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Between Law And Grace: Ritual And Ritual Studies In Recent Evangelical Thought, Gerald Klingbeil
Between Law And Grace: Ritual And Ritual Studies In Recent Evangelical Thought, Gerald Klingbeil
Faculty Publications
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A Curriculum Of Topics For Teaching Senior Adults In Sunday School, Homer Massey
A Curriculum Of Topics For Teaching Senior Adults In Sunday School, Homer Massey
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this project is to develop a curriculum of topics directed toward the needs and interests of senior adults in a Sunday School program. Their general needs will be determined through reviews of statistical information and current literature. Basic principles of curriculum design will be consulted along with analysis of sample curriculum materials and research in the area of adult Christian education. An appropriate curriculum plan for senior adults will then be developed based on surveys that reflect their current needs and preferences in the area of Sunday School Teaching.
Attolite Portas, ‘Open Up, You Doors!’: Liturgical Narrative And Christ’S Descent, Martin F. Connell
Attolite Portas, ‘Open Up, You Doors!’: Liturgical Narrative And Christ’S Descent, Martin F. Connell
Theology Faculty Publications
From the New Testament to late antiquity the narrative of Christ's descent to the dead – preaching the good news there, and, in some accounts, baptizing them – was received and, by the fourth and fifth centuries, nearly omnipresent in paschal theology.Neither faith nor baptism exempts any Christian from death, but the waters of baptism, as Paul wrote to the Romans (6:3-4), wed believers into a community of faith in which mysteries are celebrated and transitions marked, enabling believers to face sickness, catastrophe, dying, and death with eyes wide open. Christ's descent to the dead deepens God's life in us.
An Evaluation Of The Christian Believer Study As A Tool For Discipleship And Life Transformation, George M. Wasson
An Evaluation Of The Christian Believer Study As A Tool For Discipleship And Life Transformation, George M. Wasson
ATS Dissertations
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Between Law And Grace: Ritual And Ritual Studies In Recent Evangelical Thought, Gerald Klingbeil
Between Law And Grace: Ritual And Ritual Studies In Recent Evangelical Thought, Gerald Klingbeil
Gerald Klingbeil
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A History Of The Concepts Of Zion And New Jerusalem In America From Early Colonialism To 1835 With A Comparison To The Teachings Of The Prophet Joseph Smith, Ryan S. Gardner
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis discusses the role that the idea of Zion has played in the first three centuries of American religion. Millenarian themes, such as building New Jerusalem, were common religious themes in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century America. Understanding the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regarding this vital subject will be helpful for historians, scholars, and teachers.
When the Puritan colonists came to the New World in the early seventeenth century, they sought not only a land of religious liberty, but also a land of ultimate religious achievement: the establishment of Zion and/or New Jerusalem. Many of …