Much has been written of the desire for authenticity. That it is a return to the first, the original, to that which is the real. And it is no surprise that such a desire plays an important role among modern evangelical Christians. In a world that often seems topsy-turvy, where t…
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In 1993, a group of scholars gathered on the campus of Trinity International University to discuss the place of bioethics in the evangelical world. This meeting was the beginning of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD), the first evangelical bioethics research center …
This ethnographic study examines the lives, perspectives, and experiences of members of a self-described progressive, evangelical church community in Denver, CO. The research was based around one important and previously unanswered question: how is it that a mostly-white church,…
This dissertation examines the different theologies and movements that shape and influence the Black Church while comparing and contrasting them to black evangelicalism. By comparing and contrasting the theologies to black evangelicalism, the research allowed for the evaluation …
This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…
Kazakhstan Evangelical Christian Seminary (KECS) has been training leaders for the service of Christian churches since 1993. It has experienced some small ethnic conflicts during the course of its ministry that have made me consider ways of pacifying the school environment. In t…
Scholars of mission have long been interested in religious innovation in Africa and have devoted much attention to the emergence of indigenous churches and religious movements. But relatively little attention has been given specifically to the role of communication in the develo…
Based on a year and a half of participant-observation in two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Protestant high schools in the New York City area, this dissertation examines the relationship between authority, practices, and boundaries by using the concept of tradition. Framed aro…
This thesis examines the relationship between the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and the Africa Inland Church (AIC) in Kenya between 1939 and 1975. AIM began laying plans for an African denomination in Kenya in 1939 and established the Africa Inland Church in 1943. The mission did …
In 1978 a group of evangelical philosophers and theologians held a meeting to decide what the definitive statement on the doctrine of inerrancy would be. Drawing on the thought of B.B. Warfield and others this group came up with a statement comprising of a short statement, ninet…
This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside the Gate (1982); and Libe…
This dissertation explores the intersections between tourism, theology and politics by focusing on a grassroots organization of evangelical tours to Israel. The study suggests viewing Christian Zionism as the underlying ideology that guides the organizers of the tours and explai…
This study, informed by theories drawn from cultural studies and hermeneutics, examines how media give shape to social movements; specifically, it considers how the Protestant evangelical movement in the United States has been shaped by its flagship publication, Christianity Tod…
On many secular college and university campuses and in surrounding communities, Christian organizations offer international students, scholars and spouses free group study of Bible stories as well as meals and other social activities. On one hand, Bible-based content is interest…
This dissertation demonstrates how the relationship between the United States and the State of Israel underwent a significant transformation during 1970s and 1980s. After more than two decades of limited American aid since Israel declared its independence in 1948, the United Sta…
White evangelical culture is investigated here regarding the ways that its fundamental theological beliefs propagate and maintain patriarchal assumptions surrounding women. These beliefs further function to legitimate men’s sexual abuse of women and girls. While official theolog…
Numerous studies show that religion predicts an individual’s likelihood of owning a gun, but the role of religious tradition in shaping attitudes and outcomes about guns and gun policy in the United States is undertheorized. This dissertation explores the entanglement between re…
STATEMENT: A comparison between the values and strategies of the BBFI founders with current successful church planters and revitalizers reveals significant similarities in an apparent coming resurgence.
One of the most pervasive challenges for liberal democracies is the ongoing tension between religious conservatives and the liberal state. Using as my central case study, the highly-charged debates over “family values” in Canada circa 1985-2015, I argue that despite claims that …