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The Eucharist: A Disputed Question, Leon O. Hynson

The Asbury Journal

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Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins

The Asbury Journal

Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History
Riley B. Case
Nashville: Abingdon Press
2004, 32 pp. paper, $25.00
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
New York: Twelve Press
2007, 307 pp. paper, $14.99
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Sanctified Sanity: The Life and Teaching of Samuel Logan Brengle
David Rightmire
Alexandria, Virginia: Crest Books
2003, 235 pp. paper, No price given.
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Wesley and Men Who Followed
Iain H. Murray
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust
2003, 210 pp. paper, $21.00
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

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

The Asbury Journal

God's truth comes to us from different places at different times. Each truth event sounds a small note of grace that together, if we listen, make up the musical score of God active in the world today. Listen to these ten small notes ofgrace from ten recent books.

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Spirit, Christian Practice, and the Religions: Theology of Religions in Pentecostal and Pneumatological Perspective
Amos Yong

What is the Range of Current Teaching on Sanctification and What Ought a Wesleyan to Believe on this Doctrine?
Christopher T. Bounds

John Wesley's Use of the Atonement
Darren Cushman Wood

"We Would See Jesus..." A Wesleyan Approach to Three Recent Films
Fred Guyette

The Twentieth Century Holiness Movement and Korean Holiness Groups
Myung Soo Park

The Eucharist: A Disputed Question
Leon 0. Hynson

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Book Reviews

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The Passible Potter And The Contingent Clay: A Theological Study Of Jeremiah 18:1-10, John Peckham

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Absolute Theological Truth In Postmodern Times, Fernando L. Canale

Faculty Publications

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Pastoral Teams And Congregational Health In Smaller Churches, Phillip R. Perkins

ATS Dissertations

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The Effect Of Fasting Upon The Development Of Servant Leaders At Saint Joseph United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sidney F. Gauby

ATS Dissertations

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Factors Involved In Fast-Growing, Dynamic Church Plants, Stephen Thomas Gray

ATS Dissertations

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Scriptural And Rational Piety : The Development And Use Of A Curriculum For Teaching Authentic Wesleyan Worship, Todd Alan Stepp

ATS Dissertations

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Excursions To Meet God And Renew The Spirit, Charles R. Shonkwiler

ATS Dissertations

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Disciple-Making Boards : The Impact Of Training A Church's Governing Board In Small-Group Spiritual Formation Leadership, Gary Lee Olsen

ATS Dissertations

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Life That Loves To Happen Music, Craig Addy

Landon Saunders Documents

Music for the Life That Love to Happen series. Scored for clarinet and piano. Other folder contents ACU Library include a CD of the recording.

2007 - 90th Annual Bible Lectureship, "Do Justice, Love Mercy, And Walk Humbly: Messages From Micah", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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The Descriptive Problem Of Evil, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Language is like the cane in the hand of the blind person. The better one becomes at getting around with the cane, the more he or she is apt to forget the cane but through the cane perceive the objects scraped and tapped by the other end. A defective cane may distort the world perceived by the blind person. So too, defective use of language threatens to muddy our understanding of the things we talk about. When discussing something as difficult as natural evils, a frequently undetected defect in our language use is “overly attenuated description.” In this piece, I …

Hymn To St. Joseph (Lootens), Harold Lootens S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

Praise of St. Joseph

Mary Immaculate Star Of The Morning, Harold Lootens S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

In praise of Mary

The Aesthetic Hermeneutics Of Hans-Georg Gadamer And Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

This book compares two figures that are not often associated together within the field of Roman Catholic theology, namely Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs von Balthasar. This work attempts to find deep structural affinities in the aesthetics and hermeneutics of both thinkers, as expressed through shared metaphysical and anthropological assumptions about the dialogical nature of truth and interpretation. The body of the work will be devoted to analyzing these assumptions of Gadamer and Balthasar, both individually and in comparison with each other. However, this preface is necessary to place the concerns of this book into a broader theological context.

Abraham Heschel And The Catholic Heart, Padraic O'Hare

Religious & Theological Studies Faculty Publications

This essay associates the deep abiding influence of Rabbi Heschel on Christians with his unique expression of an incarnational religious imagination, appealing to all Christians with a "Cathoic heart." In this view, the opposing worldview to dualism, life is experienced sacramentally, God is experienced immanently and religious symbols are experienced as deeply efficacious. The essay focuses especially on the incarnational trait of associating mystical experience and contemplative prayer with prophetic action and reveals how this link is nurtured and cultivated by Heschel and by his friend, Thomas Merton.

Situating The Word: The Significance Of Christian Space For Evangelism, Laceye Warner

The Asbury Journal

With Protestant denominational membership declining steadily, and at times dramatically, since the 1960s, numerous local churches eagerly search for ways to attract new members. In efforts to reverse this trend, or at least slow it down, many have turned to techniques more informed by market logic and capitalist ideologies than the triune God revealed in biblical texts. One such technique insists upon creating "gathering spaces" with little if any evidence of Christian identity. Not even the nomenclature (e.g. "gathering space" instead of "worship space" or "sanctuary") indicates the nature of the purposes intended for these spaces. Many conclude the more …

Dying And Behold We Live, Steele Lazerte

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Law and gospel are significant themes in not only the New Testament but also in the writings of foundational Christian theologians. In terms of repaching, Paul Scott Wilson is the first homiletician to develop a theological concern with law and gospel in a manner which can be considered an explicit and fully developed law/gospel homiletic. However, it is the concern of this paper to embrace Gerhard O. Forde’s theology for preaching, in particular his understanding of the gospel as a liberating offence, while utilizing the advantages of Paul Scott Wilson’s methodology for law/gospel preaching in general.

The Notion Of Healing In The Therapeutic Work Of Georeg Freemesser And Steve De Shazer: A Comparison, Mary Marrocco

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

George Freemesser and Steve de Shazer have several strong commonalities in their understandings of healing; both can be situated within the framework of pastoral counselling. Because for Freemesser the therapist’s person is an important dimension of healing, I begin with his biography, then my view of healing. To provide the pastoral counselling framework, I review the thought of Pilch, Clebsch and Jaekle, and Rovers. Steve de Shazer’s view of healing is then discussed, though he does not employ the term, by misunderstanding his notion of the goal of therapy as healing. Freemesser’s understanding of healing is described, and finally a …

Core Curriculum Seminars Signature Iii, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University

Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars

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Postmodernism And Religion, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University

Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars

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Aspects Of Interfluentiality Between John And The Synoptics: John 18-19 As A Case Study, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

The focus of the present essay is thus to pose a series of theses regarding the interfluential character of the JohnSynoptic relationships and to assess the degree to which each of those particular relationships is confirmed or disconfirmed by the material in the Johannine Passion Narrative. Implications will then follow at the conclusion of the essay.

Book Review: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating The Missional Church, Darren Cronshaw

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

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Means Of Evangelistic Growth: The First 300 Years, J. D. Payne

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

The purpose of this study is to examine the various means, by which the gospel spread across the word throughout the first three hundred years of the Church’s existence. Though some biblical texts will be referenced, the primary focus of this study is upon the post-Apostolic, pre-Constantinian years. This study is descriptive in nature. Though contemporary secondary source literature will be consulted, I will draw predominantly from the historical documents written circa A.D. 100-300 and Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History.

Dominion! Kingdom Action Can Change The World, C. Peter Wagner

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

If social transformation is what the Spirit seems to be saying to the churches today, we would expect that the Bible would support such an idea. Many will be asking the inevitable question: Is there a biblical theology to substantiate this?

Five Kinds Of Leaders, Donald Mcgavran

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

In 1981, Donald McGavran presented a series of lectures at Manhattan Christian College. Over the next few journals, we will publish this series in a continuing effort to honor McGavran and his legacy of Church Growth Missiology. This is the fourth in the series. —Editor

Post Holocaust Theodicies: Contemporary Solutions To The Problem Of Evil, Wei-Erh Chen

Honors Program Theses

Evil is a gruesome sight to behold. It can be found, among other places, in the Holocaust and its systematic slaughter of millions. It is the stench of death choking the air of Buchenwald and Auschwitz. It is God and the little boy gripped in their death throes upon the gallows. In a world following the holocaust, we are challenged, more than ever before, to reconcile the existence of the traditional Judeo-Christian God with the experience of sheer, incomprehensible evil. How could an omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good God, if He exists, allow this cruelty to take place against his …