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My Personal Word About David Harrell, Oral Roberts

Correspondence

This is a letter written from Oral Roberts to his biographer, David Harrell, Jr. on February 15, 2006. Roberts shares his thoughts on Harrell's biography Oral Roberts: An American Life written in 1985. Roberts talks about the respect he had for the work he did and the fair treatment he received.

Book Review Of Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation, 1776-1826, By Edwin S. Gaustad, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 3 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 1-2 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Summary Report For The 2006 Season, Mark Schuler

Excavation Reports

In 2006, excavation continued work on areas surrounding the domus of the North-East Church complex, completed work on the masonry tomb, and continued conservation and cleaning of the earlier nave mosaic (F544). This report will address work done in the following areas: •

• The North Gate Area
• The Southern Street
• The South Hall and Related Chambers
• The Chambers West of the Portico
• Cistern D
• The Masonry Tomb
• The Nave Mosaic

How Paul And The Jerusalem Council Might Speak To Division In The Twenty-First Century Church, Mary Birmingham

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This paper sets forth the first-century Jerusalem Council as a model of hope to address the divisive issues facing the American Catholic Church today.

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

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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John Wesley In Context: His Century, Relationships And Spiritual Journey, Irv A. Brendlinger

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

"...For the purpose of this study, we shall briefly view [John Wesley] in the context of his age, and note some relationships and revisit several formative experiences of his life which bear directly on his eventual interest in the problem of human bondage"

Aspects Of Historicity In The Gospel Of John: Implications For Investigations Of Jesus And Archaeology, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Of the many tensions characterizing the Gospel of John, one of its perplexities most needing to be addressed critically is the set of issues related to aspects of historicity.1 On one hand, John is the most spiritual, theological, and symbolic of the canonical Gospels, leading scholars in recent decades to take seriously the literary features of the work. On the other hand, there is more archaeological, topographical, and apparently historical material in John than in any other Gospel, or even in all three combined.

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon or LDS church, constitute an organization that transcends simple denominational status. Though the Mormons were originally one of a multitude of restorationist churches emerging out of the ferment known as the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century, a number of factors conspired to forge an entity variously considered a religion, a people, a global tribe, and a New Religious Movement (NRM), the only "indigenously derived ethnic group" in the United States and an emerging world religion. Mormonism's distinctive doctrines challenge the boundaries of …

Mormons, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Mormonism was one of many religious movements that emerged in antebellum American during the ferment known as the Second Great Awakening. In 1820 a youthful Joseph Smith (1805-1844) told his family and skeptical neighbors that he had been visited by Jesus Christ in response to his prayerful request for guidance in choosing a true religion. All Christian denominations had gone astray, the personage told him. Smith created little subsequent stir on the religious stage until ten years later, when he produced the Book of Mormon, a lengthy narrative purportedly written by ancient American prophets of Israelite origins and revealed to …

The Da Vinci Code, The Nature Of Christ, And Historical Accuracy, Dennis Pettibone

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 6 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 4 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 5 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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E Pluribus Unum? Quaker Approaches To Plurality And Unity In Pennsylvania 1682-1764, Stephen W. Angell

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

How Paul And The Jerusalem Council Might Speak To Division In The Twenty-First Century Church, Mary Birmingham

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This paper sets forth the first-century Jerusalem Council as a model of hope to address the divisive issues facing the American Catholic Church today.

2006 - 88th Annual Lectureship, "Messages From The Gospel Of John", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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2006 - 89th Annual Lectureship, "Messages From The Gospel Of John 9-21", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

This is the brochure for the 2006 89thh Annual Bible Lectureship held at Abilene Christian University.

"My Soul Is On The Wing For Glory": Adventist Spirituality, 1850-1863, Beverly Beem, Ginger Hanks Harwood

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Starting A Pioneer Newspaper : The Deseret News, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

Before the Latter-day Saints arrived in Salt Lake City, arrangements were made for a printing establishment in the Salt Lake Valley. At Winter Quarters, Brigham Young sent W. W. Phelps to obtain a press that might be brought west. This article briefly describes the Ramage press that Phelps acquired. The Deseret News, the first newspaper in the Rocky Mountains, began publication on June 15, 1850. This weekly eight-page paper contained news taken from national newspapers, events in Britain, and local information such as activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and crop conditions. One …

Of Printers, Prophets, And Politicians: William Lyon Mackenzie, Mormonism, And Early Printing In Upper Canada, Richard Bennett, Daniel H. Olsen

Faculty Publications

Well-known in both Canadian and Latter-day Saint history is the arrival of Charles Ora Card and his faithful band of followers in southern Alberta in 1887. Less explored is the much earlier venture into Upper Canada (Ontario) of such prominent Mormon leaders as Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, and scores of others during the 1830s in their concerted attempts to promulgate their new faith on Canadian soil. Their success in converting hundreds of people, many of whom were British- and American-born Methodists or members of other nonconformist faiths, prompted Mormon leaders to send missionaries …

A Mormon And Still A Jew: The Life Of Alexander Neibaur, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

Alexander Neibaur was a man of many talents. An educated man and gifted poet, he was fluent in seven languages. One account describes Neibaur as "a small, thin man, with a round ruddy face, with sharp eyes." He was also unusual inasmuch as he was Utah's first dentist and matchmaker, and the first known male Jewish convert to Mormonism; and he left the only known contemporary diary account of Joseph Smith's first vision experience. Neibaur was also a good family man, honest and loyal, and a kind friend and trusted neighbor, not only to fellow Church members but also to …

Cornelius P. Lott And His Contribution To The Temporal Salvation Of The Latter-Day Saint Pioneers Through The Care Of Livestock, Gary S. Ford

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis combines two studies: the role of livestock in the temporal salvation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mormon exodus of 1846 and Cornelius P. Lott's contribution in the care of cattle and sheep during that time period. At Winter Quarters, the Church and its members depended in large measure for their survival upon the sizeable cattle herds they had acquired prior to their exodus from Nauvoo and during their trek across Iowa. Church leaders relied on men like Lott, whose expertise in the care of livestock, contributed significantly to the salvation of the …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 40 No 2 - November 2005), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: The Placement of Predestination in Reformed Theology: Issue or Non-Issue? by Richard A. Muller - 184 / The Messiness of Marriage and the Knottiness of Divorce: A Call for a Higher Theology and a Tougher Ethic by Ronald J. Nydam - 211 / The Place of Christian Worship: Gathered Around the Throne of the Almighty by Arie C. Leder - 227 / The Two Kingdoms: A Reassessment of the Transformationist Calvin by David VanDrunen - 248 / Abraham Kuyper and Michael Walzer: The Justice of the Spheres by Kent A. Van Til - 267 / Calvin Bibliography 2005 …

His Spear Through My Side Into Luther Calvin's Relationship To Luther's Doctrine Of The Will, Matthew Heckel

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Heckel, Matthew C. "'His Spear Through My Side into Luther:' Calvin's Relationship to Luther’s Doctrine of the Will." Ph.D. Diss., St. Louis, MO: Concordia Seminary, 2005. 307 pp.

In thesis thirteen of his Disputation Against Scholastic Theology (1518), Luther stated that free choice before grace was a reality in name only and when it does what it can it sins mortally. This statement had a significant impact as it was one of the sparks that ignited Luther's conflict with Rome, as Luther's thesis was singled out for condemnation as the thirty-sixth article of the papal bull Exsurge Domine (1520). Luther …

"Why Then The Law?" Salvation History And The Law In Martin Luther's Interpretation Of Galatians 1513-1522, Erik Herrmann

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Herrmann, Erik H. "'Why Then the Law?' Salvation History and the Law in Martin Luther's Interpretation of Galatians 1513-1522." Ph.D. Diss., St. Louis, MO: Concordia Seminary, 2005. 283 pp.

This study examines Luther's early exegesis of Galatians 3: 19-4:7 and its relationship to his theological development, especially his doctrine of law and gospel. Luther's earliest exegetical lectures on the Psalms (1513-15) demonstrate essential agreement with the interpretation of Galatians common throughout the exegetical tradition. The law's function is understood solely in terms of its preparatory role in salvation history among Old Testament Israel. It has no value beyond the coming …

The Liturgy Of The Medieval Church, Thomas Heffernan, E. Ann Matter

TEAMS Varia

This volume seeks to address the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples. In a series of essays, scholars of the liturgy examine "The Shape of the Liturgical Year," "Particular Liturgies," "The Physical Setting of the Liturgy," "The Liturgy and Books," and "Liturgy and the Arts." A concluding essay, which originated in notes left behind by the late C. Clifford Flanigan, seeks to open the field, to examine "liturgy" within …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 40 No 1 - April 2005), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Embracing Ritual: Sacraments as Rites by Peter J. Leithart - 6 / “Supporters of the Devil”: Calvin’s Image of the Libertines by Mirjam van Veen - 21 / Calvin on Epicurus and the Epicureans: Background to a Remark in Article 13 of the Belgic Confession by Nicolaas H. Gootjes - 33 / If Knowledge Then God: The Epistemological Theistic Arguments of Alvin Plantinga and Cornelius Van Til by James Anderson - 49 / Short Studies and Sermons: Isaiah 24–27: Songs in the Night by John N. Oswalt - 76 / Isaiah 52:13–53:12: Servant of All by John …

A Comparison Of The Aesthetic Approach Of Hans-Georg Gadamer And Hans-Urs Von Balthasar, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1901-2002), the German philosopher of hermeneutics, has exercised a powerful influence on post-Vatican II Roman Catholic fundamental theology, especially regarding questions of the development of doctrine and the appropriation of tradition. There is a tension in interpreting Gadamer's thought between his concept of "fusion of horizons," in which the horizon of the past is fused with the horizon of the present to yield new interpretations of past texts, and his defense of "prejudice, authority, classics, and tradition," in which Gadamer upholds the enduring truth-value of received wisdom from the past. … This article will broadly point out the …