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Mission Matters, Winter 2006, Center For Mission Education And Reflection

Mission & Culture Publications

Highlights: CURTIS Week -- Father Greg Boyle, "Gang" priest, to speak -- Mission matters: a personal viewpoint, by Jeffrey Cain, Ph.D. --New Center for Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations -- New staff, Mandy and Mark Pittman -- Dolls for Mississippi.

"Lightning Out Of Heaven": Joseph Smith And The Forging Of Community, Terryl L. Givens

BYU Studies

Several weeks ago I received an email from someone who identified himself as a BYU student doing a research paper on the Prophet Joseph Smith. He asked, “Would you be kind enough to share with me what you feel the impact of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon on the world has been?” This was an important question, so I took time framing my reply. I wrote, “It was big.” However, upon reflection, I decided against sending that email. I did not want to do most of his work for him. I thought perhaps I would now revisit that …

Discernment- Corporate And Individual Considerations, Charles J. Conniry Jr.

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Editor's Introduction, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Integral Nature Of Worship And Evangelism: Insights From The Wesleyan Tradition, Paul W. Chilcote

The Asbury Journal

This essay explores the fundamental relationship between worship and evangelism through the lens of the hymns and writings of Charles Wesley. After laying a biblical foundation for the integral nature of worship and evangelism based upon Acts 2:46-47 and examining the image of paideia (instruction through action) in Heb. 12:9-10 as a concept implying their integration, the author describes the liturgy of the worshiping community as the primary matrix of evangelistic ministry. The call of the prophet Isaiah (6:2-8) reveals a paradigm related to worship that instructs our understanding of evangelism as well. All true worship and faithful evangelism begins …

Charles Wesley And The Language Of Evangelical Experience: The Poetical Hermeneutic Revisited, John R. Tyson

The Asbury Journal

Charles Wesley is well remembered as the "poet laureate" of Methodism, whose rousing hymns continue to adorn Christian worship. This article suggests that he was also a significant theologian; a theologian of the experimental variety, who used religious experience as a means for translating theological doctrine into the realm of Christian life. Religious experience played an important role in Wesley's poetical approach to the Bible, and allowed him to unite human hearts and minds in biblical affirmations. In this sense, Charles's hymns were aptly described (by John Wesley) as "practical divinity." A close examination of Charles Wesley's vocabulary of religious …

Charles Wesley's Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit: A Vital Resource For The Renewal Of Methodism Today, Jason E. Vickers

The Asbury Journal

This essay is an extended argument in favor of a recovery of a robust doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Wesleyan-Methodist theology today The argument develops in five stages. First, it shows the significance of the person and work of the Holy Spirit in Charles Wesley's understanding of revelation, the atonement, purification, sanctification and the like. Second, it suggests that contemporary Wesleyan theologians have often ceased attributing these things to d1e presence and work of the Holy Spirit, opting to attribute them in a generic way to grace instead. Third, it provides a conceptual analysis of the difference between the …

Charles Wesleyana

The Asbury Journal

Biography

Timeline

Bibliography

Anniversary Events

Sermon On The Trinity, Mike Pasquarello

The Asbury Journal

John Wesley: Homiletic Theologian

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Introduction

Theme Essays - Charles Wesley at 300

The Integral Nature of Worship and Evangelism: Insights from the Wesleyan Tradition

Paul W. Chilcote

Charles Wesley and the Language of Evangelical Experience: The Poetical Hermeneutic Revisited

John R. Tyson

Charles Wesley's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: A Vital Resource for the Renewal of Methodism Today

Jason E. Vickers

Charles Wesleyana

Biography Timeline Bibliography Anniversary Events

Essays

A Christian Response to Islam: Is Islam a Peaceful Religion?

Steven E. Tsoukalas

The Third Moment of Muslim Witness: John Wesley Had It Right

Terry C. Muck

Features

Sermon

"On the …

Editor's Note: Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher's Watchwords, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

New Perspectives On Time-Honored Practices: A Review Essay, Virginia Todd Holeman

The Asbury Journal

A Book of Courtesy: The Art of Living with Yourself and Others
Sister M. Mercedes, O.P.
New York, New York: HarperSanFrancisco
2001, xvii; 108 pp. hardback, $14.95

Humility Matters for Practicing the Spiritual Life
Mary Margaret Funk
New York, New York: Continuum
2005, 188 pp. hardback, $19.95

On Apology
Aaron Lazare
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2004, ix, 307 pp. paper, $24.00

Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Paul Woodruff
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2001, x, 248 pp. hardback, $12.95

Can Postmodernism Handle The Truth?: A Review Essay, Jerry L. Walls

The Asbury Journal

Truth and the New Kind of Christian
R. Scott Smith
Wheaton: Crossway
2005, 206 pp. paper, $14.99

Whatever Happened to Truth?
Andreas Kostenberger, ed.
Wheaton: Crossway
2005, 173 pp. paper, $15.99

But Is It All True?: The Bible and The Question of Truth
Alan G. Padgett and Patrick R. Keifert
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
2006, 187 pp. paper, $16.00

Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins

The Asbury Journal

Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit
W. Stephen Gunter
Nashville: Abingdon Press
2005, 335 pp., paper, $33.00
Reviewed by Kenneth ]. Collins

Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality
S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., ed.
Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
2002, 285 pp., paper, $17.95
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice
S. T. Kimbrough Jr., ed.
Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
2005, 330 pp., paper, $17.95
Reviewed by Kenneth J Collins

Grace Notes: Layering Small Grace Upon Small Grace, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Watchwords: The Names Of Christ, Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher

The Asbury Journal

Watchwords: The Names of Christ

• Almighty
• Babe
• Bread
• Bride Groom
• Branch
• Captain
• Consolation
• Christ
• Cornerstone
• Covert
• Counsellor
• Creditor
• Dew
• Desire of all the Nations
• Door
• Eternal Life
• Express Image of His Father
• Emmanuel
• Ensign
• Eagle
• Foundation
• Feeder
• Faithful Witness
• Fountain
• Flesh
• Friend of Sinners
• Gift
• Guide
• Glorious
• God Manifested in the Flesh
• Head
• Holy Child
• Husband
• Horn
• Highest
• Habitation
• Help
• Jesus
• Jah
• Judge
• King
• Leader
• Life
• Lion
• Ladder of Jacob
• Lovely
• Long
• Suffering
• Love
• Lamb
• Merciful
• Messenger
• Messiah
• Melchisedec
• Nazarene
• Ointment
• Prophet
• Purifier
• Propitiation
• Priest
• Passover
• Prince of Life
• Physician
• Rose of Sharon
• Rock
• Refuge
• Sun
• Shepherd
• Tree of Life …

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial
Terry C. Muck

Introduction to Watchwords
Gareth Lloyd

Watchwords
Names of Christ
Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher

Almighty, Babe, Bread, Bride Groom, Branch, Captain, Consolation, Christ, Cornerstone, Covert, Counsellor, Creditor, Dew, Desire of all the Nations, Door, Eternal Life, Express Image of His Father, Emmanuel, Ensign, Eagle, Foundation, Feeder, Faithful Witness, Fountain, Flesh, Friend of Sinners, Gift, Guide, Glorious, God Manifested in the Flesh, Head, Holy Child, Husband, Horn, Highest, Habitation, Help, Jesus, Jah, Judge, King, Leader, Life, Lion, Ladder of Jacob, Lovely, Long, Suffering, Love, Lamb, Merciful, Messenger, Messiah, Melchisedec, Nazarene, Ointment, Prophet, Purifier, Propitiation, Priest, Passover, Prince …

Adventist Responses To Cross-Cultural Mission: Global Mission Issues Committee Papers Volume 2, 2002-2005, Bruce Bauer

Books

No abstract provided.

Viewpoint: Reforming Christians Or Converting Non-Christians?, Gorden R. Doss

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Deconstructing Evangelical Theology?, Fernando L. Canale

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

From Soft Tissue To Homing Pigeons (Faith & Science Update), John T. Baldwin

Perspective Digest

No abstract provided.

The Scandal Of The Book Of Job, Jiri Moskala

Perspective Digest

No abstract provided.

Is God Present In The Song Of Songs?, Richard M. Davidson

Perspective Digest

No abstract provided.

God, The Trinity, And Adventism: An Introduction To The Issues, Denis Fortin

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

History Of Seventh-Day Adventist Views On The Trinity, Merlin D. Burt

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Proverbs 8 And The Place Of Christ In The Trinity, Richard M. Davidson

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Well Women Of Scripture Revisited, Jo Ann Davidson

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Quest For A Biblical Trinity: Ellen White's "Heavenly Trio" Compared To The Traditional Doctrine, Jerry Moon

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The End Of Historicism? Reflections On The Adventist Approach To Biblical Apocalyptic - Part Two, Jon Paulien

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Leadership In The Early Church During Its First Hundred Years, Robert M. Johnston

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.