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The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Interpretation of the Word of God
THE ROLE OF THE SPIRIT IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD OF GOD This dissertation examines the role of the Spirit in the interpretation of the Word of God. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and its significance. The topic is important because it has been historically neglected, because there is a lack …
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Word of Life, Word of God: An Examination of the Use of the Term Logos in the Johannine Literature
… literature, most famously in the Prologue of the Gospel of John. There the Logos is said to have existed in the beginning, to be with God, to be God, and to have become flesh in Jesus Christ.</p><p>Ed. L. Miller maintains that the body of the Gospel of John was composed first, then the …
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Origen's doctrine of subordination
The first chapter discusses Origen's conception of the way in which the Word of God fulfils the Father's creative purpose, and ends by pointing out the difficulties thus arising in distinguishing creation from redemption. The second chapter discusses the way in which the Word of God reveals God's …
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield …
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Improving Conclusions In Expository Preaching at Holly Baptist Church, Corinth, MS
… Chapter 1 states the introductory matters of the project. Chapter 2 discusses the conviction of teaching God's Word. This chapter provides biblical accounts of people who were convicted to teach the Word of God. Chapter 3 examines guidelines for improving conclusions in expository sermons. …
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The source and authority of prophecy in the Old Testament period
… His ministry was both to communicate the word of God to man and also to be consulted by man about the hidden things of life. We consider some of the many factors which went to constitute the prophet the man he was and thus enable him to have that assurance of being God's spokesman. These …
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In Your Mouth and in Your Heart: A Study of Deuteronomy 30:12–14 in Paul’s Letter to the Romans in Canonical Context
By quoting Deuteronomy 30:12–14 as the content of the message of the righteousness of faith over against Leviticus 18:5 and the righteousness of the law in Romans 10:5–8, Paul proclaims a promise fulfilled in accord with the original meaning of the text written by Moses in Deuteronomy. More …
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Christus as Hoof van die kerk en die presbiteriale kerkregering
Every system of church government, which declares to be Christian, takes its starting point in the New Testament revelation that Christ is the Head of his body, the church, (Col. 1:18); however each of these systems arrives at vastly different conclusions. The Presbyterian system of church …
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Preaching Faith Seen Through Works to High School Students at Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Oklahoma
This project is series of seven sermons in the book of James which seeks to exposit selected Scriptures in light of biblical theology. James was an extremely effective communicator, who used vivid illustrations to drive home his point that the Christian faith is a working faith. While salvation for …
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Scripture as Architecture
… for worship; introduces the unbeliever to God; facilitates worship services; projects the words of the pastor; resonates the music of the choir and orchestra; deepens knowledge and understanding of the faith; instructs children as well as adults; promotes fellowship; shelters the needy; …
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Equipping the Members of First Baptist Church Calvert City, Kentucky to Develop the Practice of Personal Devotions.,
The purpose of this project was to equip members of First Baptist Church (FBC), Calvert City, Kentucky, to develop a daily practice of personal devotions. Chapter 1 provides the goals, context, rationale, and definitions for this ministry project. It also describes the research methodology and …
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Equipping Members of Annville Baptist Church in Annville, Kentucky, to Faithfully Practice Biblical Hermeneutics
This project sought to equip members of Annville Baptist Church in Annville, Kentucky to faithfully practice biblical hermeneutics. Chapter 1 describes the ministry context of Annville Baptist, the rationale behind the project, and the goals of the project. Chapter 2 presents the exegesis of five …
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Equipping Small Group Leaders at Troy First Baptist Church to Disciple Members Using Concepts of Biblical Counseling
… Baptist Church in Troy, Missouri, in concepts of biblical counseling. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Troy First and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of passages of Scripture to show that every disciple is capable to make disciples and counsel one …
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Windows into the Unseen the Power of Metaphor as Revealed by Paul Ricoeur and Moses Maimonides
<p>Ambiguous language haunts countless fields of human inquiry. The solution to its confounding nature has repeatedly been to reduce language to its face-value, launching an endless search for the right meaning. This paper aims to examine two thinkers who reveal language to be a more complicated …
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Addressing Issues Related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Self-Identifying Christians in the Asian American Church
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to contextualize the …
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Word and Spirit in Francis Turretin and Jean Claude
This dissertation examines the doctrine of the Word and the Spirit in the theology of two important Reformed pastors and theologians of the seventeenth century Francis Turretin (1623–1687) and Jean Claude (1619–1687), who ministered respectively in Geneva and France. For the Reformed churches of …
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An analysis of atonement theory in St. Athanasius’ De Incarnatione in relation to earlier thinking.
Athanasius was Bishop of Alexandria during the fourth century, and was completely unyielding in his defence of the full divinity of the person of Jesus Christ as the Divine Word of God. His steadfast resolve in the face of ever-increasing heresy, has gained him much admiration in every generation …
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A Reappraisal of Religious Experience in Expository Preaching in Light of Jonathan Edwards's Sense of the Heart
The primary aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate that Jonathan Edwards's "sense of the heart" as a principle of a new kind of perception or spiritual sensation given by the Spirit of God in regeneration, in which a believer tastes or sees God's beauty, can provide expository preaching with a …
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Teaching the Bible to Black Africans : (Toward a Methodological Approach to Bible Teaching Applied to the Beti Tribes of South-Cameroon)
… This study is concerned with methods of teaching the Bible in Black Africa and particularly among the Beti tribes of South Cameroon. The Gospel message has been brought to the Beti people through the ministry of Western instructors. Some have claimed their teaching to be irrelevant to …
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