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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"World Christianity"”.
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Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1835-1924) and the Javanese mystical Christian movement.
… central figure in the development of indigenous Christianity in colonial Java. Born into a poor farming family and orphaned as a child, Sadrach’s spiritual journey began within the Javanese mystical tradition and later traversed Islamic Sufism before culminating in his conversion to Christianity. …
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Mission policies of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), 1901-1980: their contribution to the regional character of the Church
… like the Tiruray in Upi, Maguindanao. After World War II to 1962, the church adopted policies of centralization - gathering key institutions in one centre - and expansion of influence - bringing church’s influence to the mainstream of Philippine society. However, when the church pursued its …
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A Descriptive Study of the Personality, Attitudes, and Overseas Experience of Seventh-day Adventist College Students Who Served as Short-Term Volunteer Missionaries
<p>Problem. During the last ten years there has been a surge of Interest among college students in short-term volunteer missionary service. It was the purpose of the present study to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of a group of 150 Seventh-day Adventist college …
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Adventist Medical Mission in Botswana: Toward an Effective and Appropriate Model
… research showed that Africans have a holistic worldview. Any imbalance in the physical, social, mental, emotional, relational, environmental, or spiritual spheres of their lives constitutes illness. The biblical medical mission model revealed that God viewed humanity holistically and desired to …
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Structure and Mission Effectiveness: a Study Focused on Seventh-day Adventist Mission to Unreached People Groups Between 1980 and 2010
<p>The present study examines the impact of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's structure on mission effectiveness in taking the gospel to unreached people groups between 1980 and 2010. A historical descriptive study, this dissertation's theory base includes structure from an anthropological …
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From Devout Follower of Muhammad to Committed Disciple of Jesus: Principles and Methods of Transition Phase Discipleship Among Adventist Believers From a Muslim Background in Ethiopia
… phase discipleship. These include: working on worldview transformation among new BMBs to overcome theological challenges; educating new believers on the biblical concept of the cosmic conflict and caring for the persecuted believers to persevere in persecution; and applying biblical principles …
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Religion, Culture, and Modernity : Some Missiological Implications of the Process of Secularization in East Asia
… and the individual. The focus in chapter 2 is on worldview and worldview change and the functions of these in the process of secularization. A five-part theoretical paradigm of the traditional Chinese worldview analyzed vis-à-vis the themes, hierarchy, antiquity, particularity, harmony, and …
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A Study of Nones in Brazil and the USA in Light of Secularization Theory with Missiological Implications
<p>The growth of those who declare themselves to be Nones, or religiously unaffiliated, in Brazil and the USA has been continuously higher than that of the general population. In Brazil, they are the third-largest group in the religious field, behind only Catholics, and Pentecostal evangelicals. In …
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A Selected Bibliography Suitable for Use in Overseas Missionary Nursing Preparation
<p>Missionary nursing, as one form of nursing and as a method of endeavor, has been neglected in both nursing and mission literature.</p> <p>It was the purpose of this study to identify, classify, and list bibliographical material which is applicable and would serve as a source of information to …
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Preparation and Practice of Ministry : a Study of Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Education in the Philippines
<p>Background and purpose of the study. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the present undergraduate ministerial degree offered at Philippine Union College is able to prepare the ministry adequately to meet the demands in the North Philippines. This study surveyed the …
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A Theory Base and Mission-Sending Model for the South American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… Division decided to actively engage in the worldwide mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church by sending twenty-five families to serve as frontline missionaries in different countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Even though the South American Division can positively identify the …
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An Analysis of Adventist Mission Methods in Brazil in Relationship to a Christian Movement Ethos
… second highest total number of Adventists in the world. Very little academic research has been done to study or analyze the growth and development of the Adventist church in Brazil. In terms of its mission methods, what is the Christian movement ethos that fostered this development in Brazil? How …
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A Comparative Study of the Concept of Atonement in the Aboakyer Festival of the Effutu Tribe in Ghana and the Yom Kippur Festival of the Old Testament: Implications for Adventist Mission Among the Effutu
<p>Statement of Problem</p> <p>History records that Christian missions have operated in Winneba since 1865 with various approaches being used to share the gospel with the Effutu. Though there have been successes, allegiance of the Effutu to their tribal gods, manifested especially during the …
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Becoming ‘Jewish’ believing in Jesus? Conversion, gender and ethnicity in the production of the Judaising Evangelical subject
… thesis investigates the meanings of a growing worldwide religious movement fusing beliefs and identity claims deriving from Judaism and Charismatic Evangelicalism. Unlike Messianic Judaism, where Jewish-born people identified as believers in Jesus remain faithful to their Jewish traditions …
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Some Principles of Christian Mission to Muslims
… the first part in regard to the doctrine of sin, Christianity advocates faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ as the remedy for His believers, while Islam believes that man is good by nature and Allah's remedy is the Quran. Consequently, Muslims do not recognize a- need for salvation in the …
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From 'Black-Eyed Girls' to the MMU (Mujeres Methotistas Unidas): Race, Religion and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
<p>This study places the stories of Mexican American Methodist women in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands within the context of the organizational history of the United Methodist Women of the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church: Mujeres Metodistas Unidas, or the MMU. It focuses on the …
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Understanding Secularized People of Metro Manila: A Case Study Approach for a Contextualized Urban Ministry Strategy
… or secularized people in cities of the world who engage in pursuits of materialism and show declining interest in religion. Sociologists and missiologists postulate about the spectrum of secularity and the variety of secularism in different context. Since Metro Manila is one of the …
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Constructing a Theology of Relational Life Through the Themes of Creation, Incarnation, and Re-Creation as an Alternative to Current Categories of Religions
… Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Christianity, animism, folk religions, tribal religions, atheism, Marxism, etc. In the space created by deconstructing the categories of religions a constructive theology of relational life rooted in the biblical themes of creation, Incarnation, and …
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