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An Analysis Of Causes And Impacts Of Depression In Pastors, Derienzia Johnson Oct 2016

An Analysis Of Causes And Impacts Of Depression In Pastors, Derienzia Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Depression is becoming more common in pastors because of the stress and strains of ministry, as well as other personal issues. Therefore, this analysis looks into how different mechanisms such as social support and traditional religious values tend to function across different groups of the religious community. The purpose of this study is to understand the issues that would cause a pastor to become depressed and also to devise a plan of action that will provide alternatives to dealing with depression in a positive and healthy manner. This analysis will expand on existing literature and reports that argue on both …

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The Transitioning Of A Non-Functional Church Into A Functional Church: The Great Commission Commandment Mandate, Charlie Williams Oct 2016

The Transitioning Of A Non-Functional Church Into A Functional Church: The Great Commission Commandment Mandate, Charlie Williams

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

From conception, America has embraced the Christian church as its cornerstone. However, as noted by Barnes and Lowry, “Church attendance has decreased substantially in recent years in comparison to the 1950s and 60s. The majority of Americans do not attend church on a regular basis.” This thesis project will research churches with regards to their effectiveness and will both isolate and analyze the characteristics of churches that fit into operative categories. A survey using a quantitative research instrument, such as the Likert Measurement Scale, will examine the New Hope Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina. The survey’s purpose will be …

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Leadership Principles And Applications For Establishing A Christ-Centered Church In South Korea, Dongho Cho Oct 2016

Leadership Principles And Applications For Establishing A Christ-Centered Church In South Korea, Dongho Cho

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this project is to provide a Christ-centered, biblical Great Commission model for Presbyterian Church pastors in South Korea. Pastor Hanhum Ok said that there are many programs and forms without the spiritual vitality in the Korean Church. Many attractional churches attract people by relying heavily on programs that often alter the focus of believers onto the programs themselves and prevent them from focusing on Jesus Christ. To ensure that the church—the body of Christ—remains faithful to its biblical mandates, thesis project argues that the pastors must have leadership principles and applications in accordance to the Christ-centered biblical …

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Living Within The Sacred Tension: Paradox And Its Significance For Christian Existence In The Thought Of Søren Kierkegaard, Matthew Thomas Nowachek Oct 2016

Living Within The Sacred Tension: Paradox And Its Significance For Christian Existence In The Thought Of Søren Kierkegaard, Matthew Thomas Nowachek

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation presents an in-depth investigation into the notion of paradox and its significance for Christian existence in the thought of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard. The primary aim of the study is to explore and to develop various expressions of paradox in Kierkegaard’s authorship in order to demonstrate the manner by which Kierkegaard employs paradox as a means of challenging his Christendom contemporaries to exist as authentic Christians, and more specifically to enter into the existential state I am identifying in this project as living within the sacred tension. With this aim in mind, I begin with …

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Spirituality Of Peacemaking, Jean Zaru Oct 2016

Spirituality Of Peacemaking, Jean Zaru

Quaker Religious Thought

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The Ramallah Friends School: 150 Years Of Endurance, Understanding, And Good Teaching, Gordon Davies Oct 2016

The Ramallah Friends School: 150 Years Of Endurance, Understanding, And Good Teaching, Gordon Davies

Quaker Religious Thought

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The Spiritan Option For The Poor And The Care Of Creation, Brian O'Toole C.S.Sp. Oct 2016

The Spiritan Option For The Poor And The Care Of Creation, Brian O'Toole C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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Libermann's Provisional Rule Of 1840, François Nicolas C.S.Sp. Oct 2016

Libermann's Provisional Rule Of 1840, François Nicolas C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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Laudato Si': A Commentary, Gerard Magill Oct 2016

Laudato Si': A Commentary, Gerard Magill

Spiritan Horizons

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A Reconstruction Of Bernard Lonergan’S 1947-48 Course On Grace, Part 1, Robert M. Doran Oct 2016

A Reconstruction Of Bernard Lonergan’S 1947-48 Course On Grace, Part 1, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The notes we have from Bernard Lonergan on the website www.bernardlonergan.com for his 1947-48 course on grace at the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto (now Regis College) are in two sets. They appear at 1600DTL040 and 16200DTL040. Translations by Michael Shields, with extensive editorial work by H. Daniel Monsour, are also available on the website, at 1600DTE040 and 16200DTE040. It is difficult, and in fact probably impossible without further external guidance, to put the two sets of notes in order and to relate them to each other. Fortunately, that guidance is available in the form of notes taken by Frederick Crowe …

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Imprudence And Intergenerational Injustice: The Ongoing Vices Of Opting For Nuclear Fueled Electricity, Jame Schaefer Oct 2016

Imprudence And Intergenerational Injustice: The Ongoing Vices Of Opting For Nuclear Fueled Electricity, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Despite the U.S. government’s failure to isolate from the biosphere the highly radioactive spent fuel that has been accumulating at nuclear power plants for sixty years, some governmental officials, scientists, nuclear industrialists, and environmentalists are urging increased reliance on nuclear-generated electricity as part of the strategy to mitigate global warming. An ethi­cal analysis of their proposal is warranted, and one promising approach is the theologically grounded process of making prudent decisions like those that Thomas Aquinas outlined and explained in the thirteenth century. Following his detailed method of discovering the facts, identifying a justifiable course of action, and commanding its …

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Separation Of Church And State - A Constitutional View, Paul G. Kauper Sep 2016

Separation Of Church And State - A Constitutional View, Paul G. Kauper

The Catholic Lawyer

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Propers 21 (Pentecost 19) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt Sep 2016

Propers 21 (Pentecost 19) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

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Crossing Paths: Musical And Ritual Interactivity Between The Ḥamadsha And Gnawa In Sidi Ali, Morocco, Christopher J. Witulski Sep 2016

Crossing Paths: Musical And Ritual Interactivity Between The Ḥamadsha And Gnawa In Sidi Ali, Morocco, Christopher J. Witulski

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The processions occurring in Moroccan pilgrimages--such as those in Sidi Ali, a small town situated in the mountains outside of Meknes and Fez--are important sites that instigate an aesthetic negotiation within nearby possession ceremonies. The many musical groups that punctuate the cacophonous atmosphere during the annual pilgrimage are affiliated with a many of the country’s diverse mystical brotherhoods, including the gnawa, ḥamadsha, and ʿīsāwa. Through a detailed ethnographic description of processions and rituals from two of these groups, this article outlines ways in which musical tastes flow between the different events, informing the aesthetics of both outdoor …

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Religious Processions In Indonesia: Cultural Identity And Politics On Bali And Lombok, David Harnish Sep 2016

Religious Processions In Indonesia: Cultural Identity And Politics On Bali And Lombok, David Harnish

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

In Bali and Lombok in Indonesia, processions—like similar events in many other parts of the world—are ritualized events breaking the normal flow of time. They are always temporally marked, and can be characterized as either religious and temple- or mosque-sponsored, or secular and state-sponsored. This article discusses religious processions generally on the neighbor islands of Bali and Lombok, and focuses on the processions of the spectacular Lingsar temple festival on Lombok. The festival conjoins the migrant Hindu Balinese and the local Muslim Sasak (the majority ethnic group) in ritual participation, but that participation differs in significant ways that are represented …

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The Rogationtide Processions Of Wilton Abbey, Alison N. Altstatt Sep 2016

The Rogationtide Processions Of Wilton Abbey, Alison N. Altstatt

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The Benedictine convent of Wilton Abbey was among the wealthiest women’s religious communities in medieval England and home to an elite school for noble women. Until recently, a late thirteenth-century manuscript processional from Wilton was known only from a hand copy made circa 1860 at the Abbey of St. Pierre de Solesmes. The original manuscript was presumed lost. The recent identification of thirty-seven leaves of the original manuscript processional offers primary sources for the study of Wilton’s liturgy, and offers a means by which to assess the reliability of the nineteenth-century copy. The purpose of this study is to reconstruct …

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1993, July 04 - Dixon Daughters Blazed A Trail, Shelby Star Sep 2016

1993, July 04 - Dixon Daughters Blazed A Trail, Shelby Star

Series 7. News Clippings, 1902 – 2000, and undated

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1946, Apr 04 - Thomas Dixon Dies; Wrote 'Clansman', Unknown Author Sep 2016

1946, Apr 04 - Thomas Dixon Dies; Wrote 'Clansman', Unknown Author

Series 7. News Clippings, 1902 – 2000, and undated

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1914, Jul 06 - A Southern Hero, New York Times Sep 2016

1914, Jul 06 - A Southern Hero, New York Times

Series 7. News Clippings, 1902 – 2000, and undated

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4.A.3 Manuscript, Version 2 - Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation, Lee B. Weathers Sep 2016

4.A.3 Manuscript, Version 2 - Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation, Lee B. Weathers

Series 4: Biographical Materials

No abstract provided.

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4.A.2 Manuscript, Version 1 - Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation, Lee B. Weathers Sep 2016

4.A.2 Manuscript, Version 1 - Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation, Lee B. Weathers

Series 4: Biographical Materials

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4.A.1 Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation By Lee B. Weathers, Lee B. Weathers Sep 2016

4.A.1 Thomas Dixon: North Carolina’S Most Colorful Character Of His Generation By Lee B. Weathers, Lee B. Weathers

Series 4: Biographical Materials

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The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas Sep 2016

The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article presents a feminist analysis of patriarchy persisting in Catholicism of the Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala. The article specifically considers the impact of charismatic Catholicism on women of the Syro-Malabar rite and argues that it is important to interrogate this new face of religiosity in order to fully understand how certain rituals are allowed to change and be fluid, while others, especially concerning female sexuality, are enshrined as “tradition” which often restricts the parameters for women’s empowerment and may reinforce caste and patriarchal hegemonies preventing feminist solidarity across different religious- and caste-based groups.

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Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz Sep 2016

Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article examines three Catholic home shrines in a Dalit community in North Indian and argues that it is misleading to think that home shrines and other collections of material objects are somehow static conveyors of meaning. “Meaning” can mean many things or nothing at all, depending upon the terms we are using and the scholarly methods we deploy. The crucial aspect of Dalit Catholic home shrines is that they are literally open to interpretation and reinterpretation, to touching and being touched. Their significance—their meaning—depends not on decoding their structure or symbolic logic, but interacting with them as part of …

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In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah Sep 2016

In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article considers whether Indian Christianity can be said to have a distinctive ecological vision. The first two parts of the article examine Christian environmentalism in two native forms of Indian Christianity: Tamil Christianity and Tribal Christianity. Continuing with the theme of conformity to the local culture—though of the elite—the third part of the article investigates how Christian Ashrams function as dynamic centers for ecological praxis. The last part of the article considers how contemporary Indian Christian communities can respond to the ecological challenges confronting them.

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Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston Sep 2016

Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article combines ethnographic description of the practices of Hindu and Christian visitors of the St. Antony Shrine in Chennai with the observation that this material cannot be understood using the standard world religions paradigm that essentializes Christianity as exclusivistic. Drawing upon the visual and material culture of the shrine in light of premodern and Vatican II templates for inculturation and the negotiation of religious difference, the article highlights overlap between Tamil Hinduism and the Tamil Popular Catholicism of the site to argue that the beliefs and practices documented should inform descriptive and normative accounts of Catholic Christianity. Because Tamil …

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 6, Hall & Monagle, Llc Sep 2016

Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 6, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit, Hall & Monagle, Llc Sep 2016

Deposition Of Fr. John Feit, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 2, Hall & Monagle, Llc Sep 2016

Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 2, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 3, Hall & Monagle, Llc Sep 2016

Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 3, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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