This research critically examines the involvement of the Church of Pakistan in development of the poor people by way of a comparative case-study of two key dioceses, Multan and Hyderabad. The development priorities in the Dioceses studied have been defined and adopted mainly by …
This dissertation examines how historical/political, cultural, social, religious, and personal factors impact conversion to Protestant Christianity in the traditionally Roman Catholic country of Spain. Based on 21 years of experience working in Madrid, the author interviews 21 a…
This study presents a qualitative, interpretive analysis of audiotaped conversations (both one-to-one and focus-group settings) involving six middle-class European-American evangelical Christians' reactions to four contemporary American films (Michael Tolkin's The Rapture 1991; …
This project is a practice in telling a small part of a less common story: one about negotiating commitments to academic and church communities when the stories told across those communities don’t always line up or are incomplete. Through the stories of my three participants as …
The pews of the American Evangelical church are browning, and so is the Evangelical voting bloc. Latino immigrants are fueling the growth of the Evangelical church in America and Latinos have the potential to influence the Evangelical voting bloc writ large. However, we have a l…
The movement of evangelical multiethnic churches, which occurred in the late-1990s and into the early 2000s, sought racial justice by developing racially diverse congregations as their core distinction of Christian discipleship. These evangelical multiethnic churches are situate…
Tom Skinner, a preacher and evangelist from Harlem during the 1960's and 70's was publicly critical of Billy Graham's support of Richard Nixon. He and Graham shared many of their theological commitments but not their political ones. This essay argues that his reasons for this ar…
Neoliberalism is currently one of the most widespread ideologies in the world. While there have been numerous studies of Neoliberalism in the past few decades, there is an important area of knowledge that remains disconnected from the larger conversation. This study will look at…
Grace is a salient spiritual experience and one that lies at the heart of Christianity. The present study sought to address a gap in the psychological literature pertaining to the experience of divine grace as it relates to character development among Evangelical Christians. Spe…
This dissertation argues that Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s (1834–1892) activism held that Christian work and active service to Christ are not optional, but rather essential to the Christian life, the mission of the church, and pastoral ministry. Such activism expressed itself in ea…
Prior research on the impact of religiosity and religious coping on mental health outcomes suggest two broad and contradictory findings: (a) positive impact of religiosity and religious coping on mental health outcomes, and (b) negative consequences of religiosity and religious …
Following a period of relative political inactivity dating to the 1920s, the 1960s saw evangelical elites engage in politics in ways that some leaders had decried only a decade earlier. At the same time, lay evangelicals began a partisan realignment, shifting from majority Democ…
Higher education is known for its slow rate of change, but as the 21st century continues institutions of higher education (IHEs) are feeling the pressure to adapt. In addition to the pressures faced by higher education at large, Christian IHEs faces increasing secularization. Th…
Research points to a correlation between customer satisfaction and corporate mission alignment. Mission alignment plays a key role in Market Orientation as an aspect of customer focus and has been tied to increased company performance and profitability. Customers demonstrate loy…
This dissertation argues that Stanley Grenz developed an evangelical bibliotrinitarian method to confront the challenge of postmodernism. The dissertation covers his development within evangelicalism, from a pastor's kid who inherited a pretribulation-premillennial dispensationa…
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…
The purpose of this dissertation is to find what evangelical scholars and writers suggest should characterize an expository sermon. I propose that scholars suggest eight characteristics should characterize an expository sermon: (1) The Reality of God. (2) The Whole of the Preach…