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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Ordained"”.
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Divinely ordained death? Exploring religious determinants of support for capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia
Whether individuals may decide to end other people or their own life has always been a matter of ethical and social debate. The current research explores attitudes toward three cases of unnatural death: capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia. One considerable factor which shapes individuals’ …
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Theological education and ministerial training for the ordained ministry of the Church of England 1800 - 1850
… education and ministerial training for the ordained ministry of the Church of England between 1800 - 1850. More particularly it documents who the men were who had the vision and entrepreneural skills to found new colleges and universities$ what the social, political and ecclesiastical …
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Exploring the Lived Religious Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Ordained Clergy in the United Methodist Church
… qualitative study interviewed lesbian and gay ordained elders in the UMC to learn about their experiences of serving as clergy people in the UMC even though there are prohibitive statements in church documents. Firstly, the interviews revealed that the participants feel loved and called by God …
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The Effects of Work-Related and Boundary-Related Stress On theEmotional and Physical Health Status of Ordained Clergy
… personal demands and increasing complexity of ordained ministry have expanded alongside other professionals; while at the same time, the public respect for the profession has declined. In addition, the overwhelming majority of ordained ministers serve medium-sized or smaller congregations, …
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Towards a framework of creating coping strategies for newly ordained Roman Catholic priests engaged with major transitions in their lives
… impact. One of these stages is when a person is ordained a priest. On this occasion a number of significant occurs in his life. This thesis will explore how newly ordained priests cope with these transitions to assist with creating a new framework for coping strategies for priests engaged with …
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Power, Authority and Influence: A Comparative Study of the Behavioral Influence Tactics Used by Lay and Ordained Leaders in the Episcopal Church
… the behavioral influence tactics used by lay and ordained leaders in ECUSA, 152 participants completed the Episcopal Leadership Questionnaire and the agent version of the Influence Behavior Questionnaire (Yukl, 2000). In addition to demographic and contextual variables, participants identified the …
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The understanding and acceptance of children’s rights amongst those in formation (or recently ordained) to become Catholic priests in Ireland: an exploratory study
… concurrent focus on the individual seminarian or ordained priest and the influence of the wider contexts in which they are situated, two theoretical frameworks have been chosen to reflect this dual nature of the Holy See. The first, ‘Sociological Institutionalism’, examines the impact of …
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The Struggle for Acceptance: Continued Resistance to Female Ministers in Rural Holston Conference.
<p>This study was conducted to determine if ordained women clergy experience resistance or lack of receptivity to their appointments. If so, does the resistance more readily occur with churches in a rural area? The focus of the study was women clergy of the Holston Conference of the United …
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Mentorship Experiences of Female Clergy in the United Methodist Church: A Phenomenological Study
… hermeneutic phenomenological study explored how ordained and licensed female clergy in the UMC experience and make meaning of mentorship. Participants included eleven ordained and licensed clergywomen with at least two years of ministerial experience. Thematic analysis surfaced four themes: …
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Presbyterians, Ulster unionism and the establishment of Northern Ireland 1905-47
… to adhere. Irish Presbyterians hold that the ordained leadership of the Church consists of ministers and ruling elders, holding the same office and divided only by function. This means that its ordained leadership is much less obvious than that of other Irish denominations. <br/><br/>Part 1. …
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On Being Gay and Christian.
… and their willingness to allow gays to be ordained as Priests, Ministers, or to hold offices in the church.</p>
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Six Archbishops and their ordinands: A study of the leadership provided by successive Archbishops of Perth in the recruitment and formation of clergy in Western Australia 1914-2005
… seeks to tell the story of the evolution of ordained ministry in the Christian Church, with an emphasis on the work of the ministry in the Anglican Church of Western Australia since the arrival of the first settlers in 1829. After a brief look at the early days, the focus is on the efforts to …
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Route Planning: Mapping Journeys to Priesthood in the Church of England
… of secularism and the professionalisation of the ordained ministry, little attention has been paid to the formation of new priests and the way in which this shapes their self-understanding and identity.<br/>This longitudinal study follows men and women from their earliest days in theological …
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Lay Ecclesial Ministry as Vocation: A Particular Call To Mission for Laity in the Roman Catholic Church
… of the laity, the relationship between the ordained and laity in ministry, the basis of "call" to ministry, and the relationship between lay ecclesial ministers and the laity in general. It is critical that those issues continue to be developed if lay ecclesial ministry is to flourish. The …
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Extremist religious philosophy : the religious doctrines of Satmar Rebbe
… He was born into a rabbinical 'dynasty' and was ordained as a rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva and Rebbe in Hungary at a young age. It was in Hungary that his anti-Zionist views were developed. Notwithstanding the annihilation of Eastern European Jewry during the Holocaust, these views became more extreme …
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Covenantal Culmination: Why the New Covenant Documents Signify the Cessation of Normative Post-Apostolic Revelation
… with the New Covenant, elucidating God’s ordained means of speaking to his people through the first century apostles and prophets. Chapter 5 offers concluding remarks in view of the relevant apologetical, evangelistic, and polemical implications for the broader church.
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Sub-Ordination: Mary Magdalene, the Church, and the Ordination of Women
… but also the possibility of women within the ordained priesthood.</p>
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Eve Disordered: The Relationship of Feminine Happiness and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost
… of one's hierarchical position are a divinely-ordained fact of life; one who fulfills his or her hierarchical duty is praiseworthy, though the ubiquity of this conviction throughout the poem has not always been reflected in critical responses.</p>
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An examination of the Biblical role of women in contemporary church life
… are "abandoning" the biblical role which God ordained for them. The aim of this study is to explore the validity of women in leadership roles within the church and whether this practice deviates from God's original plan revealed in His Word or not. The research seeks to trace this tendency in …
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The relationship between Jewish ethnic and religious identity
… reported as important because they are divinely ordained. When global attitudes were taken out of the logistic regression model due to their high degree of overlap with the global practices, the most important predictor of whether a subject would rate "ethnic" Jewishness as "very important" or …
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