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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Biblical teaching"”.
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Counted Worthy: A Father's Perspective on the Theology of Suffering
… when faced with trial and tragedy. Clear biblical teaching regarding the sovereignty of God in and over suffering will be shared, while highlighting personal examples as the proving ground for this truth. This work aims to help equip the Church with a more robust theology of suffering, but …
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Training Married Men at Christ Fellowship Church in Edinburgh, Indiana, to Exercise Biblical Headship in Their Homes
… men at Christ Fellowship Church to exercise biblical male headship in their homes. Chapter 1 explains the contextual background for this project, which includes historical information about the church as well as goals and methodology for the project. Chapter 1 also provides definitions of key …
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The Biblical Design Purpose of Sex Applied to Issues of Personal Sexuality
… views, demonstrating their inconsistency with biblical teaching and highlighting the potential negative consequences, such as sexual challenges in marriage, lust, irregular marital intercourse, increased selfishness, and enslavement to other sexual sins. Chapter 3, the core of the thesis, …
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Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
… literature (excluding all liturgical books, biblical translations, doctrinal and polemic works, saintS lives and sermons) available in print to English readers in the years immediately preceding England's break with Rome. It shows that there were far more Catholic works of devotion, many of …
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A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
… is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, biblical teaching. The significance of this thesis is that, insofar as a yoga practice adheres to its own scriptures, that practice is impermissible for Christians. The existing literature asserting yoga’s impermissibility for Christians lacks …
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Clark H. Pinnock's Shift in His Doctrine of Biblical Authority and Reliability, an Analysis and Critique
… Clark H. Pinnock's shift in his doctrine of biblical authority and reliability.</p> <p>A brief introduction, delineating the objectives, method, and delimitations of the study, is followed by an historical survey of developments inregard to biblical authority and reliability from the …
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He is with you and he will be in you: The Spirit, the believer, and the glorification of Jesus
Were OT saints indwelt by the Holy Spirit? This dissertation seeks an answer from John's Gospel. The thesis here is that John 14:17c, "He is with you, and he will be in you," encapsulates the Bible's description of the relationship between the Spirit and the believer in the Old and New Covenants. …
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Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins
The doctrine of glorification is a biblical teaching that has been neglected within the Protestant church and, therefore, underdeveloped in our day. For whatever reason that may be, glorification is a doctrine that will affect every aspect of one’s overarching theology, especially the doctrine of …
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An examination of the Biblical role of women in contemporary church life
This dissertation focusses on the biblical role of women in the contemporary church, taking into account God's original plan and purpose for women in Genesis 1 and 2, the changes which occurred as a result of the Fall in Genesis 3, and the influence of the various cultures and traditions, …
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Evangelism Approaches to Latter-Day Saints Evaluated in Light of Acts 17:16-34
… to defend evangelicalism from Latter-day Saint teachings. Likewise, evangelicals have provided many responses to LDS teachings in hopes of guiding Latter-day Saints out of the LDS Church. I examine two popular evangelical methodologies that engage the LDS Church: the counter-cult and relational …
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Grace and Truth: A Divorce Theology For Missionary Organizations
… challenge for these agencies is to encompass a biblically based divorce theology that recognizes the seriousness of divorce on one hand while not appearing to submit to cultural influence on the other. This paper suggests that truth and grace are factors to consider in developing a divorce …
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The Concept of the Kinsman in the Biblical Doctrine of Redemption
Scanned copy of Offutt's dissertation which is now in the public domain. Scanned as part of our digitization on demand service.
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Between rule and responsibility: The role of the 'AB as agent of righteousness in Deuteronomy's domestic ideology
This dissertation explores the relationship between the ancient Israelite HOH and the members of his family as portrayed in the prescriptive texts of Deuteronomy. In choosing the prescriptive texts, this study distinguishes between the actual (what was) and the ideal (what should have been). …
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Training Families at Faith Baptist Church, Parker, Colorado, to Face Spiritual Warfare by Using Principles Based on William Gurnall's "the Christian in Complete Armour"
This project unites the teaching of spiritual warfare with the disciplines of family worship. Chapter 1 explains the rationale and goals of the project. Chapter 2 explores the biblical rationale for the project, examining Satan's appearances in the Old and New Testaments with special attention …
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A Scriptural Appraisal of the Necessary Connection between Progressive Sanctification and Compatibilist Freedom
… freedom. The central focus is on determining the biblical author's intent and on laying the exegetical groundwork for the final chapter. Chapter 5 argues for the necessary connection between progressive sanctification and compatibilist freedom by questioning libertarian interpretations of the …
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The concept of holiness in the Pauline epistles
… as 'holy ones' is discussed. Second, Paul's teaching on how God willed and made them to be holy (Rom 15:16; 1 Cor 1:2; 3:17; 6:11; 7:14; 2 Cor 7:1; Eph 1:4; 2:21; 5:25-27; 1 Thess 4:3-7; 5:23; and 2 Tim 2:21) is examined. Chapter 6 observes Paul's extensive application of the word, "holy" to …
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The Courtroom and the Created Order: How Penal Substitution Brings about New Creation
… God's righteousness. This chapter also shows the biblical support for penal substitution through an examination of Romans 3:25-26; 8:3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; and Galatians 3:13. Chapter 5 demonstrates that far from making the resurrection of Christ unnecessary, penal substitution demands the …
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The failure of the Twelve in the Gospel of Mark: A classification of the evidence
This thesis examines the accounts of the Twelve's failures as they are provided in the Gospel of Mark and seeks to classify these failures into coherent categories. Chapter 1 offers grounds for studying these accounts of failure in this manner and addresses differences between this thesis and other …
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The pastoral and practical principles on which the churches in the New Testament were based
The New Testament does contain sufficient information in order that we may arrive at a reasonably clear understanding of the principles upon which the churches of the New Testament were based. The Scriptures do not give us a model of how churches must look and thus provides sufficient leeway to …
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The unity of Biblical man
… do not express a single theology within the Biblical literature, some basic ideas do reoccur. Among these are notions about man, his relationship to God and to society. These concepts of man and his relationships may be brought together to form a composite "man" which might be referred to as …
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