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We Are Kamea Christians Not Because We Sing Like Berrien Springs Christians: Towards A Methodology Of Developing A Biblical Theology In Context, Unia Api May 2023

We Are Kamea Christians Not Because We Sing Like Berrien Springs Christians: Towards A Methodology Of Developing A Biblical Theology In Context, Unia Api

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

This paper attempts to demonstrate a methodological approach to doing theology in context. A lot of homogenizations of Western Christianity have very much impacted the way we do church in Melanesia (Pacific Islands). This trend motivated me to ride on the wave of Melanesian thinkers to make theology relevant in the Melanesian context. Title: Exploring


World Churches Vertical File, Mcgarvey Ice Jun 2016

World Churches Vertical File, Mcgarvey Ice

Center for Restoration Studies Vertical Files Finding Aids

This set of files is especially useful to scholars of the history missions, particularly among Churches of Christ in the twentieth century. Students and researchers interested in applied missiology among Restorationist traditions, Stone-Campbell movements, and Churches of Christ will also find them helpful. For assistance with specific files or items, contact Mac Ice - [email protected], or 325.674.2144.


History, Opposition, And Salvation In Agarabi Adventism, George Westermark Sep 1998

History, Opposition, And Salvation In Agarabi Adventism, George Westermark

Pacific Studies

Growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was particularly strong in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands in the last decade. This article discusses a variety of reasons for this change, emphasizing Adventist beliefs that create a distinct historical consciousness among church members. In the face of a rapidly changing society, it is argued, these beliefs structure an appealing ideological framework that facilitates both individual and collective transformation. Significant for Eastern Highland Adventists is a doctrine of opposition toward other Christian groups and a sense of their own unique role in the prophetic events that make up their historical model.


The Invisibility Of Gospel Ploughmen: The Imaging Of South Sea Pastors In Papua, Max Quanchi Dec 1997

The Invisibility Of Gospel Ploughmen: The Imaging Of South Sea Pastors In Papua, Max Quanchi

Pacific Studies

South Sea Islanders serving in missions in Papua were visible in their journey to Papua, in their work as pioneers opening up new missions along the coast and inland, and in their immersion in local communities. Travelers, administration officials, and European missionaries in Papua reported meeting these “gospel ploughmen” and “admirable frontiersmen” and relied on them for assistance with transport, accommodation, translating, collecting, and personal and official business. They were an integral part of the European world, though marginalized by position, rank, skin color, language, and ethnic origin. The schools, churches, and chapels they built were usually the only substantial …


Mac Marshall's Review Of Ron Brunton's The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava And Cultural Instability In Melanesia, Mac Marshall Jun 1992

Mac Marshall's Review Of Ron Brunton's The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava And Cultural Instability In Melanesia, Mac Marshall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Failure Of Economic Reform In The Sepik: The Role Of Church And State In Economic Development, Stephen J. Duggan Mar 1991

The Failure Of Economic Reform In The Sepik: The Role Of Church And State In Economic Development, Stephen J. Duggan

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terence E. Hays's Review Of Mary Taylor Huber's The Bishops’ Progress: A Historical Ethnography Of Catholic Missionary Experience On The Sepik Frontier, Terence E. Hays Mar 1991

Terence E. Hays's Review Of Mary Taylor Huber's The Bishops’ Progress: A Historical Ethnography Of Catholic Missionary Experience On The Sepik Frontier, Terence E. Hays

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


“The Bridegroom Cometh”: The Lives And Deaths Of Queensland Melanesians In New Guinea, 1893-1956, David Wetherell Jul 1989

“The Bridegroom Cometh”: The Lives And Deaths Of Queensland Melanesians In New Guinea, 1893-1956, David Wetherell

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Marty Zelenietz's Review Of Michele Stephen's Sorcerer And Witch In Melanesia, Marty Zelenietz Mar 1988

Marty Zelenietz's Review Of Michele Stephen's Sorcerer And Witch In Melanesia, Marty Zelenietz

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Eugene Ogan's Review Of Olga Gostin's Cash Cropping, Catholicism, And Change: Resettlement Among The Kuni Of Papua, Eugene Ogan Mar 1988

Eugene Ogan's Review Of Olga Gostin's Cash Cropping, Catholicism, And Change: Resettlement Among The Kuni Of Papua, Eugene Ogan

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Noble Traditions And Christian Principles As National Ideology In Papua New Guinea: Do Their Philosophies Complement Or Contradict Each Other?, Sione Lātūkefu Mar 1988

Noble Traditions And Christian Principles As National Ideology In Papua New Guinea: Do Their Philosophies Complement Or Contradict Each Other?, Sione Lātūkefu

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


John Barker's Review Of Carl Loeliger And Garry Trompf's New Religious Movements In Melanesia, John Barker Sep 1987

John Barker's Review Of Carl Loeliger And Garry Trompf's New Religious Movements In Melanesia, John Barker

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


John Frum: An Indigenous Strategy Of Reaction To Mission Rule And The Colonial Order, Robert J. Gregory, Janet E. Gregory Apr 1984

John Frum: An Indigenous Strategy Of Reaction To Mission Rule And The Colonial Order, Robert J. Gregory, Janet E. Gregory

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Dorothy Ayers Counts' Review Of James Clifford's Person And Myth: Maurice Leenhardt In The Melanesian World, Dorothy Ayers Counts Sep 1983

Dorothy Ayers Counts' Review Of James Clifford's Person And Myth: Maurice Leenhardt In The Melanesian World, Dorothy Ayers Counts

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris Jan 1942

The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.