Ecclesiology

The purpose of this project was to train qualified pastoral candidates at Watson Memorial Baptist Church for ordination to pastoral ministry. Chapter 1 sets forth the purpose, goals, context, rationale, definitions, limitations, delimitations, and research methodology of the pro…

Lucrarea prezentă descrie procesul revitalizării Bisericii „Speranța și Har” din Londra, la nivel individual și comunitar, ca urmare a redescoperirii lui Dumnezeu din Scripturi, a augmentării imaginii lui Dumnezeu din inima credincioșilor și în urma unui proces de ucenicizare as…

The 20th century brought a resurgence of what is called eucharistic ecclesiology. Eucharistic ecclesiology, one of the main forms of an ecclesiology of communion, was the primary ecclesiology of the early church. It can be succinctly identified by the phrase coined by the Jesuit…

This research aims to examine the current practices of mission training and leadership transition and to suggest practical guidelines for these two processes. The results from extensive surveys of over 100 active Korean missionaries emphasize the correlations between leadership …

This dissertation develops the ecclesiology and polity of Georg Sverdrup, a nineteenth-century Norwegian-American theologian and a founder of the Lutheran Free Church. Sverdrup grounded his congregational polity in the biblical metaphor of the bride of Christ. Chapters 3-4 surve…

This project sought to examine selected leadership succession models to discover best practices and warnings for Pyeongtaek DaeKwang Church (PDC) and other churches to employ as deemed helpful.

Jesus' teachings and actions enacted shalom-making principles and denounced shalom-breaking systems that sustain the city's economic, social, and cultural structures of power and oppression. He showed how Shalom works –he favored the poor, the weak, the oppressed, the outcast, a…

This thesis presents the ecclesiology of Resident Aliens as an alternative to overcome the crisis of the Korean church and focuses on the ways to establish a Christian community through “virtuous leadership”. This thesis points out the crisis situations facing Korean churches in…

This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as…

Cyprian wrote his treatise De ecclesiae catholicae unitate to discuss the relationship between the church and salvation. To counter the Novatian schism in Rome, Cyprian virtually equated the spiritual and visible church. Schismatics necessarily placed themselves outside the spir…

The question of insider movements remains an area of controversial debate among mission agencies, missiologists, and cross-cultural workers who serve among Muslims. A central issue is whether or not believers from Muslim backgrounds (BMBs) can and should retain Muslim religious …

The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and evaluate religious experience in the theologies of Edgar Young Mullins and Henry Wheeler Robinson. The results are then analyzed to discover implications for ecclesiology. Primary sources inform the bulk of the paper. Mullins's…

The present study aims to expound the distinctive character of 16th-century Spanish Protestant theology, with special reference to the works of two exiled former monks from Seville, Casiodoro de Reina (c. 1520–1594) and Antonio del Corro (1527–1591), and thereby to shed light on…

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…

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Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology

by Olson, Alan M.

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Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit, according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology that completes what Adolf von Harna…