National-level studies have consistently found white evangelicals to be the group most opposed to immigration in the United States. Evangelical organizations, as a result, have made public pronouncements urging a more compassionate approach to immigrants. These statements from o…
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Yves Congar was quite possibly the greatest Catholic ecclesiologist of the twentieth century. His lifelong passion for ecumenism and ecclesiology were contained in his prodigious work on the sources of revelation, Scripture and Tradition. Congar explained the frequently misinter…
Chapter one contains the introduction to the research problem, delimitations of the study, research questions, definitions of key terms, procedural overview, and research assumptions. The chapter concludes with a survey of the state of research of perpetual, race-based slavery a…
The context is First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. The purpose is to assist a traditional, aging congregation to do effective evangelism in a changing culture resulting in a transgenerational/family-friendly congregation. The hypothesis theorizes that when a …
The informal and formal connections between Park Street Church pastor Harold Ockenga and future neo-evangelical scholars such as Carl F. H. Henry, Edward John Carnell, Kenneth Kantzer, and George Eldon Ladd allowed this group, prepossessing unusual intellectual ambitions, to mou…
The purpose for writing Evaluating a Spiritual Formation Curriculum for Ethiopian Evangelical Church Leaders is to explore the impact of the Sendafa spiritual formation seminar on the spiritual health of Ethiopian evangelical church leaders and assess the reproducibility of the …
One does not have to read very far in the Old Testament to discover that war and warfare are frequently recurring motifs. Whether spiritualized, extolled in poetry, or reported in sparse narration, war is everywhere. One aspect of the ancient Israelite approach to war in the Bib…
In light of the increasing presence of Muslims in the US and the numerous ways in which evangelical Christians view Muslims and Islam, this dissertation is concerned with how American evangelicals should live among and relate to their Muslim neighbors. The study does so by explo…
This study shows how U.S. Christian Hardcore and Muslim 'Taqwacore' (taqwa means 'god consciousness' in Arabic) youth fuse traditional religions and punk rock music outside of religious institutions. It is part of a new cultural turn in the sociological study of religion that re…
The purpose of the dissertation is a thorough examination of the theology of inclusivism and creative-love theism and the implications which follow. The centrality of Jesus Christ in the destiny of mankind remains a pivotal question among evangelicals as adherents of inclusivism…
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and the post-bellum racial separation and organization of in…
The quality of preaching in the region of Galilee is rather poor. At best it may be categorized as a topical style. Narrative preaching is unknown to most of the pastors, preachers and leaders of the region due to a lack of awareness and education. The purpose of this study was …
This dissertation seeks to analyze, from an evangelical perspective, the different archaeological models used in Palestine since 1970. The approach of this dissertation is twofold. First, it will seek to explain and evaluate the archaeological models used in Palestine since 1970…
President Jimmy Carter once said, "I had a different way of governing." In attempting to explain what he meant by this, Carter has been variously described as a political amateur, a trustee, a non-political politician, an "active-positive" president, and a forerunner of the 1990…
Evangelical Christian schools are the fastest growing among all private schools in the United States. The following study focuses on evangelical Christian schools in urban, culturally diverse areas. The goal of the study was to develop an understanding of how evangelical Christi…
Evangelical availability which remains attentive to the Holy Spirit manifesting itself in the concrete situation of life is how Henry Koren, a Spiritan, describes the driving force of the spirituality of Spiritan founders: Claude Francis Poullart des Places (1679–1709) and Franc…
The current context of escalating antisocial behaviors in Bénin, in general, and in its major cities, in particular, demands that urban evangelical churches be freed from whatever is holding them from offering an appropriate response to the situation. Biblical exploration of eig…
Proclaiming Evangelical faith was very risky during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in highland Bolivia; some evangelists and converts suffered significant material loss and others were martyred. The Evangelical movement was firmly established nevertheless and today might…
Canon 702 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, apparently, embodies two ambivalent norms. The first paragraph enunciates that a religious who is legitimately separated from his or her institute cannot make any claim for services rendered while he or she was a member of the institute. …