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Some Hermeneutical Principles For The Biblical Historian, Paul J. Ray Jr

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

While the grammatical-historical method of interpretation, which focuses on the languages of the biblical text and its historical backgrounds to arrive at meaning, has long been the interpretive procedure of choice in many faith communities, modern methods of biblical study have tended to move away from text-historical, to text-exclusive or more reader-centered hermeneutics. Unfortunately, this trend has either basically removed history from the interpretive arena or left the field open to simplistic and sensationalistic historical explanations. Since one’s view of biblical history is predicated on background matters such as conceptions of revelation, inspiration, the Bible, and even history itself, I …

The Go-Between: Augustine On Deacons [Review] / Koet, Bart J., Nathaniel Gibbs

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Repatriating The Canaanite Woman In The Gospel Of Matthew, Cedric Vine

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This study argues that Matthew’s replacement of Mark’s “Gentile of Syrophoenician origin” with a “Canaanite woman” (Mark 7:26; Matt 15:22) is part of a wider narrative strategy to portray the land of Israel and its cities as a new Sodom, a new Canaan, a new Egypt, and a new Babylon. The study employs Dale Allison’s six intertextual devices (explicit statement, inexplicit citation or borrowing, similar circumstances, key words or phrases, similar narrative structure, and word order, syllabic sequence, and poetic resonance) to demonstrate a consistent authorial intention while identifying contemporary or near contemporary sources that would affirm the likelihood that …

Thinking Systematically With The Scriptural Christology Of Hebrews: Contributions To The Theology Of Christ’S Threefold Office, Adriani M. Rodrigues

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

The epistle to the Hebrews presents a rich Christology articulated in dialogue with the OT. This article assumes that the dogmatic potential of Hebrews should enrich the architecture of systematic theology. Accordingly, the study aims at identifying how the conceptual articulation of the Christology of Hebrews contributes to the theology of Christ’s threefold office. To achieve this goal, the article dialogues with categories of the munus triplex (Christ’s threefold office): prophet, priest, and king. After a short description of these categories in Christian theology, the study undertakes a systematic reading of Hebrews by first outlining its material contri- bution to …

Daniel 11 Decoded: An Exegetical, Historical, And Theological Study [Review] / Doukhan, Jacques., Jiří Moskala

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Daniel 11 Decoded: An Exegetical, Historical, And Theological Study [Review] / Doukhan, Jacques., Martin Pröbstle

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

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‘The Open Letter To The Evangelical Church’ And Its Discontents: The Online Politics Of Asian American Evangelicals, 2013-2016, Justin K. H. Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Recent treatments of Asian American evangelicals tend to focus on a shift of attention from their identity-based attempts to found autonomous congregrations to online self-publications. I evaluate this new trend by considering two episodes in Asian American evangelical self-publication: the 'open letter to the evangelical church' in 2013 and the Killjoy Prophets initiative from 2014-2016 when their leader Suey Park disappeared from the Internet. I argue that while Asian American evangelical online self-publication is intended to reform evangelicalism, its discursive nature leads to debates among Asian American evangelicals about whether the cyber-discourse about them is adequately representational. This sobering analysis …

New And Everlasting: The Relationship Between Gospel Covenants In History, Kerry Muhlestein, Joshua M. Sears, Avram R. Shannon

Faculty Publications

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speak of covenants in general, baptismal covenants, temple covenants, the new and everlasting covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, and the Mosaic or Sinai covenant. But what are these covenants, and how are they related to each other? Students in many settings experience confusion about these questions. Each book of scripture shares aspects of covenants that students may not understand as well as they could. Greater clarity will allow them to draw more power from scriptural and current prophetic teachings about the centrality of the covenant in every dispensation.

Religious Belief And Culture: The Curious Case Of The Intuitive Soul, Karl G. D. Bailey, Duane C. Mcbride

Faculty Publications

While Adventists recognize some of the straightforward and concrete ideas that are part of doctrinal training on human nature and the state of the dead, the core intuitive belief in mind-body dualism likely continues to influence how Adventists understand human nature.

Tolerance, Prejudice, And The Ornament Of The World, Elijah Zane

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay…………………………....3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes…….32

III. Textbook Critique………………………....38

IV. New Textbook Entry………………………42

V. Bibliography………………………………..52

Sibylline Oracles 4–5, Olivia Stewart Lester

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at those studying Judaism in the Second Temple Period, and the numerous texts and artefacts related to it.

The work is split into four parts across two volumes.

Part One locates the discipline in relation to other relevant fields (for example the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinics, Christian Origins) and provides an orientation to the discipline's distinctive nomenclatures and debates. The history of research in the area is also presented in full.

Part Two presents an overview of respective contexts of the discipline …

“Spirited” Engagement: Latin American Faith And The Construction Of Emancipative Pentecostalism, David Luckey

Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations

Pentecostalism is a prominent form of Christianity around the world that is increasingly pervasive in the Global South. One of the persistent issues that obscures accurate understanding of the movement is the question of whether such a spiritually-oriented faith gives attention to social realities. This dissertation identifies a broad spectrum of Latin America Pentecostal social- ethical engagement in order to complicate stereotypes and reveal a natural orientation toward public witness. It shows that Pentecostalism is too complex for broad generalization, and it draws on leading voices from within the movement to articulate a call to increasing efforts for social justice.

Habermas And The Question Of Bioethics, Hille Haker

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In The Future of Human Nature, Jürgen Habermas raises the question of whether the embryonic genetic diagnosis and genetic modification threatens the foundations of the species ethics that underlies current understandings of morality. While morality, in the normative sense, is based on moral interactions enabling communicative action, justification, and reciprocal respect, the reification involved in the new technologies may preclude individuals to uphold a sense of the undisposability (Unverfügbarkeit) of human life and the inviolability (Unantastbarkeit) of human beings that is necessary for their own identity as well as for reciprocal relations. Engaging with liberal …

Book Review: Singing The Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community, John Macinnis

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"The desire of concert attendees for an authentic spiritual experience maps onto the search for other authentic experiences by consumers today."

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The Shuar Writing Boom: Cultural Experts And The Creation Of A "Scholarly Tradition", Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoulliere

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In dialogue with Stephen Hugh-Jones’s work on Tukanoan writing, this article analyzes the boom in patrimonial writing among Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking Shuar people. Patrimonial writing foregrounds collective identity and understandings of culture as group property common to the Tukanoan speakers of the Upper Rio Negro but foreign to the pre-missionized Shuar. We argue that the Shuar interest in patrimonial writing can be explained through the history of missionization and the recent shift to intercultural exchange within the plurinational project of state-building spearheaded by the indigenous movement. By analyzing the wider context of knowledge production and the forms of knowledge Shuar scholars …

Source Studies Analysis Of Manuscripts Of “Muqaddimatu-Ladab” In Foreign Archival Funds, Zohidjon Islomov

The Light of Islam

Mahmud Zamakhshari’s scientific heritage are consist of about 70 works on linguistics and literary studies. The work of “Muqaddamatu-l-adab” has a special place in the scientific heritage of the scholar. This work, originally recognized as a multilingual dictionary, contains Arabic-Persian-Turkish trilingual, Arabic-Persian-Turkic-Mongolian in four languages. The work consists of five parts, in the first part presented words of noun, the second part is devoted to the verb and the words from it. The third part consists of auxiliary words, the fourth part is the formation of names and the fifth part is grammatical rules regarding the formation of verbs. There …

Incomplete Conjunction Of Words In The Arabic Grammar, Malika Nasirova

The Light of Islam

Annotation: One of the main issues in Arabic Linguistic is «grammatical status - إِعرَاب » (changing of the endings of words). «Changing of the endings of words» doesn’t mean changing the actual ending of the word itself (e.g.. the last letter), because the actual ending itself won’t change. What we’re changing here is the condition of the ending of words, which means that words transition from one state to another, regardless of whether that happens explicitly or implicitly. The great linguists of the Middle Ages Sibawaykhi, Makhmud az-Zamakhshariy, Abul Fatkh Mutarriziy, modern linguists Abbas Khasan, Mustapha Galayiniy, Russian scientists V.Girgas, …

On Significance Of Science Of Balāǧat In Achieving Linguisticaesthetic Perfection, Salima Rustamiy

The Light of Islam

By the beginning of the 20 century the European scientists have begun to perceive the poetic ideas put forward in medieval Arabic language and literature including the science of balāǧat as a specific type of artistic expression. As a result, the Arabic poetic thinking and science of balāǧat in the medieval Muslim world began to be called canons.

Scientists agree that canons in literature are the product of certain type of social consciousness and caused by many objective factors. In the theory of medieval Arabic literature, development of poetic views on correlation between form and meaning was complicated. It is …

Bruno Latour And The Myth Of Autonomous Academic Discipline: Rethinking Education In The Light Of Various Modes Of Existence, Colby Dickinson

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Background: Issues of identity, interdependence, relationality and violence are far larger than the human species alone, although humanity has often pretended as if it alone were the beneficiaries of studying such ideas.

Aim: Pedagogically, the complexity of existence beyond human being must influence the traditional humanities curriculum or risk further isolation and alienation within humanity-dominant narratives.

Setting: As climate change continues to alter our comprehension of what is truly at stake in the survival of life on this planet, however, humankind needs a complete rethinking of its relationship with the multiple forms of life that dwell alongside it, as well …

تطبيقات مقصد العرض المعاصرة "دراسة مقاصدية قانونية"Contemporary Applications Of Preserving Honor - Legal Purposeful Study", Osama Hasan Rabab’A, Faisal Shawabkeh, Ahmed Rababaa

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This research aims, to demonstrate the impact of DNA, to maintain the intent of keeping the offspring, both: teleology and legaley, has included an introduction to the research, and the definition of the problem, and the idea of the previous studies, and scientific additions added by the search, and the explanation of the methodology and plan of the research.

The study consists of two sections, the first section, the purpose of keeping the offspring, and conditions related to it, which is three chapters: Chapter One: The term intent of keeping the offspring, linguistically and idiomatically, and the second: positive provisions, …

العلاقات الأسلوبية بين سور الطواسين (الشعراء، النمل، القصص) Stylistic Relations Between The Walls Of The Tawasin (Poets, Ants, Stories, Rima Hamdallah Abu Sweilem

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This study deals with the stylistic relations between the three Qur’anic chapters, which begin with the written letters (Tasim and Tas) poets, ants and stories. Stylistic relations are meant to deal with the linguistic and linguistic meanings and meanings. And through the study of inductive analytical of some of the positions and comply with the size of the research, to achieve the objectives of this study and answer its questions and report its results.

كتب علم الأنساب عند المحدثين - دراسة نقدية- The Books Of Genealogy In Accordance With Hadith Scholars - A Critical Study -, Bashar Youssef Al-Zoubi, Abdullah Al-Sawalmeh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

In this study, I have revealed the methods of Hadith scholars in their Ascription Science writings, taking four models of their books as a subject of study. To this end, the definition of ascription was presented in linguistics and terminology, and a suggested terminology was introduced. The stages of ascription science and its evolution have been traced before and after Islam. The study has mentioned the types of ascription that were adopted by Hadith scholars and clarified how new types of attribution arose. The study has also pointed out the importance of ascription science in religious, cultural and political traditions. …

التفتيش القضائي: مفهومه، مشروعيته، حكمه، "دراسة فقهية". Judicial Inspection: Its Concept, Legitimacy, Judgment - A Jurisprudential Study, Tariq Asabbagh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This study presents the concept of judicial inspection in the Islamic jurisprudence, in addition it shows a set of terms related to judicial inspection, whether related in terms of linguistic or conventional definition or from the practical aspect of judicial inspection. This study also showed the evidence of the legality of the judicial inspection from the practical point of view, In the inspection of workers, governors, princes and judges, as well as the study was subjected to a statement of the judgment of judicial inspection and wisdom, and the study presented some of the forms of judicial inspection, and has …

أثر النّظير في توجيه بعض القراءات العشر صرفيًّا The Effect Of The Counterpart In Directing Some Of The Ten Recitations Morphologically, Maysoon Khalil Al-Hawajrah

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This research is an attempt to identify the features of the linguistic phenomenon and its impact on interpreting the Modes of Recitation of the Holy Qura’an since the counterpart has a great role in the interpretation and the adjusting of many linguistic issues.

In studying this phenomenon, I adopt the analytical descriptive approach by recalling the Mode of Recitation from its resources, treating it, and finding the Impact of the Counterpart on Interpreting the Mode of Recitation indicatively.

This research attempts to deal with this phenomenon in a way that differs somewhat from the previous studies which were limited to …

A Pentecostal Expression Of Holistic Reflection In The Improvement Of Pastoral Leadership Practices, Gabriella Van Breda

Doctor of Ministry

This dissertation is an action research self-study undertaken with the aim of transforming my pastoral leadership practices with the extended application of assisting other leaders to do the same. The research question asks in what ways action research methodology with its inherent reflective methods contributes to pastoral leadership transformation. The primary outcome is a framework of holistic reflection that consistently and systematically works to transform my leadership practices. Through the action research methodology of constant iteration, I evaluated the effects of my leadership, reflected on the disconnect between my core values and my behavior and searched for a means to …

Regrouping In The Clearing: Resisting Liturgiam Authenticam And Reconsidering An African American Rite, Kenneth L. Crowe Hamilton

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

In light of the move to the right manifested in the recent changes to the Roman Rite, this essay seeks to add an Africentric and postcolonial critique to other recent liturgical and linguistic critiques of the new rite by liturgy scholars and pastors. I argue that the new translation is an attack on not only Vatican II principles but also on black Catholic theological principles, the black Catholic community, and oppressed populations in general. The essay seeks to locate the racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism behind the imperialist nostalgia of Liturgiam Authenticam by revisiting the 1960s and the issues and …

Priestly Formation And Sexual Abuse In The Roman Catholic Church: In Dialogue With The Nigerian Church, Simonmary Asese Aihiokhai

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

Reading the signs of the times today cannot be done legitimately without a critical look at the current sex abuse crisis perpetuated by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To deny the fact that the Church has a crisis on its hands is to trivialize the pain and sorrow experienced by all in the Church, and most especially by the victims of the crisis. This work provides an x-ray vision of some of the factors shaping this crisis and boldly offers some interventions that can help the Church to navigate its way out of the crisis. There is an …

Transnational Migration And Ethnic And Religious Renewal Amongst The Ethnic German Minority In Romania, Ovidiu Oltean

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

"The normalization of inter-ethnic relations after the fall of communism and the establishment of a rather inclusive minority regime has opened up new possibilities for the ethnic and religious minorities in Romania. Social, cultural and religious life has seen a pluralization and revival that was not possible during communism. Ethnic minorities developed new forms of cultural and ethnic expression and gained new leveraging instruments in relation to the ethnic Romanian majority. As Romanian society has grown more pluralistic, not only has political and cultural life developed and become more diverse but also religious forms of expression and religious organizations have …

Reading Scripture: Developing Intimacy With God, The Church, And Community, Tammy Janiece Jacko

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

By addressing the biblical literacy that results from not reading Scripture, and lack of discipline, Christians will experience spiritual growth, maturity, and a Christian worldview as a result of applying proper exegesis and hermeneutics of Scripture. The purpose of this Doctor of Ministry thesis project is to help Christians read the Bible by engaging in proper biblical interpretation. According to Fee and Stuart, “a text cannot mean what it could never have meant for its original readers/hearers. The interpretation of the biblical text is what the original writer had first spoken or written,” directly from God; therefore, developing the skills …