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Festival Of Pentecost Series B 2018, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

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

Rethinking Alma 36, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Over the last fifty years, Alma chapter 36 has become famous among Book of Mormon readers because of its impressive chiastic structure as identified by John W. Welch. As it evolved over the following decades, Welch’s analysis also attracted criticisms—mostly for its failure to include more than half of the text of the chapter. During this same time frame, students of the Hebrew Bible discovered and elaborated a rich rhetorical system evidenced in Hebrew literature from the 8th century BCE and forward, a system which included chiasmus and many other devices based on repetition, parallelism, demarcation, and subordination and which …

Commencement 2018, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2018 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 19, 2018

But We Know: A Feminist, Christian Ethnography And Analysis Of Single, Working-Class Mothers And Class, Gender, And Race Dynamics In The U. S. Political Economy, Julie A. Mavity Maddalena

Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a work of liberation theology, for it attends to transforming cultural and economic systems that deny basic human dignity. It uses ethnographic, critical, and intersectional methodologies to interrogate economic systems and to complicate cultural ideas of what it means to be working-class single mothers identifying as Black, Latina, and white. In this essay, the self-reported and statistical stories of working-class single mothers—read critically—challenge their portrayals in commonplace political, economic, and societal structures and rhetorics. The work, which moves inductively (from the ground up), identifies both oppressive life conditions and oppressive representations that often help perpetuate the other. …

Data For Decisions: A Survey On Biblical Language Training And The Future Of Pastoral Education, Angelika Kaiser, J. Amanda Mcguire-Moushon

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

Data for Decisions.

A Survey on Biblical Language Training and the Future of Pastoral Education (Abstract)

Presented by J. Amanda McGuire-Moushon and Angelika Kaiser (PhD candidates).

In 2010, David J. A. Clines asked the question “Teaching Biblical Languages: Time for a Rethink?”.[1] In his essay he outlined various areas in which teachers of Biblical languages should start to reassess their understanding of teaching and learning biblical languages, including premises, method(s), and desired outcomes. Asking Cline’s question in the context of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary has direct implications for developing a profile for the future Seventh-day Adventist pastor.

Furthermore, …

Gardner-Webb Alumna Accepts Challenge To Minister Around The World, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

“When will you come back?” The children’s innocent question tugged at Shelby Robinson’s heart. The 2017 alumna of Gardner-Webb University had played with them all afternoon in a slum in the Philippines.

Falling Far From The Tree? God's Rejection Of Cain Outside The Garden Of Eden (Genesis 4:1-16), Mark Remington Squire

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Squire, Mark R. “Falling Far from the Tree?: God’s Rejection of Cain Outside the Garden of Eden.” S.T.M. Thesis, Concordia Seminary, 2018. 105 pp.

This thesis offers a review of the history of interpretation of the account of Gen 4:1–16. Specifically, the focus of this thesis regards the question of why God favored Abel and his sacrifice and not Cain and his sacrifice. The paper provides an original translation of Gen 4:1–16, as well as translation notes. The historical interpretations of the answer to the question of why God favored Abel over Cain are grouped into three broad categories: Cain’s …

Wrap-Up Report, Wonsuk Ma

Empowered21 Global Network of Spirit-Empowered Scholars

No abstract provided.

And Their Eyes Were Opened: The Call To Paradox, Bruce L. Jacobson

Master of Arts Theses

No abstract provided.

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.

Establishing Ethical Processes For Church Finances, Carl A. Williamson

Harding School of Theology Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

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 …

Dog Be With You, And Other Blessings, Ryan Masters

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Doctrine Of Prophecy, Harold Willmington

The Things to Come File

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of 2 Samuel, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of 1 Samuel, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Joshua, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, And Deuteronomy, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Genesis, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Malachi, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Haggai, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Zephaniah, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Habakkuk, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Jonah, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Joel, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.

The Chapters Of Daniel, Harold Willmington

An Alliterated Outline for the Chapters of the Bible

No abstract provided.