The Sabbath as the central commandment of the Law relates all of Judaism to God, to creation, to redemption, and to the final fulfillment of the promises in the eternal Sabbath of the end-time. However, early in the inception of Christianity, Sunday replaced the Sabbath as the d…
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Biblical narrative learning is a non-critical educational approach for Christian communities with diverse learning backgrounds. It is grounded in humankind's universal capacity to teach and learn through stories and built on practices in narrative learning, along with biblical n…
This dissertation argues that Christians worship a different God than Muslims. In particular, Christians worship the Trinity, whereas Muslims worship the non-triune God. Chapter 1 begins the discussion of reference and explains why this topic is important. Chapter 2 discusses th…
This dissertation attempts an interpretation of religious violence in the Mediterranean world of the fourth and early fifth centuries A.D., the Christian Roman empire of Constantine and his successors. My study seeks to explore what violence meant to those involved, both actors …
This dissertation analyzes the literary techniques and the cultural background of Late Antique rabbinic parodies that target rabbinic and Christian texts. Over the last decades, it has become commonly acceptable to treat rabbinic texts as literature. More recently, scholars have…
This dissertation explores the role of extraordinary religious experience in Pauline Christianity through a study of Paul's claim to have been snatched into the third heaven and Paradise only to suffer later from a "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:1-10). Many previous inte…
This dissertation examines selected Orthodox printing houses of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania, showing how printers of Orthodox literature encountered linguistic, economic, and cultural problems distinct from those of their Catholic counterparts, especially…
This study explores how the multicultural local churches of the Lutheran church, namely, the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia (BCCM), deals with the Malaysian multicultural environment. The BCCM was first started in Malaysia in 1882 with its local churches remaining purely Hak…
This study explored the inter-relatedness among identity, faith, trauma and loss, and re-negotiating self-understanding in a new geographical location. Seven Christian women from the Oromo cultural group of Ethiopia were interviewed. The taped interviews were transcribed and ana…
In late antique Ancyra, Christians, Jews, and pagans militated against one another to gain believers or discourage defections. This dissertation examines the ideologies of leadership that orthodox Christians developed in response. Analysis of the writings of bishop Theodotus of …
The question that motivates the present study is this: what theological and historical factors led the Christian Church of the third century to begin calling its leaders "priests"? The goal of this project is to present an explanation for the rise of a Christian priesthood by ca…
I begin this project by introducing the Dalits, the so-called untouchables, of India. I then scrutinize their predicament through two Christian moral imperative lenses, human dignity and social visibility. In the first Chapter, I engage the first context of my dissertation: the …
This dissertation examines the ritual dynamics and historical impact of the eucharistic tradition preserved in Didache 9–10. It divides into two parts. The first part seeks to clarify what is distinctive about the Didache's ritualization of cup and bread, how the ritual operates…
How does religion affect the transition to, and survival of democracy? Both scholars and policymakers have argued that the spread of democracy may be limited by cultural constraints imposed by certain religious traditions. In this study, I challenge the conventional wisdom and p…
The concept of angelic languages appears in a number of Jewish and Christian writings from the second century BCE until the Italian Renaissance. In some of these writings the angels speak Hebrew, while in others they speak an unearthly esoteric language. A number of questions ar…
This dissertation argues that the language of God hidden and God revealed common to the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian theological tradition potentially betrays not simply two facets of the same God, but two different Gods. The terminology in particular of God as hidden “ab…
This study of the Acts of the Apostles demonstrates that intertextuality is an indispensable tool in a reform group's struggle to construct and strengthen its own identity. Drawing heavily on the Septuagint as the primary storehouse of authoritative stories, symbols and practice…
Confirming Christian Confidels: Faith Formation in a Pluralistic World reports on the requisite church change project for Hartford Seminary's Doctor of Ministry degree. The paper explores whether teaching with the "Abrahamic lens" and "deep religious pluralism" promotes coexiste…
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this project was to educate and empower church leaders to utilize their spiritual giftedness in concert with the Triune God’s purposes for their service in the church—the Body of Christ. This project evaluated biblical, theological, and …