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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Liturgy and Worship"”.
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Liturgy and Ritual as Religious Education: Implications for the Seventh-day Adventist Church
<p>Problem. The act of worship has not been the central focus of the Seventh-day Adventist church. An evangelistic priority has reduced its worship periods to mostly didactic acts, often leaving believers unsatisfied in their desires to worship. Structural deficiencies are evident in the neglect of …
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The Colton Celebration Congregation: a Case Study in American Adventist Worship Renewal 1986-1991
… Center (Colton, California), its milieu, and its impact on the North American Seventh-day Adventist Church through what has been perceived as the celebration movement and controversy, while addressing underlying historical, sociological, and philosophical/theological question.</p> <p>The …
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Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944
<h3>The Topic</h3> <p>This study examined Black and White Seventh-day Adventist music in the liturgy in the United States from 1840 to 1944. Little scholarly attention has been given to the development of Adventist liturgical practice, the function of music in the liturgy, and the effect of music …
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The Philosophy of Christian Service and its Practice in the Seventh-day Adventist Senior Academies of the United States during the 1979-1980 School Year
… necessary to write a philosophy of service, and to specify the organizational components required for service projects.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Two types of closely related research were used in this study : descriptive analysis and descriptive developmental. A descriptive analysis was made …
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Sing a New Song: Analyzing A Cappella Arrangements of Contemporary Worship Music
<p>Music is indispensable to Christian worship services, and pop/rock-influenced contemporary worship music (CWM) serves an important role in modern worship. This thesis explores strategies for arranging CWM for a cappella settings by comparing the originals with two a cappella arrangements: one …
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The Relationship Between Liturgical Practice and Spirituality in the Church of the Nazarene with Special Reference to John Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfection
… was promoted feverishly through revivalism and worship structured after the camp meeting model; however, over time the promotion and propagation of holiness began to wane. Currently, the belief in and pursuit of inward holiness among both clergy and laity are rapidly vanishing. For more than …
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Worship : Hope for the Waiting Community
<p>The relationship between hope and worship has been neglected for too long in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Adventism in North America has lost much of its zeal for and emphasis on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. A renewed awareness of corporate worship's importance would help Adventists …
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The Church as a Eucharistic and Prophetic Community in India: A Theological Exploration into the Challenges and Implications of a Eucharistic Ecclesiology Based on the Early Church and the Statements of the Indian Theological Association (ITA)
… time to time to make the faith more meaningful and relevant to the contemporary context. To an extent, the Second Vatican Council, by its commitment to two concepts, “r<em>essourcement” and “aggiornamento,” </em>succeeded in this mission in the last century. The communion ecclesiology of the …
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Theology of Arcavatara and the Eucharist: A Comparative Study
<p>The diversity in the world today is undeniable and quite imposing. The claim to uniqueness and universality of faith in each religious system cannot be sustained without factoring the implications and impacts of this claim on the well-being of humanity and reality hermeneutics. The postmodern …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on involvement, of Damasus in contemporary theological disputes, his appropriation of Roman …
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Reshaping The Theology and Praxis of Inculturation through Interreligious Dialogue Between The Catholic Church and African Traditional Religion in Igboland, Nigeria
<p>Prior to the advent of Christianity in Igboland, the people practiced Igbo Traditional Religion. They believed in a Supreme Being (<em>Chukwu/Chineke</em>) who has other smaller deities as messengers including <em>Ala/Ani</em> the most powerful deity on earth. They revered their ancestors, who, …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
<p>I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, …