I have had the privilege of participating in the Lord's ministry in Nigeria for twenty-eight years before I came to Asbury Theological Seminary in the fall of 2004, and I realize that the Lord enables me to serve better in the areas of teaching, preaching, and writing Christian …
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Since 1964, Christian churches and theologians have examined the role that Christian anti-Judaism played in supporting the antisemitism. that led to the Shoah , and have responded by producing positive Christian theologies of Judaism, which reject the "teaching of contempt," and…
This dissertation addresses the issue of Paul's conflict with the Diaspora Jews. Paul's strategy of using the synagogue as his base of operation when he first arrived on a mission field does not seem to be in accord with his calling as an apostle to the Gentiles. Various solutio…
Using daily newspapers from six major American cities and miscellaneous additional newspapers, journals, and a few books, Fullerton locates and explores the statements, sermons, and actions of prominent Christian religious leaders in America during the Persian Gulf Crisis and it…
In this dissertation I demonstrate that the accounts of Christian martyrs under Islam are a significant and neglected source for the study of early Christian apologetics against Islam. I show that these texts are primarily apologetic and that the arguments taken by the texts inc…
This project examines how ethnicity and religion influence dating and marriage patterns for South Asian immigrants in the United States. I look at both how South Asian immigrants marry and who they marry. I am interested in how marriage patterns are changing, and if religion has…
This project was designed to develop a program of instruction for training layman in their personal Christian witnessing to the Muslims of Indonesia. The lay people involvement is very important at this time. Sharing Christian witnessing is a challenge to the lay people of Indon…
This exploratory study examined the relationship between religion and implicit leadership theories of religious adherents. Based on implicit leadership theory, leadership categorization, and leadership attribution theory, this study theorized that the teachings and exemplar lead…
This dissertation seeks to examine the issue of prayer as it is practiced by the Digo Muslims of Kenya. The focus is a description of the prayers of the Digo of Kenya as these are rooted in orthodox/orthoprax Islam and have been affected by primal and contemporary culture, which…
In 285 AH/AD 995, the Muslim scholar `Abd al-Jabbar (d. 415/1025) wrote a work entirely unlike his theological and legal handbooks: the Tathbit dala'il al-nubuwwa (Confirmation of the Proofs of Prophecy ). The Tathbit is distinguished by a long section (approximately 1/3 of the …
Utilizing hermeneutical phenomenology, this study discovers the themes which denominate the essence of the religious experiences of religiously-committed and active Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian international students in the US. In 2004, 26 international students at the Univer…
The objectives were: (1) share common concerns for human needs and work together for peace; (2) design a framework for effective dialogue; (3) draw upon connections between Islam and Christianity to improve dialogue and peacemaking; (4) explore common commitments to peacemaking;…
Interfaith conflict has ravaged the world for millennia. Many programs suggest peacemaking interventions. However, none investigate what exemplar peacemakers are doing. This secondary study investigates how the faith-based values of exemplar Muslim and Christian interfaith peace…
This dissertation examines three fifteenth century travel accounts to show the effects of the commercial milieu on personal religious identity of individuals. Afanasii Nikitin (1468-1474), a Russian merchant from Tver', Nicolo de Conti (1419-1444), a merchant from Venice, and Lu…
Utilizing 81 in-depth life-history interviews and extensive notes from a year of fieldwork in 1999-2000, this study examines the social processes that have shaped the collective identity of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. …
Among scholars of Medieval Christianity, it is virtually a cliché to say that the sermon functioned as a "mass medium" of the communication and transmission of culture within society. Despite fulfilling a comparable role in Islam, scholars have yet to explain the cultural impact…
In the development of Islam in India in the nineteenth century, the impact of the interaction between modernist Muslims and Christian administrators and missionaries can be seen in the writings of three Evangelical Christians on the role of the H[dotbelow]adith and the responses…
This dissertation addresses how preaching can be an event in which the Bible or the Qur'an transforms listeners. I consider Walter Brueggemann's discussions of "reimaginative preaching," organizing his ideas in accordance with a model that I find latent within his writings. This…
For many centuries Christian thought towards Muslims has been shaped by the belief that Ishmael is evil. Muslim-Christian conflicts and the theological challenge that Islam poses for Christianity enhance this stereotype. These developments have hindered Christian motivation to r…