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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Glory of God."”.
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Worship as Witness: The Subject and the Glory of God
… in reconciling the individual spirituality of each believer with the communal identity of ekklesia has become acute, and as a result, many have rejected subjectivity in worship in pursuit of a “pure” and objective view of God. Rather than being a debate about relativity and objectivity, this …
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Working for the Glory of God: The Distinction Between Greed and Self-Interest in the Life and Letters of the Apostle Paul
… between self-interest and greed. The review of literature in chapter 1 reveals that definitions of greed often rely on such terms as “excessive” and “inordinate,” without defining the terms. Chapter 2 shows Paul’s expectation that believers work usefully in the church, home, and marketplace. …
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Dorothy Scarborough : biography and criticism.
In the classroom of Dr. A. Joseph Armstrong in Pat Neff Hall, Baylor University named for Dorothy Scarborough is her portrait. In her countenance one sees love, sympathy, understanding, and a keen sense of humor. Her countenance is not misleading for she was richly endowed with these qualities, and …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
<p>Joseph Campbell, a preeminent scholar of world mythology, wrote often regarding the “ power of myth ” in our society. Myth, which serves as a metaphor to explain the world and ourselves to ourselves, can be used to further the greater good of mankind. It can also be used to inflict great harm …
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The soteriological significance of the cross of Jesus : metaphor, meaning and salvation
… the scriptures." Here the structure and sequence of soteriological events are explicitly stated in creedal formulation, where Christ's crucifixion holds the strategic centre point, where Jesus not only dies, but dies for our salvation. The Cross is the emblematic sign of Christian authenticity, …
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Equipping Leaders at Truth Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Toward a Biblical Stewardship of the Body
… in Philadelphia towards a biblical stewardship of the body is a project designed to express the scriptural rationale for maintaining godly health and fitness habits and lifestyles. The baseline for the examination of prior biblical and practical knowledge became measurable by utilizing standard …
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Financial Planning in Religious Communities of Women
The main goals of a religious community are the honor and glory of God and the sanctification of its members. These goals are to be achieved through various external works of charity, such as caring for the sick, educating of youths and adults, ministering to anyone in need. In this study, we are …
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The hermeneutical praxis of the 'Rule of faith' as generating an ecclesiology of community in Irenaeus of Lyons
Introduction . 'The Glory of God is a living person...a church community fully alive.' A modern paraphrase of Irenaeus' famous dictum or a rediscovery of a profound insight? Can we build a continuity with the relevance of modern day paradigms from how Irenaeus saw his world and how we see our …
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Mission as Virtuous Practice: A Theology Of Mission Through the Lens of Virtue Ethics
… as a guide both for critiquing various models of Christian mission and for constructing a model of mission that adequately addresses these criticisms. The first section of the dissertation (chapters one, two, and three) is devoted to an assessment of three major models of mission, which I have …
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Toward A Life-Changing Application Paradigm in Expository Preaching
The primary aim of this dissertation is to examine the hermeneutical foundation, the biblical basis, the historical principle, and then to formulate a four-bridge application paradigm based on four distinguished processes--exegetical, doctrinal, homiletical, and transformational--aiming at …
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Aims of Education in the Writings of Ellen White
… philosophy and its application to the aims of education have not been systematically or thoroughly addressed within the parameters and demands of a graduate thesis. The present dissertation explores the aims of education, especially the ultimate aims of education, in the writings of Ellen G. …
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A Biblical Portrait of Death as the Qualifier of Both the Ethic and Value of Human Life
… might be termed "biolatry"--i.e., the worship of (human) life--contradicts the biblical articulation of the value of human life and results in an ethic of honoring that life above the ordinance of the God who both created and orders life and death in accord with his own infinitely good and holy …
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
The prospect of global ecological disaster fundamental challenge to modernity as the poses a dominant contemporary socio-cultural matrix. This challenge can only be responded to through a radical socio-cultural transformation which favours those, human and otherkind, who have been marginalised and …
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
… has been criticized as a cause and enabler of Earth's ecological crisis. This criticism is based on the conclusion that Christianity promotes a spiritual-material dualism and that the material side of life has little sacred value. It is also based on the observed hesitancy of many Christians …
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Impassible and impassioned: Reevaluating the doctrines of divine impassibility and divine relationality
… properly understood, it is correct to say that God is impassible and impassioned. This proposal self-consciously develops the dual affirmation of the mainstream impassibility tradition that God is both impassible, in the sense of never having emotion wrung from him involuntarily, and supremely …
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Glory Through Suffering: The Telos of Humanity in the Humanity of Christ
What is the precise function of suffering in the actualization of the telos of the image of God? I argue that suffering as an instrumental context is the connecting link between the intended glory-function of the imago Dei and the actualized telos of humanity in Christ. Suffering is contextual …
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Identifying the Classical Theologia Crucis and in this Light Karl Barth's Modern Theology of the Cross
… parts. It first identifies the shape and content of an ancient system of Christian thought predicated on the theology of the cross of Jesus Christ, and proposes the marks typifying its theologians. Over against the ensuing hermeneutic it next finds the project of twentieth century Swiss theologian …
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Die gelofte van 16 Desember 1838 : die herdenking en betekenis daarvan, 1838 tot 1910 (Afrikaans)
After suffering heavy losses at the hands of the warriors of Zulu King Dingane (c. 1795-1840), a Voortrekker commando advanced against the former in December 1838. As it was evident that they would be faced by superior enemy numbers, the Voortrekkers were induced by A.W.J. Pretorius (1798-1853) and …
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The twenty-one core values of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the ministries of graduates
… examined how the more recent graduates of The Southern Baptist Seminary (SBTS) are incorporating the twenty-one core values of the institution into their present ministries. The data garnered from this present research will enlighten interested parties to the world of assessment in …
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