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Kan In Don Nah (All Are Welcome Here): A Framework For Developing Intercultural Worship Practice At First Chin Baptist Church Of New Bern, North Carolina, Janice Daynette Snead

Doctor of Ministry Projects

The process of intercultural ministry across human boundaries is modeled throughout the ministry of Jesus Christ. Regardless of culture, the scriptures actively engage understanding of God’s Word for all the people and His love to reach each one. This project sought to encourage a biblical understanding of intercultural discipleship by guiding the worshiping community of First Chin Baptist Church through a four-week ministry project to welcome and worship with non-Chin guests. Through a series of study on John 21:1-17, the community discovered a new biblical and theological foundation for understanding and guiding non-Chin guests before, during, and after worship to …

Empowering The Church To Promote Hope And Healing To Those Suffering From Addiction Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship In Lexington, South Carolina, Donna Seay

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Addiction continues to be on the rise in the United States. “Empowering The Church To Promote Hope and Healing to Those Suffering From Addiction” was designed to educate, equip, and empower members of the church to journey with those who suffer from addiction. The four-week curriculum was based on the four functions of Pastoral Care which are healing, guiding, sustaining, and reconciliation. The project utilized a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the results.

Sustaining Lamentation In Traumatic Grief Through The Contemporary Elegy: A Practical Theology Of The Poetics Of Testimony, Patricia Shawn Fawson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project addresses the problem that sustaining lamentation for particular testimonies of bereaved people is not supported culturally or spiritually by current practices of mourning. In a democracy, religious leaders become public theologians who respect and respond to diverse religious, political, historical, and economic interests without losing focus on the individual, family, and corporate systems and the ongoing elements of traumatic grief. In the context of lamentation and memorialization, when spiritual caregiver fail to acknowledge potentials for particular ways of mourning to contribute to empowerment and healing, mourners' grief can be foreclosed.

In North America, the dominant rhetoric of public …

Harwood, Adam, And Kevin E. Lawson, Eds. Infants And Children In The Church: Five Views On Theology And Ministry. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2017. Xiv + 218 Pp. Softcover. Usd 24.99., Timothy J. Arena

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Academy

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This essay examines two senses of what it means to be biblical in a pluralistic academy. The first is to examine the Bible as a document of the university, susceptible to many kinds of critical probing. The rest of the essay explores the second way, which is to use the Bible as the authoritative control story that articulates how Christians view Jesus Christ as the ground, grammar, and goal of both the university and the universe itself. I examine how biblical authority should and should not be deployed in the academy by looking at the natural and human sciences. I …

Law And Order In Ancient Athens [Review] / Lanni, Adriaan., Kenneth Bergland

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

The Christian Debate On Same-Sex Marriage And Taylor’S Immanent And Transcendent Goods: Lessons From Adventist Approaches, David J. Hamstra

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Arguments made for and against affirming same-sex marriage in Christian communities rely on typical moral background preconceptions about immanent and transcendent goods identified by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age. Arguments made only in terms of marriage’s immanent goods have the potential to diminish the plausibility of a uniquely Adventist way of imagining the transcendent good: apocalyptic consciousness focused on the imminent-immanent restoration of Eden by Jesus Christ following the second coming. Comparing marriage to divergent sets of Sabbath-keeping practices—those that provide benefits exclusive to this world and those that aim at goods beyond this world—foregrounds the availability of …

Biclustering Readings And Manuscripts Via Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, With Application To The Text Of Jude, Joey Mccollum

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

The text-critical practice of grouping witnesses into families or texttypes often faces two obstacles: the methodological question of how exactly to isolate the groups, given the chicken-and-egg relationship between “good” group readings and “good” group manuscripts, and contamination in the manuscript tradition. I introduce non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) as a simple, automated, and efficient solution to both problems. Within minutes, NMF can cluster hundreds of manuscripts and readings simultaneously, producing an output that details potential contamination according to an easy-to-interpret mixture model. I apply this method to Wasserman’s extensive collation of the Epistle of Jude, showing that the resulting clusters …

Shoemaker, Stephen J. The Apocalypse Of Empire: Imperial Eschatology In Late Antiquity And Early Islam. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 Pp. Hardcover Usd 59.95., Andre Reis

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Siqueira, Reinaldo, And Alberto R. Timm, Eds., Pneumatologia: Pessoa E Obra Do Espírito Santo. Engenheiro Coelho, Sp: Unaspress, 2017. 741 Pp. Hardcover. Brl 140.00., Rodrigo De Galiza Barbosa

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves, And E. Randolph Richards. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction To His World, Letters And Theology. 2nd Ed. Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity Press, 2017. 462 Pp. Hardcover. Usd 34.20., Edwin Payet

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Book Notices, Jonatas L. Ferreira

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Adventists And Military Service: Biblical, Historical, And Ethical Perspectives [Review] / Hasel, Frank M., Barna Magyarosi, And Stefan Höschele, Eds., Oleg Kostuyk

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

The Blackwell Companion To Substance Dualism [Review] / Loose, Jonathan J., Angus J. L. Menuge, And J. P. Moreland, Eds., Flavio Prestes Iii

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Zondervan Handbook Of Biblical Archaeology: A Book By Book Guide To Archaeological Discoveries Related To The Bible [Review] / Price, J. Randall And H. Wayne House., Elizabeth Emswiler

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Kata Kapcevic, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Racialization In Islam And Christianity: A Theological Interfaith Exploration, Caitlinn Curry-Betteridge

Seattle Pacific Seminary Projects

This study explores and compares theological responses to racialization in the religious traditions of Islam and Christianity in the United States. Racialization here is broadly defined as the historic way in which people groups, social structures, and institutions are ascribed meaning and hierarchy based on cultural markers of ethnicity. Within the context of racialization, racism is a social construct that is used to subjugate certain ethnic groups based on physical traits and keep others in power; a system of advantages and disadvantages. The works of three Black American theologians from Islam: Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Sherman A. Jackson, and Su’ad Abdul …

No Church In The Wild, Daniel White Hodge

Papers

No abstract provided.

Identity And Otherness: Missiological Explorations Of Engaging And Embracing The Other In A Pluralistic World, David Moe

Papers

No abstract provided.

Teaching Civility In An Age Of Conflict, A. Sue Russell

Papers

No abstract provided.

Past Is Prologue: Victorian Women Leaders Of The Global Student Christian Movement, Tom Russell

Papers

No abstract provided.

"Study To Show Thyself Approved": Seventh-Day Adventism's Legacy Of Careful Biblical Scholarship, Ginger Hanks Harwood, Beverly Beem

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This article, based largely on the writings of early Adventist leaders, examines the sources of Adventist hermeneutics primarily as they are revealed through the articles of the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald and the writings of Ellen G. White. It briefly surveys the interpretative methods of William Miller, recognizing the influence that his contemporary cultural setting had upon him, and identifying major practices that characterized early Adventist biblical interpretation. The article’s focus is on the hermeneutical practices of the nineteenth-century Sabbatarian/Seventh-day Adventist spokespersons and the importance they gave to honest inquiry, the role of reason and revelation, and the practices …

The Appropriation Of The Hellenistic-Egyptian Cult Of Serapis: A Multi-Disciplinary Study Focusing On Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Their Coinage, And Villas, Vivian A. Laughlin

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract

Constructing A Theology Of Relational Life Through The Themes Of Creation, Incarnation, And Re-Creation As An Alternative To Current Categories Of Religions, Andrew Thompkins

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract

Toward A Biblical Theology Of God’S Presence In Christian Theology: A Study Of How Different Interpretations Of The Divine Presence Affect Liturgy, Karl Tsatalbasidis

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract

God’S Library: The Archaeology Of The Earliest Christian Manuscripts [Review] / Nongbri, Brent., Christopher R. Chadwick

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Question 8 - What Are Some Key Names And Titles For The Bible Found Within The Pages Of The Bible?, Harold Willmington

101 Most Asked Questions

No abstract provided.

Question 16 - How Have Various Well-Known Personalities From Different Walks Of Life Viewed The Bible?, Harold Willmington

101 Most Asked Questions

No abstract provided.

Question 69 - Who Were Gutenberg And Erasmus?, Harold Willmington

101 Most Asked Questions

No abstract provided.

Question 51 - What Are The Results And Implications Of Illumination?, Harold Willmington

101 Most Asked Questions

No abstract provided.