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Primeval History According To Paul: "In Adam" And "In Christ" In Romans, Timothy A. Gabrielson Apr 2016

Primeval History According To Paul: "In Adam" And "In Christ" In Romans, Timothy A. Gabrielson

Dissertations (1934 -)

Paul’s comparison of Adam and Christ in Rom 5:12–21 is among the most influential doctrines in the Bible and Christian theology. Often it has been used to summarize God’s purposes in creation and redemption, from humanity’s “fall” in Adam to its restoration in Christ. In the past several decades, however, it has increasingly been seen as provisional and functional because the Jewish writings used to support it have now been dated after the apostle’s lifetime. This study retrieves the traditional position, but does so by appeal to different corpora of Jewish texts, those that are prior or contemporary to Paul. …

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Monarchianism And Origen's Early Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Edward Waers Apr 2016

Monarchianism And Origen's Early Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Edward Waers

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation unfolds in two parts. In the first, I offer a reconstruction of the core of Monarchian theology using four main primary texts: Hippolytus’ Contra Noetum, Tertullian’s Adversus Praxean, the Refutatio omnium haeresium (often attributed to Hippolytus), and Novatian’s De Trinitate. The Monarchian controversy enters the historical record at the beginning of the third century, but we know little of its origins or motivations. The first part begins with a hypothesis about what might have prompted the rise of Monarchianism. Following that, I give an account of the core of Monarchian teaching using the sources listed above. My account …

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Scripture In History: A Systematic Theology Of The Christian Bible, Joseph K. Gordon Apr 2016

Scripture In History: A Systematic Theology Of The Christian Bible, Joseph K. Gordon

Dissertations (1934 -)

This work utilizes advances in philosophical hermeneutics, the historical study of Christian Scripture, and traditional theological resources to articulate a systematic theology of the Christian Bible. Chapter one introduces the challenges of the contemporary ecclesial and academic situations of Christian Scripture and invokes and explains a functional notion of systematic theology as a resource for meeting those challenges. Chapter two examines the use of the rule of faith by Irenaeus, Origen, and Augustine to locate the emergence of Christian Scripture within the faith of early Christian churches. It shows that structured, intelligible Christian belief and thought are developing and operative …

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Didymus The Blind, Origen, And The Trinity, Kellen Plaxco Apr 2016

Didymus The Blind, Origen, And The Trinity, Kellen Plaxco

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation reconstructs Didymus the Blind’s theology in On the Holy Spirit as a pro-Nicene response to Origen’s theology of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The study begins by setting Origen’s speculation into a broad framework of schemes of emanation in Christianity and Platonism. I provide an account of Origen’s grammar of participation, which orders the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in a hierarchical series of causes. I show how Origen’s grammar of participation draws on the philosophy of Numenius of Apamea, and I argue that Origen uses his grammar of participation to oppose monarchian theologies that identify the …

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Sanctification As Virtue And Mission: The Politics Of Holiness, Nathan Willowby Apr 2016

Sanctification As Virtue And Mission: The Politics Of Holiness, Nathan Willowby

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation considers the political implications of the doctrine of holiness. I proceed by demonstrating the neglect of holiness in political theology, the viability of the holiness movement as an embodied witness of the political implications of the doctrine of holiness, and a biblical trajectory in Leviticus that extends into the New Testament. I describe this scriptural holiness as vocation for all of God’s people through personal formation and outward societal action to extend God’s holiness. With attention to the approaches of political theology and formation, I demonstrate that the holiness movement of the nineteenth century offers an example of …

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Judgment, Justification, And The Faith Event In Romans, Raymond Foyer Apr 2016

Judgment, Justification, And The Faith Event In Romans, Raymond Foyer

Dissertations (1934 -)

In this study, I identify two commonly perceived incompatibilities regarding judgment and justification in Romans. The first is between judgment according to works and Paul’s negative teaching that justification does not come through “works of law” or “works.” The second concerns judgment according to works and Paul’s positive argument that justification comes graciously by faith. I attempt to resolve both of these problems. In the first chapter, I make the case that “works of law” and several similar terms in Romans do not all have the same meaning and do not pose a problem of compatibility. In order to address …

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Vincentian Heritage 33:1 Apr 2016

Vincentian Heritage 33:1

Vincentian Studies

No abstract provided.

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Mission And Hermeneutics Apr 2016

Mission And Hermeneutics

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

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Why Do They Stay? A Phenomenological Study On The Lived Experiences Of Teachers Who Persist In Urban K-12 Christian Education, Marie Teodori Apr 2016

Why Do They Stay? A Phenomenological Study On The Lived Experiences Of Teachers Who Persist In Urban K-12 Christian Education, Marie Teodori

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of teachers who persist in urban K-12 Christian education at five Association of Christian Schools International schools located in the United States. The central research question was: What are the lived experiences of teachers who persist in urban K-12 Christian education? Sub-questions explored the source of motivation, role of intrinsic goals, and contextual/environmental supports for teachers who persist in this setting. Methodology utilized a transcendental phenomenological design, purposeful participant sampling, data collection primarily through in-depth interviews and focus groups, and data analysis using Moustakas’ (1994) recommended procedures. …

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Discipleship: Encouraging Haitian Churches In The United States To Fulfill The Great Commission Mandate, Lony Antoine Apr 2016

Discipleship: Encouraging Haitian Churches In The United States To Fulfill The Great Commission Mandate, Lony Antoine

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This thesis project makes a comparative analysis between the way discipleship was performed by the first century Christians with the way it is accomplished by the Haitian-American churches today. Extant studies in this field demonstrate that there is a lack of participation in missionary work and discipleship among Haitian-American Christians. They are failing to fulfill the command of Jesus Christ in Matthews to “Go and make disciples” (28:19-20). This project surveyed Christians in twenty-five Haitian American churches in order to evaluate their understanding of the Great Commission. The author also consulted religious and historical documents with the goal of conducting …

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A Case Study Examining Growth In Understanding Biblical Anointing At Faith Baptist Church, Steven Headrick Apr 2016

A Case Study Examining Growth In Understanding Biblical Anointing At Faith Baptist Church, Steven Headrick

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Why do some Christians expect and experience the power of God (biblical anointing) in their daily living and other Christians rarely do? This project contends that a lack of understanding the principles of biblical anointing is a fundamental cause of this difference. The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of biblical anointing by the Christians attending Faith Baptist Church. Biblical principles related to understanding, living and maintaining the anointed life will be presented. This project will measure the increase in understanding biblical anointing from the responses given to pre-study and post-study surveys. The teaching will be in …

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Temporal Deixis In Matthew 13: Using Porter’S Temporal Thesis To Better Understand Kingdom Parables., Lucas M. Backman Mar 2016

Temporal Deixis In Matthew 13: Using Porter’S Temporal Thesis To Better Understand Kingdom Parables., Lucas M. Backman

2014-2016 Graduate

No abstract provided.

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Concepts Of Sin In The Book Of Jubilees Reflected In Paul, Lucas M. Backman Mar 2016

Concepts Of Sin In The Book Of Jubilees Reflected In Paul, Lucas M. Backman

2014-2016 Graduate

No abstract provided.

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Conscience, Fallacies And Ethics Bowl, Taylor University Mar 2016

Conscience, Fallacies And Ethics Bowl, Taylor University

2016 Website News Stories

No abstract provided.

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The Chronology Of The Events In Zechariah 12-14, Won Jin Jeon Mar 2016

The Chronology Of The Events In Zechariah 12-14, Won Jin Jeon

Honors Theses

In current scholarship, there is a lack of consensus on the timing of the specific events in Zechariah 12-14, with a focus on eschatological or sequential chronologies. Preliminary exegetical research has revealed many connections between the three chapters. For instance, the phrase “in that day” ( ביום־ההוא ) occurs 17 times (versus four times in the rest of Zechariah). This concentrated usage closely interconnects the three chapters and suggests that the timeliness of all of the events is in close succession. Through findings in literary structures, key words, and intertextualities with other passages of the Old Testament, the conclusion is …

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Lilly Endowment Grant Enables Tu To Launch Theology Institute For High School Youth, Taylor University Mar 2016

Lilly Endowment Grant Enables Tu To Launch Theology Institute For High School Youth, Taylor University

2016 Website News Stories

No abstract provided.

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Ancient Compositional Practices And The Gospels: A Reassessment, James W. Barker Mar 2016

Ancient Compositional Practices And The Gospels: A Reassessment, James W. Barker

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Recent studies of ancient compositional practices and the Synoptic Problem have validated the Two-Source Hypothesis and challenged the “Augustinian,” Farrer–Goulder, and Griesbach Hypotheses. These studies conclude that, according to the Two-Source Hypothesis, subsequent evangelists would have adhered to the Greco-Roman conventions of working with one source at a time and not working backward through a text. The present essay adduces counterexamples such as the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Naḥal Ḥever, which predates the Gospels, and Tatian’s Diatessaron, which postdates the Gospels. Upon further examination, simultaneously accessing multiple sources and reordering those sources were established compositional practices in the first …

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Sweet Spirit: The Pedagogical Relevance Of The Black Church For African-American Males, Brandi Odom Lucas Mar 2016

Sweet Spirit: The Pedagogical Relevance Of The Black Church For African-American Males, Brandi Odom Lucas

LMU Theses and Dissertations

African-American student achievement is a pervasive problem for school communities. This qualitative research explores the Black Church’s role in the bicultural development of six African-American male students. Using the critical theory of biculturalism this study seeks to determine what aspects of the Black Church experience influence the African-American male’s ability to navigate the school environment and participate in school. This dissertation study utilized to complementary methodologies, testimonies, and witnessing, to document the students experiences in the school and church communities. Data analysis included holistic-content analysis. Findings indicate the Black Church was an effective vehicle for the empowering process of biculturation. …

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Psalms, Islam, And Music: Dialogues And Divergence About David In Christian-Muslim Encounters Of The Seventeenth Century, David R. M. Irving Mar 2016

Psalms, Islam, And Music: Dialogues And Divergence About David In Christian-Muslim Encounters Of The Seventeenth Century, David R. M. Irving

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

David (Daud) is revered in the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam variously as a king, prophet, and musician, providing the inspiration for what can be called the “Davidic tradition,” expressed in text, sound, ideology, and image. The scriptures associated with David are central to this tradition: within Judaism and Christianity they are the Psalms, human praises or entreaties to God; within Islam, the Zabūr is revered as a divine prophecy revealed to the prophet Daud, according to the Qurʾān. David’s musicianship and the identity of his instruments are understood differently in Jewish-Christian and Islamic traditions, and are interpreted …

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Book Review Of Latin-Into-Hebrew: Texts And Studies, Volume One: Studies, Lawrence Frizzell Mar 2016

Book Review Of Latin-Into-Hebrew: Texts And Studies, Volume One: Studies, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies, Volume One: Studies. Edited by Resianne Fontaine and Gad Freudenthal. Leiden. Boston Brill, 2013 ix+494 pp. $209.00 ISBN 978-90-04-22931-0 (clothbound).Review of the eighteen studies dedicated to the memory of a young interdisciplinary scholar, Francesca Yardenit Albertini (1974-2011), close friend of the editors.

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Book Reviews, Kathe C. Homer, Carol V. Oaks, Gabi Kupitz, Terri Christensen, Lillian Heil, Vicky M. Turner, C. Garn Coombs, Robbin Olsen Major, Helen Hoopes, Janet Francis, Thomas Kent Hinckley, Jan Staheli Mar 2016

Book Reviews, Kathe C. Homer, Carol V. Oaks, Gabi Kupitz, Terri Christensen, Lillian Heil, Vicky M. Turner, C. Garn Coombs, Robbin Olsen Major, Helen Hoopes, Janet Francis, Thomas Kent Hinckley, Jan Staheli

Children's Book and Media Review

No abstract provided.

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The Dream Vision From The Song Of Songs By Jerome, Jane Beal Phd Mar 2016

The Dream Vision From The Song Of Songs By Jerome, Jane Beal Phd

Transference

Translated from the Latin by Jane Beal.

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Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas Mar 2016

Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The Question of the 'Parting of the Ways' between Jews and Christians has become a matter of debate again: Is it really appropriate to speak about two more or less coherent groups going two different ways from a certain point in history — perhaps after Paul's mission, after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE), or after the Bar-Kokhba War (132-135 CE)? Does the image of a tree with one root and two different trunks going into two different directions really fit what the extant sources tell us about the complexities of the past? Or shouldn't we distinguish between …

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Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: March 2016, Julius T. Medenblik, Cory Willson, Mary Vanden Berg, Sarah Schreiber Mar 2016

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: March 2016, Julius T. Medenblik, Cory Willson, Mary Vanden Berg, Sarah Schreiber

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Articles
3 - From the President: How Now Shall We Live? by Jul Medenblik
4 - Every Believer Called to Mission by Cory Willson
6 - Prayers from the Missional Conference by Mary Vanden Berg and Sarah Schreiber
8 - Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics by John Bolt
9 - Meet Herman Bavinck by Jessica Driesenga
12 - Fostering Formation for Mission in Our Classrooms by Kristy Manion
15 - Is There a Future for Sacrifice? by Erin Zoutendam
16 - Taste and See Israel Trip by Paula Seales
18 - Church Growth and Its Challenges in Ethiopia by Fikre Norcha

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The Big Short, Elizabeth Armon Mar 2016

The Big Short, Elizabeth Armon

Communication Studies

The Big Short (McKay, 2015), adapted from the non-fiction novel The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010), follows three separate but parallel stories leading up to the United States housing crisis of 2008. On a macro-level, the film brilliantly depicted the creation, and the ultimate burst, of the credit and housing market bubble. However, on a micro-level the audience is given an opportunity to realize and empathize with the internal struggle that many of the main characters faced as they grappled with the fact that their financial gain from shorting the market came with the caveat …

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I Still Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories Of Faith And Scholarship (Book Review), Jamin Hubner Mar 2016

I Still Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories Of Faith And Scholarship (Book Review), Jamin Hubner

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: I Still Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship. John Byron and Joel Lohr, eds. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. 249 pp. ISBN: 970-0310515166.

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Repose In Mystery: The Limit Of Sobriety According To John Calvin, Jan Van Vliet Mar 2016

Repose In Mystery: The Limit Of Sobriety According To John Calvin, Jan Van Vliet

Pro Rege

This is a revised version of a paper Dr. Jan van Vliet presented at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 18, 2009, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Influence Of Hellenistic Philosophy On Paul's Figurative Temple Language Applied To The Corinthians, Philip N. Richardson Mar 2016

The Influence Of Hellenistic Philosophy On Paul's Figurative Temple Language Applied To The Corinthians, Philip N. Richardson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Russian Orthodox Religious Education Initiatives In Post-Soviet Russia: Update And Commentary, Joseph Loya, Tatiana Kravchuk Mar 2016

Russian Orthodox Religious Education Initiatives In Post-Soviet Russia: Update And Commentary, Joseph Loya, Tatiana Kravchuk

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

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Consider The Lilies., Hyveth Williams Mar 2016

Consider The Lilies., Hyveth Williams

Faculty Publications

"Life in Christ ought to be a banquet of spiritual delights; there’s more than enough gourmet nourishment for everyone. However, in these days of political, religious, and social polarization, many believers are starving to death.The reason can be summed up in one word: anxiety, the kind of chronic distress or unease of mind caused by fear that distracts us from that which is real."

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