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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Christian Faith"”.
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The Rationality of Christian Faith
… a summary overview of the essay, comments on faith and the intellectual virtues, and, like the previous three chapters, reflects on limitations before ending with a coda (the fifth). There is an extended bibliography.
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Christian faith and practice amongst migrants in Athens, Greece
… qualitative ethnographic study that explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014–2018 in Athens, Greece. The study is located within the fields of diaspora missiology, ethnography, and underpinned by …
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Fertile Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith Practices as Care for the Earth
… I developed an almost innate conviction that Christianity held some correlate with ecological concern and action. Yet for most of my life almost all I heard concerning this destruction was silence. It seemed the environment, or at least environmental issues, lay beyond the pale of proper …
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Fertile Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith Practices as Care for the Earth
… I developed an almost innate conviction that Christianity held some correlate with ecological concern and action. Yet for most of my life almost all I heard concerning this destruction was silence. It seemed the environment, or at least environmental issues, lay beyond the pale of proper …
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"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection
… of bodily resurrection is fundamental to the Christian faith. Its significance is grounded in the fact that the Christian faith arises from and is dependent upon the belief that Jesus returned to life after having been dead and buried. As a result of this belief and the teaching of Christ's …
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The "Christian Faith Factor" and the African American Child During the Early Childhood Years
… children progressed through developmental faith stages in the same manner as the subjects described by Fowler in his seminal work on faith development (1981). In Developmental Psychology, many theories with stages have been developed and many studies conducted in the areas of cognitive, …
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A Quantitative Analysis of God Attachment and the Christian Faith and Life Among Evangelical Christians
… relationships between attachment to God and the Christian faith and life among a small sample of evangelical Christians. A quantitative analysis was performed on Christian adults (N=189) in local churches in the southeastern region of the United States. The study examined the relationships …
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The role of the Christian faith in the emergence of social entrepreneurship in Lagos, Nigeria
Christians are routinely recognised as pioneer social entrepreneurs in the social entrepreneurship literature. However, there are limited empirical studies exploring how the personal faith of Christian social entrepreneurs influences their engagement and persistence in the ventures they create to …
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Towards a pedagogy for inculturation: adult theological education and the interaction of Christian faith and culture
… which deal obliquely with the interaction of faith and culture in UK; a) the Alpha course in three different cultural contexts; b) A Lent Course linking a UK and African Diocese; c) the Education for Ministry course, in particular its imaginative methods of theological reflection. The case …
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The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences
… privatization means the restriction of the Christian Gospel to the private, spiritual concerns of the individual. A privatised Gospel is a dualistic, individualistic, spiritualised, and a-contextual distortion of the Christian faith. It either deliberately avoids the public sphere or …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… asks, "What is the proper role of the Christian and the Christian community in the ethical arena of a pluralistic society?" The inherently social nature of human beings means that all ethical judgments regarding right and wrong and the good of the human person have social implications. …
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Reclaiming happiness of the city and the soul : Augustine's engagement with Cicero and Porphyry in the City of God.
… City of God demonstrates the superiority of the Christian faith to pagan philosophy in the attainment of happiness and, ultimately, seeks to turn the Roman intellectuals to the Christian faith. The study investigates Augustine's correspondence with educated Romans and shows that the target …
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From pastoral care to professional counselling: the development of higher education counselling training underpinned by a Christian worldview and in dialogue with Christian faith/religion/spirituality
… counselling training which is underpinned by a Christian worldview and facilitates a dialogue between Christian faith/religion/spirituality and psychological/psychotherapeutic theories in the context of counselling practice. As I reflect on the Public Works, a number of further themes are …
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Sacred Metalcore: A worship, culture, and missiology study of the Christian metal scene
My argument is that the Christian faith can be legitimately enacted within the subculture context of the modern metal music scene. Specifically, I survey important pieces of literature about both the secular and the sacred versions of the metal scene and examine how the Christian faith is put into …
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Thus Says The Lord: A Trinitarian Account of Biblical Authority
… the most important distinguishing marks of the Christian faith is that it is a revealed religion. The Christian faith professes that God has graciously and with authority revealed himself to his creatures. Therefore, the doctrine of Scripture, specifically biblical, is an issue of central …
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An analysis of the relationship between Fowlerian stage-development and self-assessed maturity in Christian faithfulness among evangelical Christians
… stages and the self-assessed maturity of their faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Based on a review of significant texts from the Judeo-Christian Scriptures and from church history, the researcher concluded that faith as understood by the earliest Christians--which the researcher has termed …
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ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΧΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ. Ο ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΒΑΣΕΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ ΤΟΥ W. HEISENBERG
… DIALOGUE BETWEEN MODERN PHYSICS AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY ON THE BASIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF WERNER HEISENBERG (1901-1976). THE FUNDAMENTAL THESIS IS THAT THE DIALOGUE OF PHYSICS WITH THEOLOGY CAN TAKE PLACE AS A KIND OF AN ENCOUNTER OF THE DIALECTICSOF NATURE WITH THE ESCHATOLOGY …
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Spiritual Formation: A Comparative Study of Modern and Classical Christian Schools
This study focused on the comparison of a modern Christian school and a classical Christian school in the Midwestern United States. The modern Christian school used in this study was a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and the classical school was a member of the …
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Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
… China and Southeast Asia who converted to Christianity in 1949 through the missionary work of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Prior to conversion, the Hmong practiced animism, shamanism, ancestral worship, and reincarnation. Children were religiously instructed through …
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