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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Church and society."”.
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Church and society in Tuvalu
… Western social science, official descriptions, and missionary accounts and posits a strong ideological connection between these and indigenous communalism.
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Freedom and authority in Church and society: Maude Dominica Petre 1863-1942
… main ideas as expressed in her published works and see how they developed over the course of her long life. The issue of authority and liberty in Church and society will be highlighted as one of the dominant themes of her writing. Her life and thought will be placed in the context of her age and …
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A history of Zonnebloem College, 1858-1870 : a study of church and society
… the Instruction of the children of Native Chiefs and their Councillors at Bishop's Court, (1) the home of Bishop Gray in Claremont, in February, 1858. This experiment in education was the realization of the vision of two leading personalities of the time - Bishop Gray, the Metropolitan of the …
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Church and secondary societies in Korean ecclesiology and the Christocentric perspective of Karl Barth.
… to critically map out the relationship between Church and society in the current Korean context in light of three models: difference, identity, and harmony, and to propose a better relationship between Church and society in the Korean context from Karl Barth's Christocentric vision of the …
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Establishing a Framework for Female-Gendered Embodiment in a Redemptive Context
… a definition which is scripturally grounded and ontologically-based. If a woman does not comprehend her essential purpose and ontological nature, she may perform duties and responsibilities, but the richness of her living within her God-given design will be diminished—to the detriment of the …
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Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, and Pastoral Implications
… in what sense the Christian family can be called Church: not at all, analogically, and/or univocally. Integral to the dissertation is that the hierarchical magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church has developed significantly the ecclesial nature of the Christian family during the past three …
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La Santa Muerte: Origin and Significance of a Mexican Folk Saint
… skeletal figure, often holding a globe, scythe, and scale. Santa Muerte has become ubiquitous in Mexico and increasingly common among Mexican immigrants in the United States. Santa Muerte is not accepted or authorized by the Catholic Church, but devotees, predominantly Catholic, petition Santa …
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A Study of Seton Hall University and the Attributes of Organizational Adaptation Employed in Fashioning its Catholic Identity and Mission in the Post-Vatican II Era (1966-2006)
<p>This thesis is the first fully developed and published study of Seton Hall University. It specifically examines the organizational structures of Seton Hall University over a forty year period in light of the tumultuous changes in the Catholic Church and Catholic academia post-Vatican 11. Of …
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Giving alone: towards an understanding of the practices and motivations of American Evangelical Millennial philanthropy
… Christians to further the development of the church and society has been a defining characteristic of this group for many generations. However, that legacy appears to be in jeopardy as the rising Millennial generation, those born in the 1980s and 90s, are giving less to the church and other …
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Cathedrals and the Church of England, c.1660-1714
… the historiographical cracks. While antiquarians and art historians have seen their early modern pasts as nothing more than periods of ‘desecration and pillage’, early modern historians have dismissed cathedrals as medieval ‘fossils’, irrelevant and impermeable to the religious upheavals of the …
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"Scripture Is Both the Glosse and the Text": Biblical Interpretation and Its Implementation in the Works of William Perkins
… Perkins’s belief that Scripture was God’s Word and the only adequate foundation for the reformation he sought for individuals, the church, and society. The fact that Scripture was God’s Word determined his hermeneutic—Scripture interprets itself. Though not reflected in most Perkinsian …
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Assessment of the Level of Relevancy of Theological Education in the Chinese Context
… of Adventist theological education in China and providing recommendations for improvement.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>The study employs a mixed-method approach, combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods to gain a comprehensive understanding of the issue. The quantitative stage …
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An analysis of leadership styles and practices among Korean senior pastors
… was to explore the leadership styles, practices, and influential factors contributing to the leadership styles and practices among Korean senior pastors based on transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership. Quantitative and qualitative research were employed in this study for …
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The divided roots of Lutheranism in South Africa : a critical overview of the social history of the German-speaking Lutheran missions and the churches originating from their work in South Africa
… that the present social location of the Lutheran churches can be explained by examining the history of their internal divisions and their relation to broader struggles in society. The history of the Lutheran missions and churches is considered in relation to the political and socio-economic …
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Puolueet kirkkoa valtaamassa? : Suomen evankelis-luterilaisen kirkon ja yhteiskunnan väliset suhteet Forssan, Merijärven ja Vihdin seurakuntavaalien 1970, 1974 ja 1978 valossa
… my thesis, I examined how relations between the Church and society were reflected in journals in the light of the news coverage of parish elections in the 1970s. I chose three different parishes from all over Finland for my thesis: Forssa, Merijärvi and Vihti. The research material consisted of …
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Africanisation of worship in the Langa Moravian church : liturgy in a new key
This thesis explores "inculturation as it has and has not taken place in the Moravian Church in general and specifically at Langa where the writer has been a probation minister from 1998- 1999 and an ordained minister from 1999 onwards. It explores the amelioration of the present undesirable …
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
… year history had the Roman Catholic Church been so shaken as when, in the sixteenth century, a mere handful of men advanced the Scriptural doctrines that were to result in the rise of Protestantism. The sole authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, and righteousness by …
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The emerging woman of the twentieth century : a study of the women in D.H. Lawrence's novels The rainbow and Women in love
… for women in these novels than had suffrage, and his detailed prescription for what he termed a "unified being" as written in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious.The research was planned to determine whether or not Lawrence had actually fulfilled his promise to …