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…
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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 …
This dissertation contributes to the study of American Christianity by tracing the apocalyptic thought of New England evangelical Calvinism from Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) to Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). Covering the period of the First Great Awakening in the eighteenth century …
This thesis examines low-ranking British soldiers’ memoirs in the nineteenth century to determine the extent to which they identified with Christianity and how their expressions of faith differed from each other. Using twelve narratives published between 1811–1863, it finds that…
This dissertation demonstrates how the Emmanuel Gospel Center, a parachurch organization in Boston, built an urban evangelical coalition out of the city’s postwar migrant communities. Efforts to resist government-directed urban renewal and a missionary posture toward the city dr…
This thesis explores the origins and development of competing conceptions of pastoral ministry connected with the emergence of megachurches in the United States between 1980 and 2020. It evaluates the concept of “church” embedded in the megachurch phenomenon, and megachurch past…
Evangelical Christianity occupies a dominant position in American culture and politics. This thesis extends previous research on evangelicalism in America by identifying how evangelicals collectively construct their distinction and uniqueness in small group settings. By conducti…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the relationship of epistemology to doctrinal boundary-making in the theological methods of Alister E. McGrath and James Wm. McClendon Jr. in order to develop a taxonomy and model of boundary-making for evangelicalism. To that end, …
Sexual education and its relationship to issues of morality, religion, contraception, abortion, and eugenics have generated controversy in the United States for the last two centuries. During the Progressive Era (roughly late 1880s-early 1920s) and the Reagan Era (roughly late 1…
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…
“The Good News on Stage: Evangelicalism and Theatre Practice in Antebellum America” contends that although nineteenth-century Christianity and the “sinful” theatre may seem incompatible components of American life, the relationship between the two is more complicated than histor…
As both a student of Pentecostalism and the moving of the Holy Spirit has effected Christianity as well as how the Christian faith has impacted western history, I am intrigued by the impact the movement known as the First Great Awakening had on the formation of America as a nati…
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…