Women Religious and Ministry in New Jersey. The conference program is incluced. One of the founding members of the Commission, Msgr. Edwin V. Sullivan retires. The letterbook of Bishop Winand Wigger is featured and pictured in its reconditioned state thanks to a recent grant to the Special Collections Center at Seton Hall University.

Daily Devotions For The Deaf, October-November-December 1995

Daily Devotions for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Council Bluffs, IA

Daily Devotions for the Deaf Finding Aid

Volume 14, Number 1, Department Of Church Relations

Pacific Church News

Edited by Jerry Rushford

Fall 1995

Church Growth-- “Quo Wadis - Whither Goest Thou”, Elmer L. Towns

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

The philosophy and the strategy of the Church Growth Movement are focused on the homogeneous unit principle, people movements, receptivity, and the use of the social sciences to establish principles and methods.

Dorothy Day Apologia For Faith After Marx, Sandra Yocum Mize

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Dorothy Day has received a great deal of attention from contemporary scholars of U.S. Catholicism. This article makes a unique contribution to this growing literature by offering a close reading of Dorothy Day's autobiography, The Long Loneliness. The purpose is to highlight the narrative's integrity as a sustained argument in defense of Christian faith transformed by wrestling with the Marxist charge: religion is the opiate of the people. Day deserves credit for a daring approach to Catholic apologetics in the 1950s. The article presents the narrative as a dialectic between the personal and the political, the material and the spiritual, …