Leadership succession planning is often overlooked in many church organizations. Failure to create succession strategies causes organizations to face uncertain futures during leadership transitions. An absence of succession planning can repress an organization’s financial growth…
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This study investigates the image of the church as the household of God and the relevance of this image for effective mission in India, using a sociocultural approach. Three major areas are studied: biblical, Greco-Roman, and Indian concepts of household. Close attention is give…
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…
This dissertation focuses on properties held by various Venetian churches in the colonies the Republic of St. Mark possessed in the Byzantine Empire. These properties played an important role both in serving Venetian merchants overseas as well as providing sources of external fu…
This study attempts to establish the basis for a theoretical framework aimed at encouraging the practice of peacebuilding in the multiethnic 21 st century city. My particular focus is the role of the Christian church but with appropriate extrapolation to faith-based and other or…
Motivating congregants to be engaged in disciple-making friendships is a problem among international churches in Thailand. This study is a research project that seeks to discover the motivating and demotivating factors that influence congregants to be involved or not in disciple…
This present study examines the lived experiences of African American (Black) single mothers. The study suggests that their lives and their ability to provide for their children are severely inhibited because of the lack of attention to society's needs and lack of financial and …
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 …
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the unequal access to and accumulation of wealth from clove resources in Minahasa, Indonesia, in the 1990s. The dissertation asks: (1) how do specific people in a community gain access to and accumulate wealth from agricultural reso…
The Song of Moses of Deuteronomy 32:1–43 has had a distinguished history in both Jewish and Christian liturgy. The purpose of the dissertation is to highlight features of the Song which account for its liturgical prominence and then to study that prominence in depth. The dissert…
This dissertation reports on the results of the clearing and partial excavation of an early Christian church at Ras el Bassit, on the North Syrian coast. The church is built on a synagogue attested by two inscriptions and by the menorah of an early sixth-century floor mosaic; it…
During the last decade, the discussion over whether Thomas Aquinas's theology is supersessionist—the idea that God abolishes Jewish observance of circumcision and Torah and replaces Israel with the Church—has elicited deep disagreement among scholars. With the exception of a few…
At the turn of the 13th century the regional church in southern France was caught between the powerful forces of heresy, inquisition, and papal power. At this time southern France marked the locus of influential heretical movements. Parisian reformers and Cistercians blamed loca…
Christianity, Judaism and Islam share a deliberative subjugation of women through ideologies, hierarchical structures and performative practices that effectively relegate women to an inferior position. The Christian tradition has one of the longest-standing and most consistent i…
If a Hebrew Biblical text could motivate eighth century B.C.E Israelite society to move a away from the horrendous practice of violence and blood revenge, isn't it possible that the same text can motivate a twenty first century society to move away from the crisis of revenge and…
This dissertation historicizes the formation the Syrian Orthodox Church in the first half of the sixth century. The council of Chalcedon in 451 CE divided eastern Christianity. Those who opposed the council separated from the church of the empire after Justin I in 518 CE tried t…
Religion plays a major role that defines and preserves ethnic life and character in the United States. In the case of first-generation Korean immigrants, as an ethnic organization, the Korean immigrant church functions as a center of resistance to cultural assimilation. On the o…
This dissertation attempts to find out the relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology in a religiously pluralistic world. The postmodern society is open to many religions including Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness…
The dissertation addresses the question of the social organization of early Christian communities, c. 50 C.E. to c. 260 C.E. I demonstrate that the primary conceptual and behavioral model for early Christian social organization was the surrogate family (Chapter One). The specifi…