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 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…