Iranians may well be the largest ethnic group coming out of an Islamic background that has responded to the Gospel of Jesus Christ since the Javanese Indonesians in the 1960-1970s. This research project has initially investigated, described, and explored the nature of conflicts …
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This dissertation is a comparative theological study of an Islamic and a Christian text, which, though seemingly unrelated, share a commonality that allows one text to illuminate the other. One is Nah[dotbelow]w al-qulub by Sufi master `Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (d. 1072), and th…
In 2006, sixty-one percent of the young adults of America felt that Islam was a peaceful religion. Fifty-six percent had a favorable opinion of Islam and fifty-one percent feel Islam teaches respect of others. Only ten percent felt prejudice against Arabs and Muslims.1 Some, per…
The goal of this dissertation is to answer the question "What kinds of citizens are London's second generation youth becoming?" The question is asked in particular reference to the role of religious beliefs and practices in citizenship development. The dissertation is a comparat…
Among Malaysians today, there is a vibrant and growing presence of Malay Christians. This study examines their socio-religious life and identity vis-à-vis their family, the ummah, state, church and some aspects of globalization. To do so, adult male and female Malay Christians i…
Most of the Mamluk theologian Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyya's opinions had a polemical nature. This paper traces certain common tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's polemics such as tahrif (corruption), taqlid (imitation), and bid'a (innovation) that he repeatedly used in some of his judgm…
This study enters into the dialog within Christian theology between annihilationism and traditionalism on the nature of eternal punishment. The positions and issues within the topic will be examined theologically and analyzed doctrinally. In my first chapter I will summarize the…
This study is based on heuristic methodology and looks at counsellor/therapists’ experience of integrating Christian faith with their clinical practice. The researcher overtly includes her own material and documents her own internal process as part of the research journey. Some …
This research is concerned with the construction and expression of selfidentity in a sample of lay Christians working in a contemporary workplace. It seeks to understand how these believers construct and sustain, in and through autobiographical narrative, a faith-full self-ident…
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of a lived calling for Christian variety performers. A basic qualitative study method was employed to conduct hour-long semi-structured interviews with thirty seasoned variety performers (jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists…
Queer people raised in Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity (FEC) may struggle, or even fail, to integrate their sexuality with their religious upbringing. This phenomenological study looks at the lived experiences of queer people leaving FEC and how leaving has impacted thei…
This project attempts to train and prepare members of The Salvation Army of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to be Christian apologists. Chapter 1 outlines the history and ministry context of The Salvation Army along with the goals of the project. Chapter 2 presents the biblical and theo…
The relationship between African Americans (AA) and mental health (MH) is complex culturally, historically, and spiritually. This dissertation used data from Project Trust, a project partnership between the Ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary and Northern California K…
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of K-12 Christian school boards of directors on developing and hiring female school leaders. This research, carried out as a single case study at a mid-sized K-12 Christian school in Tennessee, used a qualitative research…
Limited research has examined the impact of religious trauma on sexual minority Christians and what factors these individuals utilize to maintain their faith after trauma. This study sought to address this concern by examining the psychological, physical, and spiritual effects o…
During the eighth and ninth centuries, in the Islamic empire governed from 'Abbāsid Baghdad, a new body of Christian literature appeared: theological treatises written in Arabic rather than in Syriac or Greek, and composed with the express purpose of articulating Christian doctr…
This dissertation explores two areas of human experience that have been criticized as potentially dangerous and uncontrollable almost consistently since Late Antiquity: violence and those who engage in it, and emotions. However, it will be seen that in the Western Mediterranean …
This study examines various notions of divine presence as integral to the depiction of Israel's apostasy at Mount Sinai within the redacted Pentateuch as well as to interpretations of that composite text by ancient Jews and Christians. The concepts of presence articulated by anc…