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Shaped By Calling: Establishing A Healthy Trajectory For Discipleship, Chuck J. Shocki Jan 2017

Shaped By Calling: Establishing A Healthy Trajectory For Discipleship, Chuck J. Shocki

Seattle Pacific Seminary Theses

The call of the first disciples reported in Mark 1:17 provides significant commentary on the essential attributes necessary for authentic life changing discipleship. In His words, "Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men" Jesus establishes a paradigm for discipleship that is at once an invitation into a master/student relationship (i.e. "Follow me") that would engage his followers in a transformational process (i.e. "and I will make you become"), that would eventuate in their being shaped for a specific vocation (i.e. "fishers of men"). In this prototypical summons, these elements of following, becoming, and …


Hope In Addiction Recovery: Eschatological Foundations In Celebrate Recovery And The Genesis Process, Judith M. Naegeli Jan 2017

Hope In Addiction Recovery: Eschatological Foundations In Celebrate Recovery And The Genesis Process, Judith M. Naegeli

Seattle Pacific Seminary Projects

This project attempts to understand the theological foundations of two nationally known Christian addiction recovery programs currently operating in Seattle, Washington: Celebrate Recovery and The Genesis Process. Of particular focus is the presence or absence of Christianity’s unique sense of hope for the future, using eschatological themes of hope, resurrection, and shalom. The participant materials of each program were analyzed for their use of these themes, using Richard Osmer's framework of the four tasks of practical theology.


Public Theology Or Private Bewitchment?, Grant Miller, Reuben Lang’At Jan 2017

Public Theology Or Private Bewitchment?, Grant Miller, Reuben Lang’At

Papers

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Promoting Dignity, Community, And Reconciliation Among Refugees Through Diverse Musical Expression, Mark W. Lewis Jan 2017

Promoting Dignity, Community, And Reconciliation Among Refugees Through Diverse Musical Expression, Mark W. Lewis

Papers

No abstract provided.


Teaching Missiology In And For World Christianity Content And Method, Peter C. Phan Jan 2017

Teaching Missiology In And For World Christianity Content And Method, Peter C. Phan

Papers

No abstract provided.


The Bodies We Teach By: (En)Gendering Mission For Global Christianities, Mai-Anh Le Tran Jan 2017

The Bodies We Teach By: (En)Gendering Mission For Global Christianities, Mai-Anh Le Tran

Papers

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Historic Models Of Teaching Christian Mission:, Robert L. Gallagher Jan 2017

Historic Models Of Teaching Christian Mission:, Robert L. Gallagher

Papers

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The Earnest Christian: Devoted To The Promotion Of Experimental And Practical Piety Volume I, B. T. Roberts A.M., Editor Jan 2017

The Earnest Christian: Devoted To The Promotion Of Experimental And Practical Piety Volume I, B. T. Roberts A.M., Editor

Books

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Gendered Mission:, Angel Santiago-Vendrell Jan 2017

Gendered Mission:, Angel Santiago-Vendrell

Papers

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Just Research, Ki’Amber Thompson '18 Jan 2017

Just Research, Ki’Amber Thompson '18

EnviroLab Asia

The trip to Malaysia Borneo was an eye-opening experience that reinforced the need for researchers to listen to the indigenous peoples and to integrate their knowledge and understanding of place into any scientific, political, or policy analyses designed to restore the impact of deforestation and dam projects in the region.


Up Close: An Interview, Madi Vorva '17 Jan 2017

Up Close: An Interview, Madi Vorva '17

EnviroLab Asia

A long-time US activist against the deleterious impact of oil-palm deforestation in Southeast Asia learned a great deal about the indigenous peoples’ struggles there to gain control over their lives and livelihoods.


1847-1848 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Years 1847-1848, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2017

1847-1848 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Years 1847-1848, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Conference Journals

No abstract provided.


2017 Graduate Theological Studies Journal And Newsletter Jan 2017

2017 Graduate Theological Studies Journal And Newsletter

Graduate Theological Studies Journal and Newsletter

Graduate Theological Studies is published by the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.


Dave Hall, A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman And Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959, Reviewed By Susan Sessions Rugh Jan 2017

Dave Hall, A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman And Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959, Reviewed By Susan Sessions Rugh

Mormon Studies Review

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Wisdom, Chapter 1 Of The Science Of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn Jan 2017

Wisdom, Chapter 1 Of The Science Of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

The day before I started this chapter I played flag football with some of my doctoral students. Though I am thirty years their senior, I tried my best to keep up for three hours of great fun. Today my sore muscles scream any time I try to move. My wife, Lisa, would say they are reprimanding me for my foolishness. Typing on the keyboard is about the only motion that doesn’t hurt. It seems both fitting and paradoxical to begin writing about wisdom the morning after punishing my body in the name of a good time. Hopefully I haven’t just …


Forgiveness, Chapter 2 Of The Science Of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn Jan 2017

Forgiveness, Chapter 2 Of The Science Of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

Forgiveness is close to the center of everything Christian. It shows up in the heart of the Lord’s Prayer, which is in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the centerpiece of how we understand Jesus and his astonishing critical wisdom. “Forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us” (Matt. 6:12).


The First Life Journey Of Many: The Lived Experience Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Individuals Who Were Raised Within The Catholic Church On Their Coming Out Process, Michelle Colarusso Jan 2017

The First Life Journey Of Many: The Lived Experience Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Individuals Who Were Raised Within The Catholic Church On Their Coming Out Process, Michelle Colarusso

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ) adults encounter societal challenges, pushback from religious organizations, and discrimination from lawmakers which interfere with their ability to come out as their true selves. This qualitative, phenomenologically oriented study explored the LGBTQ identity and practicing Catholic religious beliefs in an attempt to develop a rich description and understanding of the experience of LGBTQ individuals’ coming out process in relation to the practice of Catholic religious beliefs. The central research question that guided this inquiry was the following: What are the lived experiences of persons who identify as Catholic and who have come out as …


Awakening Imagination: Glimpses Of Ignatian Spirituality In Seventeenth-Century French Hagiographic Theatre, Ana Fonseca Conboy Jan 2017

Awakening Imagination: Glimpses Of Ignatian Spirituality In Seventeenth-Century French Hagiographic Theatre, Ana Fonseca Conboy

Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) propose an active method of exercising spirituality through meditation, prayer, and imaginative contemplation. Beyond mere spectators, Ignatian disciples are invited to become actors in the scene unfolding in their sensory imaginations, in what Barthes calls the “récit christique” (Barthes 1971, 10). In that sense, the Exercises possess a performative force. The implicit freedom inspired in the exercitant, the person who performs the Exercises, echoes the call to the imagination of the spectator of seventeenth-century French hagiographic drama. Exercises promulgated throughout the four weeks of the spiritual retreat are reflected in …


It Took A Village To Prepare For The Restoration, David C. Peterson Jan 2017

It Took A Village To Prepare For The Restoration, David C. Peterson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

“No man,” wrote the early seventeenth-century English poet John Donne, “is an island entire of itself.” Likewise, nothing in human history springs entirely from a vacuum, ex nihilo. Even the Restoration, although it was initiated by God and is orchestrated in the heavens, draws on resources created by previous generations of men and women. We are borne on a tide of scriptural texts and freedoms bequeathed to us by our ancestors, whom we should not forget.


Full Issue Jan 2017

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’S Autobiographical Permutation Of A Biblical Wordplay On The Name Joseph, Matthew L. Bowen Jan 2017

“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’S Autobiographical Permutation Of A Biblical Wordplay On The Name Joseph, Matthew L. Bowen

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Nephi’s record on the small plates includes seven distinct scenes in which Nephi depicts the anger of his brethren against him. Each of these scenes includes language that recalls Genesis 37:5‒10, 20, the biblical scene in which Joseph’s brothers “hate him yet the more [wayyôsipû ʿôd] for his dreams and for his words” because they fear that he intends to “reign” and to “have dominion” or rule over them (Genesis 37:8). Later, they plot to kill him (Genesis 37:20). Two of these “anger” scenes culminate in Nephi’s brothers’ bowing down before him in the same way that Joseph’s brothers bowed …


The Book Of Mormon Witnesses And Their Challenge To Secularism, Daniel C. Peterson Jan 2017

The Book Of Mormon Witnesses And Their Challenge To Secularism, Daniel C. Peterson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

T here has been much comment recently on the growth in numbers of the religious “nones.” Not all of them are actually non-theists, but secularism or naturalism is undoubtedly on the rise — and Latter-day Saints have not escaped damage from the trend. Several recent books and articles have sought to help their readers live with doubt, cope with uncertainty, or find value or joy in the Mormon community even when some, most, or perhaps even all of its founding narrative has come to seem untenable. I believe, however, that naturalism should be directly challenged and that the Book of …


“How Long Can Rolling Waters Remain Impure?”: Literary Aspects Of The Doctrine And Covenants, Richard Dilworth Rust Jan 2017

“How Long Can Rolling Waters Remain Impure?”: Literary Aspects Of The Doctrine And Covenants, Richard Dilworth Rust

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Many parts of the Doctrine and Covenants are literary in character. That is, their content is made appealing and more memorable and meaningful through aesthetic qualities. With content often determining form and form revealing content, profound concerns are presented in ways that reach us deeply. A statement in the Doctrine and Covenants regarding things which come of the earth applies well to the book’s literary elements: T hey “please the eye and … gladden the heart; [they] enliven the soul” (D&C 59:18-19).


Full Issue Jan 2017

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


1860 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Year 1860, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2017

1860 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Year 1860, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Conference Journals

No abstract provided.


1846-1847 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Years 1846-1847, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2017

1846-1847 Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, For The Years 1846-1847, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Conference Journals

No abstract provided.


1914 Minutes Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church: The Eighty-Eighth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church Jan 2017

1914 Minutes Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church: The Eighty-Eighth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church

Minutes of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.


1922 Minutes Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church: The Ninety-Sixth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church Jan 2017

1922 Minutes Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church: The Ninety-Sixth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church

Minutes of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.


Introduction To The Science Of Virtue, Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn Jan 2017

Introduction To The Science Of Virtue, Why Positive Psychology Matters To The Church, Mark R. Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

My students look at me funny when I mention 1980, as if we are studying ancient history. It doesn’t seem that long ago to me, but most of them were ten years shy of being born. Mount St. Helens erupted that year, gifting my classmates and me with an inch of ash for our college graduation day in Portland, Oregon. Rubik’s Cube captured the world’s attention and more of my free time than I care to admit. And a concerned couple at my church approached my wife, Lisa, and me a few weeks before we packed our U-Haul for graduate …


The Effects Of Grace Interventions In Church Communities, Rodger K. Bufford, Mark R. Mcminn, Jeff A. Moody, Laura Geczy-Haskins Jan 2017

The Effects Of Grace Interventions In Church Communities, Rodger K. Bufford, Mark R. Mcminn, Jeff A. Moody, Laura Geczy-Haskins

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

Grace remains little studied though several recent studies have developed promising ways to measure grace. Here we report two studies involving grace interventions as part of an ongoing investigation of positive psychology in the context of Christian church communities, Study One used a crossover design in which two congregations were measured on grace and other variables at the outset, and again after phases one and two. One congregation received a grace intervention during phase one and the second during phase two. Results showed increased scores on grace but not an expected increase in marital satisfaction among married participants. Study Two …