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The Ecclesiology Of Training For Trainers: The Issue Of Method And I Timothy 3:6, John Henry Serworwora

Great Commission Research Journal

The implementation of the Church Planting Movement (CPM) and Training for Trainers (T4T) by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention missions life is not without challenge. Southern Baptist missiologists and seminary professors have written numerous papers and articles supporting or contesting this methodology. The majority of criticisms focus on the emphasis in the rapidity and “mass production” of churches, fearing the theological alteration among the new believers and their churches. This article argues that the leadership process in T4T/CPM violates the Baptist ecclesiology, since 1 Timothy 3:6 essentially excludes a new believer from pastoral leadership.

My Pilgrimage In Church Growth, Ray Ellis

Great Commission Research Journal

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Book Review: Embracing Shared Ministry: Power And Status In The Early Church And Why It Matters Today By Joseph H. Hellerman, Paul Gritz

Great Commission Research Journal

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Book Review: Advanced Strategic Planning: A 21st Century Model For Church And Ministry Leaders By Aubrey Malphurs, John Sun

Great Commission Research Journal

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Book Review: Planting New Churches In A Postmodern Age By Ed Stetzer, Joseph Mun

Great Commission Research Journal

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Book Review: The Coffee Shop That Changed A Church: Discovering The Net Effect By Steve Parr, Peter Varosky

Great Commission Research Journal

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The Image Of Women In The Interpreted Qur'an: Translations Of Pickthall, Ali, Hilali And Abdel Haleem, Yassmine Muhammad Mahfouz Muhammad

Theses and Dissertations

The Image of Women in the Interpreted Qur’ān: Translations of Pickthall, Ali, Hilālī, and Abdel Haleem By Yassmine Muhammad Mahfouz (Under the supervision of Professor Tahia Abdel Nasser, The American University in Cairo). I have intended this work with the premise of shedding light on the rights of women in the Qur’ān through examining its English translations since this topic has undergone much controversy between patriarchal and Islamophobic camps. However, through the examination of the translations, I have touched on how translation cannot only be problematic but also dangerously influential in presenting the sacred text. The main finding was that …

Experiencing Our Only Comfort: A Post-Reformation Refocus In The Heidelberg Catechism, Jan Van Vliet

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Last year marked the 450th anniversary of the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism. In celebration of this momentous occasion and as a reminder of the contemporary applicability of this highly-regarded confessional document, this essay examines the earliest and most complete Puritan commentary extant: that of second-generation Puritan thinker William Ames (1576–1633), protégé of William Perkins (1558–1602), the “father” of the Puritan movement. We examine methodological considerations and two topical issues that arise when the venerated Catechism is placed in the hands of a practically oriented, post-Reformation divine for whom theology was none other than “living to God”: Theologia est doctrina …

Review Of The Cross And The Lynching Tree, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The New Perspective From Paul, Mark Seifrid

Other Faculty Scholarship

The strong attraction which Judaism held for Paul’s converts in Galatia and elsewhere is hard to explain if Israel as a whole was generally lamenting its condition.Early Jewish writings similarly give evidence of variety and nuance in Jewish self-understanding in this period.37 The Scroll of Fasting (Megillat Ta’anit), for example, marks the celebration of Hasmonean victories within Jewish life, days of celebration on which one was not to fast.

Deweese-Pierce Singers (Fa 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 104. Compact disc of gospel music by the DeWeese-Pierce Singers. Includes photocopy of song list from the original cassette recording.

Religiosity, Marital Adjustment, And Intimacy, Bryan L. Presler

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of how religious attendance, personal religious activity, and importance of religion are related to marital adjustment and emotional, sexual, and spiritual intimacy. Previous research suggests that church attendance is related to higher marital adjustment; however, the relationship between sexual satisfaction and religiosity appears to be minimal, although Christian authors often suggest a link. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and the Emotional, Sexual, and Spiritual Intimacy Scale (ESSI) were administered to a sample of 88 married individuals. One-way ANOVAs found that religious attendance was not related to marital adjustment, or …

Emerging From The Shadows: Civil War, Human Rights, And Peacebuilding Among Peasants And Indigenous Peoples In Colombia And Peru In The Late 20th And Early 21st Centuries, Charles A. Flowerday

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Peacebuilding in Colombia and Peru following their late-20^th and early 21^st century civil wars is a challenging proposition. In this study, it becomes necessary as indigenous peoples and peasants resist domination by extractive industries and governments in their thrall. Whether they protest nonviolently or rebel in arms, they are targeted for human-rights violations, especially murder, disappearance and displacement. The armed actors, state, insurgency, paramilitaries or drug traffickers, destroy civic institutions (local or regional government) and the civil (nonprofit) sector and replace them with their own authoritarian versions. Therefore, peacebuilding has emphasized rebuilding civic institutions, civil society and local …

The Blessed Trinity And Redemptive Love, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle A liturgical readings for Trinity Sunday, June 15, 2014: Ex 34:4-9; Dn 3:52-56; 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, June 15, 2014

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

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Consideration Of The Church's Identity And Mission, Predicated On The Church Be-Ing 'Ligamen' (Bond), C. A. Chase

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

In 1965, the Roman Catholic Church, in Gaudium et spes, declared to the world: this community realizes that it is truly linked with mankind and its history by the deepest of bonds (GS 1). Shifting her identity from being one in opposition to the modern world, she announced the possibility of becoming the very bond (ligamen) binding diverse human communities and nations of the world, whilst existing as a function, a light, an energy (GS 42). Framed against the classical understanding of ecclesia as a perfect society, and the fact that this was no longer realistic in …

Cognitive Dissonance: Observing The Links Between Religiosity, Religious Beliefs, Gender And Religious Behavior, Thomas A. J. Mccall

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to observe how religiosity, religious beliefs and gender correlated to religious behavior. To accomplish this a religiosity survey was administered to college students at a mid-south university from a random sample that was taken from students enrolled in oral communications classes. According to cognitive dissonance theory, individuals strive for consistency between beliefs and behaviors. Because of this, people who endorse religious beliefs should exhibit the religious behaviors that are associated with those beliefs. The study found strong and moderate positive correlations between specific religious behaviors and overall religiosity as well as moderate positive correlations …

Prayer In A Time Of Sin: A Comparative Analysis Of Christian, Buddhist, And Kashmiri Shaiva Doctrines, Viresh Hughes

LMU Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

2014-06-09; Pamphlets; In Loving Memory Of Ozella Salter, Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church

Pamphlets and Commemoration Material

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St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, June 8, 2014

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

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Forgiveness Of Sin And New Life, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle A liturgical readings for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2014: Acts 2:1-11; Ps 103; 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Church Bulletin, June 8, 2014

Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Ottawa, Canada

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Joshua & Judges And Work, Theology Of Work Project, Alice Camille, Sean Mcdonough

Theology of Work Project

1. Introduction to Joshua and Judges
2. Conquest (Joshua 1-12)
   • Joshua (Joshua 1)
   • The Land (Joshua 2-12)
     • Working the Land (Joshua 5)
     • Conquering the Land (Joshua 6-12)
     • Remembering God’s Presence in the Land (Joshua 4:1-9)
3. Coordination (Joshua 13-22)
4. Covenant (Joshua 23-24)
5. Chaos (Judges 1-21)
   • Failing the Driving (Out) Test (Judges 1-2)
   • The Judges (Judges 3-16)
     • Deborah (Judges 4-5)
     • The Economic Effects of War (Judges 6:1-11)
     • Gideon’s Ambivalent Leadership (Judges 6:12 – 8:35)
     • The Judges’ Failure of Leadership (Judges 9-16)
   • Israel Falls Apart (Judges 17-21)
     • The prosperity gospel unmasked in early form (Judges 17)
     • Human depravity and the complicity of religious authorities unveiled …

Psalms And Work, Theology Of Work Project, Duane Garrett, Lindsay Wilson, Russell Fuller

Theology of Work Project

1. Introduction to Psalms
2. Book 1 (Psalms 1–41)
   • Personal Integrity in Work (Psalm 1)
   • Obedience to God (Psalm 2)
   • Foes and opponents (Psalms 4, 6, 7, 17)
   • Authority (Psalm 8)
   • Business ethics (Psalms 15, 24, 34)
   • Trusting God in the face of institutional pressure (Psalm 20)
   • God’s presence in our struggles at work (Psalm 23)
   • God’s guidance in our work (Psalm 25)
3. Book 2 (Psalms 42–72)
   • God’s presence in the midst of disaster (Psalm 46)
   • Anxiety when unscrupulous people succeed (Psalms 49, 50, 52, 62)
4. Book 3 (Psalms 73–89)
   • The workplace consequences of personal failings (Psalm 73)
   • The economic consequences of …

Jesus In The Shadows: Healing The Gerasene Demoniac In Mark's Gospel, An Existential Christology, Justin Campbell

Obsculta

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Retrieving Ember Days, Roger Pieper

Obsculta

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Poems, Wesley Sutermeister

Obsculta

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Discretely Stealing Dignity? Ownership And The Ideas Of Rerum Novarum, Anna-Kay Dayes

Obsculta

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Eikonoi Of God: A Christ-Pneuma Interpretation Of Humanity, Benjamin Rush

Obsculta

Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” There is no single Christology that can provide satisfaction for the multitude of answers to Jesus’ question; the history of the church is a history of different questions, motivated by different circumstances. However, the goal remains consistent: finding a way of understanding God and God’s action in history. This paper uses two tasks that emerge from this theological discourse through the lens of Eastern Orthodoxy. The first task is finding an answer to Jesus’ question in light of revelation that Christ Jesus is both truly human and truly divine, …

The Icon Unpainted, Kendall Ketterlin O.Carm.

Obsculta

the Icon Unpainted came from my prayers and personal experience of Advent, first, walking with Mary as she waited on the edge of giving birth, knowing what was to come and realizing the promises that were on the verge of becoming flesh, then opening that vision to an entire world, history of prophecy and scripture that was about to be captured in a single moment.