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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Christian formation"”.
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Resilience Theory and Christian Formation: A Mixed Methods Study
… unexamined relationship between resilience and Christian formation in first-year college students. The study took place at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky. A convergent design was used to quantify the variables of spiritual maturity and resilience using pre-existing assessments. Themes …
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Digital Media Use and Adolescent Christian Formation: A Correlation Study
… and form of technological use is having on the Christian formation of adolescents. If one of the primary goals of Christian education is to promote Christian formation, this must be considered by all Christian educators as well. This research serves to demonstrate the effects of both the …
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Digital Media Use and the Christian Formation of College Students: A Case Study
… relationship between digital media use and the Christian formation of college students at Cedarville University. Chapter 1 introduces the prevalence of digital media, social media, and cell phone use in America. Chapter 2 explores the current research and literature concerning college students, …
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A Musico-Pneumatology for Christian Formation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Polyphony of Life in the Spirit
… I am able to demonstrate how his account of Christian formation which is so intimately connected to this Christology, and which polyphony helps to articulate, also contains a latent pneumatology. Showing that the relationship between Christology and Christian formation in his theology is most …
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Church Sponsored Service Through the Lens of Self Determination Theory: A Case Study
… have explored the possibility of internalizing Christian beliefs and practices through intrinsically motivating ministry activities. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), an emerging meta-theory of adult motivation, such activities consistently move individuals from external to internal …
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Revisioning transformation : towards a systematic proto-evangelical paradigm of the Christian life.
… the contemporary church, usage of the term transformation has become commonplace. However, the way it is understood is often misguided. This study provides an original synthesis that points the church towards the need to express and live out a full, integrated, effectual and distinctly Christian …
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An examination of short-term missions as a strategic component in youth ministry programming
… ministry programming as a method of aiding the Christian formation and maturation of participants. The researcher surveyed 517 students and 187 adults (including youth ministry leaders) who participated in a short-term mission experience called World Changers, a ministry of the North American …
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Evaluating Holistic Formation Strategies and Objectives in Christian Gap Year Programs: A Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study
The Christian gap year experience presents young adults with an immersive, diverse, and experiential educational and growth opportunity in a season of life brimming with change and potentialities. While the gap year concept was around long before the turn of the century, it has been slowly adopted …
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The Phenomenon of Social Presence in the Pauline Epistles and Its Implication for Practices of Online Education
… by demonstrating that Paul believed that Christian formation could be effected from a distance via the epistle. Specifically, this thesis shows that Paul held beliefs about the capability of the epistle to act as a personal proxy. Paul therefore displays an educational strategy that …
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Towards formative interpretation: a theological hermeneutical proposal
… ask whether these are hospitable or hostile to Christian formation. Our findings show the negative effects of pluralism and secularisation that dominate in the field of hermeneutics. Our work then focuses on the development of a theological hermeneutics, within which formative interpretation …
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Missionary Sending and the Moravian Brethren
… missionaries. I begin by building a model of Christian formation based on James Smith’s concept of cultural liturgies. Then, to distinguish the effects of the inherited culture of the Moravian Brethen from their eighteenth-century contemporary practice, I offer a history of the Brethren from …
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Factors Relating to Diminished Confidence in Core Christian Doctrines among Students in Private Colleges and Universities: a Mixed Methods Study
… found themselves least equipped to defend core Christian doctrines of the faith to define areas that churches and parents can better partner in equipping young adults with apologetic and foundational truths. Based on a review of significant texts, research reports that anywhere from 30 to 60 …
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Missiological perspective of discipleship in francophone churches in Pretoria
The study shows that all of Paul s quotes and allusions to Jesus traditions have parallels in Matthew, although the wording of the Pauline Jesus tradition occasionally agrees more with Luke s gospel than Matthew s. Mark never shares more verbal agreement with a Pauline sayings of Jesus than Matthew …