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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"the Apostle"”.
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Shared Leadership as Exemplified by the Apostle Paul
SHARED LEADERSHIP AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE APOSTLE PAUL Michael Kenneth Atherton, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Michael S. Wilder This thesis studies the presence and role of shared leadership as displayed through the ministry of the apostle Paul. In chapter 1, the …
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The apostle Paul's social philosophy with its political implications
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Church Revitalization: Insights from the Ministry of the Apostle Paul
Chapter 1 introduces the research topic by examining the current health of the American church. After establishing that the majority of American churches today are indeed unhealthy, a case is made for the need to develop a revitalization strategy to improve the health of these churches. This …
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A quest for historical traditions of the Apostle Paul in Nonpauline sources
Two assumptions shape modem Pauline studies. They are that the Apostle Paul -wrote letters, and that his theology can be reconstructed from these letters. The problem is that one cannot decide which of the letters is authentic unless one first knows something about Pauline theology. Much of the …
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Self-deception at the intersection of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Apostle Paul
… plays a significant role in Paul’s notion of the fall. This thesis explores issues of self-deception in the realm of Nietzsche-Paul discourse. Specifically, Nietzsche’s explication of self-deception inherent in ressentiment is used to elucidate Paul’s usage of self-deception in the context of …
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A study of the Apostle Paul's approach to the law in Galatians chapters 2 and 3.
The need for this research grew out of the challenges faced by the writer in his involvement with Christian and Jewish perceptions of Paul and the impassioned response his writing on the law seemed to evoke. This paper investigates Galatians chapters 2 and 3 in an attempt to derive a slightly …
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Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul
… risks for travelers on ancient Roman roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, verification and validation …
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Working for the Glory of God: The Distinction Between Greed and Self-Interest in the Life and Letters of the Apostle Paul
This dissertation demonstrates that the Pauline corpus is sufficient to discern a distinction between self-interest and greed. The review of literature in chapter 1 reveals that definitions of greed often rely on such terms as “excessive” and “inordinate,” without defining the terms. Chapter 2 …
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Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison of Texts and Power in the Generation of Religious Community
… 14.1</p> <p>"Authoring Authority" analyzes the ways texts function to generate social cohesion while at the same time advancing the power interests of their authors. The study is a comparative, critical, and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary excavation of the religion-making efforts of the …
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A Catholic information center : operated by the Paulist Fathers, a society of missionary priests of Saint Paul the Apostle, located in Columbus Circle, New York City
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1959.
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The Motif of Lovesickness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew
This thesis explores the literary motif of lovesickness in two early Christian ascetic texts - the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew. In order to argue that the authors of these texts utilized lovesickness as a motif, I contextualize the illness in contemporaneous literature including …
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Showing forth the great works of God: the witness of the people of God in the socio-historic context of 1 Peter and its implication for the church today
Christian communities often refer to the book of Acts and the missionary preaching of the apostle Paul when they consider their witness to society. Missionary preaching is therefore often seen as the main mode for witness and little attention is given to the socio-historic context of the book and …
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Nothing So Exquisite
… is a tone poem for large orchestra that depicts the conversion story of a man named Alma, as told in a sacred volume of scripture called The Book of Mormon. Alma’s story is comparable to that of Paul the Apostle in the New Testament. Early in his life, though his father is the head of the Church …
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Cosmic conflict and the divine warrior in Paul's letter to the Romans.
Scholars of the New Testament have noted the ways in which first century CE writers utilize and transform themes related to Israel's divine conflict traditions, most notably in the Johannine Apocalypse, Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, and the letter to the Ephesians. Yet in spite of the …
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Equipping Believers at Grace Bible Church, Granbury, Texas, to Disciple and Counsel Those Struggling with Challenging Life Topics
This project develops a biblical theology for equipping biblical counselors in the church and then implements the theology through a training course designed to equip believers to disciple and counsel those struggling with six different challenging life topics. Chapter 1 introduces the project, …
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The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology After MacIntyre
… between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and the contemporary revival in "virtue ethics." It argues that the human actor's place in Pauline theology has long been captive to theological concerns foreign to Paul and that we can discern in Paul a classical account of human …
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Identifying and Developing Revitalizing Pastors Within the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Chapter 1 introduces the project, describing the context, purpose, rationale, goals, and methodology. Chapter 2 establishes biblical support for the role of leadership in revitalization by examining the tenure of Moses, the prayerfulness of Nehemiah, and the first Christian church revitalizer, the …
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