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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"sanctification"”.
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Utilizing a Reformed Sanctification Framework to Assess and Evaluate C. Peter Wagner’s Doctrine of Sanctification
… with an articulated Reformed doctrine of sanctification and paradigm of discipleship and sanctification. This work (1) introduces and employs an articulated paradigm of discipleship, Virtuous Christian Discipleship (VCD), to access and evaluate Wagner’s doctrine of sanctification and (2) …
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The American Wesleyan-Holiness Movement's doctrine of entire sanctification: A reformulation
… attempts to solve is how to define entire sanctification for the contemporary American Holiness Movement. A distinctive debate is going on between Wesleyan-Holiness scholars. Scholars are asking the following questions: What is Wesley's doctrine of entire sanctification? Has the Holiness …
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"Jesus saves me now": Sanctification in the writings of Hannah Whitall Smith
… dissertation examines the unique perspective on sanctification of Hannah Whitall Smith. Quakers of the nineteenth century, Hannah and her husband became internationally famous in the Higher Life Movement. The intent of her writings, she said, was to "bring out, as far as possible, the …
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Put on the New Man: Embodied Sanctification in Ephesians 4:22-24
… In contrast, I argue that progressive sanctification requires embodied action. First, I propose holistic dualism as the biblical model for understanding human constitution. In this model, humans are persons consisting of two aspects, the material and the immaterial. These two aspects …
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A Distinguished Blessing of Grace: Abraham Booth’s Doctrine of Sanctification in Confessional Context
… the first dedicated study of Booth’s doctrine of sanctification and its undergirding confessional context. It argues that Booth seems to have consciously followed the English Reformed tradition in four critical areas related to sanctification: (1) his understanding of the necessity and ground of …
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Jonathan Edwards and Sanctification: The Pursuit of Happiness Found in Union and Obedience
… the critical missing element of happiness in the sanctification debates of today, an element that is crucial for the doctrine of sanctification because it points to the One in whom true happiness is found and who is the believer’s good. This argument puts the focus on relationship and underlines …
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Sanctification of Work: A Potential Moderator of the Relationship between Work Stress and Health
… increase well being. Research has shown that the sanctification of work may be linked to higher levels of positive outcomes such as job satisfaction. However, links between work stress in human services work and health outcomes, and how the sanctification of work may affect this relationship, have …
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Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
… potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender differences were present in participants endorsement of positive marital quality and negative marital quality. Through a quantitative analysis, …
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Pastoral Preaching: A Reformation and Redefinition of a Pastor’s Call to Preach for the Purpose of Sanctification
… thus participating in God’s call for the sanctification of His people. Chapter 2 describes approaches to pastoral preaching that have emerged since Harry Emerson Fosdick’s controversial methods. It compares these approaches to the definition of pastoral preaching and discusses why they are …
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
… four interrelated subjects: justification, sanctification, union with Christ, and covenant theology. It is comprised of four main parts, set forth with the thesis that the nature of the biblical covenants God makes with humans is both unconditional and conditional (or unilateral and …
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Samuel Rutherford's Response to the Antinomian Controversy in England and its Impact on His Doctrine of Sanctification
… Antinomiansintopreviouslyunchartedterritories of sanctification.This is made evident by examininghistreatisesagainsttheworks thathis peers (1640s) and predecessors (1630s)published in response to the Antinomian Controversy.The following features of Rutherford’s doctrine of sanctification governed …
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Becoming What We Are: A Theological Account of Self-Development Informed by William Perkins's Theology of Sanctification
… in the classical Reformed doctrine of sanctification. This undertaking is premised on deep misgivings about the way many people, including many Christians, now tend to conceive of how to grow and develop as persons. This (problematic) approach to self-development has been variously …
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Sanctified by the Spirit: Applying John Owen's Concept of Spirit-Infused Habitual Grace to Divergent Models of Sanctification within the Biblical Counseling Movement
… two divergent frameworks for understanding sanctification within the biblical counseling movement. Owen portrayed Spirit-infused habitual grace as the internal, metaphysical work whereby God sanctifies his people and conforms them to the image of Christ. He demonstrated that sanctification …
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Continuing Weak Along the Narrow Way: The Role of Suffering in John Bunyan's Pastoral Theology of Sanctification and Perseverance
… context. Chapter 3 reviews the doctrine of sanctification and its relationship to suffering in Puritan context and Bunyan’s pastoral theology. Chapter 4 reviews the doctrine of perseverance and its relationship to suffering in Puritan context and Bunyan’s pastoral theology. Chapter 5 …
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Charles Hodge: Evangelical Mystic
… The Way of Life. Hodge says that the essence of sanctification is “a participation of the Divine nature, or the conformity of the soul to God.” His theology of sanctification and the Christian life is directly linked to John Calvin and the Westminster Standards and therefore can provide a …
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Pragmatic Holiness in the Early Salvation Army: A Theology of Holiness as Action
The notion of holiness and sanctification are central to most Protestant understandings and expressions of religious life. This thesis explores whether a pragmatic understanding of holiness, particularly in the Wesleyan-Arminian stream, can have a meaningful place in the postmodern world. This …
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A theological and marital interactional analysis of African American Christian couples
… influences of religiosity, spirituality and the sanctification of marriage in the Black Church. The second major focus of this marital research project involved utilizing the T-MACC observational coding system to determine the relationship between the husband's and wife's level of marital …
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Errors on the vertical: Santification, infra-humanization, and religious prejudice
… on measures of humanness(haslam et al.,2005), sanctification (Mahoney et al., 2003), and moral emotions (e.g. disgust, admiration). Results indicated that participants appeared to rate target entities along a chain of being with some entities perceived as more than human and some perceived as …
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Soteriological Perspectives in the Seventh-day Adventist Church From 1930 to 2000
… Outlining their perceptions of justification and sanctification, including various theological subtopics, will be necessary to identify their diverse views and delineate a history of Adventist perceptions of soteriology.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>This study identified that the historical …
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