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Easter 7 Series B 2018, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Seventh Sunday in Easter, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

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Establishing Ethical Processes For Church Finances, Carl A. Williamson

Harding School of Theology Dissertations and Theses

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The Echo: May 11, 2018, Taylor University

2017-2018 (Volume 105)

Class Numbers – Timeline – New provost appointed for next year – Taylor mourns the loss of beloved student – Foellinger Foundation’s $2.6 million grant to fund Summer Clubhouse program – MAHE students graduate – Old student center gets new life as an art museum – A fond farewell to faculty – Thank you – Taylor’s equestrian team bonds and competes – Humans of Taylor U – Finals week encouragement from professors – Senior Share – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – History, humor and wit come to the stage – Students showcase their extensive musical skills – Silence …

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Dog Be With You, And Other Blessings, Ryan Masters

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

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Easter 6 Series B 2018, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Sixth Sunday in Easter, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

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The Presbyterian Enlightenment: The Confluence Of Evangelical And Enlightenment Thought In British America, Brandon S. Durbin

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Eighteenth-Century British American Presbyterian ministers incorporated covenantal theology, ideas from the Scottish Enlightenment, and resistance theory in their sermons. The sermons of Presbyterian ministers strongly indicate the intermixing of enlightenment and evangelical ideas. Congregants heard and read these sermons, spreading these ideas to the average colonist. This combination helps explain why American Presbyterians were so apt to resist British rule during the American Revolution. Protestant covenantal theology, derived from Protestant reformers like John Calvin and John Knox, emphasized virtue and duty. This covenant affected both the people and their rulers. When rulers failed to uphold their covenant with God, the …

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A Holistic Approach To Jesus The Nazarene In Matthew 2:23, Dylan West

Senior Honors Theses

In Matthew 2:23 Jesus is said to have fulfilled what the prophets spoke when he and his family moved to Nazareth, that he shall be called a Nazarene. Due to the uniqueness of this term and the town of Nazareth being found nowhere in the Old Testament, multiple views have been proposed. These views include Jesus of the despised town of Nazareth, Jesus as a Nazirite, and Jesus as the branch from Isaiah 11:1. Each of these views propose their own interpretation of this Old Testament citation. However, these views often do not acknowledge the possibility of multiple meanings intended …

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Virtue Ethics As Moral Formation For Ignatian Education In Chile, Juan Pablo Valenzuela

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

The Catholic Church in Chile is in a state of moral perplexity. On one side, the hierarchy of the Church, moral theologians, and teachers propose and teach a morality based on rules and principles that does not take account of the context of the country and creates a distance from the moral perspective of the majority of the Chilean people. On the other side, Catholic people are abandoning the Church, especially because of her approach to moral issues and her rule-based moral teachings. The problem of this moral perplexity lies in the deontological approach through which the Church proposes and …

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