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Catholic-Evangelical Relations: Signs Of Progress, Thomas P. Rausch

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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Review Of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What Is Scripture: A Comparative Approach, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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The Soul In Society: Fra Angelico’S Dominican Vision Of Personal Spirituality And Civic Responsibility In The San Marco Frescos, Thomas D. Mcgonigle, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Atheistic Methods In Theology, Adolf Schlatter, David R. Bauer

The Asbury Journal

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No Place For Wisdom? Age Discrimination In The Clergy Call Process, John Charles Cooper

The Asbury Journal

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The Majority Text Debate: A Study In New Testament Text-Critical Method, Clive E. Govier

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The aim of textual criticism is to recover the original text of the New Testament. By studying and comparing the many extant manuscripts it is hoped to discover which of them, or the variants they contain, arc closest to the original Text In choosing between the many variant readings, New Testament scholars developed the method of grouping manuscripts into different fom1s of text which fit the pattern of their variants. In contrast to this approach, J. W. Burgan propounded a method later identified as "The Majority Text" approach. This focuses on the Byzantine textual tradition, and assumes that its numerical …

Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, No. 87, A. O. R.

Quaker Religious Thought

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Quakers And The Larger Christian Movement, Qrt Editor

Quaker Religious Thought

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Responses To Issue #86, R. W. Tucker, Bill Samuel

Quaker Religious Thought

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Book Reviews, Paul Anderson, T. Vail Palmer, Jr.

Quaker Religious Thought

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The Personal Writings Of Eliza Roxcy Snow Edited By Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Sherilyn Cox Bennion

BYU Studies

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, ed. The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995. xx; 316 pp. Illustrations, appendices, index. $34.95.

Church History In Black And White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission To Latter-Day Saint Historical Sites: 1907 Diary, 1907-8 Photographs By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffrey Cottle, And Ted D. Stoddard, Nelson B. Wadsworth

BYU Studies

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffery Cottle, and Ted D. Stoddard, eds. Church History in Black and White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission to Latter-day Saint Historical Sites: 1907 Diary, 1907-8 Photographs. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1995. xxi; 241 pp. 153 photographs, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $29.95.

Conversation In Nauvoo About The Corporeality Of God, Jacob Neusner

BYU Studies

Religion scholar Jacob Neusner looks at the corporeal nature of God through the lens of Mormonism and Judaism. He addresses anthropomorphism and incarnation, and concludes that the way to know God is through “our relationship with him, not through our act of the incarnation of God in heart and mind and soul.” Neusner appreciates the powerful doctrine of God’s corporeality taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the 1842 King Follett Sermon, which says that men may converse with God “as one man converses with another.” He says, “In the formative documents of the Torah in its oral version, that …

Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Lux Aeterna, Hagen G. Haltern

BYU Studies

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The “Hymn Of The Pearl”: An Ancient Counterpart To “O My Father”, James V. Garrison, John W. Welch

BYU Studies

An early Christian hymn portraying a soul's journey from the heavenly court of regal parents through an earthly probation to a divine inheritance fascinates interpreters of many faiths.

The Commercial Face Of God: Exploring The Nexus Between The Religious And The Material, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper explores the nexus between the cultural and the material by examining the ways in which religion and the economy are integrated in the context of economy-driven Singapore. The mutually constitutive relationships between the cultural and the material are explored through a discussion of the role of the state, capital and religious institutions in pulling together the sacred and the secular. Specifically, the analysis focuses on how the state harnesses religion ideologically in its economic development strategies; how capital harnesses the potential of religion in commercial enterprises in practical terms; and how religious institutions themselves behave as financial institutions. …

Scripture As A Source Of Knowledge In Hinduism, Anantanand Rambachan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

One of Wilfred Cantwell Smith's principal concerns in What is Scripture? is to highlight the variety of texts which are construed as scripture and the variety of attitudes which human history reveals towards such texts. We may begin by noting, for example, the inappropriateness of the term "scripture" (from scribere - to write) for the Vedas because of its emphasis on the written word as opposed to the word which is heard and preserved through oral transmission. The Vedas are more aptly referred to in Sanskrit as (that which is heard) or sabda (sound), and these terms correctly underline the …

A Response To The Symposium On Sri Dharampal's "Bharatiya Chitta Manas And Kala", Jitendra Bajaj, Mandyam Doddamane Srivivas

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The symposium on Sri Dharampal's Bharatiya Chitta manas and Kala, organized by Prof. Fancis Clooney and carried in the last issue of the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin (Vol. 8, 1995), is indeed a significant contribution to the debate Sri Dharampal's essay sought to initiate. We are grateful to Prof. Clooney and the four learned commentators who, with their diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, clearly grasped the essence and importance of Sri Dharampal's effort, which in brief is to help launch a new Indian enterprise to comprehend and re-assert the essential civilizational genius of India within the present-day reality of the …

Recent Articles Of Interest

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of recent articles of interest in the field.

Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Table of contents for this issue.

Book Reviews Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of the book reviews available in this issue.

Book Review: "Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs And Practices", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Julius Lipner's Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices.

Book Review: "Swami Abhishiktananda: His Life Told Through His Letters", Anand Amaladass

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Swami Abhishiktananda: His Life Told Through His Letters by James Stuart.

Book Review: "Gandhi And His Jewish Friends", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Margaret Chatterjee's Gandhi and His Jewish Friends.

Romantic Perception: A Kierkegaardian Re-Formation Of The Appearances Via Existential Arrest Towards Conscious Imaginative Relation, Christoph Franz Dobrowolski

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

The focus of this paper is to attempt to analyze how, in Kierkegaard's paradigm of what constitutes "a self", the representations of the phenomena change in the eyes of the perceiver from a state of "no self" - lacking this consciousness and active engagement of spirit-, to the moment of existential arrest, to a state of being "a self" - new and ever-growing consciousness as a result of this arrest. The primary source for this endeavour is Kierkegaard's text, The Concept of Anxiety. Methodology for this endeavour will involve explication of the text itself with nuances from other post-enlightenment literature …

Marketing Seventh-Day Adventist Higher Education In Southeast Asia, Geoffrey A. Pauner

Dissertations

Problem

There has been a concern by educational leaders of the Adventist church in the Asia Pacific Division that a number of parents of Seventh-day Adventist students choose to educate their children in non-Adventist primary and secondary schools. This study sought to determine if this concern is prevalent in Adventist colleges in Southeast Asia. To find answers to this concern the following questions were posed.

1. What methods do these colleges use to promote or recruit SDA students?

2. How do these colleges attract SDA students?

3. What special programs are in place in the colleges to retain SDA students? …

The Empirical Development Of A Curriculum On Faith Development, Samir Selmanović

Dissertations

Problem. Professional and lay leaders in the Seventh-day Adventist church need to be sensitive to the dynamics of faith development as it interfaces with human development over the life span, and with its practical implications. Currently, there is no curriculum available, empirically developed or otherwise, to explore this issue.

Method. The underlining philosophy of the approach to curriculum design utilized in this study is that curriculum is likely to be more effective when it is developed in a cooperative spirit between an instructor and learners rather than written in isolation, and when there is emphasis on both the cognitive and …

Factors Related To Clergy Sexual Misconduct, Donald L. Totten

Dissertations

Problem. Clergy sexual misconduct creates credibility, marital, family, and financial problems in the general church. The purpose of this study was to determine, through a survey research methodology, personality and situational factors in the lives of active clergy that may be related to clergy sexual misconduct.

Method. Two hundred sixty-nine pastors filled out questionnaires pertaining to spiritual well-being, locus of control, burnout, social support, active pre-marital sexual conduct, erotic thoughts, naivete/lack of training, demographics, and sexual involvement with a non-spouse while in the ministry. Univariate, discriminant, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the influence of each variable …

Spiritual Nurture In The Local Seventh-Day Adventist Congregation Through The Spiritual Gifts Of Prophecy And Shepherding, Francy Duran

Dissertations

The purpose. The purpose of this research was to analyze the church as a nurturing entity, and the spiritual gifts that enable the church to develop a ministry of spiritual nurture.

Method. This study followed the documentary methodology. The Scripture data, in both Old and New Testaments, regarding the purpose of the church and the gifts of prophecy and shepherding were analyzed indepth. Secondary sources, including books, journal articles, and research reports, were used where applicable.

Conclusion. The church was called to accomplish a specific ministry. This ministry is much more than the Gospel proclamation that leads to conversion and …