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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Christian Culture"”.
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Preaching a Christian worldview in a post-Christian culture
abstract Preaching a christian worldview in a post-christian culture Robert Craig Thompson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This dissertation examines worldview preaching in a post-Christian culture. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of worldview …
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Human rights treaties in the Pacific: A case study of the non-ratification of CEDAW in Tonga
… patriarchal constitution birthed a patriarchal Christian culture, thus conflicting with the values underpinning women’s equality. Tongan women, significantly poorer uneducated women of the commoner class, articulated experiences in Tongan culture and society characterised by poverty, violence, …
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Jewish Perspectives on Christian Privilege: a Consensual Qualitative Study
… the authors set out to gain an understanding of Christian privilege and the impact it has on Jewish Identity. A sample of 12 adult, American, non-Orthodox Jews were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol. The interview data was collected to better understand the manifestations of …
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The rhetorical strategy of victimization in Sioux rhetoric from 1866 to 1883.
… which aimed to eradicate Native American culture, and replace it with the civilized and Christian culture of the Americans. The Sioux represent one example of the cultural genocide that faced all Native Americans. When informing white audiences about their cultural crisis, the Sioux …
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Christian Piano Art Music: Its Theological Significance and Categorized Repertoire
"Christian piano art music" is a small genre, each piece of which belongs seemingly to either Christian music or art music, but by definition to both of them. In spite of its merits this genre has been ignored both by the concert hall because of its religiosity and by the church because of its …
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Silent Messengers: Visualizing the Growth of Christianity in China by Chinese Christian Posters, 1927-1942
Christians in China experienced both the hopefulness and the hopelessness in 1930s China. The re-establishment of the Nanjing government in 1927 partially alleviated the fierce anti-Christian sentiments prevalent in China. Having recognized the daunting circumstance which Christianity in China was …
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The Educational Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria in the Stromata
… played an important role in the development of Christian educational philosophy in a non-Christian culture in the second-century Roman Empire. Born into a pagan society and educated in Greek philosophy prior to his conversion, Clement sought to explain the orthodox Christian relationship between …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in the Work of John Livingston Nevius
… witness in light of an increasingly post-Christian culture. The purpose of this study is to show the dire need for the priesthood of all believers in mission, both overseas and at home. As leaders seek answers for the future of missions, we may be helped by looking to our past. One such …
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Jubilee Magazine and the Development of a Vatican II Ecclesiology
… and religious, chronicled the changing styles of Christian life and thought for a universal Church.</p><p> This dissertation examines the Catholic monthly as a vehicle for communicating Christian culture. It also describes and evaluates the ways in which Jubilee drew on pre-existing themes to …
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How Might Jesus’ Relationship with the Beloved Disciple Affirm LGBTQ+ Christians in the Twenty-First Century?
… the impact of the Beloved Disciple on later Christian culture. Queer Theory challenges binary preconceptions and encourages the displacement of ‘traditional’ perspectives so that a reading can be undertaken which avoids non-affirming bias. Following this inter-disciplinary analysis, a …
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Political Debate in the Age of Justinian I
… observing that Justinian I ruled in a political culture far more open to conflicts of views and criticism of the régime than is often appreciated. It conducts intertextual, contextualist close readings of the texts of thirteen contemporary authors to explain how this culture of debate operated. …
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The Black Oneness Church in Perspective
… of the Black Church in a pluralistic Afro-Christian culture. The data collected reveal that while the Black Church operated as a social welfare institution that assisted thousands of new black immigrants, the inception of the church was political and in protest to racism. Hence, the Black …
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Women Writers of In Morte Poetry: Negotiating Grief in Renaissance Italy
… of the debate on the legitimacy of grief within Christian culture and the association between women and inappropriate mourning in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. It then analyses the socio-cultural condition of widows and the regulation of their behaviour in consolation letters and conduct …
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Perceptions of mental illness in south-eastern Nigeria: causal beliefs, attitudes, help-seeking pathways and perceived barriers to help-seeking
… traditionally communitarian and predominantly Christian culture, and is deserving of intervention in the context where the solidarity of the social network should compensate for the inadequate mental healthcare. Significantly more ideological than instrumental barriers have crucial policy …
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Star Spangled Saints: Ritual Practices that Legitimate War and Violence in the American Church
… and ritualistically shaped by an imperial culture enamored with war, the military, and violence; and how those positions and practices, in effect, legitimate war and the military. While many authors have surveyed historical Christian positions regarding war and the current nationalistic …
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The Rhetoric of Collaborative Ministry: A Perspective on Ministry Based on Augustine's Rhetorical Theory with Particular Reference to Abakaliki Diocese
… and counter-cultural encounter between Christianity and any of the cultures in question, and at this point the African Culture in Abakaliki diocese. To negotiate a complexity of this magnitude, one cannot ignore its rhetorical ripples around the individual, culture, Church family and the …
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The Validity of the Growing Disciples in Community Model Among Adolescents in Seventh-day Adventist Schools in North America
… and adolescents. An understanding of Christian discipleship might, however, be an antidote for a growing trend toward consumer mentality in the church, the effect of post-Christian culture on the home, and the departure of the younger generations from active church life, which are all …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… process of self-definition within Western Christian culture. The research proceeds along a transregional trajectory from Italy to Armenia, Central Asia, and China, employing an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates art-historical analysis, textual exegesis, and material culture …
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Everyman and the Angels: representations of celestial beings in the arts available to the laity in the Middle Ages
… generally perceived as being almost exclusively Christian, with most medieval people knowing little about other religions outside of small enclaves of Jewish people and with very few Muslims being encountered in the West. The bible has many angels mentioned amongst its dramatis personae, but they …
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
… power; Chinese ritual (li, 礼/禮) tradition and Christian culture; and religion and intangible cultural heritage in contemporary China. This research found that both the practitioners of Chinese rituals and the Christian community deploy tactics to resist and negotiate with the hegemonic official …
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