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The Initiation Of Growth-Focused Relationships Involving Healthy Accountability At The Carbondale Church Of Christ, Stephen Shaffer

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

After several years of transition, the Carbondale Church of Christ is in the early stages of becoming a spiritual growth-focused community. However, the emerging growth community appears to reflect the prevailing cultural assumptions that growth is a personal, private, and an individual task. To shape this emergent growth culture, this project initiated a group of congregational opinion leaders, organized in pairs, into the practice of growth-focused relationships involving healthy accountability. The initiation involved a theological orientation followed by a four-week healthy accountability praxis.

The theological framework of the project involved three main aspects. First, the project used the body image …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 47 No 1 - April 2012), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Revisiting the Psalm of Jonah by Amanda W. Benckhuysen - 5 / Calvin's Theological Appropriation of His Philosophical Sources: A Note on Natural Law and Institutes 2.2.2 2-23 by Charles D. Raith II - 32 / Vos and Berkhof on Union with Christ and Justification by J. V. Fesko - 50 / Groen van Prinsterer: Godfather of Bavinck and Kuyper by Harry Van Dyke - 72 / It's About Time: Opening Reformational Thought to the Eschaton by Nicholas Ansell - 98 / Reforming Public Theology: Two Kingdoms, or Two Cities? by James K. A. Smith - 122 / …

Review Of: T. J. Gorringe. The Common Good And The Global Emergency: God And The Built Environment, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Tim Gorringe follows up his positively reviewed 2002 book A Theology of the Built Environment with this offering from the same publisher. The former book was notable as a sustained attempt to think theologically about the ‘built environment’. The built environment is the context that humans construct for themselves through their industry and technology; it comprises all types of physical settlements (cities, suburbs, towns, and villages), roads and transportation systems, parks and outdoor spaces, and buildings of every sort. It matters to humans how we build social spaces, for this influences our individual flourishing and the common good. While any …

Mission And Catholic Identity [Booklet], Office Of Mission And Catholic Identity

Mission & Culture Publications

‌The Office of Mission and Catholic Identity at Sacred Heart University has as its primary purpose the articulation, promotion and transmission of the Catholic Intellectual and Spiritual Tradition.

Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc2001-006 - Finding Aid, Paul Wagner

Finding Aids

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2012 - 106th Annual Summit, "Intimacy", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc1995-002 - Finding Aid, Paul Wagner

Finding Aids

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Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 46 No 2 - November 2011), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: "A Benefit No Mind Can Fully Comprehend": Bavinck's Doctrine of Justification by Dane C. Ortlund - 249 / I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All People: A Pastoral Reading of Joel 2:28-30 from Latin America by Norberto Saracco - 268 / Reading the Bible and Reading Life: Everyday Life Approaches to Wisdom Literature from Latin America by Leopoldo Cervantes-Ortiz - 278 / The Book of Revelation: A Latin American Interpretation by Juan Stam - 289 / The Redemptive-Historical Dynamics of the Salvation of "All Israel" (Rom. 11:26a) by P. H. R. (Rob) van Houwelingen - 301 / …

Implementing A Discernment Phase For Those Nominated In The Shepherd Selection Process At The Cinco Ranch Church Of Christ, Aaron Walling

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This doctor of ministry thesis presents the results of a project that implemented a discernment phase for those nominated in the shepherd selection process at the Cinco Ranch Church of Christ. Occurring in the fall of 2010, this project involved nominees in a series of six one-hour, thirty-minute sessions designed to establish the theological foundations for shepherding and to explore its practical expression at Cinco Ranch. For the theological component, this project primarily utilized Ephesians 4:11-16, and for the practical side, it incorporated group interactions with those serving as shepherds along with the review of guiding leadership documents. The project‟s …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 46 No 1 - April 2011), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: A Break with Anti-Judaic Exegesis: John Calvin and the Unity of the Testaments by G. Sujin Pak - 7 / Metaphysics and Justification in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Reformed Theology by John V. Fesko - 29 / A Brief History of Heaven in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards by Robert Caldwell - 48 / The Glory of Spiders and Politics by John Bolt - 72 / Experience, Expression, Understanding: Gerardus van der Leeuw's Phenomenological Method by Richard J. Plantinga - 81 / The Seven Days of Creation by James W. Skillen - 111 / Lost Keys: The Absolution in …

Crafting A Congregational Narrative For The College Church Of Christ In Fresno, California, Jason W. Locke

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes a ministry project in the College Church of Christ in Fresno, California. In this project I led the congregation through a narrative crafting process in order to clarify the church’s identity and increase its capacity for mission. In recent decades, the College Church moved away from some of its founding characteristics yet failed to clarify a new sense of identity. It subsequently had difficulty acting with a unified sense of purpose and instead moved increasingly toward fragmentation.

Data for crafting the new narrative came from three weeks of group interviews. My research team conducted these interviews in …

Discerning A Vocational Theology Of Marriage For The Smyrna Church Of Christ, Daniel F. Camp

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this project was to discern a vocational theology of marriage for the Smyrna Church of Christ in Smyrna, Tennessee. Through a group discernment process, the participants studied Genesis 1-3 and 2 Corinthians 5 as a basis for understanding God’s design for marriage at creation, the effects of sin on the vocational aspect of the marriage relationship, and the call of Christ for husbands and wives to participate in the resurrection life through the ministry of reconciliation. At the end of the discernment process, the participants articulated a theology statement for the church that examined our current context …

2011 - 105th Annual Summit, "Enough: Isaiah 1:11-17", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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The Global Luther: A Theologian For Modern Times [Review] / Christine Helmer, Ed., Trevor O'Reggio

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 45 No 2 - November 2010), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: From Zurich or From Wittenberg? An Examination of Calvin's Early Eucharistic Thought by Richard A. Muller - 243 / The Exegetical Context of Calvin's Loci on the Christian Life by David S. Sytsma - 256 / Charles Finney and John Nevin on Selfhood and Sin: Reformed Anthropologies in Nineteenth-Century Religion by Derek R. Nelson - 280 / Preaching the Old Testament from a Christian Pulpit by S. D. (Fanie) Snyman - 304 / Reading Paul's kai outos pas Israel sothesetai (Rom. 11:26a) in the Context of Romans by Dongsu Kim - 317 / Facing Cancer: The Spiritual Dangers …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 45 No 1 - April 2010), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial - 7 / Articles: Herman Bavinck, "Foreword" to the First Edition (Volume I) of the Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, translated by John Bolt - 9 / The Bavinck Recipe for Theological Cake by John Bolt - 11 / Herman Bavinck and Geerhardus Vos by George Harinck - 18 / Herman Bavinck and Benjamin B. Warfield on Apologetics and the Autopistia of Scripture by Henk van den Belt - 32 / Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation by Gordon Graham - 44 / Bavinck's Organic Motif: Questions Seeking Answers by James Eglinton - 51 / Herman Bavinck and Karl Barth on Christian …

Communally Discerning A Covenant Of Hospitality For The Care Of Children At Westview Boys' Home, Ron Bruner

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This project addressed the lack of a covenant defining the practice of hospitality towards children for team members of Westview Boys’ Home. The purpose of the project was to facilitate the creation of such a covenant. The Westview ministry team already claimed hospitality as a strength; the hope was that reframing the ministry around this strength would improve the quality of care for children and the quality of life for the community. Invited into a communal discernment process (the methodology), the ministry team invested weeks in the examination of biblical texts, theological tradition, personal and communal narratives, cultural trends, psychological …

2010 - 104th Annual Summit, "Aliens & Light: Finding God In The Darkness", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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The Gospel According To Moses And Elijah, Roy E. Gane

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Jesus’ gospel culminates the deliverance messages of Moses and Elijah and points to our role: If we love Christ a lot because he has forgiven us a lot (Luke 7:40-47), we will find no greater joy than reconciling precious people to one another and to him before the great day of his return.

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 44 No 2 - November 2009), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: A Tale of Two Wills? Calvin and Amyraut on Ezekiel 18:23 by Richard A. Muller - 211 / Calvin's Understanding of Adam's Relationship to His Posterity: Recent Assertions of the Reformer's "Federalism" Evaluated by Aaron Denlinger - 226 / "It Varies from Canton to Canton": Zurich, Basel, and the Swiss Reformation by Amy Nelson Burnett - 251 / Destined to Disobey? Isaiah 6:10 in John 12:37-41 by Donald E. Hartley - 263 / The Missional Approach: Reconsidering Elenctics (Part 2) by Cornelis J. Haak - 288 / "Greatest Strategic Significance": The Story of the CRC's Selection of China …

Totally Devoted: Developing A Holistic Spiritual Formation Course For Western Christian College, Stanley N. Helton

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports research results from a learning community composed of faculty, support staff, ministry leaders, and students who collaborated in a professor’s development of a new course proposal in Christian spiritual formation at Western Christian College in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The professor used qualitative research methods in the analysis and evaluation of the data produced by the group. The outcome of the project was ethnographic data that informed the creation of the course proposal that included new course application, course syllabus with course schedule, planned activities, bibliography, initial classroom assignments, and initial assessment tools.

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 44 No 1 - April 2009), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editor’s Notes - 7 / Articles / Religion in Biblical and Reformed Perspective by Paul J. Visser - 9 / The Missional Approach: Reconsidering Elenctics (Part 1) by Cornelis J. Haak - 37 / The Evangelistic Trialogue: Gospel Communication with the Holy Spirit by Brian A. De Vries - 49 / The Gospel in Word and Deed: Johan Herman Bavinck's Missiology and Its Application for Today by Pieter C. Tuit - 74 / Missiology: Some Reflections from Asian Contexts by Hidalgo B. Garcia - 94 / A Reformed Missional Perspective on Secularism and Pluralism in Africa: Their Impact on African …

Tolerance, Democracy And Fundamentalism(S) : Challenges In Time Of Systemic Bifurcations, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

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Developing A Model For An Incarnational Ministry At The Webb Chapel Church Of Christ, L. Bert Alexander

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This doctor of ministry thesis presents the results of a project to promote the development of an incarnational ministry at the Webb Chapel Church of Christ. This intervention employed a team of Webb Chapel opinion leaders representative of various subgroups of the congregation. In the fall of 2008, this group met for eight sessions to discuss the self-emptying practices of Jesus and the need for his followers to emulate those self-emptying practices in their individual lives. Through interaction in the eight sessions, the group developed a model by which self-emptying practices could be implemented at Webb Chapel. Evaluation of the …

2009 - 92nd Annual Summit, "On The Mountain With God: Exodus Expedition, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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Field G: Iron Age City Wall And Water Channel, Paul Z. Gregor

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Aleshire, Daniel O. Earthen Vessels: Hopeful Reflections On The Work And Future Of Theological Schools. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. 177 Pp. Paper, $20.00., R. Clifford Jones

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 43 No 2 - November 2008), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Discerning the Voices in the Psalms: A Discussion of Two Problems in Psalmic Interpretation (Part 1) by Carl J. Bosma - 183 / Holy God, Holy People, Holy Worship by Arie C. Leder - 213 / Christians in This World: Pilgrims or Settlers? by Calvin P. Van Reken - 234 / Adam, Moses, and Jesus: A Reading of Romans 5:12–14 by Peter J. Leithart - 257 / Caring for God’s Household: A Leadership Paradigm Among New Testament Christians and Its Relevance for Church and Mission Today by David J. Feddes - 274 / Short Studies: The Heavenly …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 43 No 1 - April 2008), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Foreword: CTS's Fourth Bible and Ministry Conference (June 7-9, 2007) by Arie C. Leder - 7 / Conference Presentations: Lies, Lies, I Tell You! The Deceptions of Genesis by Michael J. Williams - 9 / The God of the Flood Story and Natural Disasters by Terence E. Fretheim - 21 / Reading the Bible with the Church by Russell R. Reno - 35 / Creation in Genesis 1:1-2:3 and the Ancient Near East: Order out of Disorder after Chaoskampf by John H. Walton - 48 / Detecting Plot Lines: The Key to Preaching the Genesis Narratives by Sidney …

2008 - 91st Lectureship Summit, "The Righteousness Of God", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

No abstract provided.